South Africa thinks I’m Coloured | Being American abroad

[@MfezekoMatshoba]

I honestly think that if Black Americans were to just witness Coloured culture and compare it with Black South Africans they would easily see that these are 2 different peoples. And the fact that they make it seem like, it's either you're us (black) or you're the enemy is also not the vibe here. There is no rivalry here. And when Tyla says she's not black it doesn't mean she thinks she's better. People here are proud of who they are and also happy to leave with other races and cultures in harmony. Except for that one adopted child😉. We're still working on that one. She's slowly coming along.

[@issachaarwazulu1726]

You guy's are out here lying with that rainbow nation 😂 retoric.... The is a huge divide in this country and clear as day and night....at least black Americans know who their open enemy's are....the very European descendants y'all cherish burned a black person business in Hartebeest because they don't want black folks and that's not an isolated case.... rainbow nation don't exist,it never did.....but hey Stockholm syndrome....

[@mbhekitembe2179]

Americans of all races must just "grow up" and accept that, American ways are not universal. They must learn more about those they share the planet with.

[@alisterdirector1475]

No Black Americans would be mortified by South Africa as a whole. What the hell are you talking about that there is no rivalry? Your Coloured community are just as racist to your Black community as their White forefathers are. You all literally bullied an Indigenous African from being Miss South Africa so you could install a white woman to represent a majority Indigenous Black African country. And your stepchildren Orania and the Cape have been trying to separate as non-Black nations for years! If more African Americans knew about south africa they would realize that you all are constantly insulting our intelligence. Take it from this Black American that those of us educated enough would have absolutely no interest in witnessing Coloured culture. We already know what racially ambiguous false sense of superiority due to complexion looks like. We have colourism within our own community, not sure why you think we would want to "witness" South Africa's. But there is that "lighter skin", "want to be White", "I'm special because I'm mixed" over inflated sense of self that you non Americans have. The level of arrogance there is to think a Black American would want to got to a majority Black African country to witness some White want -to-bes, instead of going to experience the actual Black culture, is so incredibly stupid and self absorbed. It is the epitome of why Black Americans reject Tyla as whole. That sense of self centeredness to think we would spend time and money to fly across the world to witness antiblackness within a community when we can see it for free in America. Hell we can just KZbin how antiblack the Coloureds ar. If we wanted to see it in an exotic fashion, we could go to Mexio, Canada, or any Latin American country. You all think Americans are so stupid and entitled but you all are the exact same!

[@alisterdirector1475]

​​@@mbhekitembe2179 And you non Americans must do the exact same. This all a big case of the pot calling the kettle Black, but thinking the kettle is too stupid to realize

[@mbhekitembe2179]

@@alisterdirector1475 Are we in kindergarten here? Who doesn't know that America has been trying for centuries to turn the world into a homogeneous planet. International trade is USD, keeping peace is aggression to sovereign countries, the have even changed the English language (spoken & written) to accommodate their flaws. As far as I know, every country in the world goes about life without trying to change other countries, except for the USA. Have you forgotten why there is such a thing as "Red Indians", just imagine, renaming the entire nation just because of your poor grasp of geography. Can you define the term "War on Terror", because for us it has lost its true meaning. I will say it once again, Americans must grow up and realise that the world is not a homogeneous village with the USA playing tribal council. There is nothing universal about America, for America lacks tradition, and what they call American culture is a founding blueprint of an artificial society, that was built on the back of a gruesome genocide.

[@brianowies4417]

Proudly coloured South African❤🇿🇦

[@finance607supportedbythefi7]

So, what's your saying?Is that your proudly dumb 😂😂😂😅

[@MissOJAY]

❤

[@isoboy1000]

You are not wrong by saying some coloured people in Cape Town look like Philipinos, actually some part of the coloured community have some ancestral connection with slaves that were brought from South East Asia/Malaysia (Hence Cape Malayes), some looks more like the San people and some are dark skinned like people from Madagascar. It's a melting pot.

[@kaytenlte4536]

the camissa colourds have Phillipino ancestry.

[@nicoler02902]

I was born and raised in Texas but here in Joburg, I am Colored or from India. 😂 I was called "Hindi' for the first time when I was living in Tanzania. if I wear my hair straight I guess I look like I'm from India. I just go with it. But in the USA I'm black.

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

lol funny right. It’s really fascinating to me how we all come from so many places yet can blend so well. We are ultimately one!

[@Simphiweful]

If you're mixed u cannot be black

[@warren14567]

We have been well programmed in this fake reality

[@annalinepillay6387]

I never heard anyone refer to someone as Hindi, no matter how Indian you look. My husband is a literall Tamil Indian from KZN.

[@pantinchelles6161]

Home of the blk r4c3 is Africa. Not america. It's at home they should tell u who u truly are. Not outside home. Lebron is blk. Cardi B is not.

[@kevinc3236]

Coloured isnt derogatory in SA sister. Here we are black white induan and coloured and we the most racially united country in the world. To think that the same set of people come from apartheid and now we here, tolerating our differences in love and honour. Best country in the world. Viva South Africa 🇿🇦 Viva

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

It is a beautiful country with beautiful people and diversity.

[@Ntuthu-ZA]

TOLERATING being the key word. Some of us don’t want to be tolerated by people who do not originate here. The unity is mostly due to black people’s nature, and them focusing on improving their lot in life rather than guving back what they are getting from those who tolerate them.

[@kevinc3236]

@@Ntuthu-ZA So coloured doesn't originate here?

