Top 10 Culture Shocks | American 🇺🇸 in South Africa 🇿🇦
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- Whether you're planning a trip to South Africa or simply have a deep curiosity about other ways of life, this video is for you! Join us as we explore the top 10 culture shocks experienced by an American in South Africa.
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Did you just speak our languages...wow!!! That dumelang was pure joy.
I was much better when I was there. I have lost a lot of what I learned now that I've been gone so long. However, I loved the languages there. It was easier to pick up than the Twi here in Ghana where I am now staying.
Different cultures have different ways to lobola. It’s not all the same.
But it seems you enjoyed being here. Thank you for letting us know about your experience, thank you.
Curves in America and curves in Africa are not the same. African ladies are on a different level.
South Africa specifically, West African ladies are built like dudes.
So well informed subscribed
Soo u evn visited my province Limpopo
Your name is so Zulu 😅 nzali > birth giver from the word uku zala > to give birth
Love it!
Love it!
Most tourists visits big cities and don't go to rural areas that I think you did well by getting first hand SA rural experience
I always say take me back to the village. The best peace of mind I have ever had.
I will try to simplfy the "Coloured people" confusion. It almost has a similar account of how modern Latinas/Hispanic came to be. Coloured people in South Africa are descentants of Black Africans, European settlers and Asian slaves. This group of people (Coloured) started reproducing amongst themselves as they were segregated to their own communities now birthing a distinct pure breed of the coloured race. Their skin tone ranges from dark all the way to fair. They have their own clear cut accent, culture and traditions. To give an example: I am Black South African woman with mixed race kids. My kids don't identify as Coloured as they were birthed in a Black and Italian household thus practising my traditions (Xhosa and Tswana) and their dad's (Italian). Whereas coloured children are born from Coloured parents, grand parents and great -grand parents.
Well articulated
Love the explanation
Not all coloured is mix
@@wilmanmitchell4410 she's simplify the term sometimes we don't have to complicate things more so when you explaining something who doesn't have an idea about the issue at hand.
@@wilmanmitchell4410all coloureds have both black and white DNA within them if you trace your lineage you would find a black person whether khoisan,xhosa,tswana etc and a white person. I bear a surname of a white Scottish man and a xhosa woman many many many years ago.
I loved it when you spoke XiTsonga "(shangan)🤣❤ you definitely got a subscribe from me
Thanks for subbing!
Hi Nzali. It sounds like you were pleasantly shocked, at the most, in our beautiful country. And you are right, most of us South Africans understand what our brothers & sisters in America went & are still going through because we went & in some parts are still going through the same.
Thank you also for coming through to experience South Africa & Africa for your yourself because we hear that there's too much propaganda that's being spread around that side, to prevent our people in the states, from coming back home. Apparently they say that the entire African continent is either a jungle or full of poverty & diseases BUT the same people who spread those lies about the continent, are the ones filling up the flights to SA! So big ups to you for not being manipulated!
P.S I think I must get one of my cousins to come & pay Lobola for you so you can be a Zulu bride once ❤
I absolutely loved my time there. I was there about a year and a half. I do plan to come back soon. My lobola won't be cheap, lol. However, I am taken already.
@@nzalitakesafrica I am so glad that you had a lovely stay here because South Africa & Africa is your home too. Well, I guess my cousins will have to find themselves other ladies, to pay lobola for then😃.
I read somewhere that South Africa has the largest number of Indians outside India
I have heard the same and it did appear that way
That would be outdated and the US or UK have more now
South African Indians came dating many years ago, they are like natives because they assimilated even to the speaking local languages,
Ethnically you will see an Indian, but culturally you will be confused, it's interesting
It’s true, we do
Wow, I'm pleasantly surprised at how accurately your understanding of SA is. You really immersed yourself in the culture and had such an authentic South African experience 💛
I tried my best
This was a great video! I might need to put SA on my travel list for the coming year
Thanks for watching! I would 1000% recommend it. You'd love the vibe
Can't wait to welcome you home family
You'll never regret it
We are very diverse in ZA🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦a typical SA'n speaks about 5 languages.
