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Originally Posted by demonrail666
From being a nation infamous for apartheid, to one infamous for xenophobia. There's progress for ya!
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that was in white ruled south africa.
in black south africa, socio-cultural and ethnic differences have fostered at times violent xenophobia for hundreds of years before white encrouchment, so it is just an unfortunate return to a bad norm. but this does point out the problems in africa with interstate migration and refugees, as the decline in one african state forces a huge migration into its neighbors, and then they fall into decline being unable to cope, and so even more refuges and migrants take flight into other neighboring countries, hence all the Zimbabweans, Malawians, and Mozambiquans...
these kinds of things happen in the united states all the time, though not on this massive scale of civil conflict and unrest, but it is not uncommon for a group of pissed of racist white kids to go beat up and even kill migrant workers in the border regions and farm centers of america. xenophobia and racism are about as common in human societies as farting.