How to say "apartheid" in Japanese

• アパルトヘイトCommon
  nounThe loanword and the most direct way to name apartheid as a system; typical in reference to South Africa's system of racial segregation, and sometimes extended to comparable systems elsewhere.
• 人種隔離じんしゅかくり
  nounThe descriptive term for separating people by race; it covers racial segregation in general, with apartheid as its best-known case, and is less common than the loanword.
  モントゴメリーのバスは人種じんしゅ隔離かくりが行おこなわれていた。↗

  The buses in Montgomery were segregated.
• 人種隔離政策じんしゅかくりせいさく
  nounMakes the policy aspect explicit: apartheid as an official policy of racial segregation. It fits talk of government policy, but it is less common and more explicit than simply saying アパルトヘイト.

Use 「アパルトヘイト」, the common loanword, for apartheid as the name of the system, especially South Africa's; use 人種隔離 for racial segregation in general, and 人種隔離政策 when stressing it as official policy.

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• アパルトヘイトapartheid
• 人種隔離じんしゅかくりracial segregation
• 人種隔離政策じんしゅかくりせいさくracial segregation