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I can't speak for the original poster, but Bantu as a word has pergoritive associations, which mean it's not commonly used today. In South Africa during aparth
by bruce511 5y ago
I can't speak for the original poster, but Bantu as a word has pergoritive associations, which mean it's not commonly used today.
In South Africa during apartheid, Bantu was used as a synonym for Black. The "self governing" regions were known as Bantustans and so on.
Like with most words, Bantu has a neutral actual meaning, but it's been corrupted by use and would not typically be used by a polite (white) person today - at least in Southern Africa.
- rvense 5y agoInteresting, I didn't know that. In linguistics, it is the common (only) word for the family of languages that Swahili belongs to.
- antonvs 5y agoLinguists may need to pay a bit more attention to their own use of language. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30564864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30564864 (Ignore the first sentence)