Drakensberg
Quote from: Jenny07 on September 06, 2013, 06:44:53 AM
FTM Diaries it was a Jewish American Indian. Confused, I am. 
If you think
you're confused, imagine what the the Apartheid officials would've thought! Whenever they came across somebody who didn't fit into their four strict racial classifications of Black, White, Coloured (i.e. mixed black & white) and Indian, they used to take a guess and declare that person to be an honourary member of one of the groups. Oriental people (e.g. Chinese, Japanese etc.) were classified as 'honourary whites', so I'm guessing that gentleman would possibly be classified the same way, as the closest fit would probably be 'an American who isn't black'.
Those racial classifications determined many things, including where you were allowed to live. I had a wonderful friend whose Cape Malay parents had their family reclassified from 'Coloured' to 'Chinese' so that they could buy a house in our neighbourhood and send her to a good school. Before they were allowed to move in to their lovely home, this well-respected doctor and his teacher wife had to belittle themselves by visiting all of their new neighbours to get their written permission (can you believe it?) to live there. Because even though Chinese people were regarded as 'honourary whites', the government still demanded that they needed permission from their neighbours before they could move into a 'white' community... just to make sure nobody minded.
What a ludicrous system
that was.