Yes o. I was so surprised. You know us Americans are very limited in our languages. So it was nice to see.
You are overrated though.
@@nzalitakesafricaYou belong here on the continent. When are you coming back to stay?
@@nzalitakesafricayou're not limited at all my God the contributions you guys make to the world
I currently live in Ghana. So I am still around.@@africanadage852
Your name Nzali sounds very South African.
It's a Bantu name, I believe thats why. My SA family called me Sisa
I think her full name in Xhosa is Nonzaliseko, we normally shorten by saying "Nzali" 😁
Our mixed race goes wayyyy back to like the 1600s of inter mingling. Mainly in the cape it's because of it being the port city to the traders and settlers from Europe and also the indigenous khoi and San and xhosa people and the the servants and the slaves from east Africa and South East Asia... Everyone getting together so communities of mixed race people formed so now it's just a bunch of people who look the same and also different together for many generations and that's the people we identify as family and surrounding community. Hence that became our identity.
About the winter they must ask Obama he once came to South Africa in the Winter he even asked his bodyguard to go and buy him a long John trousers.
I had to go and buy me a jacket. I was not prepared, lol.
You pay damages for a child for you to have full relationship with it if you didnt marry the mother
We actually call them Tsonga rather than Shangaan
Thanks for the correction
The Black South Africans are NOT orginally from South Africa. The Khoi and San is the original inhabitants of SA. And we coloureds are descendants from them.Get it right please.
The Khoi/San were Africans just like all the other BLACK/AFRICAN ethic groups who inhabited Africa. So at the end of the day they were all African people. The boarder you claim weren't even created by African people. Nor where they in existence at the time these people roamed the earth. So get off my video with the divisive talk. Your real enemy are the people colonized and continue to disenfranchise all African people.
Thats not the issue here.All human beings on the African continent are Africans.The accentuation is the original inhabitants of South Africa.All you " African Americans " with your arrogance are under the impression you can school the real africans about their history hence you dont even know who you are.So get off your high horse and research the real history of South Africa.
I just bumped into your channel today and I fell in love with what u said about my country🇿🇦 and u immediately got my subscription and 👍 from now on I’ll be following you big up and come back we love u
Wow! Thank you so much for subscribing. I will be back this December actually.
How easily you pronounced Giyani and Louis Trichard 👌🏿
Very insightful video Nzali! 👏👏 we had a symbolic equivalent of a lobola for our traditional Congolese / Cameroonian wedding 😊
There are similarities in most of our cultures.
😂😂😂😂I was pleasantly surprised. Your culture shock is more like a pleasant immersion
I love how you remembered our languages and diferentiation of them, that is amazing. You are spot on, with all your points, I am thouroughly impressed. This was really refreshing to hear. A thousand likes✅✅✅✅
and thank you on sharing about the weather, most people have the same idea about africa, thinking the whole of Africa is warm and tropical only to be shocked to find bitterly cold winters in South Africa🌬🌬🌬. Actually its not only Cape Town, it gets cold all the way from Johannesburg down the Free State to Cape Town, with winters going down to 1 degrees celcius, I think that is about 33 degrees fahrenheit. To the point of wearing, a coat, gloves, scart, beanie and boots and sit infront of a heater as you have mentioned.
Thank you so much for watching. I love to spread the truth about Africa.
How she was greeting in SA languages made be to punch the like 👍 button ❤🎉
The coloured people of South Africa have the most diverse DNA composition in the world. When rasicm was imposed the government put the people in groupings to further divide people of colour. Being coloured is more a cultural thing then a race thing. I have blond cousins with very fair skin and cousins with very dark skin and straight hair. I also have cousin who could pass for black.
Thanks for clarifying for us
Oh my! The algorithm has brought me to my namesake. Hey girl hey!
Hey girl Hey! I love that for us! Where are you from?
South Africa is similar to America same same..Thst why we love Black Americans cos we are similar ❤
🤔?
