The phrase refers to white Afrikaners who settled in South Africa centuries ago and dominated society during the apartheid years.

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But if there's one thing and this is a little risky because there are always holes in any claim like this but if there's one distinct feature of the Old South society and indeed its leadership and most of its people, it would be what we might label anti-modernism.

但有一点,具有一定的风险,因为任何论点中都会有漏洞,如果说旧南方社会,的领导层和大部分人民,都有一个显著的特点,那就是在我们看来,他们是反现代的

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If the South was a slave society and we tried to demonstrate that last time, we tried to define that.

如果南方是奴隶社会,我们上次已经证明过了,我们也定义过了

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It was a threat to hierarchy and the South became quite distinctively a very hierarchical society more on that in just a second.

民主对阶级制度是一大威胁,相对于北方,南方的阶级制度,更根深蒂固

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But if the South was a slave society the North was a market society.

如果南方是一个奴隶社会,那么北方就是一个市场社会

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That's always open to debate, exactly when the South became a slave society.

经常有一些公开的争论,南方究竟是从何时成为奴隶社会的

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Now, when exactly did the American South become a slave society?

那么美国南部究竟是从何时起成为奴隶社会的

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And by the 1820s and 1830s the American South became what I think you could safely say was the fifth slave society in human history; maybe the sixth. This is debatable.

自十九世纪二三十年代起,美国南方,绝对成为了,人类历史上的第五个奴隶社会,也可能是第六个,这仍然处于争议中

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And if you want to understand why so many white Southerners, especially in the Deep South, went to such great extents to save their slave society, remember the kinds of arguments and language used by its defenders.

如果你们想知道为何如此多的南方白种人,特别是南方腹地的人们,想要最大程度地保住他们的奴隶制社会,那就揣摩一下这些辩护者所使用的论断,和他们的语言,措辞

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