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the INSTITUTION of apartheid. There are no laws in India or Mauretania or the Sudan that allow those countries to have caste systems or slavery yet they have them. That's th difference. Since our ability to impact those countries is limited and would not receive public support, we can't do anything major. South Africa's economy was linked with ours and Western Europe and Japan and so they had to bow to pressure. Sanctions against India didn't work (as we saw in the recent situation invovling their nuclear arms race with Pakistan and China) as India can trade with the Europeans or Russians etc.
Now as far as the urban centers are concerned, that's an issue that is more complicated. I don't think welfare has as much of an impact as people surmise. The very environment is plagued by mediocre schools (due to lack of funding and NOT because private schools are better) and thus sub-par levels of education. Contrary to popular belief, people (even in urban centers) have more wealth than most of the people on this planet. The cost of living negates that. I believe that with proper school funding and community programs that would force kids to play sports or be involved in extracurricular activities or some form or employment would reduce the problems drastically. Without such changes all you're doing is allowing a vast waste of unused human labor and potential.
Oh and arming everyone won't help reduce crime and cutting off welfare will only aggravate matters. Cutting off welfare (which takes up only a small fraction of what is paid to corporations) would do nothing to solve the problem. Perhaps some form of mandatory job training would help, but you never solutions. All I hear are people that don't a dime to go to the poor, while the wealthiest 10% siphons all they want and nobody bats an eyelash. Yeah great.
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