Talk:Okkert Brits

Afrikaner
Please refrain from classifying this article/person as "Afrikaner" unless you can cite a reliable source where this person asserts that ethnicity. Speaking Afrikaans and being an "Afrikaner" is not the same thing. The fact that he is married to an English speaker (judging from her name) and gave his daughter English names is some indication of his. In most "new world" countries ethnicity is not always easy to determine and in the South African context many Afrikaans speakers wish not to be associated with the term "Afrikaner". So please discuss before a revert war. --Deon Steyn 09:11, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

To add to this, the question of ethnicity is also rather ambigious, the wikipedia intro states: Obviously the first (genealogy) does not apply to white Afrikaans speaking South Africans, because they consist of mix of AT LEAST Dutch, French, German (and now also British). The second implies that you can belong to a group based on shared cultural experiences and here the term "Afrikaner" would only be adopted by one portion of white Afrikaans speaking people, NOT ALL. So again, please only categorize people as "Afrikaner" when they themselves have chosen to do so. --Deon Steyn 09:30, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) ''An ethnic group is a human population whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry (Smith 1986).
 * 2) In this sense, an ethnic group is also a cultural community.