There are strong similarities for sure
Yeah..very very similar
Greetings Nzali!❤ This is Mame Adjoa. Im subscribed! Im in the States right now but when I return I want to Play in Accra. So I hope we can link up and you show me the best of Accra. Ill have a friend visiting with me.
Oh yes, whatsapp me when you get back!
THE FIRST TRIBE ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN SOIL IS THE KOISAN
What were they doing when we fought apertheid?
What a stupid reply
Indigenous people in thi country are the Khoi and the San and also the Hottentos all this people are found mostly in North West,Northern Cape,Western Cape parts of Eastern Cape and Free State provennces of SOUTH AFRICA even today
The blacks are not the original people of South Africa, they migrated from the North. The original people are the Koi and San, known as bushman. They are the original ancestors of the coulered nation from interacting with Dutch, British, German, French, Africaner and different Black nations.
Sure. The Xhoi are black. And your revising history won't change that.
You got it all wrong Keith. Now you are trying to say when the settlers arrived in this country there were no black people? Please, try and read books and do a research about South Africa then you will realise your mistake. If the black people were not here, who was fighting those frontier wars and with whom? I am actually disappointed in you
The original people of south africa were THE KHOISAN they were colonised by black africans and in turn they were colonised by the europeans.
If you didn't have the American accent, I would have thought you are South African.
👏👏👏👏👏wow thanks for sharing your experience in South Africa
I really enjoyed my time there. I was there a year and a half
Mixed just like Tevor Noah
OMG Nzali I love your eyes, you look South African to me.
Thank you
Indigenous people of South Africa are not the blacks only. We as classified as coloured are the Aboriginal inhabitants formally known as Khoi and San. So not all coloureds are mixed but the apartheid regime did this to divide and conquer. Facts !!!
Are khoisan not black?
Khoin San was the first people of the land .
Your points are different from the usual ones I come across, it goes to show you experienced SA in a diverse perspective.
What is referred to as damages in English is called inkomo yesondlo in my language, loosely translated to 'the cow of nurturing/nourishment'. It's paid by a man (family) who impregnated a young woman out of wedlock, regardless of whether they will later tie the knot or not. Infact, if he decides to ask for her hand in marriage, he starts with that cow and then the standard lobola (dowry) cows. It's not necessarily linked to compensating for dowry, it's focused on the wellbeing of the baby.
Lobola is not a bride price, it was a means to establish relations between 2 families. With changing times, it's no longer about cows but the monetary equivalent. Of course people have become a lot more greedy.
You may have noticed that cows were once a precious commodity, that's still the case in the villages.
By the way, I'm interested in your name. In my language IsiXhosa it means fulfillment or realization, as in when the prophecy comes to being. What language does your name originate from?
Apologies for the essay 🫣🤭
@@nosinkewana488 thank you so much for commenting and watching. It's a bantu name out of central Africa I was told. I like the meaning you shared, very powerful. I was told my name means a fearless person who is divinely protected
Hi Nzali, great to watch you again. I continue to enjoy your vlogs here in the UK 🇬🇧. I remember your vlog about Lonsdale (in Pedi land; Limpopo), I really liked it. South Africa is the only country in the world to be named after a direction where it is located (South of Africa). This is because South Africa in its originality was not meant to be one country, it is a nation created purely from colonial projects (The Dutch originally colonizing the Cape Province which was later annexed by the British, the Portuguese colonizing Natalia, which was later named Natal after annexation by the British (today called KwaZulu-Natal), the Dutch colonizers later joined by some groups of French (Huguenots), Germans and some Scandinavians and collectively calling themselves the Voortrekkers who later migrated inland towards the north to create Republic of Transvaal and Orange Free State and subsequently changed their name to Afrikaaners and their Dutch language fused with some English grammar influences became a language called Afrikaans). The one thing I don't like about my home country is tribalism among Black people; many different tribes meshed up together with each tribe trying harder to stand out with their own culture; Zulu, Xhosa, Pedi, Sotho-Tswana etc. with some tribes trying to dominate over others. Unlike Black Americans; a Black American from the East Coast, the Mid-West, the South and the West Coast are all the same; This is what I really like about Black Americans; Uniformity. Good to see you creating vlogs about South Africa. Looking forward to seeing some more.😊
