Black South Africans shedding their culture to please whites
The Archbishop once described SA as a rainbow nation. That was during the heady days of reconciliation after the first democratic elections in SA. At that time everyone was eager to smile and bear it in the name of making the new SA a happy and war free country. Nobody in SA wanted to see the country go into racial chaos and deep into despair because of racial confusion.
Now, many days later, is SA one happy nation? The questions, does SA act as one nation, do they practise the same culture, or are they a rainbow culture? Every one with their own cultural identity in the rainbow?
SA is dominated by Africans, who, most of the time live culturally like blake people do.Black people are all over the country and the dominate at two channels of the state run SABC. They, Black people own several newspapers and magazines.Black people scream at the top of their voices that soccer is the number one spot in SA. By their sheer numbers one and presence all over the country it was expected that blacks would influence non-Africans culturally.
But the opposite has happened . Automatically and without undue force from other nationals. Black people are falling all over themselves to live people who are not Africans. They are also so keen ,in the country that they rule, to obey municipal bylaws that prevent the slaughtering of live animals as their traditions dictates.They have abdicated thie their way of living so as to accommodate civilization.
It is high time the department of culture moves out obscurity and lead SA. They dept must start living nad practising SA culture so that we are not confused to know what is still culturally acceptable and what is civilised.
Every thing European is considered chick and modern. Is black culture outdated and old fashioned? Will a black woman, in Black riled SA, be arrested by black should she found bare breasted and eating with her hands in Moyo restaurant in Sandton? Will she be out of order if she as ked for a Mahlathini music piece at Michaelangelo?
The culture dept come out the dark shadows afraid of civilisation to lead us on one way forward as a nation.
Now, many days later, is SA one happy nation? The questions, does SA act as one nation, do they practise the same culture, or are they a rainbow culture? Every one with their own cultural identity in the rainbow?
SA is dominated by Africans, who, most of the time live culturally like blake people do.Black people are all over the country and the dominate at two channels of the state run SABC. They, Black people own several newspapers and magazines.Black people scream at the top of their voices that soccer is the number one spot in SA. By their sheer numbers one and presence all over the country it was expected that blacks would influence non-Africans culturally.
But the opposite has happened . Automatically and without undue force from other nationals. Black people are falling all over themselves to live people who are not Africans. They are also so keen ,in the country that they rule, to obey municipal bylaws that prevent the slaughtering of live animals as their traditions dictates.They have abdicated thie their way of living so as to accommodate civilization.
It is high time the department of culture moves out obscurity and lead SA. They dept must start living nad practising SA culture so that we are not confused to know what is still culturally acceptable and what is civilised.
Every thing European is considered chick and modern. Is black culture outdated and old fashioned? Will a black woman, in Black riled SA, be arrested by black should she found bare breasted and eating with her hands in Moyo restaurant in Sandton? Will she be out of order if she as ked for a Mahlathini music piece at Michaelangelo?
The culture dept come out the dark shadows afraid of civilisation to lead us on one way forward as a nation.
posted by wancareerlife. blogspot. com @ 11:51 PM
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1 Comments:
deep... I like! I agree with you kabeli that we have focused so much on the trending cultures of other countries in the process, forsaking our own culture, roots and true identity. but I think that it is more influenced by the cultural capital issue. the inequalities of the past that are still evolving today. with the English language being the dominant language in all corners of the globe, one NEEDS to be familiar or have some basic knowledge of the English language to survive in the academic context where English is the medium of instruction. one needs to engage into socialisation by abandoning their cultural practices( such as walking bare breast as a sign of purity and virginity) that are considered unacceptable by the society. it is proven rather difficult to maintain the African culture in this modernised world we are leaving in
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