Khoisan

Carmelo 2022-04-22 07:01:32

The Khoisan group is the least familiar to Americans, and Americans may not even have heard of their names. They used to be distributed over vast areas of southern Africa, and among them were not only a small number of hunter-gatherers called the San, but also a larger number of herders called the Khoi. (The more familiar names Hottentots and Bushmen are now preferred.) The Khoi and San looked (or were) very different from black Africans: their skin was yellowish, their hair Very thick and curly, women tend to accumulate large amounts of fat in their buttocks (medically known as "gluteal excess"). As a distinct group, the Khoi population has dwindled considerably, as European colonists shot, drove, and infected many of them with disease, and the survivors mostly intermarryed with Europeans and gave birth to hybrids, which were hybrids. Populations in South America are sometimes called mestizos and sometimes Bastets. The San people are equally affected by gunshots, expulsions and diseases, but in the desert areas of Namibia, which are not suitable for agriculture, a group of San people who are dwindling in number still maintain their characteristics. Also Crazy" describes these people.

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  • Narrator: The one characteristic which really makes the Bushmen different from all the other races on earth is that they have no sense of ownership at all. Where they live, there's really nothing you CAN own: only trees and grass and animals. In fact, these Bushmen have never seen a stone or a rock in their lives. The hardest things they know are wood and bone. They live in a gentle world, where nothing is as hard as rock, steel or concrete.

  • Narrator: Lately, strange new things sometimes appeared in the sky: noisy birds that flew without flapping their wings.

    [a small aeroplane is seen soaring]