@@asantemkwanazi5254
The word Apartheid means Apartness, Apartheid government Leaders called it Separate Development. Anyone who was born before 1994 will know that Black people were given Autonomy in the so called TBVC states (Transkei for Xhosas, Bophuthatswana for Batswana, Venda for Venda people and Ciskei for Tembu people). Others were semi-autonomous such as Lebowa for Pedi people, Gazankulu for Tsonga people, Kwa-Ndebele for Ndebele people Kwa-Zulu for Zulu people etc. The Apartheid system is an institution that came much later when the Republic of South Africa was established from the Union of South Africa which in turn was formed by unification of the Republic of Transvaal, Orange Free State, Natal Colony and the Cape Colony (which belonged to the British Crown 👑). True reality here is Tribalism has always been entrenched among Black people in Southern Africa. The Nguni people who migrated from West Africa established their own "Tribal Institutions" when settling on the South of Africa. These tribal institution were led by Kings with assistance of their Chieftains, the Sotho-Tswana people who migrated largely from East Africa also established "Tribal Institutions" of their own. The biggest problem here is these "Tribal institutions" were not united and uniform in their formation and practices; this largely created rivalry, mistrust and opportunism among tribes. Some tribes were even more militant in their attempts to overtake others; Those who know the story of Shaka Zulu and his Zulu Kingdom will know what I am referring to. Even within one Tribal Institution, there will be rivalry, suspicion and infights; those who know the story of Mzilikazi and the creation of the Ndebele tribe out of the Zulu tribe will know what I’m talking about. Tribalism is infact one of the primary reasons why Europeans were largely able to conquer and rule, because they found people who were disintegrated and divided along Tribal lines and fighting with each other for domination. Although we see some degree of interaction amongst various tribes today, but there's still suspicion and holding-on-to-one's own tribal practices among tribes in South Africa. This is clearly the case especially between the Ngunis and Sotho-Tswana tribes. There are some people, especially among the Nguni group who still feel their Tribe is more superior than others. I will say boldly here that many people in South Africa who are not Zulus can speak the Zulu language but many Zulu people can't speak other Black South African languages.
Thank you sooooo much for continuing to watch. Feel free to share topics you would like me to discuss
Yes I found South Africans tend to be more country first than tribe as compared to where I live now in Ghana. People are more tribe focused than country.
@@ernestmalonkane8668They tried to blind Black people by giving them fake autonomy and established Bantustans and installed puppet governments who would help entrench tribalism. This is not separate development. It was segregation and discrimination. Those puppet tribal governments were meant to serve as an outpost to protect and entrench the Apartheid regime. The history you are elaborating is no coincidence, it was a well planned strategy of the inhumane Apartheid regime.
@@asantemkwanazi5254
There's no need for hard feelings Mate, my stating of the meaning of Apartheid does not seek to justify the wrongs of Apartheid. Apartheid literally means setting apart or separateness (check in the English Dictionary). Setting apart/separateness is not romanticization of the wrong. Ofcourse we all agree that the Socio-political system of separate development called Apartheid was gravely engrossed with wrong doings. But that doesn't take away the fact that among Black South Africans, there are tribalistic stereotypes and unfair practices that often create tensions amongst people.
Who explained what is amalobolo to her 😭
Did you just speak Tsonga!!! Its 1000% clean, you good
Shout out to my language coach! Thanks
We🇿🇦have🇿🇦11 languages🇿🇦
Sotho
Sepedi
Tswana
Xhosa
Zulu
Swati
Ndebele
Tsonga
Venda
English
Afrikaans
Thanks for the clarification
New subscriber Nzali 🇿🇦
Thank you so much!
Love this. Thank you for this wholesome video 💐
Just subscribed. I immensely enjoyed your content.
Thanks for subbing
Oh wow. You were staying in a village close to mine. I live like 30 minutes from ka Majozi. But I'm not a Shangan, Im a Venda.
