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IcanMakeYourBedRock
February 18th, 2011, 04:28 PM
South Africans are still fixed on categorizing each other by their race as White, Black, Coloured, Indian.... Why not call yourself a South African. Enough of these Labels...

Lydon
February 18th, 2011, 04:52 PM
Oh the absolute irony :hilarious

You just categorised all South Africans into a single group supposedly fixed on categorising each other by race.

annman
February 19th, 2011, 01:30 PM
^^ We're more honest at least. Black Americans call themselves "African Americans!" There's nothing "African" them other than the skin colour. Maybe the Afrikaners should call themselves "Dutch-French-Africans!" :lol:

Loved when my mate from Thembisa working at Disney, told an "African American" that: "This, my friend, is an African (pointing to her pale SA colleague), there is nothing African about you, you're just American, and black!" After he argued ignorantly that her colleague couldn't be African because she's white.

Look, this thread is downright stupid and gets nobody nowhere. I of all people want people to be South African first and foremost... but you cannot in a democratic society expect people to forget where they come from. If Afrikaners, Xhosas or Coloureds, whomever, want to be proud of their heritage, there's nothing wrong with that.

SA is the rainbow nation. In a rainbow you can distinguish all the beautiful colours in it, but the rainbow always has all the colours in it to make it complete... this is South Africa!

IcanMakeYourBedRock
February 19th, 2011, 02:07 PM
^^ We're more honest at least. Black Americans call themselves "African Americans!" There's nothing "African" them other than the skin colour. Maybe the Afrikaners should call themselves "Dutch-French-Africans!" :lol:

Loved when my mate from Thembisa working at Disney, told an "African American" that: "This, my friend, is an African (pointing to her pale SA colleague), there is nothing African about you, you're just American, and black!" After he argued ignorantly that her colleague couldn't be African because she's white.

Look, this thread is downright stupid and gets nobody nowhere. I of all people want people to be South African first and foremost... but you cannot in a democratic society expect people to forget where they come from. If Afrikaners, Xhosas or Coloureds, whomever, want to be proud of their heritage, there's nothing wrong with that.

SA is the rainbow nation. In a rainbow you can distinguish all the beautiful colours in it, but the rainbow always has all the colours in it to make it complete... this is South Africa!

You make a good point about the black american part. But categorizing people by race will always make south africans a racial consious society, I look at a country like brazil and you can't even compare south africa to brazil, nobody cares about you being mullato or coloured or black or white, and nowhere its more represented but on their football team, south africa still have the problem of uniting all south africans with their sports, rugby is still majority white same with cricket, soccer is majority black.

I see all the constant blaming of the ANC, but if the DA succeed to presidency these problems will be fixed?

IcanMakeYourBedRock
February 19th, 2011, 02:20 PM
South Africa is falling apart, and there will always be division, especially racial division. We all don't live in a World where humans and animals of all kinds eat fruits and sing and dance together, unbelievable.

Erm I could easily show the Soviet Union, Third Reich, and the Japanese Cruelty to Chinese and British prisoners as a holiday play ground, with footages and people all playing around, and fool you of the real picture.

lordangers5
February 20th, 2011, 12:55 AM
South Africa is falling apart, and there will always be division, especially racial division. We all don't live in a World where humans and animals of all kinds eat fruits and sing and dance together, unbelievable.

Erm I could easily show the Soviet Union, Third Reich, and the Japanese Cruelty to Chinese and British prisoners as a holiday play ground, with footages and people all playing around, and fool you of the real picture.

I am surprised you haven't got a smack in the face or someone telling you to go take your medication...

Lydon
February 20th, 2011, 10:12 AM
Guys, we're falling apart :hilarious

briker
February 20th, 2011, 04:11 PM
South Africa is falling apart, and there will always be division, especially racial division. We all don't live in a World where humans and animals of all kinds eat fruits and sing and dance together, unbelievable.

Erm I could easily show the Soviet Union, Third Reich, and the Japanese Cruelty to Chinese and British prisoners as a holiday play ground, with footages and people all playing around, and fool you of the real picture.

And your purpose is what? Whistling through your ass? You know sweet boggerol what you are talking about. Seriously, If you want to hang out here, know what you're talking about and be constructive...else take a hike.

Lydon
February 20th, 2011, 04:36 PM
It's the nutcase who makes idiotic threads in the Africa section trying to sound smart. Ignore it :)

IcanMakeYourBedRock
February 20th, 2011, 08:01 PM
There should be economic empowerment for ALL people irrespective to skin color. Yet, the original problem of Apartheid is the genesis of the stratification now seen in South Africa today. Still, 60% of Blacks in South Africa are living in poverty - a number that is at least five times the numbers of whites in similar conditions. To bring balance to the scales adjustments must be made that initially may seem to be out of balance.

GetDownAdam
February 20th, 2011, 10:32 PM
Maybe I should drink more. Threads like this would make a lot more sense. Please use smaller words. The thing is that most of the people reading the crap you're writing can understand the words you're using, but I'm not sure that you fully understand what you are saying yourself.

Lydon
February 21st, 2011, 11:46 AM
Using large words in order to sound smart only works when you use them correctly :lol: