During the 1970s and 1980s in South Africa, the government created a category of honorary white for:

A. certain random groups which were allowed to claim whiteness on some governmental forms.
B. rich, powerful Asians who invested in South Africa.
C. people who earned an achieved status through interracial marriage.
D. Whites who granted exceptional status to their non-white slaves.


Answer: B

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