(Fun fact: Sho Madjozi the singer got inspiration for her name from this place. Its her hometown)
You have encouraged this South African Zulu girl to learn Shangaan ❤
Also happy you went to the rurals!! ❤❤❤
Ok I enjoyed this more than i expected, having watched tons of these! You're so knowledgeable, also, obviously so beautiful!!
Thanks for watching. It will be easy for you as the two languages have some similarities. They even have some of the clicks as Zulu does. I was never good at those, although I do find Zulu to be a beautiful language.
@@nzalitakesafrica ❤️❤️❤️
U didn't talk about the world's friendliest police❤😎🍾
Lol, thats another video.
Which family hosted you in Moteti? That’s where I am from. I bet they took you to the car wash
Mdluli Family
21:45: I'm guessing loadshedding. But I really hope it's not. Edit: Phew.
🤣Nope not loadshedding
I'm impressed as a Tsonga-speaking person
Awe, thank you
What do you tell and say to black Americans who are running around saying " I am not African bro".
I'm not interested in having conversations with delusional people, so I say nothing. The truth it needs no proof, either it is or isn't. People have to recognize the difference between race, ethnicity, nationality and ancestry. If you understand these then you will know that African Americans have African ancestry. They ethnically are different and identify nationally as Americans. According the the African Union the African American is a part of the 6th region/Historical diaspora.
It's not colder futher south in south Africa 😢
The further south I went the colder it got to me
Different angle on culture shocks, refreshing
Thanks for watching
you lived in rural South Africa (Tzaneen, Elim......)? NOW it is you who know South Africa. people visit Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban and they think they know south africa. it is Bapedi who greet; Dumelang
thobela
le kae?
Yes I was told that Sepedi is a branch of Northern Sotho people.
@@nzalitakesafricasepedi is the main dialect of northern sotho.sepedi is the largest dialect and it's tought in schools
Thanks for clarifying @@bafanamahlatse1923
Koi San (bushman) is the only original people, the rest is all immigrants
I agree with you
Please help me get out of here. I want to move to South Africa or Ghana.
What do you want to do in SA , do you want to study , work, teach their different visa so you should look in to that
HI Nzali I really liked your video, you were spot on with most of the things. I like how you explain the Lobola negotiations❤
Next time you come to SA please let us hook up so that you can learn more about our rich culture and languages. You seem like a really nice person and I look forward to hearing from you. Regards
So thankful you are watching and enjoying the videos. I actually am planning to come back to visit again this December.
There’s a saying that says Africans don’t like Americans. Did you expreriance that here in South Africa?
I didn't experience that when I was there. Most of the time people didn't really realize I was American. I think that thing happens more when Americans try to act like they are better than others. I just blended in.
54 countries on the continent…….I doubt that is what their thinking……I personally think this rumor started in America.
It's a lie from those that come here to enjoy everything themselves, but wants you guys to not think to come here.
We love you all our brothers and sisters in the USA❤💔💔💔💔
It is mutual love!
No sister it's not buying you can't someone 😮😮😮
Descendants of the original people are not black,they the Khói and the San people...the closest to these people are The Coloureds.
If the Khoi people are indigenous to Africa then they are Africans.
@@nzalitakesafrica yes
Why do yol like using afrobeats as background music when you visit or move here? Afrobeats has no cultural ties to South Africa whatsoever. It's like me going to the US and playing mexican music in my video. It would make more sense to play amapiano instead? I know it's a pet peeve but this seriously irks me a lot.
The music I’m playing is the music of a former student of mine. I told him I would help promote his music on my channel. So that is why I play the is music.
@@nzalitakesafrica oh I see. I understand. Sorry for being rash
The one topic everybody is not mentioning in all of these kinda videos are the fact that South africa also has SAME SEX MARRAIGES. Yes... we are LGBTQ Friendly.
This is true
How is that an important topic? If you find that important tell your kids to become gay and die without being a grand father. We don't have time for nonsense, we got families to raise and legacies to continue and live on forever.
Most coloureds great grand parents are both coloured
Good info!
