Celebrating the heritage of a country that hosts many different cultures, each with their own history and set of defeats and victories, could be an unachievable challenge. Events worthy of celebration by one culture could be events bewailed by all or most of the others. Terrorists who had wreaked mayhem in one culture are considered the heroes of another culture; the oppressors of one culture could be another culture’s victim of oppression.
South Africans are easily labelled as ‘racists’. Do we really deserve this label?
So what can be done to create esprit de corps in South Africa today?
With all the love in my heart for all people regardless of the colour of their skins, and also with all the hate in my heart for oppressors and murderers regardless of the colour of their skin, I would like to give my friends just half an idea of the compound heritage of South Africa via a summery of the races and ethnic groups who call South Africa their homeland.
Click on this link, sit back, read and to better understand the people of South Africa and their issues regarding Heritage Day... err.... National Braai Day. (Braai is the South-African word for barbecue.)
http://martiecoetser.hubpages.com/hub/Heritage-Day-South-Africa-24-September
South Africans are easily labelled as ‘racists’. Do we really deserve this label?
So what can be done to create esprit de corps in South Africa today?
With all the love in my heart for all people regardless of the colour of their skins, and also with all the hate in my heart for oppressors and murderers regardless of the colour of their skin, I would like to give my friends just half an idea of the compound heritage of South Africa via a summery of the races and ethnic groups who call South Africa their homeland.
Click on this link, sit back, read and to better understand the people of South Africa and their issues regarding Heritage Day... err.... National Braai Day. (Braai is the South-African word for barbecue.)
http://martiecoetser.hubpages.com/hub/Heritage-Day-South-Africa-24-September