There is extreme polarisation in the new South Africa, with regard to who mixes with who. Just recently, it was not practially possible to know who mixed with who -- yet now we have (for example) lists of Facebook friends. One sees now that a person of one race group (if there were, strictly speaking, race groups) will typically not mix with more than 1% of another race group. This is astonishing. Moreover, in the case of persons one would expect to mix -- ministers, for example, or academics or consultants -- I estimate 2%. 10% would be very unusual. I could be wrong, but it is easy to take a look. OBSERVATION: Does it matter? I think yes, very much. A Black man said to me recently that racism is what happens when you make assumptions about another race: "Would they ..." have said or done this if they were not White, Black, and so on. This is a very broad definition, but the point is, if there is (say) 1% mixing, can one really minister, practice, perform, execute things effectively?
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