The Boers

A distinct people/ethno-national group in South Africa, descendants of Dutch, German, and Huguenot settlers, who developed an agrarian frontier society in isolation from mainstream European history and played a central role in South African racial politics through their notions of chosenness, racial separation, and settler identity.

Claims that use this term

• The Boers twisted chosenness into license for lazy domination.
• The Boers developed in complete isolation from European history.
• The Boers used farms, Bibles, and blood to distinguish themselves from natives