Comment on And they say English is bad

• Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Also that newspaper is called “The Fatherland”.

  It’s a pretty good hint of where they stand in the whole Left-Right political spectrum.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Which is super weird in it self. I mean, do South African white people call their colonist nation their “Fatherland”?

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      FYI- South Africa is kind of unique in that it was settled by a ruling class as opposed to the normal dregs like most other places.

      The maintained their close relationship to home and superior status to their slaves/servants much longer than other places.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “mother country” or “motherland” is pretty common for descendants of European colonists/emigrees. I know Germans call it “fatherland” instead, probably the Dutch too

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      • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        So this is a newspaper about Europe, I see

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    • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think they call it the Volkstaat

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• FreeFacts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, the Union of South Africa were participants in the war against Germany, so that’s still a bit weird. Don’t know about the affiliation of the magazine in question, but the support for joining the allies wasn’t clear cut, but only a narrow majority among the ruling white class.

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  • lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There was a strong pro-Nazi contingent amongst (mainly) Afrikaans-speaking South Africans. That’s not to say by any stretch that Afrikaners were mostly pro-Nazi, though. Jan Smuts was an Afrikaner and was both a Field Marshal in the South African defence forces and the prime minister during WW2 - he wasn’t exactly pro-British (he fought against them in the second Boer war), but he was very strongly anti-Nazi.

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, just like Americans they think it’s their country and the original inhabitants have no place in their country.

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