AHC/WI: Proposed State Mergers

So that makes all the ethnic groups into a single ethnic group now? What happens when the Apartheid era fades from memory?

So basically, a bunch of similar but still quite distinct ethnic groups (Bantu and Non-Bantu Black Africans in South Africa) are unified because of their experience of brutal repression, but other ethnic groups elsewhere (Slavs, Albanians, Cacasus peoples, Turkic groups) could not have had the same outcome with different leaderships because.....?

Really, South Africa did not have to go the way it did (EDIT: Just look next door at Zimbabwe where a similar experience of harsh minority rule did not lead to early cohesion among Black Zimbabweans as very shortly after Zimbabwe's new ruler (from the majority Shona people) initiated a massacre against Ndebele civilians; thankfully that didn't develop into anything further although the potential was there. /EDIT). Mandela did the country a huge favour in how he handled the transition from apartheid to democracy. On the other hand Yeltsin, Tudjman and Milosevic did their respective countries no such favours.

All black Africans in South Africa are Bantus, unless they are immigrants from West Africa or something.

And to be fair, there was violence in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 990s between black people, between the ANC and the IFP. The latter was primarily Zulu, with the former being more mixed (although having many Zulu members, Jacob Zuma is such an example).
 
‘Blacks’.... are your for real?

If this is a reference to the USSR, then the distinctions made between that and India/South Africa seems rather blurry since Russians were the outright majority of the population and given that in South Africa the dominant ethnic group you referred to ("blacks") is not actually unified linguistically (Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Swazi,...etc which at least are all South Bantu languages, never mind the KhoiKhoi and San languages which aren't Bantu languages at all)), culturally (see before, plus the Khoikhoi and San) or ethnically. The East Slavs (Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians) formed something like 65-70% of the USSR's population and they had more linguistic similarity between them than the San do with the Zulu.

Black South Africans are actually fairly unified politically, quite a large majority still vote ANC. This is changing now (especially in the cities), as the DA starts making inroads and the EFF starts taking votes away from the ANC's left.

There's really no reason to get your kickers in a knot talking about 'blacks' in South Africa, in the vast majority of contexts nobody will find it offensive.

And the KhoiKhoi and San languages are spoken by a very small number of people. They don't make up any of South Africa's eleven official languages and most descendants of he Khoi and San people probably speak Afrikaans as their first language.
 
All black Africans in South Africa are Bantus, unless they are immigrants from West Africa or something.

And to be fair, there was violence in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 990s between black people, between the ANC and the IFP. The latter was primarily Zulu, with the former being more mixed (although having many Zulu members, Jacob Zuma is such an example).

I know in South Africa a distinction is made, but outside of South Africa, the Khoisan are considered "black" and that is what I was referring when I mentioned non-Bantu black south africans.
 
I know in South Africa a distinction is made, but outside of South Africa, the Khoisan are considered "black" and that is what I was referring when I mentioned non-Bantu black south africans.

Not really, there are so few of them there is no need to make that distinction. I would think there are very few 'pure' Khoi or San in SA, you are far more likely to find them in Botswana or Namibia.
 
Black South Africans are actually fairly unified politically, quite a large majority still vote ANC. This is changing now (especially in the cities), as the DA starts making inroads and the EFF starts taking votes away from the ANC's left.

There's really no reason to get your kickers in a knot talking about 'blacks' in South Africa, in the vast majority of contexts nobody will find it offensive.

And the KhoiKhoi and San languages are spoken by a very small number of people. They don't make up any of South Africa's eleven official languages and most descendants of he Khoi and San people probably speak Afrikaans as their first language.

It wasn't that it was offensive per se, it was more that it was massive oversimplification and an extremely faulty analogy. In essence kernals12 was alluding to a group of different but very similar peoples (black South Africans) who underwent repression and came together politically after said repression ended as an example of why another group of different but very similar peoples (South Slavs) who experienced repression could never have been unified politically after said repression ended. It was little different than if he had said that orange seeds would never be able to germinate if planted while showing us how lemon seeds had germinated and pointing to that as an example of why orange seeds would never germinate.
 
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