| > Shuttleworth comes from South Africa, so he lived in a place where nationalism/tribalism is rampant. Especially black nationalism (such as is practiced by the next president [Malema](http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20100310041938251C30...) ) is extremely rampant. The problem in South Africa is that it is a very diverse country with people of differing economic development, languages and cultures. The idea of apartheid was that each ethnic/cultural group could have their own state (let’s not talk about the implementation but the ideology). That way each group can have self-determination. Unfortunately this did not work. One reason for this was the industrialisation of South Africa in 60ies and 70ies. Many black people moved out of their traditional places of birth to major cities, etc... The other idea is a very powerful central government based on majority vote. This is what is implemented now. This system (like Apartheid) doesn’t work. Each election is a census and the main aim of government is to disadvantage one group of people to benefit its majority support (while making white people universal scape goats for all ills). None of these systems are working. The new system is just as broken as the Apartheid system that liberals in the west complained about. --- A system that could have worked was a third system: A co-social society. Each group can have their own areas in a society where they can express themselves (e.g. own sports, universities & schools in their language, etc…). There can be constitutional guarantees that a groups rights would not be infringed upon, etc… Unfortunately this did not happen. |