John Ross wrote:Bismarck, You were a fully formed man were you not when you jumped ship and washed up upon these alien shores?
Most of the influences that have shaped you predate that first arrival, and a few scribblings of ink upon parchment don't overturn that.
Ergo, your arse is still white, and you're still basically a Saffer
Really John? Am I now.
Let's see. Of roughly 5 million South Africans, 43 million would disagree with you, citizenship or no. To this majority I am an alien invader and not welcome in Africa, let alone South Africa. To them, I'm simply not African and never will be, so how can you claim I'm South African? To them, I was barely tolerated on "their" continent, and in "their" country. They made these feelings abandantly clear verbally, physically, socially, and ultimately, legislatively (including excluding me from any and all work that I was qualified for). To them, my renunciation and consequent naturalization just made fact a reality. They are the majority. But feel free to go over there and argue your case with them.
The 1 million Indian Saffas and coloured Saffas have their own crosses to bear and probably don't give a shit either way. But according to the coloured Saffa friends I do have in Taiwan, they completely disagree with your assertion. They feel pretty much the same way I do and fervently wish to follow my example, not having been white enough prior to 1994, and not being black enough today I can't say I blame them.
That leaves roughly 4-5 million whites. The English Saffas (notice the term English in that title) will largely agree with me. Those that haven't managed to regain British citizenship through ancestral lineage or who haven't made it to the US, Canada, Aussie or NZ especially so.
The 4 million odd Afrikaners did the most to "influence and shape" me as you put it. For 20 years out of my 27 in South Africa I was never called a South African by any of them. I was always seen as foreign, Engels, n rooinek, n soutpiel, soutie. The little priveledge we were afforded was based on the colour of our skin, but we were reminded of our Englishness at every opportunity. We were physically and verbally abused, called kaffir boeties when the other slanders didn't illicit a response, marginalised in every way they could and generally made to feel like foreigners with a passport. Englishmen at worst, English South Africans only begrudgingly.
It is hard to decide, in retrospect, who they hated more. Us or the blacks. But I think they just feared the numbers of the blacks, and reserved their hatred for us. Because when it finally came to an end in 1994 and they found themselves surrounded by the "black hordes" they feared so much in exchange for legitimate tests against the All Blacks, when they pulled in the laagers and saw their numbers come up short, all of a sudden we, as fellow white South Africans (strange how the English part changed over night), were all basically the same. "Come, come. We must stand together!"
Now we were good enough. Now we were lumped in together with them, by them and the so called "Africans". Now we were all just whites. All unwelcome, but difficult to get rid of. As the then Chief of Military Intelligence said in a weekly meeting, "I can't legally kick you whites out, but I can make life difficult for you. Sooner or later you will all leave of your own accord."
He was right. 1-2 million have left. I am one of them. I never felt South African in all of my 27 years there. They never let me forget it either, until it became convenient for some of them. So, pray tell, John, how am I South African?
You are wrong, and you unknowingly insult me. My arse may be white (I never said I wasn't European), but I was never actually a South African in any of the majority's eyes, and I'm certainly NOT now. Actually or otherwise.
Whether because or underlying racist ideas or plain ignorance you don't agree with me that I'm Taiwanese, fine. We're all entitled to our opinions. I know that the people who matter to me agree with me. I know what I am, and I can choose to be what I am. My ancestors built the Anping fort long before the Han got here. My son's maternal ancestors have been here for 6000 years or more. I'm Taiwanese. I don't care what anyone else thinks on the matter, as it doesn't affect me either way.
And as for South Africa? Fuck them. Fuck their citizenship. And fuck their passport.
I have no more to say on the matter.
by BLACKCRUSADER » Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:22 am 
