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Namibian Americans are a small but growing community in the United States, with the largest populations found in California, Texas, and New York.Many Namibian Americans are the children or grandchildren of immigrants who have come to the United States seeking education or economic opportunities, [3] while others are refugees who fled Namibia during times of political upheaval and conflict.
The legal means to acquire nationality, formal legal membership in a nation, differ from the domestic relationship of rights and obligations between a national and the nation, known as citizenship. Nationality describes the relationship of an individual to the state under international law, whereas citizenship is the domestic relationship of an ...
Namibia (/ n ə ˈ m ɪ b i ə / ⓘ [17] [18]), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean.It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south.
Culture in Namibia is a blend of many different people and its culture and customs have absorbed both African and European elements and fused them into a blend of the two. Although the country is urbanising rapidly, a majority of Namibians still live in rural areas and lead largely impoverished lives.
White Namibians (German: Weiße Namibier or Europäische Namibier) are people of European descent settled in Namibia.The majority of White Namibians are Dutch-descended Afrikaners (locally born or of White South African descent), with a minority being native-born German Namibians (descended from Germans who colonised Namibia in the late-nineteenth century).
A national consciousness is a shared sense of national identity [32] and a shared understanding that a people group shares a common ethnic/linguistic/cultural background. Historically, a rise in national consciousness has been the first step toward creating a nation .
For thousands of years, the Khoisan peoples of South Africa and southern Namibia maintained a nomadic life, the Khoikhoi as pastoralists and the San people as hunter-gatherers. The Nama are a Khoikhoi group. The Nama originally lived around the Orange River in southern Namibia and northern South Africa.
The Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging ("Afrikaans Language and Culture Association"), referred to by its initials, ATKV, promotes Afrikaans language and culture. Voortrekkers is a youth movement for Afrikaners in South Africa and Namibia with a membership of over 10,000 active members to promote cultural values, maintaining norms and ...