Causes Of Xenophobia In South Africa

Peebe Harry, Osaki. “Colonialism in Africa Is Still Alive and Well | Letters.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 1 Aug. 2017, www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/01/colonialism-in-africa-is-still-alive-and-well

Violence has prevalent in Africa since slavery was present. Some speculated that slavery was present before the Atlantic Slave Trade. Two theologists, Walter Rodney and John Faye, have been back and forth on when slavery has started. Rodney’s theory is that Africa didn’t have slaves and when they did, the slaves were connected to the slave trade. Faye’s theory is that trade and slavery were present in Africa before the Atlantic Slave Trade (Neil Kodesh, “The Atlantic Slave Trade” 9/28/17). Although they are not right or wrong, both would agree that slavery was active in West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade. As slavery expanded, so did the

By the late 19th and early 20th century, Europe was expanding its borders. In an attempt to grow its economy and culture, Europe’s superpowers began to search for new soil. Africa was an easy target; it wasn’t politically secure and it wasn’t modernized. In addition, it had reliable soil which would enable Europe to produce cash crops. European nations began to pour into Africa, called the Scramble for Africa. Soon, Europe took control of Africa, taking raw materials and destroyed African culture. Imperialism is the one to blame for exploitation of people and materials, the destruction of traditional culture, and unnaturally dividing up the land which causes a bunch of problems down the road. There is no doubt that imperialism

In conclusion, both xenophobic and foreigners get affected because of this process. Xenophobic people develop hatred while strangers and foreigners get mistreated. This concludes how xenophobia needs to be directed with more ways to help the xenophobic

When thinking of Europe, it is automatically thought of anti-immigration and xenophobia due to the numbers of immigrants from diverse parts of the world; that is with the exception of Spain. A country in the south of France with southern borders to a developing country and a strong colonizing history, Spain does not seem like a country that had just started to become an immigration country. For a country with recent immigration history, it does have a lot of migration dilemmas that test the tolerance of the nation. Spain has migrants from all over the world, mainly from its old colonies in Latin America and northern Africa. Unlike Europe, Spain has careful over the years to maintain pro-immigration, even after its terror attacks and

The colonization of Africa holds the responsibility for the disregard of Africa’s culture, allowing for the tensions to heighten and for the genocide to arise. Africa’s culture

Populist and Extremist political parties are gaining more support and currently they have representatives in parliaments of most of the member states of EU. Part of their strategy is to associate the socio-economic problems with immigrants thus provoking more xenophobia. The so-called "New Racism" combines rhetoric of declining social rights, growing poverty and ideas of liberalism with the hate of multiculturalism and migration. Such rhetoric of "First take care of our people" is spreading and it is supported thanks to the myths described above. We are witnessing growing trends of opinions preaching anti-migration politics that seeping through to the mainstream populist politics that are more and more skeptic towards migration. The rights

One major issue society faces today is the unwillingness of people to accept others who are different from themselves. This is most recently exemplified by the United States’ change of its attitude toward immigration. As people are unwilling to accept others, they start to fear those who are different from themselves. These people begin to fear the unknown and make assumptions about those who are from a different country, speak a different language, or practice a different religion, leading to intense xenophobia. Although as a society we are improving, the improvements we have made are insufficient. We need to improve to the point that this deeply rooted fear is abolished.

With a high influx of refugees entering different countries xenophobia is resurfacing. Xenophobia has been prominent since the old customs and foundation to Nazism and Fascism. It started to die down but has resurged due new migration patterns and globalization. The Syrian refugee crises and rhetoric from far-right political parties’ have definitely made xenophobia stronger among people. After the Paris Attack, Marine Le Pen, the head of the ultra-conservative National Front party, vouched to “kick out foreigners who are preaching hatred on our soil, as well as illegal immigrants who have nothing do here(foreign policy),” and to wipe our Islam organizations and close radical mosques. Xenophobia isn’t just expressed verbally, it’s also

For Fanon, therefore, colonialism is fundamentally a violent situation since "the stage is set in motion between two kinds of interests--the interest of the colonizer and the interest of the colonized" (Gordon 77). As a result,

It is here that the distinction between colonial violence and the emancipatory violence of the colonized is needed. Colonial violence to Fanon has 3 dimensions, it is “inaugural, empirical and absurd” (Mbembe 12). This violence is inaugural in the sense that it is used by the settlers to build the colonial state and maintain their power in what Fanon called “a politics of hate” (89). The state is everything but civil as it separates the settlers from the oppressed which leads into the second dimension where the empirical aspects of this violence are

Many of the contemporary issues in South Africa can easily be associated with the apartheid laws which devastated the country. The people of South Africa struggle day by day to reverse “the most cruel, yet well-crafted,” horrific tactic “of social engineering.” The concept behind apartheid emerged in 1948 when the nationalist party took over government, and the all-white government enforced “racial segregation under a system of legislation” . The central issues stem from 50 years of apartheid include poverty, income inequality, land ownership rates and many other long term affects that still plague the brunt of the South African population while the small white minority still enjoy much of the wealth, most of the land and opportunities

Xenophobia has made itself known over the last few years and has become quite a problematic factor in South Africa’s society today. South Africa is far from the perfect country we wish it to be, we have problems all over that many of us do not think relate to

All three kinds of the xenophobia present in Russian society, which makes it the most violent country in post-soviet space. “Russian skinhead groups violently reject immigration (and internal migration) by ethnic minorities. Extremist groups regularly refer to a ‘genocide’ of ethnic Russians, playing on widespread racialized fears of demographic decline.” (Arnold, 2015)

In other words, it will discuss how social cognition and schemas potentially impact race relations. The role of attribution in understanding race relations will be highlighted, followed by how attitudes influence race relations behaviour. Prejudice and discrimination and how they impact race relations will also be discussed, as well as how social influence impacts race relations. The discussion will end with a cohesive summary and conclusion.