Colonialist naming practices were skin-deep

Skeptik said:
Where does the expression "Sister" and "Brother" come from then in various countries in relation to people of the same black hue?
Click to expand...

Maybe, visit places like "The Rock" or "Mnambitha" in Soweto "Mzoli" in Gugulethu where people from different ethnic groups/race hang around at times. You will be lucky to hear anyone using "brother" or "sister".
 
Skeptik said:
And if it's a "she", then the opinion doesn't count????
Click to expand...

The opinion indeed counts regardless of gender. In fact, there are more women in the teaching of the language. The teachings are from writings dominated by males such as S.E.K Mqhayi, Z.S. Qangule, K.S. Bongela and A.C. Jordan.
 
dlk001 said:
The opinion indeed counts regardless of gender. In fact, there are more women in the teaching of the language. The teachings are from writings dominated by males such as S.E.K Mqhayi, Z.S. Qangule, K.S. Bongela and A.C. Jordan.
Click to expand...
Nice backstep (just in time)

BTW> "Incompetent people often lack the skills necessary to recognize competence in others."
Very True.
 
Rename the worst names, but for a country which is struggling with severe poverty all efforts need to go into eradicating it, everything else is a distraction until poverty is largely eradicated.

Table Mountain was originally name "Hoerikwaggo", Mountain of the Sea, by the San - who are the closest thing to people who aren't immigrants to South Africa.
 
Yzerfontein said:
Rename the worst names, but for a country which is struggling with severe poverty all efforts need to go into eradicating it, everything else is a distraction until poverty is largely eradicated.

Table Mountain was originally name "Hoerikwaggo", Mountain of the Sea, by the San - who are the closest thing to people who aren't immigrants to South Africa.
Click to expand...
Let's ask Dik001 what his people did to the Khoi and the San people.:rolleyes:

Because of that genocide, I don't think the name Hoerikwaggo would be relevant and it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue ...
 
Hence, Irish-Americans, Greek-Americans, Ukrainian-Americans, Italian-Americans and Jewish-Americans. But suddenly there were “Negroes” or “blacks”, identity derived from physical features.
Click to expand...

Newsflash: now American blacks are called African-Americans so it is all politically correct and proper...so now can we move on with our lives?

Wonder when African-Africans will start calling us European-Africans?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X