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South Africa: Why the Inglorious Basterds don't always beat the Nazis...

In South Africa,  we have a new form of propaganda. One that promotes mixed ethnicities & makes being of "pure blood" a shame. Promoting bastardization to put it coarsely. Mixed race or mixed ethnicity marriages are not a bad thing but neither are marriages where both the male & female are of the same ethnicity. It is no crime to want to marry a person of your own ethnicity. That is, in fact, the norm & statistically involves less conflict & contradiction in future than mixed identity marriages. Sometimes people want mixed ethnicity marriages to promote peace among conflicting groups but that seldom ever works because people being people, we'll still not like those that are different from us.

You cannot shame stable people into wanting to be of mixed ethnicity. I want to send a message to people whose parents are of the same ethnicity that it is no crime to be a perfect cultural or genetic phenotype of your people. It is not Nazism, there is no killing of other ethnicities or feeling superior to other ethnicities. Just as there will never be a black president of Estonia, black Emperor of Japan or black King of Sweden, it should be likewise in Africa & it's societies. Out of one group, many came; it is simple human nature to divide as populations grow & group among people of our own kind. The richest man in Mongolia is Mongolian & not Senegalese. There is an obvious reason for this, you simply don't give your most valuable possessions & land to foreign entities if it doesn't benefit you.

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