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Coloured as an ethnicity and racial demographic is intertwined in the creation of the South Africa we have today. Yet often, Coloured communities are disdained …
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Source: Wordsworth Books
Coloured: How Classification Became Culture (Trade Paperback)
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I watched your interview on TV. I am looking forward to reading your book .
I am very interested in My Heritage and decided to make a Family Tree.
I came across MyHaritage . I found family members and I have done a DNA TEST to help complete my Tree.
I am a 53 year old women with adult children, who is still experiencing severe pain from discrimination due to my heritage.
I have never chosen to be coloured, if that is possible. I was born into the “ Coloured Identity “.
People who look like me were and still are treated differently, from other coloureds who are light skinned with green / grey eyes.
If you are dark skinned then you are not coloured.
If your hair doesn’t have a certain texture, you are not coloured.
Should you be dark skinned and a pencil can pass through your hair, then you are not coloured, “ you must be Indian.
Should your hair not pass the pencil test and you are dark skinned, “ oh you definitely not coloured.” You are black.
In my case I am “ not even South African. “ “ You must be a Malawian” I was told ever so rudely by a colleague far younger than myself and my junior. “ If you are coloured, then I am also a coloured.” “ Look at me” { BLACK MALE colleague }
How do you respond to such a statement. I did not choose my ANCESTRY. I am Coloured, it is my identity. I know my ethnicity. I know that my Heritage is of ZULU WOMEN AND BRITISH SETTLER DECENT. BOTH MATERNAL AND PATERNAL.
So my response was, “ being coloured is not about the colour of your skin but the community that you grew up in and your DNA 🧬 .
It was the only thing I could think 🤔 of . Why should I feel attacked for being born a coloured person .
( Oh for whoever is interested , we parted ways with him saying , anyway anyone with fluffy hair is not South African .)
I have experienced many painful and unpleasant situations for the way I look and not Afrikaans speaking. From my fellow coloured people ( who don’t look like me ) as well as other races.
Then I think okay, if I am not good enough for the coloured people, I will be accepted by the Zulu people. No wrong, I am not Zulu enough.
The Indian people will be more accepting but then I don’t identify as Indian. They see me as Coloured.
So… from a not coloured enough .
Not black enough .
Not Indian.
Not white.
What am I?
I am A BEAUTIFUL CREATION OF GOD WHO IDENTIFIES AS COLOURED!!!!
The coloured identity : @ NEWZROOM:
AFRIKA
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Afrika @newzroom... • The coloured identity
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History in South Africa from the Stone Age to the Mid-19th century This essay provides a summary of
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Indian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911 | South African History Online
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Statistics South Africa - Wikipedia
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“a person who traces or studies lines of family descent.”
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