Maybe we'll know sometime. Right now, there seem to be so many coin tosses that it is hard to guess which Dodge to get out of.
Yes, it's difficult to know where not to be a minority. You might be safe for generations, then again, things can change very quickly.
in 1900, Nikie's ancestor's homes were being systematically burned and the people stuffed into concentration camps to starve or to die of typhus.
That was the British empire in it's over reach stage, where each conquest to remove a supposed strategic threat to a part of the empire, in turn lead to more conquests to remove supposed strategic threats to the new bits. It was something of an "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" progression, each progression requiring more and more drastic measures. History may not repeat itself but it certainly rhymes - look at what the united state is doing now.
move forward to the last half century
African politics is invariably tribally based. I hope I'm not going to offend here, but the Afrikaans have been in Africa since 16 something or other. Dates are a hugely contentious issue in South Africa, but arguably, "white" settlement and the Bantu expansion down the west coast of what is now South Africa occurred at roughly the same time. Any argument that south Africa belongs to this or that ethnic group is on decidedly dodgy historical ground, with a handful of descendants of bushmen perhaps having the strongest historical claim.
How long do people's families have to have been on North America or Australia, for the people to become "American" or "Australian"? There's a very strong claim for Afrikaans being "African".
What we have seen since the European powers have pulled out of Africa generally, is whichever group gains control of government, then uses it as a mechanism to transfer wealth from other groups to cronies in its own group.
any group that threatens that transfer process, gets massacred: eg, Igbo in Nigeria, Ndabili in Zimbabwe, bantu peoples in both southern sudan and the Darfur highlands in Sudan, Asians and others in Uganda. there's plenty more examples.
You don't have to search far on youtube to find footage of Nelson Mandela, or the current president of South Africa, Jacob [It's alright, I took a shower afterwards] Zuma, participating in the singing of "kill the Boer" (kill the Afrikaans farmer).
It is possible to question how enthusiastically they were singing it, or in what context, but the fact remains that there are two South African presidents singing about killing a large section of the South African population.
Put that in a European or an American context, and you'd get a flavour of how wrong it is. could you imagine a European president singing Kill the Jew or an American one singing kill the [american black]?
It's not that long since some in Europe did.
