Something that may be viewed as morally correct in the United States could be unethical in Zimbabwe and vice versa. For example, in Somalia, it is acceptable, or moral for a family to kill a female family member if she is raped, while here in the United States the murder of a family ...
Rhodesian: of or relating to the former country of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); –Early the next morning we left for Mbeya, a Tanganyikan town near the Northern Rhodesian border. Rhombic: resembling a rhombus. –And what a shape it will be: a 12-sided rhombic dodecahedron. Rhombohedral: having...
and a functionality more suited to their way of life. The same pattern repeated itself throughout theBritish-ruledterritories, where African capitals such asNairobi,Kenya, and Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (nowHarare,Zimbabwe), were similarly designed to accommodate their white colonial rulers. Although...
One-party state, a country where a single political party controls the government, either by law or in practice. Examples of one-party states include North Korea, China, Eritrea, and Cuba.
By the early 1960s the Japanese government had begun to consider a comprehensive pollution-control policy, and in 1967 Japan enacted the world’s first such overarching law, the Basic Law for Environmental Pollution Control. Not until the end of the 20th century was Minamata declared mercury-...
Crime is the intentional commission of an act usually deemed socially harmful or dangerous and specifically defined, prohibited, and punishable under criminal law.
The last regimes to institutionalize doctrines of white supremacy through comprehensive legislation were Rhodesia, which changed its name to Zimbabwe after its white minority finally ceded power in 1980, and South Africa, whose apartheid system was dismantled in the 1990s. Despite the demise of ...