LL-L "Ethnonyms" 2005.10.31 (12) [E]

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02 November 2005 * Volume 12
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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Ethnonyms" 2005.11.01 (07) [E]

"Bushmen", in Dutch "Bosjesmannen", reminds me at another ethnonym:
"Bosnegers" or "Bush Negroes" of the former Dutch colony Suriname. 
These so-called Bosnegers are the descendants of runaway African slaves
that formed new tribes in the inland rainforests of Suriname. In their 
religion, culture and even their languages they maintained many African 
features. They were also called "Marrons", but the name "Bosnegers" was 
and is far more common, both in Suriname and the Netherlands. Since a few 
decades, the political correct ethnonym "Boslandcreolen" emerged, lit.
Woodland Creoles. Creoles is the name for the large (major) ethnic group 
in Suriname, of mixed origin, predominately African, but with quite a lot 
of European blood, including that of Sephardic Jews, and with influences 
of "Native Americans", "Hindustanis"(=Indians), Chinese, Javanese etc      
so Creoles from the Woodlands instead of Bush Negroes

Ingmar

Mark Dreyer het geskryf:
>Fortunately however, Khoikhoi is very nearly a collective
>naun for that People, & a proud one. One cannot, for example, say the same
>for that other word for the related People 'San'. This word has in default
>of a suitable native word (they don't have one for their own kind as a
>whole) become the anthropological term for 'bushmen', a name they prefer,
>but for politically correct reasons is now avoided. Alas!

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