Mixed history: South African Coloured culture

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Mixed history: South African Coloured culture


At the tip of Africa exists an admixed group of Africans, known as Coloureds. This is not a derogatory classification as it might be in other countries. The people known as Coloured can trace their lineage to Africans, Asians and Europeans. As a result, they have a unique culture that be unfamiliar, even to other South Africans. The designation…

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  1. Africa is the mother of man kind..Asian are Africans decent stop lie you western lie too much. Black people are the first and the original race only. Black people are the chosen ones

  2. Here in South Africa there were no Coloured people as a race it came with the Europeans during segregation . We were all Natives and others Europeans. My Xhosa family has light skin lighter than most Coloureds but they were black .

  3. Who is Carey Queen? Everywhere you go Coloured people are not friendly they dont greet you unless you are white, close friends or related to them. Very colonial attitude.

  4. The majority of coloureds are direct descendants of the KHOI .
    The initial mixing of different races in the Cape was the foundation of the coloured nation . Only in the 1950s were these mixed race people consolidated into one by the apartheid government .

  5. So many beautiful mixes of coloured people . The arrogance of the black man to label us as black is sickening . The original indigenous inhabitants of SA , the Khoi and San have always been referred to as brown not black , and rightfully so . These black nguni migrants from central Africa are are out of line labelling us black to legitimise their theft of the country. 0:05

  6. Im coloured my descendents came from Indian my mothers mother was a Indian she was talking about Cheyenne indian group so my fathers father is German there surname is mildenhall his name was ANDREW MILDENHALL TTHEY CAME FROM GERMANY THAT IS MY FATHER BUT MY MOTHERS WAS YAHYAH INDIAN NAME

  7. Colored for the most part is a confusing grouping for me as black African. Even after watching this video 😂. Does someone like Paul Adams feel he is one with Gayton Makenzie ?

  8. Cape coloureds lol imagine, what i know is that most coloureds are white mixed with Xhosa or even other blacl tribes not only Asians nd Khoi so some or most coloureds in the Eastern cape are Xhosas

  9. As an African American I appreciate this history lesson because I learned something new. So are colored people in South Africa still treated differently in 2023 by blacks and whites ?

  10. Youatt gives an excellent illustration of the effects of a course of selection which may be considered as unconscious, in so far that the breeders could never have expected, or even wished, to produce the result which ensued—namely, the production of the distinct strains. The two flocks of Leicester sheep kept by Mr. Buckley and Mr. Burgess, as Mr. Youatt remarks, "Have been purely bred from the original stock of Mr. Bakewell for upwards of fifty years. There is not a suspicion existing in the mind of any one at all acquainted with the subject that the owner of either of them has deviated in any one instance from the pure blood of Mr. Bakewell's flock, and yet the difference between the sheep possessed by these two gentlemen is so great that they have the appearance of being quite different varieties.
    Charles Darwin

  11. My father is black from Kenya n Nigeria not from South Africa n my mum is white from Balkans back ground,so what am i? Ive lived as Coloured all my life n don't have a problem

  12. It does not matter what colour we are, it’s the culture that counts! We are all human and Hendrik Verwoerd made a huge mistake with apartheid- sadly he was not even South African but from Holland🤦‍♂️ I live in the Nama-Khoi district where there are still very much Racism so sad😰 my grandchildren live in Brazil and they are “colored” but nobody blinks an eye

  13. No one wants to be black in South Africa. Hence people bleach to look white. If you assume to be black that mean you will be harassed, you will be seen as uneducated , uncivilised and low class. So the mix race are afraid to be associated with all those things hence they would prefer to be associated with any race on earth but not black. For as long as the lives of the black majority remain worthless or poor or denied justice even children of biracial will continue to refuse to be associated with blacks

  14. what makes you a coloured ? Is it colour of your skin or your language or the fact that you are told by a total stranger that you are mix of many race. Not all the coloured are mixed with Asians and East Africans . Some or if not most coloured are South African biracial of blacks and white people. Some white people used to give birth to black children. Just like we have two black couple who still give birth to white child to this day.What is culture of your own? Do you think other black people are black because of their skin? The skin outside doesn’t make us who we are but it is our DNA hence the term race never meant the outside skin but had to do with DNA but anthropologists damaged the whole field by simplifying everything . Bob Marley might be mistaken for black person but his father white men. Even DNA system is incorrect to link people to their original place of birth. Some slaves were taken from Africa 500 years ago and their DNA might be dominating Europe today and they are mistaken for white people today. England , Italy and many other European countries including Germany at one point they had black kings and queens who ruled that land. So it is not easy for us to say who is European or African or Asian . Topics like this they comfort those who don’t understand the world

  15. They should be proud who they are , they are unique people in SA , lots of them are educated and most elite in their cultures ib SA , the word colored is suppose to be multiracial , or biracial , the white 🤍 populations , are slso mixed with people that came into the country centuries ago, be proud of your offspring , and from European and tribal people , don't feel left out what for? Apartheid was dubbed wrongly, leave the past life for the future , God blesses you he looks at the inside of everyone, and don't look at other humans and compare people with people its wrong, praise God , Read Gods word , his special people were slaves , Jesus lived poor life , many of our whites in SA lived poor lives the generations today in SA are ill informed about the past they manipulated by evil rulers that sews poison in the minds of the Young generations, they don't know apartheid they hear only bad and not the good

  16. Stop saying "coloured". I'm not a coloured, I'm a khoisan. The term coloured was given to us by the "white man" during slave trade. Its oppression to the utmost. We want our original name back KHOISANS.

  17. We may think we are colored, white, asian or politically correct black, but our DNA genetics may tell a very different story. The color on our faces reveals absolutely nothing as to where or what our true origin is. In the meantime I am, for record purposes classified as Cape Colored. I am so proud of my heritage and my people. My grandfather is a 4th generation Dutch immigrant from Holland. I could pass as a Latino (a) Asian, Arabic, Brasilian but I prefer to be colored. Whoever runs this country or politics doesn't determine what or who we are on the inside.

  18. Coloureds are NOT a race they are part of other races….. just like Africans are the true natives of Africa any other race in Africa are not natives but immigrants to the continent…. Africans are proud people…. The term coloured is I find offensive as it’s a term given to them by colonists…. Did the Malay Chinese Indians etc call themselves coloured in their own lands …. Just like being called black is derogatory and racist and colonialistic…

  19. Watching this video brought tears to my eyes. I'm tired of South Africans telling us we don't have a culture, we are confused and people branding who or what our identity is. WE HAVE OUR OWN! This is the best explanation of the Coloured Culture! I'm a proud South African Coloured!