Thanks for watching!
Nzaliseko
What does it mean? Sometimes I get lost when it comes to Xhosa words meaning
We have 12 official language in South Africa
Nzali lobola is a bride price. African men have to pay it to the father of his bride. It is actually biblical.
Yes it has been explained to me
Damn you killed that Tsonga/Shangani & Sepedi greetings, the accent was 100%, would have thought you grew up speaking that language.
Awe thanks, we did about 3 months language training before we were sent to our sites for work. They wanted to make sure we were somewhat familiar with the language
You were in Limpopo province. Major languages are Tsonga, Venda and Sepedi
I was learning Tsonga
Hi Nzali , come back to South Africa , I would also wish to pay lobola to your patents 😅
Awe thanks but I am already taken
Love this. Please visit us soon.
What country are you in?
@@nzalitakesafrica South Africa...
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF COLOUREDS;
They are a 350+ year old creole ethnic group. Not biracial. .Not mixed ,but HAVE MUTLI-RACIAL ADMIXTURE/HERITAGE as a result of creolisation during the 1600s iduring slavery in the cape colony.. They all descend from the same diverse slave/native/colionist ancestors in varying proportions..THEY DONT COME FROM BIRACIAL PEOPLE WHO MIXED WITH BIRACIAL PEOPLE EITHER. SO MIXED RACE CHILDREN ARE NOT COLOURED. Coloureds are a 3 centuries old ethnio-culture with a specific heriatge/history/ancestry/cuulture. .
The wroking class of the cape colony was Mostly african. KHWE/XAM/AMAXHOSA/MADAGSCAN/WEST & EAST AFRICAN/SOUTH ASIANS... NATIVES AND SLAVES WITHIN THIS COLONY WERE ENSLAVED/DETRIBALISED( stripped of their pre-colonial identity) / CREOLISED ( the generational ethnic/cultural blending/fusion of differnt populations into a single diverse population)/ACCULTURATED ( adopted the eurocentric culture of colonists/slave masters).THE ONLY COLOUREDS OF MOSTLY ASIAN DESCENT ARE CAPE MALAYS, who make up less than 10% of all coloureds. the 90% of coloureds are on the mosty african genetic spectrum. Their ancestry is 2/3 african. Africans (natives/slaves) made up 70% OF THE CAPE COLONY. THE AVERAGE COLOURED IS 68% AFRICAN GENETICALLY. THEIR MATERNAL DNA IS 78% AFRICAN ( KHOI/XHOSA WOMEN) AND THEIRN PATERNAL DNA (Y-CHROMOSOME) IS 48% AFRICAN ( KHOISAN/BANTU/MADAGSCAN/WEST &EAST AFRICAN MEN) ALMOST ALL COLOUREDS ARE BLACK, COZ ALMOST ALL COLOUREDS ARE MOSTLY AFRICAN
Thanks for your comment. Funny enough the colored people I met and was in community with were definitely biracial or one generation removed. I didn’t run into any who had Asian lineage. I know from American history when we say creole it references a mixed race/biracial person. Those two words usually mean the same thing to us, hence why I used it. I see in SAnit has other meanings. Thanks for the clarification.
@@nzalitakesafrica No YOU ARE MISTAKEN , coloureds arent mixed race. creole people arent bioracial. and coloureds dont come from biracol mixing.
They all descend from the same diverse slave/native/colionist ancestors in varying proportions..THEY DONT COME FROM BIRACIAL PEOPLE WHO MIXED WITH BIRACIAL PEOPLE EITHER. SO MIXED RACE CHILDREN ARE NOT COLOURED. Coloureds are a 3 centuries old ethnio-culture with a specific heriatge/history/ancestry/cuulture. .