[@Ntuthu-ZA]

@@kevinc3236 I was responding to your statement that said something about tolerating each other. How did you make the leap from that to where Coloured people originate?

[@kevinc3236]

@@Ntuthu-ZA I said we tolerate one another. You said " some of us don't want to be tolerated by people who don't originate here". Since the context of my statement was based on coloured, I take it you mean coloured people don't originate here.

[@Charlito-q5s]

Tia, thank you for embracing this classification. You're helping us to teach the world of the existence of this group (Mix-race/biracial = coloured).

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

It’s my honor to learn the beauty in these cultures and a privilege to be welcomed and feel at home

[@jacqualenelemens8260]

Correction. Biracial doesn't necessarily mean coloured. Multiracial is coloured.

[@lungarubuluza2541]

multiracial instead of biracial

[@Charlito-q5s]

@@jacqualenelemens8260 Not according to the Population Registration Act of 1950, biracial is considered coloured. Any mixed-race in SA is considered to be coloured, however, people have a choice between Black and Coloured after trying Asian and White have failed. Afrikaans is a dominating language among them but some, though can't speak it, especially those who're from the Indian Ocean coast-line.

[@david-arthur8166]

@@jacqualenelemens8260?

[@GoldilocksOfficial1]

I too was called, Colored! I Embrace it all like You Sis! Same in America! I’m black but what else? 😆🤣😂😅 Never a Dull Moment and I Thank God! 💯🌟💎💛🙏🏿🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏻🙏🏿 Right!! No matter the amount of White, we are Black in the states! 🎉❤

[@darelet]

At least you get better categorization in SA - cannot fit in the primitive black folks there

[@welikelethabo]

Very beauitful perspective. I really loved hearing your understanding of culture and our culture, especially as a black South African❤

[@kgabotshesane27]

You most definitely look like us! You look like a singer/muscian from Cape Town actually, her name is Nalu 🌸

[@mbhekitembe2179]

You are a positive cultural chameleon, that goes to show how much respect you have for culture.

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

Thaaaank you! I truly hope this positivity becomes contagious. There is so much beauty it the ancestral differences. I respect all of it

[@nkunapatrick]

Most South African's have khoisan blood, coloureds are not the only group that has Khoisan blood. Nelson Mandela our first black president is a classical example of a descendant of the Khoisan - his facial features were self evident.

[@tspen4128]

Its always funny to me hearing coloured people claim that they are the true indegents, when in reality if most did a dna test,they would find that they have a whole lot more foreign blood than the khoisan tribes... And the other subtle racist brainwashing is that they believe khoi & san people werent/arent "black"😂 that somehow being "bantu" means you're black and everything other isnt,but its still "african"

[@isoboy1000]

Actually most Xhosas are like that.

[@lungarubuluza2541]

@@isoboy1000 yup

[@botlhalenxumalo280]

Ohh yes hey, you're so right.

[@Matthew6thirty3]

Jesus Christ still saves

[@sheiladavids7734]

Girl ,welcome to Mzanzi ❤❤❤Love your spirit😊

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

🥹 Enkosi! 🥰

[@Wunnabeanbag]

In the whole of southern africa, coloured means mixed race. Americans really believe that the rest of the world thinks the same way they do.

[@JohnJohn-lv3qr]

Thank you God for giving me heavily melanine black skin and making me beautifully, wonderfully, and powerfully wise and spiritual...

[@nelzg5819]

Your pronunciation of Xhosa is beautiful momma❤

[@faithnieuwenhuizen9776]

The girl in the video is not even fighting as much as the comments. 😂😂😂 South Africa, America rest❤please

[@MeaganRooy]

The name will never change sweetheart.. we are proudly Kulid🙏🏽

[@JACK-OMARI]

Your Xhosa clicks are on point

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

Aye I’m working on it ✨ Danko

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

Ayyye I’m working on it✨ danko 😊

[@siphombingo6545]

Welcome to South Africa my sister you blend simple with our country

[@nikilandella6136]

They didn't let go of the khoi San background, neither did those of us who are Nguni let go of it, it was taken from us by slavery and Apartheid. We were also called things like "xekakazi" which means mixed-race dog or malau... Coloured was chosen instead of Baster (bastard) or Volkie (little folk) etc... The one drop rule in America was used to prolong slavery and is white supremacist at its core.

[@jasminscarbrough2596]

This… the one drop rule is racist

[@alisterdirector1475]

First, South Africa has a one drop rule as well you all just don't acknowledge it. In the case of South Africa, if one of your parents is Coloured so are you. Second, your one drop rule in South Africa was used just the same as it is in America, which is if you have one drop of any other blood you are not White, i.e. the first Coloureds. Third, it is ironic that the only consistent and qualifying thing in being a Coloured is that you must be mixed with white, but you all can never classify as white. All of the combinations that can make a Coloured are based on "tainted white blood" as evey conceivable Coloured combination has some type of white heritage. So you all have a one drop rule, but didn't even know it. Fourth you all try to throw up the American one drop rule because you all were not smart enough to figure out the same was done to you when they slapped you all into the Coloured category. You all are the shining example of the pot calling the kettle Black and hoping the kettle is too stupid to realize the contradiction.

[@WilliamKhumalo-n8q]

U not a Khoisan

[@Papito_ZA]

How do you know? She is mixed ​@@WilliamKhumalo-n8q

[@WilliamKhumalo-n8q]

@@nikilandella6136 u not a Khoisan khoisan are not mixed

[@nikilandella6136]

If you can accept Latino as a Creole race, or th Metisse of Mauritius as Creole race, then you can accept Coloured as a creole race.

