The idea of apartheid is based on one basic assumption about the nature of humankind. This is that
the various ethnic groups, or races, that constitute humanity are essentially different from one
another.
For example, for many years women around the world fought to eliminate patriarchy in men since
they believed they were superior to them.
superiority on the part of whites
In South Africa, most white people were narcissistic and racist, thinking that they were superior just
because they were not black.
For several years black people suffered enormous inequality by being treated as slaves and trash
Social Darwinism
Theory of evolution by Charles Darwin. Natural selection. ¨Survival of the fittest¨
People had this fetish by believing that the stronger or more powerful it was, the more rights or
importance it had.
everyone lived in that lie
Nazism
Nationalist, racist and totalitarian political doctrine that was promoted in Germany by Adolf Hitler
(German politician, 1889-1945) after the First World War, and that defended the absolute power of
the State and the superiority and supremacy of the German people against the other peoples of
Europe.
Several cases of xenophobia against Jews for being of another religion
Social conflicts for the rights of the Jews since the Nazis took away their rights, which is a breach of
the law
Calvinism
The austere theology of the sixteenth century religious reformer John Calvin, who argued that
humankind is divided between the elect, or those who have been chosen by God for salvation, and
those who have been condemned to eternal damnation.
various polarizations around the religious since discussions began to decide who was chosen by God
and who was not
Based on these two theories Nazism was popular in Europe in the first part of the 20th century.