The Broederbond arose from elite fears of Afrikaner dilution, impoverishment, and demographic swamping.
Evidence
In 1918, by contrast, the more educated among Afrikaners – initially teachers, civil servants, and Dutch Reformed Church ministers, then shortly after academics and lawyers – bandied together in the Afrikaner Broederbond (Brotherhood) to debate Afrikaner policy and political commitment. The Broederbond grew out of concerns over the dilution of Afrikaner national, cultural, and linguistic interests, the impoverishment of Afrikaners and the expansion of the poor white class, demographic swamping and the fear of degeneration, and out of the emergence of farming cooperatives as a way of coping with insurance, investment, and banking. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1533
Categorization
- XREF: The Broederbond’s founding anxieties — demographic swamping, dilution, degeneration, loss of status among ‘poor whites’ — are textbook anticipatory status threat, strongly supporting the reader’s threatened-privilege generalization test. — connects to: The Afrikaner Broederbond originated partly from fears of demographic swamping and white degeneration