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ATLAS OF HUMANITY

Namibia, Baster People

The Basters (also known as Baasters, Rehobothers or Rehoboth Basters) are a Namibian ethnic group descended from European settlers and indigenous African women from the Dutch Cape Colony. Since the second half of the 19th century, they have lived in central Namibia, in and around the town of Rehoboth. In ancestral history, they are similar to the groups classified as Coloured or Griqua people in South Africa.

The name Baster is derived from bastaard, the Dutch word for "bastard" (or "crossbreed"). While some people consider this term demeaning, the Basters use it as a "proud name", claiming their ancestry and history, treating it as a cultural category in spite of the negative connotation.

The first Baster communities emerged between the Cape Colony's northwestern frontier and the lower course of the Orange River at the end of the eighteenth century. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, missionary organizations, such as the "London Missionary Society" and the "Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft" established congregations in the territory of the Basters and supported the local communities (gemeentes) in developing written forms of regulations that were already in custom for a long period.

The Basters were mainly persons of mixed-race descent who at one time would have been absorbed in the white community. This term came to refer to an economic and cultural group, and it included the most economically advanced non-white population at the Cape, who had higher status than the natives. Some of the Basters acted as supervisors of other servants and were the confidential employees of their white masters. Sometimes, these were treated almost as members of the white family. Many were descended from white men, if not directly from men in the families they worked for.


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In this age where people are so afraid of offending people that we are told what to say, what words you can use, what clothes you should wear and how you should use certain forms of applause (aka Jazzhands). These types of ideal's are predominantly taught in liberal progressive campuses where you will see extremism of political correctness. Even businesses and schools bend over in trying to accommodate triggered students who can't cope with life outside their safe spaces. Even pushing their ideals unto others by labeling conservatives as bigots and racists without constructive conversation is wrong.

You can't say the truth anymore because it might involve a certain type of religious or race of people. It's very dangerous particularly when the government starts to endorse this idealism of not pointing out the elephant in the room because of political correctness or being afraid of being labeled racist etc... A fine example of this is when the Labour party (left wing political party) in the UK started to adopt the idea of not offending any minority ethnic or religious group by not pursuing crimes based on their religious faith. As a result for 20 years Muslim grooming gangs were unmolested by government and police officials knowing full well that these Muslim men were raping 1,400+ young British white girls over a 20 year period.

I'm a bit of a loner, but I enjoy ethnography and reading about different types of people. I've noticed not a whole lot of people are into that as a hobby. People seem kind of weirded out if I were to start talking about Russian ethnic groups.

This got me thinking though, most people are really boring, but groups of people are interesting to me. Do you feel the same way?

The capoid Hottentot Bushman race also known as the
CAPOID RACE:
A tribal Race OF YELLOW SKINNED PEOPLE that resembles black but with minor differences they also known Hottentot or KHOISAN.