Answer to Question #314819 in English for Olga

Question

Investigate why it is difficult to uproot the mentality that apartheid/racism (as a social construct) created in South Africa.

The content of the research should focus on the following:

- Racism as a social construct

- Changes brought by rescinding Apartheid laws in 1994

- Failure of the Black Consciousness philosophy

- policy of integration (joining the privileged)

- politics of Elitism (replacing the privileged)

Answer 1

The reason why it is difficult to uproot the mentality of apartheid is that the post colonial trauma that was caused this evil still lives amongst the people.