The wroking class of the cape colony was Mostly african. KHWE/XAM/AMAXHOSA/MADAGSCAN/WEST & EAST AFRICAN/SOUTH ASIANS... NATIVES AND SLAVES WITHIN THIS COLONY WERE ENSLAVED/DETRIBALISED( stripped of their pre-colonial identity) / CREOLISED ( the generational ethnic/cultural blending/fusion of differnt populations into a single diverse population)/ACCULTURATED ( adopted the eurocentric culture of colonists/slave masters).THE ONLY COLOUREDS OF MOSTLY ASIAN DESCENT ARE CAPE MALAYS, who make up less than 10% of all coloureds. the 90% of coloureds are on the mosty african genetic spectrum. Their ancestry is 2/3 african. Africans (natives/slaves) made up 70% OF THE CAPE COLONY. THE AVERAGE COLOURED IS 68% AFRICAN GENETICALLY.
Its very similar top the history of african americans. Yall are mostly african with european/native admixture...
Coloureds are mostly african with european/asian admixture
@@darrenmanuel509 if you say they come from a lineage of natives, slaves and colonists that is mixed.
@@nzalitakesafrica BY THAT LOGIC AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE MIXED TOO... Black americans decsend from the mixing of AFRICAN SLAVES /NATIVE AMERICANS / COLONISTS , then you are mixed too, like coloureds ,african americans arent 100% Afriacn anymore, due to their shared history of Slavery / Detribalisation/ Creolisation. and coz of that coloureds are mostly african with euro/asian admixture, just like black americans are mostly black with euro/native admixture. But not mixed. you get coloureds up to 85% african genetically , with 2 coloured parents. and you get a black american thats only 60% african with 2 black parents. SAME THING, admixed not mixed.
You look so much like my Aunt, I am going to show her this video.
Wow, thank you
When you are going to visit again ?
December 2023 is the goal
What part of africa u from?
I and my family are American born. I was given citizenship in Ghana a few years ago during the Year of Return. I have another video on my channel that shares my experience around that. Check it out. Thanks for watching.
Great video! I’m trying to move at some point soon. Can you recommend a family friendly community with all the amenities and school! Hope I’m not asking too much! Appreciate you!😊😊👍🏾🙏🏿
Hello, thanks for watching! I spent the most time in Johannesburg. So I would say look a the neighborhoods there. Rosebank and ParkTown, Midrand were areas I enjoyed.
@@nzalitakesafrica Thanks!🙏🏿
They are many good places you can also try Durban. There good schools and the weather is good.
Hello, welcome to SA, hope you enjoy and thank you for choosing SA, bless you
I love it!
You can really incorporate yourself very in SA especially when u put more effort to learn local languages, South Africans are nice in a way tht if u are black we assume tht u are one of us we would speak to u with our languages depending where u live..whats even more nicer is if u cant speak the language but almost everyone can speak back at u with English.
This is very true. I related easily while I was there.
Black people is not the original people they came to settle from the north. The Khoisan is the original people.vl
Twisted history written by whites to justify the land theft.
Khoisan people aren't they black?
Trying by all means to make it look like Khoisan people are not black wtf*
Bull shet. The Khoisan are black they literally live in Africa and look like bantu but with lighter skin.
@@nzalitakesafrica Notice it's only the white people who come with the Khoisan propaganda. These white people think we are stupid for us to believe there crap.
Is Vatsonga my sister
Thanks for the correction
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New subscriber here! Loving you already... Girl ,you must be back to the motherland. Very impressed of how much you have learned of our nation🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
You have to go back into the history of slavery, genocide & land dispossession from the 17th to 19th century in the Cape Colony and then through to Apartheid South Africa in the 20th century to understand how Coloured fits into South Africa's racial scheme. From 1650s, the Dutch settlers started bringing in people mostly from around East Africa, Madagascar, India and Indonesia (some West Africans in the early years) and enslaved them at the Cape. At the same time, Indigenous Khoe people were dispossessed of their cattle and lands, despite continuing many battles of resistance, and Indigenous Bushman peoples were literally being hunted like animals (called "vermin" by settlers). Those Khoekhoe and Bushman who survived and remained in the Colony were made to work alongside enslaved people on settler farms etc. By the time slavery ended in the 1830s, most of the descendants of these groups were creating creolised communities, speaking Cape Dutch/Afrikaans and being Christianised. They formed the core of the labouring underclass of the Colony in contrast to Indigenous peoples largely outside the colonial borders, living under their traditional governments, in their home territories, speaking their Indigenous languages, only recently being subject settler domination and Christianisation- broadly speaking. This is where the category of "Native" starts- African peoples still in possession of their lands. Out of this the Apartheid categories of "Native"/"Bantu" and "Coloured" develop. At first under Apartheid, "Coloured" officially covered everone not counted as "Native" or "European". Later, a "Asiatic" category was separated out, leaving only people from those creole communities rooted in the enslaved and indentured Khoe & Bushman groups as different subcategories of "Coloured". That's shortly how I understand our history.
