Category Archives: People

The Ugly Truth Behind The Eurasian Beauty Myth

Growing up in Hong Kong, Fiona Hartley (not her real name) had to walk up a steep hill every morning. By the time this Eurasian teenager got to school, she would be sweaty and flushed, and her wiry brown hair would be a complete mess. She used to look in envy at the Chinese girls [...]

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We are because of them – Part 3 of 5

A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen

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We are because of them – Part 2 of 5

A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen

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Racial Classification

How do you tell whether a light-skinned baby is black or coloured? You leave him on a table and see if he turns blue. No, this is not a bad joke ­ it is just one of the barbaric methods used to classify South African citizens during the apartheid years. This, and other equally unpalatable [...]

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Roots of the Cape – Part 1 of 2

.History of Slavery in South Africa Documentary

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We are because of them – Part 1 0f 5

A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen

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Mixed Race Ethnicity

‘I won’t victimise myself…it’s just part of growing up.’
US singer Amerie recently spoke to Sixshot.com about her mixed racial background. Amerie was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts to an African-American father and a Korean mother. Her father was in the United States military and this enabled Amerie to travel to and live in many different places, [...]

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Between two worlds

Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations – but many people are still hostile towards interracial couples. We asked some of them how their lives have been affected. During the 1991 Gulf war, Richard Littlejohn wrote in the Sun that British women married to Iraqis ’should be left to rot in their adopted country, with [...]

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The Coloureds of Southern Africa

The various Coloured communities in southern Africa developed out by events of the Dutch colonization of South Africa. In 1652 a small company of employees of the Dutch East India Company were settled on the southern tip of Africa in order to establish a refreshment station for the Company’s ships en route to the Far [...]

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Egyptians were coloureds!

MYTH: Egyptians were white
This is the longest myth ever in existence, which is pedaled as true scholarship and truth. Yet it is an outright myth, deliberately created from 1830 onwards, to explain away Egyptian civilization. During the 1800’s there was all kinds of pseudo-sciences floating around about the genetical and inherent inferiority of peoples of [...]

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