Could they enforce it and would the British even care about Afrikaners or what the boer states were doingThe issue is in the Dutch and English government wanting to maintain a semblance of racial purity.
Just finished the book "Guns Germs and Steel" for the 2nd time. Read it the first time years ago. There was a section on how "how Africa became black" Chapter 19. I found this is a reference that sort of sums up the chapter :
"Before 1492, blacks lived most in sub-Saharan Africa. Whites, as Diamond defines them, encompass people from North Africa with lighter skin and straighter hair. Pygmies and Khoisan largely hail from the sub-Saharan region. Pygmies are physically characterized by their small size, dark skin, and large eyes and foreheads. Khoisan are physically characterized by yellowish skin and tightly coiled hair. Most of the Khoisan were wiped out by disease or colonialist massacres before the beginning of the 20th century." http://www.litcharts.com/lit/guns-germs-and-steel/chapter-19-how-Africa-became-black
Anyway form what i remember -- (like above) the Bantu tribal group had wet agriculture and livestock so they had advantages in food production vs the Khoisan people. Because the Bantu were herd breeders they had been exposed to disease for a long time. When in greater contact with the Khoisan people the germs devastated them (the Khoisan people were hunters and gatherers), as well as their displacement by the farmers & herders of the Bantu. IN effect it was like the Spanish arriving in the new world. Anyway the dutch arriving in south africa found Khoisan people who got a repeat of the Bantu migrations further north. The areas that between the Bantu conquests in the north and the new white settlers in the south was not supportive of the wet agriculture of the Bantu so they had not migrated there yet.
So anyway in a round about way the Afrikaners would have found basically open land for quite a while (with the germs killing many of the Kho. people). I think you could have seen a fusion of the Kho people and the Afrikaners. However if you believe Mitchners book "the convenient" it would point to a low possibility of this (of course this is a fiction book). However if you had a smaller migration of Bantu with a 50 / 50 population then i think a good integrated society could have come about
gun germ steel is garbageJust finished the book "Guns Germs and Steel" for the 2nd time. Read it the first time years ago. There was a section on how "how Africa became black" Chapter 19. I found this is a reference that sort of sums up the chapter :
"Before 1492, blacks lived most in sub-Saharan Africa. Whites, as Diamond defines them, encompass people from North Africa with lighter skin and straighter hair. Pygmies and Khoisan largely hail from the sub-Saharan region. Pygmies are physically characterized by their small size, dark skin, and large eyes and foreheads. Khoisan are physically characterized by yellowish skin and tightly coiled hair. Most of the Khoisan were wiped out by disease or colonialist massacres before the beginning of the 20th century." http://www.litcharts.com/lit/guns-germs-and-steel/chapter-19-how-Africa-became-black
Anyway form what i remember -- (like above) the Bantu tribal group had wet agriculture and livestock so they had advantages in food production vs the Khoisan people. Because the Bantu were herd breeders they had been exposed to disease for a long time. When in greater contact with the Khoisan people the germs devastated them (the Khoisan people were hunters and gatherers), as well as their displacement by the farmers & herders of the Bantu. IN effect it was like the Spanish arriving in the new world. Anyway the dutch arriving in south africa found Khoisan people who got a repeat of the Bantu migrations further north. The areas that between the Bantu conquests in the north and the new white settlers in the south was not supportive of the wet agriculture of the Bantu so they had not migrated there yet.
So anyway in a round about way the Afrikaners would have found basically open land for quite a while (with the germs killing many of the Kho. people). I think you could have seen a fusion of the Kho people and the Afrikaners. However if you believe Mitchners book "the convenient" it would point to a low possibility of this (of course this is a fiction book). However if you had a smaller migration of Bantu with a 50 / 50 population then i think a good integrated society could have come about
They did, look at the DNA of Afrikaners, they all have some percentage of Asian or Khoi or Bantu ancestry.
Also interestingly enough Afrikaners was a surname of Oorlams (Klaas Afrikaners was born in 1760 and I believe he inherited that name from other Oorlams) also the first written document of Afrikaans was the Koran in Arabic by the Cape Malay community.
The issue is in the Dutch and English government wanting to maintain a semblance of racial purity.
Most common and even more prominent people wouldn't care if there were few european women around. Just look at Krotoa.
I wouldn't say garbage, merely simplistic to the point of being incorrect especially in regards to Africa.gun germ steel is garbage
Define assimilate? Are we talking about an America-type situation, where African Americans have lost ties to their ancestral cultures and so assimilated into English/American culture by default, even while maintaining a distinct racial/cultural identity?Could the Afrikaners successfully Assimilate blacks and Coloreds
lost ties but not consider as a distinct cultural identity, There just considered as black Afrikaners equal to whitesDefine assimilate? Are we talking about an America-type situation, where African Americans have lost ties to their ancestral cultures and so assimilated into English/American culture by default, even while maintaining a distinct racial/cultural identity?
The British did kind of keep moving in and annexing everyone, no matter the color or culture. Look at the Griqua, who felt pushed from the Cape like the Trek oars and left to establish Griqualand West.
I would argue that the Coloureds, speakers of Afrikaans, were assimilated into Afrikaansophone society. For a variety of reasons, they were rejected.
They did, look at the DNA of Afrikaners, they all have some percentage of Asian or Khoi or Bantu ancestry.
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I can believe that some of them have small amounts of non-European ancestry but I am skeptical that most do. It seems to be a popular myth for those with long roots in a settler society (whether it's the USA, Canada, Australia etc.) to claim that they have some "native blood" but DNA studies actually usually disprove this. Those of actual mixed ancestry frequently formed parallel societies, like the Métis or Coloureds.