Thank you for enlightening me
CREOLE. the perfect definition
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My goal is to visit again this December
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To put it in simple terms..
Colored is a culture. It's just that when we identify mixed race people we call them colored, unlike blacks down here who could be Zulu, Pedi or anything except just "Black". Hence most of them hate that term "colored"
Eg, Trevor Noah is mixed but personally doesn't identify as colored. Maybe he does but he explained it well one time on his show
Alright so colored doesn't automatically mean you are mixed. I get it now. I had a few friends trying to explain it to me there but they made is so confusing. Either way I enjoyed my time in Polokwane hanging with them a bit.
Coloured literally jsut measn creole. and they are decendents of enslaved natives/imported slaves basiacally. Thus giving them a diverse background. It is within their 400 year history mixing occured over generations. similar to african americans. we are not mixed but admixed. But in comparison to homogenous africans, Coloureds and african americans are mixed@@nzalitakesafrica
Thanks for clarity@@darrenmanuel509
But you take so long to reach the point.
Thanks for sticking in there and listening through out! Like the video!
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Best video I've ever watched.love you so much Nzali❤❤❤
Colored people in South Africa they like Maxicans in America 😂😂😂
In my Xhosa language Nonzalisekolo is Nzali when we shorten the name... Nonzaliseko is from the Bible scripture Psamls 27. Lelika Yehova ihlabathi ne Nzaliseko yalo. ( the earth is the Lord's and it's Fullness) the name means fullness or everything...
I love it and very honored to carry the name💟
Lobola exist in several african countries. With minor diferences and diferent names. Diferent procedures.
My late dady paid 1 basket of food, enough to feed once an average family. Currentely in my own family, the lobola is USD50.00, not even enough to buy fuel to fill up a car tank.
Actualy some parents ask what you described i think to make dificult to women start divorce.
Yes they also have a similar process here in Ghana where I currently reside. South Africa was the first African country that I lived in. So it was shocking to me then as I was new to these type of practices. Now I am quite familiar. I also recognize people are trying to shift away from the high priced bride price as to decrease interpersonal/partnership violence.
The word damages is not accurate and sounds like the woman has become damaged goods for getting pregnant out of wedlock, but society has accepted the uses of the word regardless because we don't have an English equivalent to the word "inhlawulo". The Zulu word "inhlawulo" is derived from the practice of offering the parents of the pregnant girl livestock ranging from a goat to a cow or a number of cattle. This is so that the girl will be able to feed the child with the livestock that will grow from that should the man responsible not marry her. Now what remains is the symbolism of the old practice and it's all done in cash.
I get that sometimes there aren't exact translations. I used the term that was told to me. Thanks for educating us on the proper term. I like the concept because in my community men aren't always held responsible for the women they impregnate. So I like that this is built into the culture.
I absolutely enjoyed your perspective, thank you for not stating the obvious loadshedding 🙄. I'm sure all of the world is aware now of it.
If you live in Africa you have experience "lights out" its common and not that big of a deal to keep mentioning in my opinion.
Wow insightful… loved it ps when you spoke vanac I was pleasantly surprised!! Umm so subscribed ✌️that was just a joy to watch!
Your languages are very beautiful, so it was a joy to learn some of them. I wish I remembered more. I guess when I come back more of it will come to me.
You got it my sister to much love for you
Wow you speak my language Shangaan with an exact accent😂
Thanks for noticing