3 things South Africa and Indonesia share in Common that you did NOT know about
It is important to note, firstly, that all parts of the earth ar equal in worth. That said, South Africa and Indonesia are two geopolitical regions which share a lot in common. Here are some global community fun facts to keep you coming back to my blog for rare, quality information.
1. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
The Dutch East India Trading Company was a megacorporation which ferried hard fought-for spices from Indonesia to Holland. When Dutch adventurers discovered spices and exotic women, they sought to sell the spices, keep the women and put the men to toil as slaves, and so they did. It especially helped the cause that the Indonesians were Muslim converts.
The VOC made slaves of freefolk because they were brown. Along the way, a ship belonging to the company became shipwrecked off the Cape of good hope, known so because it was a cointoss whether the turn would be made by any vessel at that point in time. Through that one fateful shipwreck, and perhaps even several others, a record of how blessed "Zuid Afrika" was as a "find".
2. Malay Identity
Post-VOC rebrands resulted in a diversification of Malay culture and ethnicity in a multifaceted array of manners, resulting in South Africa's Coloured identity, at the heart of which lies a nearly Moribund mystery.
3. Interfaith Anomie
Anomie is when different customs come together. Like the old frontiers established by the colonial forces in establishing South Africa. The main difference between the two countries lies in how faith systems managed to interrelated. In South Africa, heavy capitalist influences (and an abscence in constitutionally enshrined Islamic law among the natives, who quickly fell in love with alcoholic bribes and tobacco) resulted in the deterioration of many an ethocultural identity, and in their place emerged stout Christians and resolute Muslims, and they work together (still) to curb the element of gangsterism which were spurred and encouraged by the VOC and its latter day rebranded extensions (Hint* follow the money in Cape Town to see their HQs).
Final Thunkings?
Regrettably, the VOC arrived in Indonesia in time to wedge a religious rift between two of the same sort of folks. Thankfully, we see through the cohesion within communities in the Cape Flats, at widelength - dealing with gangsters together, Muslim and Christian folk coexisting splendidly. We shall pray to see the same said of wider Indonesia, while we work towards purging our respective governments of landgrabbing corrupt activities, and herald in a New dawn for all to share in peacefully, with no cost at all to any.
1. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
The Dutch East India Trading Company was a megacorporation which ferried hard fought-for spices from Indonesia to Holland. When Dutch adventurers discovered spices and exotic women, they sought to sell the spices, keep the women and put the men to toil as slaves, and so they did. It especially helped the cause that the Indonesians were Muslim converts.
The VOC made slaves of freefolk because they were brown. Along the way, a ship belonging to the company became shipwrecked off the Cape of good hope, known so because it was a cointoss whether the turn would be made by any vessel at that point in time. Through that one fateful shipwreck, and perhaps even several others, a record of how blessed "Zuid Afrika" was as a "find".
2. Malay Identity
Post-VOC rebrands resulted in a diversification of Malay culture and ethnicity in a multifaceted array of manners, resulting in South Africa's Coloured identity, at the heart of which lies a nearly Moribund mystery.
3. Interfaith Anomie
Anomie is when different customs come together. Like the old frontiers established by the colonial forces in establishing South Africa. The main difference between the two countries lies in how faith systems managed to interrelated. In South Africa, heavy capitalist influences (and an abscence in constitutionally enshrined Islamic law among the natives, who quickly fell in love with alcoholic bribes and tobacco) resulted in the deterioration of many an ethocultural identity, and in their place emerged stout Christians and resolute Muslims, and they work together (still) to curb the element of gangsterism which were spurred and encouraged by the VOC and its latter day rebranded extensions (Hint* follow the money in Cape Town to see their HQs).
Final Thunkings?
Regrettably, the VOC arrived in Indonesia in time to wedge a religious rift between two of the same sort of folks. Thankfully, we see through the cohesion within communities in the Cape Flats, at widelength - dealing with gangsters together, Muslim and Christian folk coexisting splendidly. We shall pray to see the same said of wider Indonesia, while we work towards purging our respective governments of landgrabbing corrupt activities, and herald in a New dawn for all to share in peacefully, with no cost at all to any.
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