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Originally Posted by AFP
Mozambique has different dynamics than Zimbabwe or South Africa.
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Originally Posted by DelmarvaNative_inCO
Would you elaborate?
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I can elaborate briefly. Mozambique is a Portuguese-speaking country, with Portuguese colonialism, whereas the other two are English-speaking with English colonialism.
The types of things that occurred in the different countries, on account of colonialism, are different.
Some of the very basics....the Portuguese people had a different approach to colonialism. The Portuguese didn't establish the Apartheid system as in South Africa; and intermixed marriages didn't have the illegality to them as it once had in South Africa.
It makes the Portuguese/Mozambique look at white people in a different way than they might in South Africa. Also, in a country like South Africa, you have millions and millions of white people living there still. In Mozambique, you don't have anywhere even remotely those types of numbers.
In short, you'd be seen more as a 'foreigner' perhaps in Mozambique, as opposed to being a white South African with all kinds of different connotations that that might have in South Africa or Zimbabwe.
(I'm also trying to be careful, as South Africa is infinitely complex, but I hope I can at least shed a little bit of light on how they might be different experiences for a 'white person' coming from outside of Africa).
I'm a white person myself, who has visited both Mozambique and South Africa, and they feel different....I saw a lot more Portuguese people speaking Portuguese in Mozambique and they interact with Africans all the time, and they are relatively small in number. In South Africa, the white South African population is extremely large, and because there are millions of them, they create more neighborhoods that seem more wealthier as well, which can give perceptions of 'castle walls' particularly with the security that exists in South Africa.
Hope I can give this justice...but my very simplistic overview explanation.
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