South African racism boomeranged to Asia via imported labor practices
Evidence
There were, however, real and immediate boomerang effects of South Africa’s race society on the behavior of European peoples: since cheap Indian and Chinese labor had been madly imported to South Africa whenever her interior supply was temporarily halted, a change of attitude toward colored people was felt immediately in Asia where, for the first time, people were treated in almost the same way as those African savages who had frightened Europeans literally out of their wits. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 531
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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