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[CosmoLady]

Favorite time of day?

Afternoon, when I have my wonderful nap on the sofa, always a pleasure!

I like the night as well.

[alnortedelsur]

You have mentioned that you lost your adopted parents who were victims of delinquency. What about your biological parents? Sorry for asking it if you already talked about it. I have barely checked this thread.

[CosmoLady]

You have mentioned that you lost your adopted parents who were victims of delinquency. What about your biological parents? Sorry for asking it if you already talked about it. I have barely checked this thread.

Hello, thank you for all the likes!

We never knew our biological parents.
My mother gave me and my twin sister to the church at birth,
and we were separated when we were sent to different foster families.
Luckily abortion was heavily restricted in South Africa at the time.

Supposedly our biological mother was an underage teen, who was not native to the small town where we were born.
She fled to a city after giving birth to us and we never heard from her again.

We have no idea who our father was, the rumour is that he was a soldier, this was in a border town full of soldiers.

[alnortedelsur]

Hello, thank you for all the likes!

We never knew our biological parents.
My mother gave me and my twin sister to the church at birth,
and we were separated when we were sent to different foster families.
Luckily abortion was heavily restricted in South Africa at the time.

Supposedly our biological mother was an underage teen, who was not native to the small town where we were born.
She fled to a city after giving birth to us and we never heard from her again.

We have no idea who our father was, the rumour is that he was a soldier, this was in a border town full of soldiers.

You are very knowledgeable, intelligent and based person, who knows what she wants and goes for it. Your biological mother (and by the way your biological dad) don't know what they lost when your mother gave you and your sister to adoption. A very wonderful daughter of whom they would be very proud, and I guess, same goes with your twin sister who must be more or less like you.

Have you felt curious about them? any interest of knowing who they are/were?

[alnortedelsur]

Now without sarcasm, I think that what you propose is not completely valid because you put all the weight on the progress and material well-being of the individual through the progress and material well-being of the group, leaving the will and initiative of the individual out of the equation. The archetype of that type of society is a "functioning" society full of dysfunctional individuals.

In an authoritarian society there is no room for dissent, criticism is not allowed, there is no room for hypothetical change.

I want to have the right to be wrong freely, including the possibility that my wrong opinion, expressed freely and without malicious intentions, could cause others to be wrong when they freely choose to follow my opinion.

Common well being is far better than selfish and egocentric individualism pushed by globalists.

[CosmoLady]

You are very knowledgeable, intelligent and based person, who knows what she wants and goes for it. Your biological mother (and by the way your biological dad) don't know what they lost when your mother gave you and your sister to adoption. A very wonderful daughter of whom they would be very proud, and I guess, same goes with your twin sister who must be more or less like you.

Have you felt curious about them? any interest of knowing who they are/were?

There would be unintended, unpredictable consequences if I met my biological parents (I don't know what I'm getting into).

I thank them for conceiving me and my sister, I don't blame them for anything, but I would prefer not to know them or meet them.

[rothaer]

There would be unintended, unpredictable consequences if I met my biological parents (I don't know what I'm getting into).

I thank them for conceiving me and my sister, I don't blame them for anything, but I would prefer not to know them or meet them.

It's actually one of the rare cases where I can let such a somewhat unusual statement unquestioned. The reason is that I think that all relevant aspects have been thought of (by you) and a number of additional aspects are simply a matter of taste.

[gixajo]

There would be unintended, ...

Something you've done for yourself that you're especially proud of?

[alnortedelsur]

I heard there is also some Portuguese ancestry among white south Africans (remains of the Portuguese presence in there, before British and Dutch came in, plus some Portuguese descent people from Mozambique and other ex-Portuguese colonies that might have ended up settling in SA), and even that Boers are actually a combination of white people of mostly Dutch, French Huguenots, and to a less extent Portuguese descent (if is not exactly like that, sorry for my ignorance). Did you met any south Africans with some degree of Portuguese ancestry back in south Africa?

And another question: did you ever met any Spanish or Spanish descent people back in SA? any Venezuelans? and any other Latin Americans?

[CosmoLady]

I heard there is also some Portuguese ancestry among white south Africans (remains of the Portuguese presence in there, before British and Dutch came in, plus some Portuguese descent people from Mozambique and other ex-Portuguese colonies that might have ended up settling in SA), and even that Boers are actually a combination of white people of mostly Dutch, French Huguenots, and to a less extent Portuguese descent (if is not exactly like that, sorry for my ignorance). Did you met any south Africans with some degree of Portuguese ancestry back in south Africa?

And another question: did you ever met any Spanish or Spanish descent people back in SA? any Venezuelans? and any other Latin Americans?

Yes there are many Portuguese whites in South Africa but I have never met any of them.
Most Afrikaners/Boers have Dutch and French ancestry, German occurs as well, but the Dutch (colonial) culture is dominant.
Many South Africans are also British and they have mixed a lot with the Afrikaners over time, so have the Portuguese probably!
The entirely British people tend to live in the cosmopolitan urban areas like Cape Town and Durban.

(Afrikaners are the catch-all term for the non-English, mostly Dutch/French whites;
Boers are the Afrikaner farmers and peasants who settled the interior and later fought the British;
Cape Dutch or Cape Afrikaners are the ones who lived on the coast and cooperated with the British,
but this group sympathised with the Boers, developed a lot of the Afrikaner nationalism that led to independent South Africa)

So white South Africans are an ethnic mix, like Americans.

Some are more culturally Dutch/Afrikaner/Boer (especially in rural areas),
some are more cosmopolitan or culturally British (especially in urban areas),
and there are many possible ethnicities.

Everyone speaks English,
many whites and many blacks do not speak Afrikaans,
but many rural whites and Coloureds speak Afrikaans as their first language.
Everyone can get along in English though.

My stepbrother's family was the more cosmopolitan Anglophile type (despite being Swedish),
and we were absorbed into that milieu, and we mostly forgot our likely Afrikaner/Boer roots.

We have never encountered any Spanish either, there may be some,
whites in South Africa are very mixed, white immigration was encouraged,
so you will find many nationalities that immigrated pre-1994. Surprisingly many Eastern Europeans, refugees from communism.

But whites have been mostly leaving since then, with no notable white immigration.

I have heard of white South Africans moving to Brazil, Argentina and Spain more than the reverse!