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Originally posted by NewBee
Africa is a diverse continent and it does none of us justice to ASSume that all Africans look or act the same or have the same culture/religion.
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I totally agree with you. That is why I have never liked it when school opened an AFrican or Asian studies. I always wondered, ok, which Africa or Asia do you want to study? Even within the same geographical area, people are different. Look within Southern Africa (my specialty
) The Xhosa, Zulu are two different ethnic groups with different histories and languages and believes. By the way, the original habitant of South Africa are not those two groups but the Bushman. They are the people God Must Be Crazy were based on. Even politically they are different with the Xhosa dominating the African National Congress and the Zulu with the Inkhata Freedom Party. Same with Asian studies, most Asian studies concentrate on East Asia. Yet they ignored South Asia, Western Asia, and others.