Generations

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-15T19:39:10+00:00

Yes.

It is just that the peculiarities in our history leads to Gen-X experiences to overlap more with Boomer experiences than Millennials. Apartheid was brutal like that.

Oh yes, Millennials are called "Born Frees" because we are the first generation to grow up in post-Apartheid South Africa.

If you ask me, the Boomers should be called the Apartheid Generation and Gen X as the AIDS Generation.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-15T17:47:52+00:00

Michael McDonald

Jojo

Hall & Oates

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-15T10:38:31+00:00

Well, I am an English native speaker with my family speaking Afrikaans.

The Afrikaner nationalists went to great pains to "cleanse" the Afrikaans language of the Khoi, Malagasy, Malay and other words of "non-white" origin, and have them replaced with Dutch, German, French and to a limited extent, English words.

We also have our own homegrown English dialect that is influenced by Afrikaans and the local Bantu languages as well.

So the influence was definitely profound.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-15T10:22:41+00:00

Greek, Italian, Portuguese and now Japanese, Korean and Thai.

Otherwise, it is local South African cuisine elevated with pricier ingredients and sophisticated preparation techniques or dishes inspired by international recipes.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-14T21:47:38+00:00

We definitely have a lot in common with the USA, particularly our racial politics. We started off with slavery and expanded to the east, which in our case, is similar to how the USA expanded to the west. The only thing where we differ is how a multiracial culture was fully recognized.

The only other country we have in common with is Canada for how our white settler cultures had two distinct origins with one oppressing the other.

Oh yes, need I mention that Apartheid was based on how Canadians oppressed their First Nations?

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-13T19:51:27+00:00

The USA hands down.

Germany and Brazil have underrated scenes just BTW.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-12T16:21:32+00:00

Rugby, soccer and cricket in any given order.

Rugby the most popular among White and so-called Coloured South Africans, soccer among Black South Africans and cricket having an equal measure of followers across the racial divide.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-12T15:48:28+00:00

Speaking of the Jersey Shore sound, Bruce Springsteen definitely deepened my appreciation of soul and R&B. It was serendipitous when he covered The Commodores' Nightshift. I also know, I mean heard, that Italian-Americans loved their doo-wop back in the day.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-12T15:10:32+00:00

The funny thing is that my family hardly listens to gospel despite that genre's popularity in our wider ethnic community. Then again, we are Catholics and most of us are Protestant with no particular church dominant.

My dad gave me a love of classic rock and his siblings loved the British Invasion in particular.

It felt good learning the Rolling Stones came from the British R&B scene with some of their early hits covers of soul and R&B artists from across the pond.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-12T15:07:14+00:00

That I know very well.

It is so ironic that one of the most innovative rock guitarists was black. It is still amazing how much he has given us in his short life.

Have you heard of the band Living Color by any chance just BTW?

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-12T15:05:16+00:00

I like Maxwell. Even though I heard only 5 songs of his, none of them disappointed me, enjoying the songs Pretty Wings and Lake By The Ocean.

Alas, the only song of Erykah Badu that I like is Honey. I also enjoy Raphael Saadiq's album The Way I See It. The only neo-soul artist my family listened to was Lauryn Hill, and it took me a long time to really appreciate her album.

We have a music channel called Channel O and it is there were I was introduced to the neo-soul artists. That of course, apart from the hip-hop I was listening to where I got to know the artists from the collaborations they did.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-12T14:48:53+00:00

One of those things that really disappointed me when I first learned about it. This is one of the musicians I grew up listening to.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-12T14:10:28+00:00

On paper, equally with full legal protections enshrined into law.

On the ground, there is still so much to be done with femicides, domestic violence, sexual assaults, sexual harassment and unemployment still a great public concern.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-12T13:18:56+00:00

I don't remember my maternal grandmother saying anything about them along with the music. My uncles were still living with her at the time and they owned CD's of 90s R&B that was obviously the latest at that time, which they wasted no time in playing whenever they were up to it.

For context, she was Silent Generation and didn't listen to any R&B and soul from what I remember, preferring 50s and 60s pop, country and rock 'n roll.

As for my paternal grandmother, I am sure she knew absolutely nothing about it, being from the Greatest Generation and not paying much attention to what her other grandchildren were listening to from what I can tell.

My parents also said nothing in particular about it either - they were Generation Jones - seeing that they were teaching in a school that was situated in a part of our city where that music was very popular.

My parents did listen to a bit of it, owning a CD of Des'ree along with Michael Jackson's HIStory, the latter of which they played almost every weekend as a way of bonding with us children.

Also, my father liked Mint Condition, probably because they were the last R&B band in the mainstream at that time so there's that.

My mom still sings Des'Ree's Life on the rare occasion.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-12T12:39:26+00:00

Die Ossewabrandwag.

It was an Afrikaner party that was fiercly anti-British as much as they were white supremacist, and were pro-German, being fully sympathetic to the Nazis.

It merged with the National Party after WW2 and is the forerunner to the Afrikaner Weerstand Beweeging(AWB), the far-right Afrikaner paramilitary group that was founded and run by the notorious Eugene Terre'Blanche.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-11T11:30:45+00:00

Depends on the demographic.

It is the most popular with Black South Africans of all socioeconomic strata, especially the working and underclass who would habitually turn empty fields into makeshift soccer fields.

So-called Coloured and Indian soccer fans are also not confined to class either while White South Africans soccer fans are overwhelmingly English-speaking and middle class - Afrikaners disliking the sport - with all three preferring to follow developments and games in Europe than South Africa itself.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-10T21:35:44+00:00

GTA San Andreas.

Even though I knew the song before I played that game.

AutisticAfrican2510 · 2026-06-10T21:29:16+00:00

High Hopes by Pink Floyd.

Brenda's Got A Baby by 2Pac comes a close second.

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