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Представьте: китайцев в ЮАР относили к черным. Я не имею в виду, что они становились черными. Они оставались китайцами. Но, в отличие от индийцев, их было слишком мало, чтобы им придумали отдельную группу. Апартеид, несмотря на свою сложность и тщательность, не знал, что с ними делать, так что правительство сказало: «Ладно, мы просто назовем их черными. Так проще». 

Любопытно, но японцы считались белыми. Причиной этого было то, что южноафриканское правительство хотело установить хорошие от- »• ношения с японским в целях импорта их замечательных автомобилей и электроники. Так что японцы получили почетный белый статуе, а китайцы оставались черными. 

It is so easy, from the outside, to put the blame on the woman and say, 'You just need to leave.' It's not like my home was the only home where there was domestic abuse. It's what I grew up around. I saw it in the streets of Soweto, on TV, in movies. Where does a woman go in a society where that is the norm? When the police won't help her? When her own family won't help her? Where does a woman go when she leaves one man who hits her and is just as likely to wind up with another man who hits her, maybe even worse than the first? Where does a woman go when she's single with three kids and she lives in a society that makes her a pariah for being a manless woman? Where she's seen as a whore for doing that? Where does she go? What does she do?

... Keep on marrying lighter and whiter and don't touch the chocolate and maybe, maybe, someday, of you're lucky, you can become white.
Which seems ridiculous, but it would happen. Every year under apartheid, some colored people would get promoted to white. It wasn't a myth; it was real. People could submit applications to the government. Your hair might become straight enough, your skin might become light enough, your accent might become polished enough - and you'd be reclassified as white. All you had to do was denounce your people, denounce your history, and leave your darker-skinned friends and family behind.