[@AwgustRushOfficial]

Coloured is not a race sorry! Many of us black Americans are mixed due to our ancestors women being taken by force aka r@p’d …. They used to call us colored in America we made them change that because we realised it was a divide and conquer technique to cut us off from our black ancestry and lessen our numbers. They know together we would defeat them that all it is. There is no such thing as coloured that’s why it only exists in South Africa

[@karabokhwiane7593]

Lol. Latinos are not a race. Creoles are not a race. Coloureds are an apartheid construct that the people learned to embrace...

[@BruinouTV]

4:00 There are in fact many Coloureds with Filipino roots. Around 1870 when there was a revolutionary war in the Philipines against Spanish rule, many Filipinos fled to South Africa with a large number of them settling in Kalk Bay, where they started a fishing community that still exists today. Becoming known as the Manilas, later through intermarriage, their offsprng, along with later groups of Filipino immigrants integrated with the Khoi, the slave descendents and other mixed people who would later all be lumped together to be classified as Coloured. Aside from the "Filipino Looks" many Coloureds may have, there are also Coloureds who don't look Filipino but carry Filipino genes AND you will also find many Coloureds who may or may not look Filipino and have Filipino-Spanish surnames like Gonsalves, Erispe, Rodriques, Lopez, Fernandez, Da Silva, etc. Coloued history and Ancestry is far more complex than simply saying it is a mix between Africans and Europeans with a sprinkle of Malay. Aside from the Manilas (Filipinos) there are a few other small groups that very few people know about and who have added to the Coloured gene pool. The very first Indians who came to South Africa did not go to Durban. It was a century earlier than Durban that over 300 Indians were brought to Cape Town. There are even a few African Americans who after the end of slavery in the US somehow ended up in Cape Town in the late 1800's and got integrated into what became the Coloured population group. Until around 1982, Chinese descendents who were here for generations lived in Coloured areas before the Apartheid government moved them to white Areas. In many parts of the world including South Africa, Italians and Portuguese people were not seen as white. Guess amongst which people they lived and mixed with before the Apartheid government classified them as white. So you could someday run into someone a shade darker than you with much more curlier hair and just a touch of what looks like Indian or Asian features and their surname is De la Cruz. Anyways, thanks for the Lekke video Tia. We will embed it on our website. Oh and we love that you say it is a Community and a Culture, which definitey, as a Population Group, it is both, we believe that Coloured is not a race. Though it is officially defined as a race, by the mere definition of the concept of 'race', an unscientific construct, Coloured, becuase it is os very mixed, cannot be a race. Still, as a Culture and a Community, it will always be a Valid Identity. Ryan Swano

[@fadeelahomar3577]

Yes, you definitely look like a cape cullard (coloured from cape town) ❤ if i should meet you, I will probably speak to you in the cape cullard slang 😅

[@Swavvyy10]

Well She's NOT coloured 🤣🤣🤣 Travel so that you can learn coloureds aren't the only ones who look like this

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

Yaaayyy yes cullard/kullid slang… I hear it all … Gam😉

[@carolb8452]

The biggest thing in life is to be happy and confident in your own skin. Everyone is beautiful in their own way. Be happy, live your life like there is no tomorrow. ❤

[@Iqandatheegg]

They're not saying you're colored, they say you look like one. Unlike Americans if you're black American in SA , continue being black you won't receive backlash, we'll all accept your Blackness.❤

[@alisterdirector1475]

No you Coloureds won't! half of Coloureds don't accept their own Blackness and have more or the same amount of Black African ancestry as Black Americans do. The other half thinks they are Indigenous to Africa via the "Khoisan" but don't know the khoi and San are separate people groups and that both are Indigenous Black Africans. Pull that b.s. with another group. Leave African Americans out of it. We are Black and we are proud. You all are free to fight your own acceptance demons gifted to you all by the white forefathers that made you all Coloureds

[@mzukisingoloti5423]

You may be Xhosa... Iy could be in your lineage. I luurv that you're understanding & embracing the differences in kulture. Respect you our Xhosa Queen... Much love, 🌹🙏

[@jewlstorres8600]

True, Im considered coloured but my mom from Umtata, Transkei and speaks Xhosa fluently

[@Gee_Modise]

I hear elsewhere its racist...but here its definitely a culture but they all black people. So embrace n have a good time

[@siyabongangubeni9042]

You seen to enjoy being a colourd its a very good SA culture .

[@sarashni2842]

The term ‘coloured’ has a different history to the word in the US and is not derogatory in SA. Thanks to colonialism and social separation by race, people categorized as coloured actually developed their own distinct culture as compared to people categorized as black S Africans.

[@authenticone1110]

Even the word "Black" is a word started bt colonizers, that's why some black people in other nations prefer to be called by their tribe name.

[@sphulasikabopha]

Truly speaking South africans are not black, even me and my family we are all light skin, when we talk about black people, we talk about people from Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe etc. You see that if you can put polish in their face they can shine especially Kiwi.. All in all South africans are different from other Africans.

