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  2. Apartheid - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. South African system of racial separation This article is about apartheid in South Africa. For apartheid as defined in international law, see Crime of apartheid. For other uses, see Apartheid (disambiguation). This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider ...

  3. Pillarisation - Wikipedia

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    Pillarisation (a calque from the Dutch: verzuiling [vɛrˈzœylɪŋ] ⓘ) is the vertical separation of citizens into groups by religion and associated political beliefs.. These societies were (and in some areas, still are) divided into two or more groups known as pillars (Dutch: zu

  4. Separatism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Other pro-independence parties which have held representation in the Scottish Parliament include the Scottish Green Party, [1] the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity. At the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, 69 of the 129 seats available were won by pro-independence parties (63 SNP and 6 Greens). The independence movement consists of many ...

  5. Tartan Curtain - Wikipedia

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    The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report entitled "The foreign policy implications of and for a separate Scotland" contains the following quote as Written evidence from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: "The impact of an independent Scotland joining Schengen, were it to wish or be obliged to do so, would be significant, creating ...

  6. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 - Wikipedia

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    Britons charts the emergence of British identity from the Act of Union in 1707 with Scotland and England to the beginning of the Victorian era in 1837. British identity, she argues, was created from four features that both united the Britons and set the nation apart from others: Britain is a Protestant state defined against a largely Catholic ...

  7. Apartheid legislation - Wikipedia

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    Apartheid is distinguished from segregation in other countries by the systematic way in which it was formalized in law. Segregationist legislation before apartheid Although apartheid as a comprehensive legislative project truly began after the National Party came into power in 1948, many of these statutes were preceded by the laws of the ...

  8. Scottish independence - Wikipedia

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    The same publication claims that if it leaves the UK by the middle of the decade, Scotland would have a deficit of almost 10 per cent of GDP. If correct, this would mean Scotland would need to raise taxes or cut public spending [158] by the equivalent of £1765 per person after independence to make the deficit sustainable. [157]

  9. Global apartheid - Wikipedia

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    Global apartheid is a term for a concept of how Global North countries are engaged in a project of "racialization, segregation, political intervention, mobility controls, capitalist plunder, and labor exploitation" affecting people from the Global South.