Question

Analyse the barriers and propose strategies to forging a sense of common nationhood/social cohesion in South Africa

Answer 1

Barriers include;

• Effects of a racism and otherwise exclusionary past.
• Ethnic and racial divisions that have been created in South Africa.
• Cultural diversity as a justification for inequality, exclusion and the systematic division is rejected as conceptually inappropriate and ethically undesirable.
• Gender inequality - Gender role and stereotypes have always caused lack of developed nationalhood.

Strategies include;

• Social cohesion and nation building is seen as precisely a response to, and remedy for, the effects of a racist and otherwise exclusionary past.
• Equal rights for both men and women.
• Acceptance of the different cultural diversity.