[@michaelstamike]

​​@@sphulasikabophaget lost both Venda,Nguni,Pedi,Sotho, Tswana,we are Black

[@sphulasikabopha]

@@michaelstamike Do you know what black colour looks like, me I'm not black

[@michaelstamike]

​​​@@sphulasikabopha Good then speak for your self not on behalf of all Black SA cos some of us we are not suffering from selfhate

[@alisterdirector1475]

​@sphulasikabopha yeah you are probably white or a Coloured because that is a very Coloured thing to say. And it is usually the darker skinned Coloureds who like to say everyone else is dark skinned without looking in the mirror at their own complexion. The self hate ends one way

[@evolutionofwords]

I’m SA. It’s about making things make sense. That little bit of black that you’re talking about would not make sense to us to call someone black. That person is either white or coloured. Pick. At least in our homeland that would be the case if that person were one of us. Coloured is very useful in SA because it gives someone a category to fall under when they don’t fall within specified categories. We make life simple. Also a culture has merged from within that community. That’s a rather beautiful thing to see. So it doesn’t feel like a bunch of people we couldn’t put into a category and just made up a name and put them in it. Everywhere people go there is stereotypes based on features because that place has people who look like that. It’s all love though or it should be.

[@thato596]

Nice to see you learning African languages. People are using click sound as an excuse not to learn xhosa. Those click sounds are easy. You can learn xhosa if you take it seriously seens you are in cape town. I speak the Sesotho language from Johannesburg Gauteng province

[@NoDnaJustRsa]

Yes, you're Coloured and extremely beautiful like most of them.

[@Swavvyy10]

she's NOT coloured 😂😂😂

[@NoDnaJustRsa]

​@@Swavvyy10ok🥱

[@tessb3039]

U R beautiful ❤ and colored people are the nicest people ❣️

[@david-arthur8166]

😂

[@kaytenlte4536]

The problem is not with South Africans but it's with foreigners who project their world view onto us and think you have to be either black or white. God made nations and Tribes that existed before colonialism with distinct features and varying complexions who identified by culture not necessarily skin colour. We can say that being black has been politicized too. We don't tell fair skinned Chinese people that they have to identify as white cos they're closer in complexion to whites? Nor do we tell Sri lankens with their darker skin and straight hair that they are black. Even Russians, Europeans and Dutch who'd all be considered white do not see themselves as the same culturally or ethnically.

[@ShaneGopal-m8k]

Sri lankans are not BLACK

[@elroyswarts513]

1. There is more to being coloured than just looking mixed. It is an actual culture. One can be mixed without being necessarily coloured. In that case the person is just a random mixed person. Trevor Noah is a perfect example of someone like that. 2. Mixed or light skinned looking black Americans who come to South Africa may at first be mistaken for being coloured, but once people find out that they are American, they won't be considered coloured because they lack the cultural experience to be coloured in South Africa. People will just respect that they are American. No one will insist that that they identify as coloured or else accuse them of distancing themself from colouredness. It is quite unfortunate that the same courtesy cannot be extended to Tyla while she is in America and she is accused of "distancing herself from blackness" though she is literally from another country, she has her own culture, and she lacks the cultural experience to be black in America. For some reason some black Americans fail to see that Tyla is in America to represent her own culture. Not ditch her own culture or assimilate. 3. Only about 20 to 30 percent of coloured people live in Cape Town(Western Cape). There are also coloured people in the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Joburg, Durban(KZN), Free State, and Limpopo. Although they are all the same in some ways, they also differ in other ways, and based on one region or province to next. Tyla is a Joburg coloured. 4. About 95 percent of coloured people speak Afrikaans as their mother tongue, though they can also speak and understand English. Durban coloureds are the only coloureds who do not speak nor understand Afrikaans. They speak English and Zulu. Afrikaans is essentially Dutch combined with indigenous South African Bantu and Khoisan languages. 5. Coloured people are multi generationally mixed(MGM). That means that most coloured people come from coloured parents who come from other coloured parents who come from other coloured parents and it goes back many generations to the days of slavery in the 1600's when the initial mixing of the different people groups that form part of the ancestry of coloured people occurred. Asking most coloured people about their grand parents or great grand parents will only lead you to more and more coloured people in their lineage. I suppose it also depends on how recently they have been mixed. Most come from many generations of mixed people. 6. Coloured and black might be a "colonial thing" but the one drop rule which is how blackness is determined in America is also something that came from racist white people in America. 7. The difference between COLORED and COLOURED is simply a matter of American English versus British English. 8. Most coloured people see nothing wrong with the word coloured and embrace it with pride. 9. Coloured people are not all mixed the exact same way and do not have the exact same lineages. Also, only about 60 to 70 percent of coloured people have Khoisan ancestry. Not all do.

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

Correct… and from the convo on my tiktok which is where the clips are from was me sharing as an American to share with other Americans showing it as a culture. Thanks for sharing your perspective. I agree with it as I stated on my other platform. And understand it more living in it

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

And surprisingly enough more than few Kullids ( to be politically correct) don’t like to be identified as that either. So many people are learning other views in their own culture just by having the conversation. That’s what it’s about. Thanks for the informed convo. 😊

[@elroyswarts513]

@@LivingthedreamwithTia You're welcome.

[@elroyswarts513]

@@LivingthedreamwithTia As I have said, the overwhelming majority of coloured people are not at all bothered or offended by the term "coloured", which is why it the term is even found on official government, Bank or other documents that requires a person to indicate their race. I have personally never met any coloured person in my life who has a problem being referred to as coloured. Perhaps more Cape coloureds feel that way, but over here in Joburg, which is where I am from, no one really cares. People just have more pressing issues to deal with. At the same time, there is a movement among the very few coloureds who reject the term coloured to embrace and be more connected to their Khoisan heritage. They actually prefer the term Khoisan instead of coloured. Some of them have even tried to get the government to scrap the term coloured and replace it with the term Khoisan. Not all coloureds are on board with that. The government is also not very eager to do that for their own reasons but some coloured politicians like Gayton McKenzie are pushing for the government to officially recognize the indigenous Khoisan people and the Khoisan language as one of the official South African languages like Zulu, Sotho, Xhosa, English, Afrikaans, etc. In any case, thanks for showing an interest in our culture. It sounded very cute when you said "goeie more" which just means good morning. I hope Americans will listen to you. Thanks for doing what you can to help them to understand these things.

