South Africa and Argentinia, two countries with two faces - Cape Town-a divided city

Question

During the apartheid regime all south African cities are organized the same way. How?

Answer 1

All African cities during the Apartheid regime consisted of:

- a centre

- surrounded by white neighourhoods

- townships several kilometres away on the city's edge. (the townships were very isolated; often there was only one road in and out.

Answer 2

integration is that the races are not separated - segrtaion is that the races are seperated

Answer 3

the black diamonds

Answer 4

Integration (mixing) is the opposite of segregation. In geography you use the word 'integration' when you describe ethnic minorities that mix with society: they go to school, get jobs, join musci clubs, play sports etc.

Answer 5

1. you have to speak the language well

2. you have to understand how society works.

Answer 6

No ethnic groups don't have to gevie up their own culture. They can keep theri religion and customs but they must accept the law of the country.

Answer 7

When migrants start to integrate andaccept more and more of the elements of the dominant culture, this is called assimilition.

Answer 8

In a mulicultural society usually one culure is stronger than the rest. This is called the dominant culture. THe western culture is the dominant culture in European countries.

Answer 9

1. dominant culture

2. cultural minorities or ethnic minorities.

Answer 10

When population groups live separately in different neighbourhouds:

- between income groups (high income live in neighbourhoods with expensive and beautiful houses; low income live in neighboorhoods where the houses may be ordinary or poor).

- between ethnic groups (People from the same ethnic group often live together in ethnic neighbourhoods).

Answer 11

1. People feel safe in their own group. (they speak the language, they understand the way of life, ethnic neighbourhood has amenities especially for that group (mosques or coffee houses))

2. Many of the people in an ethnic neighbourhood are poor and haven't got enough money for a more expensive house somewhere else.

3. Discrimination. Members of an ethnic group may not be welcome in another neighbourhood. People might bully them.

Answer 12

- they all had an identity card

- they needed a good reason to enter a white area (e.g work as cook, gardener or cleaner).

- At the end of the day they went back to the township.

Answer 13

The black people migrated illegally to the cities because:

1. there was very little work in the homelands

2. the amnities were very bad.

Answer 14

They want integration, not segregation.

They want to build mixed neighbourhoods (where people of all races live together).

Answer 15

1. surrounding the centre of the city.

2. plenty of space in these neighbourhoods

3. Expensive houses

4. houses detached with big gardens and swimming pools

5. Most of the houses are fitted with stron security systems and protected by hig walls and fences.

Answer 16

1. townships are 15-35 km from the centre

2. some are almost 100% black, others are almost 100% mixed-race

3. townships were often very isolated, there was only one road in and out.

4. around 3/4 of township households live below the poverty line of 5 euros a day.

Answer 17

A gated community is build because crime is a very serious problem in the new South Africa. People feel unsafe all the time, even at home. People build a high wall around the neighbourhood with only one entrance, which is monitored 24/7. There are security teams on the spot within minutes when someone tries to climb over the wall (electrified wire of 9,000 volt).

The govenment isn't happy about them because they block the roads, the security teams are the boss in gated communities instead of the police.

Answer 18

A small group of blacks with a better life, they belong to a middle class with a good job and income. Around 10 % of the black population are 'black diamonds' (3,000,000 people).

Answer 19

There are no jobs in the homelands, but jobs are scarce in the townships also.

Answer 20

advantages:

1. safe

2. people work together, happy atmosphere

Disadvantages:

1. block the roads

2. segregation instead of integration.

3. other neighbourhouds are regarded as criminal.

South Africa and Argentinia, two countries with two faces - Cape Town-a divided city

20 important questions on South Africa and Argentinia, two countries with two faces - Cape Town-a divided city

During the apartheid regime all south African cities are organized the same way. How?

What is the differents between integration and segration?

How are blacks called whith a better life?

How do you use the word 'integration' in geography?

What do you have to be able to when you are an ethnic minority and you want the integrate?

Does integration mean that the ethnic minority have to give up their own culture?

What's the difference between integration and assimilation?

What's a dominant culture?

In a multicultural society thee are diffent groups. Name them.

What is spatial segregation, what forms are there?

What are the three factors that keeps 'ethnic neighbourhoods' continue to exist?

You can say that the blacks were 'guests' in white South Africa. Why?

Why did the blacks build slums next to the townships?

The new South AFrican government wants to reoganize the cities. What does it want and how?

What are the characteristics of a white neighbourhood?

What are the characteristics of a township?

Why are gated communities show what is wrong in the cities: segregation instead of integration?

What are 'black diamonds'?

Why end up people who migrating from the homelands to the townships in the slums?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of gated communities?

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South Africa and Argentinia, two countries with two faces - Cape Town-a divided city

20 important questions on South Africa and Argentinia, two countries with two faces - Cape Town-a divided city

During the apartheid regime all south African cities are organized the same way. How?

What is the differents between integration and segration?

How are blacks called whith a better life?

How do you use the word 'integration' in geography?

What do you have to be able to when you are an ethnic minority and you want the integrate?

Does integration mean that the ethnic minority have to give up their own culture?

What's the difference between integration and assimilation?

What's a dominant culture?

In a multicultural society thee are diffent groups. Name them.

What is spatial segregation, what forms are there?

What are the three factors that keeps 'ethnic neighbourhoods' continue to exist?

You can say that the blacks were 'guests' in white South Africa. Why?

Why did the blacks build slums next to the townships?

The new South AFrican government wants to reoganize the cities. What does it want and how?

What are the characteristics of a white neighbourhood?

What are the characteristics of a township?

Why are gated communities show what is wrong in the cities: segregation instead of integration?

What are 'black diamonds'?

Why end up people who migrating from the homelands to the townships in the slums?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of gated communities?

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