This is not something that has just suddenly erupted, xenophobia in South Africa has long been documented (since immigrants started arriving post-1994)….and in my experience it is very difficult to find any African immigrant in my circle who feels integrated or genuinely welcome here….most people carve out their only little niches and circles and focus on what brought them here, because it is really difficult to become “local”…even with effort.See Black Looks for further coverage...
Me, myself and I
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self has essentially no meaning except in distinction to some other, and so
the relevant question becomes where to draw the borderline between the two.
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I am a South African living in Europe.
My mother is Angolan and also fled her own country to the "grass is greener" South Africa. She lived in refugee camps and had nothing, just like everyone else now fleeing a miserable existence and looking for something better in SA
My Step-father is Mozambican - also fled home.
This makes them "foreigners". But it makes them "Extra-Special" foreigners because they are also "European".
I, being the only one in the family that was BORN in SA (my sister is also a "European Angolan South African!"), am then the only "non-foreigner"!
My question is, would a mob attacking foreigners stop and analyse the "foreigners" - kill my family and leave me be?
Or am I also a foreigner because my ancestors from some time long-gone were from Europe?
My opinion is that people blog about this, even South Africans in Europe blog about this because regardless of what has happened in the past, violence is unnacceptable and will not be tolerated!.
If Mandela taught us anything, if he taught these mobbers anything, it is that one must love, move forward and be tolerant! This is NOT what I think he envisioned for our people!
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