Profit and Bias
What is profit?
Gaining something, such as money, minerals, labor, etc...
What is colonization?
When a country takes over another country and forces them to change.
What is apartheid?
Segregation in Africa
What is one way people can protest?
Rallies
March
Boycott
Strike
What class are we in?
What is bias?
An idea about a group without actually knowing if it is true or not
Who colonized South Africa?
Dutch and British
What is one law that happened during apartheid?
No interracial marriage
No traveling without a passport
Separate facilities
Separate area of living
Restricted jobs
Restricted housing
What was one way people protested the passport mandates in South Africa?
They had a rally and burned their passports
What do we normally raffle at the end of the day?
Oreos
How did Europe profit from Africa?
Diamonds
Gold
Rubber
Labor
Land
Trading
Who colonized the Congo?
Belgium
What were the 4 groups people were divided into?
White people
Asian people
Mixed people
Black people
When did apartheid end?
1994
(1990s acceptable answer)
Congo
Ethiopia
South Africa
What was a bias Europeans had about Africans?
That they were uncivilized, barbarians, and less than them.
What is one way Europe forced Africa to change?
Language
Clothing
Jobs
Religion
If someone worked at a place that was supposed to be for a different race, what would they have to show?
A passport
What happened when students protested the use of Afrikan in schools?
The police sent dogs to attack them, sprayed tear gas, and shot them.
Why were there only 2 exits in Soweto?
How does bias and profit relate?
Bias is used as an excuse to take (profit) off of another group.
A country wants profit, so they take over another country, and they use bias to justify mistreating and taking away from another place
If a mixed child was caught by the police what could happen?
They would be taken from their family and sent to an orphanage for mixed children
What was an effect of the pictures of the student protest?
More people in South Africa and around the world protested
What was the name of the person we read about?
Trevor Noah