[@nikilandella6136]

So many good points. I am an example of a mixed coloured because only one parent is coloured. We aren't just MGM, we are Creole. We just don't use that word because we have no latin (Spanish or French) influence as a more Germanic (Dutch and English) former colony. Eastern Cape coloured folk speak Xhosa often.

[@Jamien778]

😅😂 LOL goeie more.... You almost said it right but I understand what you trying to say that's all that matters

[@lvseka]

Colour is spelt with a u in most English speaking spaces

[@wukiemabeka8723]

Those who Get it! Get it 👏👏👏

[@christogreyling67]

You are just as beautiful as the local ladies in RSA.. :) We have the most beautifully diverse country in the World. We are a new generation of people that are trying despertaly to not see colour. Well said in this Vlog Tia.

[@david-arthur8166]

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[@Ellie-vd1wo]

Molo,Goeie more meisie ❤

[@kurtfrancis6638]

So there is no reason to dig deeper to see what you are saying. If any country can talk about oppression then surely the South African people can, they know all to well about their past, Only 30 years ago there was a Regime change. We lived through it. We are tired of being reminded about race. Dont let the name of the race classification cause alarm instead embrace our cultures. We South Africans love each other. God is good. Enjoy your stay.

[@mimmiekgaditse1517]

Ameticans have deified their race politics to being unquestionable. It's a religion to them and not a mere political talking point.

[@DeePie2024]

Coloured = Mixed race - It is really that simple. BUT sweetie - You can be whatever you want to be....We will love you either way. We will NOT force you to be anything - Like black Americans force people to be black - That is disgraceful behaviour. If you prefer Xhosa - Then go for it! We do not care - So long we love each other.

[@alisterdirector1475]

Black Americans do not force anyone to be anything that's your white forefathers and you Coloureds. You Coloureds have been trying to hijack the Khoi and San people since your White fathers attemed to genocide them. There is nothing more pathetic than seeing Coloureds lie about being Indigenous to Africa, trying to link themselves by claiming Khoisan, then turning around and saying they are not black. You all worship white people so much that you lie for them and believe their lies. The same people who called you all Bastards and Coloureds because you were not good enough to be White are the same White people who said they were White and Black Americans are Black. So be careful about how you bring us African Americans up, because we are not all ignorant to the identity crisis you Coloureds are having. Nor are we all ignorant to your antiblack white want-to-be history.

[@david-arthur8166]

Black americans do not force anyone to be black, they recognize who is black and who is not

[@DeePie2024]

@@david-arthur8166 And pray do tell - How do you "recognise that"?

[@AndileMasiko]

You look beautiful!!

[@Where-Did-They-Go]

If everyone were to claim their 1% then white people would have to classify themselves as black too. There’s coloured people of Asian descent that have not mixed with black in generations. I don’t think it makes sense to just say “oh but you’re an Indian looking black person” or Filipino looking black person. Just let coloured people to classify themselves how they want to.

[@warren14567]

As beings culturally kept in white people's preferred segregated places in a model of divide them to conquer THEM

[@AbdulMajid-ih3er]

We just say light-skinneded 😂😂😂

[@pelomk9022]

There are dark skinned coloured who look phenotypically black so it's not about skin tone. Some coloured look Asian

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

@@pelomk9022 he’s saying what we call it in the states. We all have different complexions too. It’s been a conversation here in SA about the comparison based on the Tyla comment. This is just a more global perspective from comments on my tiktok

[@JohnlungiLungi]

Hi sister really you look like coloured people African 🇿🇦 DNA

[@theblackgods4699]

Coloured people literally don't have african dna .if they do it's very little

[@FKOWM2456]

U 100% correct & there’s still a lot of racism between races in SA.In the US,u lucky that all non whites accepted each other no matter the % of black.In SA,the colonizer ensured pride & superiority is embedded within people so that u cannot be classified as white,if u have a small % & u cannot be classified as African, if u have a small %.The Khoi & San didn’t offer themselves to be graped by the colonizers .Neither did the slaves that was brought to CT. Still some races are blamed for being mixed.Therefore unity in SA will only happen once people have deconstructed.

[@SA_SovereigntyForPatriots]

As a matter of fact, its worse in the USA. And I have lived there for 26 years and traveled & visited 42 of the 50 states. Please, if you have no experience living in the USA just focus on your experiences here in SA.

[@alisterdirector1475]

​@@SA_SovereigntyForPatriots Racism in the United States is very much still prevalent. However, South Africa takes the cake for sure. I take it you actually are not an American despite living there for 26 years? South Africa has more blatant racism. No country that is majority Black but has the 10 percent White population ruling the land could ever be seen as a better choice. There is an Orania in South Africa and that is enough said. South Africa bullied a Indigenous African out of being Miss South Africa in a Indigenous Black African land to put a White woman in. South Africa is the only place that is so racially bold as to change the Khio and San from being Black Indigenous Africans based on the lie of "Coloured=Khoisan", after centuries of telling the world just how Negro/ Negroid the Khoi and San people are. After parading around Sarah Barrtman as a female Negro with a big butt. South Africa is on a very different level with how blatant they are with their racism. It is level of disrespect that is not as often seen in America as much. White Americans are very racist but there is an air of subtlety with it that South Africa as a whole lacks. You are going to conced that your experience is not enough to make the under qualified statement you did. You should have read a book instead.

