Nostalgia for life in South Africa 1948–94
Nostalgia for apartheid is feelings ofnostalgia for theapartheid system in South Africa, as well as more general nostalgia for life in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
Such feeling is widespread in South Africa,[1] and diverse, ranging from a desire for a return to racial segregation, to a feeling that the apartheid regime, whilst brutal and oppressive, ran the country more efficiently.[2][3] Whilst found amongst white South Africans where it is associated withwhite supremacism andAfrikaner nationalism, it also exists amongst black South Africans, where it is associated with disappointment at thecontinued inequality, and unfulfilled expectations of improved standards of living.
It is similar toSoviet nostalgia, where nostalgia also arose for a repressive regime following the fall of that regime, including by those oppressed by it.[2][4][5]
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- Colonial amnesia (the phenomenon of forgetting colonial history or remembering it in certain ways that erase the history of the colonized people).
- Truth-seeking – Restorative justice process (processes to allow societies to examine and come to grips with past crimes and atrocities and prevent their future repetition.)
- Sociological Francoism – Continuing social characteristics of Francoism in Spain
- White savior – Sarcastic or critical description
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