Gus > do you consider yourself an "African" or merely a "British/Anglo transplant" --a sort of white immigrant living in South Africa?
Actually, it doesn't make any difference what I consider myself to be because even if I wished to be an African, I am not allowed to be. That description is reserved for people of colour and I don't believe I am one, not obviously anyway. In fact, I regard myself as white and said so on the census form. I know the term African is reserved for people of colour because I phoned the American Embassy here and asked them, in the event of my emigrating to the US, would I be regarded as an African and I was told I would not be. So, although my family has been in South Africa for five generations and I was born here, we are not Africans. In fact, I don't know what I am because I do not have any affinity to Europe. So one might say I am a "originless" person who defies classification -- other than being a white South African, of course.
As it happens, I am more African than Colin Powell is either African or American -- but he is regarded as both African and American.
You, I presume, are a "politically correct" European. |
