Video: Sri Lanka’s Lesser Known Minority: The Kaffirs

[Godman]

 

[Godman]

@Gibbs @Saradiel @HeinzG @NGV-H
Most kids today doesnt even know that Kaffirs exist and if nothing is done now they wont last much long

 

[24 Hours]

They're actually called kaffirs?

 

[Godman]

They're actually called kaffirs?

yep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Kaffirs

 

[HeinzG]

They have being integrated to the bigger Sinhalese culture to a significant percentage. AFAIK only the elders remember about their rich African heritage.

 

[Gibbs]

@Gibbs @Saradiel @HeinzG @NGV-H
Most kids today doesnt even know that Kaffirs exist and if nothing is done now they wont last much long

I have discussed about them in prior threads

https://defence.pk/threads/celebrating-sri-lanka-globally.421968/#post-8205556

 

[24 Hours]

yep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Kaffirs

That's very weird, in South Africa and other parts of the continent, it's a racist term for Blacks.

 

[Gibbs]

That's very weird, in South Africa and other parts of the continent, it's a racist term for Blacks.

Though the word Kaffir is indeed used in derogatory term especially in South Africa towards black people it does not such connotations in Sri Lanka, It merely describes it's ethnic group

The word Kaffir is an obsolete English term once used to designate natives from the African Great Lakes and Southern Africa coasts. In South Africa, it became a slur. "Kaffir" derives in turn from the Arabic kafir, "unbeliever".