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Was any actual racial discrimination cited?

• ralusek 7y ago
  I'm just assuming that for a population that makes up 10% of the total population to make 100% of the community, race is probably an active differentiator, although of course that's not necessarily the case. For countries where economic standing/language/culture are very highly associated with race, then it's entirely possible for populations to sort themselves along racial lines without race actually being an active factor...I think it's just the "100% white" part that is making me assume that it's likely a factor.
• panarky 7y ago
  Orania is managed as a private company, and the town council retains a tight grip on who can move in. Each prospective resident is carefully screened—not by race, the council claims, but by avowed devotion to Afrikaner culture. Either way, the end result is the same: All of the town’s 1,500 or so residents are white. ------ challenging me to name a country where "blacks have gotten it right" ------ There is a map of South Africa, with a magnifying glass hovering over Orania. The village is surrounded by spear-bearing Africans and huts emblazoned with ANC flags. The introduction reads: "The year is 2017 AD. South Africa is entirely occupied by the blacks. Well, not entirely … One small town of indomitable Afrikaners still holds out against the invaders."
  • Covzire 7y ago
    That's an allusion, not evidence. They're not a gated community in Johannesburg, they're a town in the sticks and every culture on earth self-segregates to some degree or another. It sounds like the Wired author found a peaceful community is wanting to change that because they read racism into where there may not even be any.