[@leratoletwaba9500]

I heard a bit of a color accent there! 2:02

[@Beven-z4b]

I'm born here but they think I'm a foreigner....don't worry what people think it does not matter!!!

[@BrekaniN]

Your ethnicity is foreign to this land ancestrally. Just sleep!

[@vernonjadams2445]

Yes my sister… you are coloured… your are now embraced in Cape Town … you are coloured my sister

[@Swavvyy10]

She's NOT Coloured 😂😂😂 Not you trying to recruit her as being coloured SHE'S NOT COLOURED 😂😂😂😂

[@Swavvyy10]

"You are coloured my sister" She's NOT Coloured 😂😂😂 So what you saying if one is not coloured then they won't be embraced in Cape Town 😂😂😂you are Funny 😂😂

[@Swavvyy10]

keep dreaming she's NOT Coloured 🤣🤣🤣 stop trying to push your coloured agenda onto people who's NOT Coloured 🤣🤣

[@Iqandatheegg]

She's American 💀

[@NthabisengMlambo-t7u]

Colored is culture but some Colored think is deputy white

[@LondiweJ]

In SA you’re coloured boo boo 💯

[@karabokhwiane7593]

Lol

[@david-arthur8166]

Which is a bit wrong?

[@tshidiso9653]

You are coloured in Mzansi👌🏾

[@MasechabaLekgoane]

You do look latina😂 welcome to SA girl

[@kaytenlte4536]

South Africans have very deep roots and a culture of celebrating heritage so it seems perhaps you just spoke to people who are ignorant. You should visit the local museums to learn about it.

[@bthartneyx]

😂 Americans think that there are pure black Africans that look like you. You are obviously mixed, its beautiful that you embrace your black and non black heritage.

[@david-arthur8166]

There are

[@OntheWingsofDoves]

If you go back and look at the 1948 South African General election and the U.S. Presidential election in 2024 you see many similarities , and its down right scary. You had the liberal labor party who wanted to intergerate slowly with South Africans, and have a more unified country, lose to a conservative party of Afrikanners who used fear of black people, the economic issuses that ravaged the country to attain power. In a few years after the election , most South Africans, Indians saw the little rights they had vanished in the rise of Apartheid. It would be nearly 50 years before South Africa realized they made a horrible mistake electing the conservatives in 1948.. Elections have consequences! It only took one election to bring so much pain to millions of people!

[@dn822]

Here you are a coloured. I can see you are not black. And coloured is suppose to be spelled with a u. Most Americans will be coloured here.

[@david-arthur8166]

Absolutely false

[@mariusscholtz3867]

Americans adept well to SA - I am too lazy to live in USA.

[@grahamsolomons453]

You are abviously coloured.Do a heritage test and the truth will be revealed just dont assume something that was indoctrinated by your goverment with the one drop rule. American goverment's prerogative is to keep the white bloodline pure with the that rule and to ostracized black Americans from white Americans. Coloureds are multigenerational so very much diverse , we look like every race in the world , for example myself is 16 nationalities.Please do a heritage test , it will be very interesting.

[@meks1478]

It's called embracing your blackness, you can try to belittle and minimize it as the "one drop rule" all you want. Unlike you, black Americans are not ashamed of their blackness.

[@Loveyoublackchild]

​@@meks1478❤❤❤😊

[@grahamsolomons453]

@@meks1478 Firstly you had to know what is the term "Blackness"Whats the meaning,where it originated from.What is 'Blackness"? As a African living on the continent knowing the history of our continent ,I can tell you with confidence that the term 'Blackness' is not synonymous with Africa as people cannot be degraded to a mere colour , not in Africa as Africa is so much diverse with thousand of different shades of people. Those indoctrinated by the mainstream media and political narrative those with limited intellectual capabilities those who cannot use their intelligence will fall into the pitfall of something created by someone who want you to think like you think. There is no such think as black people just as there no no such thing as yellow blue and white people. The logic and realism is incorrect untrue and stupid. Black American should start doing heritage test to see where they are coming from. "Black" people is so contradictory with this term ,they fight the masters but yet accept and is satisfied what master is calling them. WAKE UP.

[@Swavvyy10]

she's NOT coloured 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You cannot classify someone by a race that is ONLY used by 1 country in the world🤣🤣🤣 She's NOT coloured 🤣🤣 Not you trying to recruit NON coloured folks and putting them as coloured 😂😂

[@Swavvyy10]

​@@meks1478EXACTLY

[@ericboswell8863]

But understand Lil Lady..Coloured in SA doesnt mean the same thing as Colored in the US..Just Saying..

[@Uzalo_101]

She's beautiful and she has perfect skin I have a sister who's very light skinned but both our parents are black but she always get mistaken for being coloured and we don't like it no offence but we are proud of being black! Beautiful people

[@WilliamKhumalo-n8q]

Black Americans and black African are not the same

[@thokomalangcobo1824]

Some

[@jacqualenelemens8260]

Exactly. Black africans are anti-western culture, they follow their tribe's culture. Black Americans are western cultured (like our coloureds in SA).

[@david-arthur8166]

How?

