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Type of Mankind (1854) (media.scored.co)
posted 1 month ago by fourleaved on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +11Score on mirror )
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IGOexiled on scored.co
1 month ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
San (sine) and Khoisan (cosine) make me believe they are nomadic/migratory and were visited by early researchers and given their name due to the periodic movement.

Sorry for the (tangent)
devotech2 on scored.co
1 month ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
Theyre two tribes made up of effectively the same people. The khoi and the San, the term for their race as a whole is khoisan. "Khoi" is a word used by the khoi for themselves, "san" is a term for the... san that was created by the khoi. , which was originally a khoi slur against them. So khoi actually is an endonym, san is an exonym used by the khoi. Outsiders didn't create either term.

Hottentot is the exonym used by the Dutch that is of unclear etymology. It was used for the khoi. Bushmen refers to the San and it was used because they lived in the bush. Kafir is another word for both groups as well as bantus that originated as a slur used by Arabs against non-muslims, and among Arabs in africa, against niggers in particular, the Dutch and the English picked it up somewhere along the line.
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