Tema: End of era for Argentina's Afrikaners

Iniciado por Walter E. Kurtz

Not only Dutch, but also German and French. Braun (and its variants) is a common surname in any Germanic language.

By the way, I'm pretty sure there are many Boers of Dutch-Jewish descent, even if they no longer practice Judaism and their ancestors where Calvinists (a form of Judaism in fact).

You are right.

General Koos de la Rey:

De la Rey was a Boer of Spanish, French Huguenot and Dutch descent.

Koos de la Rey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Why dear Erasmus do you lament the extinction of a Dutch dialect in Argentina??

Iniciado por Josean Figueroa

Why dear Erasmus do you lament the extinction of a Dutch dialect in Argentina??

Just a dialect? It's very sad to see the extinction of a brave people who fought against British imperialism for his lands and culture. This community has also contributed to Patagonian development as well as Welsh.

Iniciado por Erasmus

Just a dialect? It's very sad to see the extinction of a brave people who fought against British imperialism for his lands and culture. This community has also contributed to Patagonian development as well as Welsh.

They are not dying off, they are assimilating into Argentinean culture, like former immigrants. I don´t understand why you care for them to keep living apart from other Argentineans. Likewise the Welsh.

Iniciado por Josean Figueroa

They are not dying off, they are assimilating into Argentinean culture, like former immigrants. I don´t understand why you care for them to keep living apart from other Argentineans. Likewise the Welsh.

You're right. The danger is for those who live in South Africa.

Iniciado por Erasmus

You're right. The danger is for those who live in South Africa.

In what sense? A genocide performed by the black population?

Iniciado por Josean Figueroa

In what sense? A genocide performed by the black population?

Yep:

SOUTH AFRICAN CIRCUS- THE WHITE GENOCIDE AND DEATH OF A COUNTRY.: THE CLANDISTINE BOER GENOCIDE- ORCHESTRATED BY THE ANC AND IT'S ALLIANCE PARTNERS
FORO DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL - GENOCIDIO AFRIKANER EN SUDAFRICA. LA MATANZA DEL BLANCO SUDAFRICANO - Subforo Principal
De Sudáfrica y etcétera