[@WilliamKhumalo-n8q]

@david-arthur8166 Black Americans indigenous American they dont have African blood they have Atroloid DNA

[@Chan-og8pu]

Wassup cousin

[@NonhlanhlaMaseko-m2p]

Lol yes you are coloured here 😂

[@Mzii100]

High demand 😮

[@JohnSias-s7z]

The show called Khalid people are the descendents of the first indigenous people of southern people the khoisan Boschman hottentot nation that's what we are not al of us but we are the first nation first indigenous people of southern Africa it's our land and country SA

[@alisterdirector1475]

It is not your land nor are you Coloureds Indigenous. The only Indigenous people of any part of Africa is Black people. They are the first humans. The khoi and San people still exist and are still Black people so how do you expect Coloureds are the owners of the land? Coloureds are mostly of White and Asian descent why did you leave this part out? Some Coloureds have no Black ancestry at all, why did you leave this part out? The San do not have a concept of land ownership, why would you leave this part out? How could South Africa belong to Coloureds if Black Africans predate you all and you all didn't come into existence until white people arrived in South Africa?

[@thabangzaula2873]

You are certified fr

[@Simphiweful]

Lol u do look like one Me 2 some of my black people think that I'm colored 😂😂 Some black people u might that they're mixed race,but we have rough hair and we don't do waves 😂😂

[@RealLifeStories.]

Untswempu wena mntanandini..

[@finance607supportedbythefi7]

The White man has done a number on south africa..!😢😢

[@kurtfrancis6638]

Americans surely need to travel.

[@arientshole114]

Yes you look coloured. Mixed race.

[@Swavvyy10]

Not the coloureds in the comments sayin " you are coloured, you look coloured" 🤣🤣🤣 She's BLACK and PROUD...✊🏾 y'all should travel Black people come in ALL shades too👍.. Calling someone coloured a racial term ONLY used in 1 country IN THE WORLD just cause according to y'all " you look Coloured" 🤣 NO SHE DOESN'T....Many Black people look like her and are BLACK....Travel and EDUACATE YOURSELVES.... Black people come in ALL SHADES 👍 Coloureds arent the ONLY one's who look like how y'all look😂 and besides y'all ONLY exist in Southern Africa outside those countries there's NO such thing as a Coloured 🤣🤣👍

[@Iqandatheegg]

😑we know Black people come in all shades. In S.A we have light skinned and dark skinned 😑.

[@Swavvyy10]

@@Iqandatheegg Cap being black to y'all is restricted to 4C hair and Darkskin 🤣 the moment Someone lightskin with curly hair or look like the girl in the video, y'all automatically call them coloured 🤣So stop the cap

[@khoicpt]

Can you be any more wrong? Thers mgm creole ppl all over go pick up a book

[@Swavvyy10]

@@khoicpt How about you EDUACATE YOURSELF on the fact that Black people are NOT ONLY restricted to 4C hair and being Darkskin 👍 And being creole is a different story👍

[@Swavvyy10]

@@khoicpt Creole is an ethnic group how about you take your own advice and pick up a Book👍 Creoles and Coloured are NOT the same thing👍Know the differences before speaking out your ass👍

[@finance607supportedbythefi7]

I have been to 32 different countries in the world. and i must say South Africa has to be the most confusing place I've have ever been two. What makes a country is the people And if the people are confused that makes the country confusing. The true meaning of the word divide and conquer represent South africa. It is truly working in that country. I have dark skin and light skin competition in my generation of family to think that. My light skin cousin, we'll be considered as a coloured person And my dark skin family we'll be considered as a black person his dumb. Very Dumb

[@anika_h]

No, your dumb. We don't classify black & coloured according to skin tone. They are separate groups with different languages, history, locale & genetic makeup.

[@masoapathie5655]

Now you'll make a personality out of this

[@WilliamKhumalo-n8q]

U and Coloured are the same even though u look like them

[@shaunigothictv1003]

Their wrong sis. Your Black. Coloureds were those Blacks that were mixed with White Dutch and White French. Other bi-racials that were mixed with other European nations were not originally included in that category until the 1940's.

[@jasminscarbrough2596]

So would they consider me black even though I’m American. I want to find my tribe in SA but I want know if I’d be accepted lol

[@elroyswarts513]

Black Americans are regarded as black when in South Africa. Concerning the tribe thing, I suppose it depends on which one you would find appealing. People are generally very open to showing foreigners their tribal cultures, as long as they are respectful.

[@jasminscarbrough2596]

@@elroyswarts513 oh wow how many black tribes are there in SA?

[@elroyswarts513]

@@jasminscarbrough2596 There are about 9 black tribes in South Africa. Each has it's own culture, traditions, and language.

[@Swavvyy10]

what you mean? You'll be Black everywhere you go

[@jasminscarbrough2596]

@@Swavvyy10 that came off wrong( even though that’s not true) I meant would the black people there see me as one of their own or as just American. But I love Africa but a lot of them tell me I’m not really black that Americans are mixed. Throw in that I’m also bilingual in Spanish and people other me for that as well

[@_from-dan-to-beersheba.]

I like u 😅.

[@Letitbebeautiful4evr]

Gore more 😁👌😊

[@peacenation9338]

This sent me!! 😂

[@zinhlendlovu9310]

lol, learn their language with a coloured accent.

[@abrahamgenamoabrahamgenamo5267]

So do u now isizulu

[@KeenanAlexanderr]

Jou Afrikaans is goed, jy moet sommer die nuus op tv gaan lees 😊

[@elizabethnovak4088]

Yip, you look like SA colored person..

