Afrikaner friend is posting about how families leaving South Africa for the USA look like evil rednecks and obviously stupid. Other friends are chiming in how Trump is sending away Afghanistan refugees and that they're the wrong color, and that's why.
Then the English friends are posting about how Afghanistan being a terrible place and sending people back is a terrible thing. Meanwhile South Africa is a great place and no evil horrible thing is happening.
It's been going like this all day.
I didn’t know Zulus were still around. Was their war with the British after the Afrikaners arrived?
First Afrikaners arrived in the mid 17th, and the Zulu war was in the late 19th. I should note my initial comment does over simplify things a bit, but the complexities of ethnic/tribal groups of central and southern Africa and the migrations of the past few centuries are complicated and, frankly, not something I'm an expert on. For example, the Zulu kingdom of the 19th century is a tiny tiny portion of what is today South Africa. PS. Zulu (1964) is a fantastic movie.
Thanks! I need to see that movie. That is a topic I have been meaning to research further (Zulu war and history of South Africa). I also heard that the tribes that the Zulus were terrorizing helped the British similar to the tribes in Mexico helping the Spanish against the Aztecs
That is my understanding. Its high time people reexamine "colonialism" for what is was: pre 20th century geopolitics. The history of colonialism in India is particularly amusing. Two centuries of local rulers wanting foreign assistance (due to invaders, competition, or civil uprising) and having to give something in return for said assistance. Turns out that that the British didn't conquer India, a couple of centuries of self-interested local rulers sold out one bit at a time. Then the locals bitched until the Empire gave them their country back (infrastructure and all) for free. And today Indians claim the English owe them $45 Trillion dollars. Its a hoot.
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What you're describing is still a form of conquest. Particularly because it was an intentional effort by Britain to subjugate all of India, including parts that were owned by the Portuguese. Whenever the Portuguese said "No", because they knew what the British were doing, the Brits had no problem blowing their forts and garrisons to hell. The 'soft' conquest of India was still going to be backed up with massive military force if the Brits didn't get their way, but since the British never had a million man army prior to WW1, it wasn't reasonable to come in and burn everything. They had to conquer in a more subversive way.