Young, an Afrikaner and skilled? Orania needs you to help ensure its sustainability

Zurg

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Don't know if I'd be accepted in a town like that but I'd jump at the opportunity to live the farm/country life.
  • Under 30
  • Educated (Work in the IT sector)
  • No criminal record
  • I'm coloured (Most people assume I'm white but I think my surname has something to do with it too.)
  • My Afrikaans is atrocious (Something I'm pretty embarrassed about.) (Both my parents can speak it fluently but I grew up in a house where English was spoken 99% of the time.)
 

TheChamp

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Don't know if I'd be accepted in a town like that but I'd jump at the opportunity to live the farm/country life.
  • Under 30
  • Educated (Work in the IT sector)
  • No criminal record
  • I'm coloured (Most people assume I'm white but I think my surname has something to do with it too.)
  • My Afrikaans is atrocious (Something I'm pretty embarrassed about.) (Both my parents can speak it fluently but I grew up in a house where English was spoken 99% of the time.)
Are you prepared to forsake all your coloured ways and assimilate into their culture?
 

TheChamp

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I mean, what would be classified as coloured ways? Lappie behind the toilet pot? I'm just a regular dude as far as I can tell.
I don't know, don't you have your unique ways? I do and I would struggle to assimilate in another culture, for an example when I meet one of my own and I am in the mood I instinctively belt out his clan praises with much energy and enthusiasm and the person would reciprocate, I have noticed some people are caught off guard by this and would look on startled.

I know your ways won't be the same as mine but surely you do have your ways? Unless of course they are the same ways of the Oranians as someone has suggested.
 

Vrotappel

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Don't know if I'd be accepted in a town like that but I'd jump at the opportunity to live the farm/country life.
  • Under 30
  • Educated (Work in the IT sector)
  • No criminal record
  • I'm coloured (Most people assume I'm white but I think my surname has something to do with it too.)
  • My Afrikaans is atrocious (Something I'm pretty embarrassed about.) (Both my parents can speak it fluently but I grew up in a house where English was spoken 99% of the time.)
As a start I believe you must buy a share. Do you have the capital? Secondly it would be Afrikaans.
 

Zurg

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I don't know, don't you have your unique ways? I do and I would struggle to assimilate in another culture, for an example when I meet one of my own and I am in the mood I instinctively belt out his clan praises with much energy and enthusiasm and the person would reciprocate, I have noticed some people are caught off guard by this and would look on startled.

I know your ways won't be the same as mine but surely you do have your ways? Unless of course they are the same ways of the Oranians as someone has suggested.
Soo I think its important to ground the discussion when discussing the ways of a certain demographic else it'll get out of hand.

I don't really want to derail the thread into a talk about race but I'm open to the discussion so feel free to create a new thread.

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So I had to make a call and find out exactly because I didn't want to tread on any toes.

You would be correct in saying that Afrikaaner culture and coloured culture share majority of their "ways" while retaining their own unique "ways".

Bear in mind I don't speak for all coloured people.

Our parents tend to be more involved in the choices we make, they advise us and there tends to be more hand holding? (not sure if this is the right word)

We tend to stay in our parents house longer. (I'm not saying all white people just majority I have been around move out when they're still pretty young.)

There's more but perhaps we could discuss it in a new post?
 

Supervan II

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I mean, what would be classified as coloured ways? Lappie behind the toilet pot? I'm just a regular dude as far as I can tell.
Although Coloureds and Afrikaners share many characteristics, no Afrikaner woman can get quite as angry as a Coloured woman.

When she says: "Nee kyk, as ek my nou moet vererg ..." You had better prepare for the worst dressing down of your life! And sommer 'n oorveeg ook, for good measure. :ROFL:
 

Zurg

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Spot on. Both are much the same. Differences are negligible. And if you look into the genealogy of many famous "white" South African surnames, you will see they are actually coloured anyway.

Well when it comes to genealogy I wouldn't even know where to begin, I had the 24 Genetics test done and was quite surprised with the results. Lets just say somewhere along the line someone was talking alooooot of kak about family history or where we came from but given the circumstances of the past its no surprise the "old people" are not prepared to indulge us in that conversation.

One side of the family has roots buried deep into District Six so I'm not surprised that there's a huge question mark regarding family history, documentation or our lineage?
 
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