[@Greg16350]

What a silly issue to make a video about as if coloureds in SA are a homogeneous group and that all of them are stupid enough to generalise about your racial heritage.

[@AdaJames-Almano]

Contact me. I will teach you Afrikaans online, and also the basics of isiXhosa.

[@JoeKhumalo-oh1wn]

Yes we coloured andcyou must not come here and put up an issue about it except us or don't but dont you dare make it something its not

[@tembelamgandela811]

To all of this mxim😂

[@GeromeSchoeman]

aweh onse kind.

[@muziphil5994]

Ma se Kind

[@arientshole114]

Your tone, or accent gives you away though..

[@RuthMadumo]

Don't forget that America has native people also

[@JaphtaKhoza-hq9um]

Yes it is an apartheid classification that annoys me ad a South African cis it means NOTHING.. And Afrikaans is NOT an African language.. the name is deceiving Useless to learn as most black people dont speak it and it gradually being phased out it except in predominately white , coloured or or private schools . Wanna connect better with Black South Africans ? people.. learn one of their NATIVE language depending.on their are... .. Xhosa is a good choice there

[@NathanSyster]

Hahahaha they just made an Afrikaans University lol Afrikaans is being spoken by majority Coloureds then Blacks then Whites u don't even know the language but wana talk about it this is not Congo... Afrikaans does not come from Holland it was created at the Cape thanks to Dutch influences and Khwe and malay influences ur hatred towards us and our language means nothing lol Afrikaans is not a Nguni language lol it defnitly is an African language or are you saying Afrikaans was created in Holland? Or USA? Where was Afrikaans created and who created Afrikaans since it is not an African language lol just bcoz it is not a Bantu Nguni language doesn't mean it is not an African language hahaha you really believe u Bantus are the only Africans hahaha even classifying us as coloureds won't make u the only Africans lol we speak Afrikaans not Dutch and we won't be told by Congolese decendants or Limpopo river crossers about who we are or our language... We speak Afrikaans bcoz Nama,Khoekhoegowab, |Nu etc were made illegal unlike your Bantu Nguni languages lol Abahambe gaan trug Congo toe en tell ir friends to go back to Europe

[@RG-jr8ym]

You are coloured...and you are not in high demand dont flatter yourself..

[@NathanSyster]

Yeah thats what the Limpopo river crossers will say to someone who is of value hahaha u really think u who just crossed that Limpopo river can tell her or us anything... Are u in high demand coz last time i checked we didn't want ur people to represent us at the miss world pagents and ur govt is losing power to the DA... Seems to me the Demand for u darkies are quite lower than us coloureds so i suggest you watch how u speak about Coloureds... Dont flatter urself they never took us to America as slaves they took ur people so yeah just watch when u talk about Demand hahaha you defnitly are in High Demand when it comes to the slave master lol

[@mhlonishwammkhize9515]

I think Americans wanna come to SA or Africa and embrace colonial power by using KZbin to explain nonsense

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

I’m sorry you feel that way. A fixed mindset is not easy to live with. I pray you gain a growth mindset and see other perspectives. God Bless you

[@LincolnNcame]

Bro I'm tired of them alongside their west African brethren🤦🏽‍♂️. It's like they see we're not knocking each other over in trying to get to the US like their brothers from Nigeria but they come here instead of where theyr really from. I just wish they were to stop coming here atleast with the Europeans we can't hear a wore they're saying and due to colonization Europeans are mindful about the topics they should be talking about when it comes to us native South Africans.

[@NathanSyster]

Sounds like Shaka Zulu and Jan Van Riebeeck to me hay speaking about Colonization lol

[@southafricaismyhome814]

Coloured is mix Race Between black and white in Southafrica

[@UniverseBeauty-ff4eo]

Unamanga😂😂😂😂Why lie

[@acidicsoul4978]

​@@UniverseBeauty-ff4eo honestly as a South Africa, I call white and black mixed race people "colored". I always saw it that way, I believe that's how it works.

[@MfezekoMatshoba]

Lol it's not just Black and White

[@janomesteve3129]

Coloured is multiracialy mixed 4 generations Not all mixed race people are coloured in South Africa

[@thato596]

In the South Africa the word coloured is used. In other nations they use the word mixed race. mixed race is not word that was used in South Africa. Coloured means you are mixed raced you come from different races. In South Africa they call you coloured that is how it has always been. O le coloured ntho ena ea di mixed raced mo Afrika Borwa ke ntho encha ya di internet

[@JohnJohn-lv3qr]

Lady, I am from America, but I have spent some times in Africa... A lot of Africans need to be taught how to love themselves, to appreciate their black skin and broader nose, to thank God for making them as they are... Black and beautifully, and powerfully spiritual

[@LivingthedreamwithTia]

I agree… we are black and beautiful in the name of Jesus… do you also know the Coloured culture?

[@mphosa995]

Be taught by who? You? We love ourselves and appreciate our African features, we don't need any outsider with identity crises to be teaching us about self love... I'm sure in America you guys would classify this lady as black when there's nothing black about her features.

[@elroyswarts513]

@@mphosa995 I keep saying that no self respecting black African would ever claim a mixed person as black. Some would even find it offensive.

[@mphosa995]

@@elroyswarts513 it is an offense for us Africans to be classifying a mixed person as black... But these people always feel entitled to be teaching us about our blackness when we know more about our blackness than them, because we Africans are the indigenous black people.

[@UniverseBeauty-ff4eo]

Then you haven't met South Africans😂😂😂