My post isn't really about Rhodesia per se, and I don't intend to suggest that the whole concept of Rhodesian identity is illegitimate. The kind of people I'm t

My post isn't really about Rhodesia per se, and I don't intend to suggest that the whole concept of Rhodesian identity is illegitimate. The kind of people I'm talking about tend to be very keen on apartheid South Africa as well, usually without showing any signs of intimate familiarity with either country (many of them are also apparently too young to have direct experience). This is part of a larger pattern of appropriation. There are many, many examples of white supremacists latching on to iconography and terminology from other places and cultures and declaring themselves the "true" Christians/Pagans/Nordics/Celtics/Aryans/Israelites/etc..