The natives imposed divine status on the Boers as much as Boers claimed it.

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• Boer superiority claims rested on farms, Bibles, and blood (similarity 0.85)
• Doctrine of a people’s divine origin erased internal differences among its members (similarity 0.84)
• The Boer War conscripted thousands of indentured Indians and Black Africans into both armies. (similarity 0.81)
• The native-informer dynamic lets writers simultaneously acknowledge and deny their Muslim origins (similarity 0.80)
• British surrender at the Boer War peace ceded native policy to Boers (similarity 0.80)
• Persians are depicted in 300 as a monstrous catalogue of all non-Western deviance (similarity 0.78)
• Explorers punished American Indians as Muslims and called them devil-worshippers. (similarity 0.78)
• The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the true source of the tradition. (similarity 0.78)