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Known as the architect of apartheid, Verwoerd systematized institutional racial segregation in South Africa, grounding racial nationalism in the legal and territorial separation imposed on the country's Black majority.
Political topics
Hendrik Verwoerd leans further toward religious than 95% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Hendrik Verwoerd stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Hendrik Verwoerd sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Conception that defines the nation by shared origin, language and descent, defending a state for the majority ethnic group and the preservation of its identity, which usually implies membership criteria tied to ancestry.
Project that seeks to organize state and society according to the strict interpretation of a religious doctrine, subordinating laws, customs, and politics to sacred precepts and rejecting modern secularism.
Current that preserves order, tradition, and hierarchy through a strong state, restricting freedoms and political participation in the name of social stability, morality, religion, and established authority.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist23%
Leader of the Kuomintang and the Republic of China, Chiang led the fight against the communists and the Japanese occupation, and after the 1949 defeat established a nationalist one-party regime and martial law in Taiwan, combining militant anti-communism with authoritarian developmentalism.
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A parliamentary republic in Eastern Europe, Hungary is governed under so-called illiberal democracy, uniting nationalism, Christian conservatism, sovereignty vis-à-vis the European Union, and strong control of media and institutions.
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A regime of institutional racial segregation, apartheid South Africa denied rights to the Black majority and concentrated power in the white minority, with separation laws that provoked strong internal resistance and sanctions.
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