Khoisan peoples

Examples of Khoisan peoples in the following topics:

• Namibia

  • Both the San and the Nama were Khoisan peoples, and spoke languages from the Khoisan language group.
  • The Damara do not relate to the other Khoisan peoples, although they share a similar language.
  • During the 17th century, the Herero, a pastoral, nomadic people keeping cattle, moved into Namibia.
  • In the 19th century white farmers, mostly Boers, moved farther north, pushing the indigenous Khoisan peoples, who put up a fierce resistance, across the Orange River.
  • Known as Oorlams, these Khoisans adopted Boer customs and spoke a language similar to Afrikaans.

• The Bantu Migration

  • It seems likely that the expansion of the Bantu-speaking people from their core region in West Africa began around 1000 BCE.
  • Before the expansion of farming and pastoralist African peoples, Southern Africa was populated by hunter-gatherers and earlier pastoralists.
  • The Bantu expansion first introduced Bantu peoples to Central, Southern, and Southeast Africa, regions they had previously been absent from.
  • The proto-Bantu migrants in the process assimilated and/or displaced a number of earlier inhabitants that they came across, including Pygmy and Khoisan populations in the center and south, respectively.
  • Currently, 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa speak Bantu languages and are categorized as Bantu peoples.

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• Gender Differences in Social Interaction

  • For example, feminine people tend to self-disclose more often than masculine people, and in more intimate details.
  • Generally speaking, feminine people communicate more and prioritize communication more than masculine people.
  • Traditionally, masculine people and feminine people communicate with people of their own gender in different ways.
  • Masculine people form friendships with other masculine people based on common interests, while feminine people build friendships with other feminine people based on mutual support.
  • For this reason, feminine people often feel closer to their friends than masculine people do.

• Capitalism, class, privilege, and oppression

  • These inequalities result from a class system based on increasing gaps in income, wealth, and power between the few people on top and the masses of people at the bottom.
  • Capitalism causes competition, stress, and anxiety among members of the working class and middle class, as people do not have any control over their work and whether they can keep their jobs.
  • Despite the myth that hard work leads to getting ahead and making it, for the most part people have little power to improve their class position.
  • Research shows people are as likely to move downward as they are upward in the class system.
  • Currently, corporate downsizing, the loss of industrial jobs going overseas, the expansion of low-paying service occupations, and the Great Recession beginning in 2007, have combined to result in many people struggling to keep the jobs that they have, rather than being able to move upward.

• Socioeconomic Factors

  • Depending on socioeconomic factors like wealth, education, or occupation, people are more or less likely to vote.
  • Because of this, these people have the best chance of having their views represented in government.
  • Independently, income has some effect on whether or not people vote.
  • Wealthier people are more likely to vote, regardless of their educational background .
  • Wealthier and better educated people tend to vote more often, participate more in political activities, and donate more money to causes than poorer or less educated people.

• The Psychology of Persuasion

  • Reciprocity: People tend to return a favor.
  • Social Proof: People will do things they see other people are doing.
  • This experiment was aborted, as so many people looked up that they stopped traffic.
  • Liking: People are easily persuaded by other people whom they like.
  • Some of the biases favoring more attractive people are discussed, but generally more aesthetically pleasing people tend to use this influence over others.

• Marriage and Responsibility

  • People marry for love, for socioeconomic stability, to start a family, and to create obligations between one another.
  • People without a high school diploma are unlikely to marry someone with more educational attainment and people with a college degree are likely to marry people with a similar level of educational attainment.
  • First, there are the groups formed in the process of becoming educated; many people meet their spouses at school.
  • As a result, people spend more time with individuals of a similar level of educational attainment.
  • Happily married people tend to be healthier than unmarried people.

• The Role of Age

  • Older people are well organized by advocacy groups such as the AARP, which lobby on their behalf.
  • Young people are much less likely to vote than are older people and are less likely to be politicians.
  • As a result, older individuals in the U.S. are seen as having more political power than younger people.
  • Its mission is to improve the quality of life for retired people and people over the age of 50.
  • Barack Obama was particularly noted for his popularity among young people.

• Composition of the Older Population

  • In the United States, the proportion of people aged 65 or older increased from 4 percent in 1900 to about 12 percent in 2000.
  • The population of people aged 65 and older grew at a faster rate than the total population.
  • The South had the largest number of people aged 65 and up, while the Northeast had the largest percentage of people aged 65 and up.
  • While the trend of an older population appears worldwide, people in industrialized nations are older than people in non-industrialized nations.
  • While people in almost all countries are living longer than prior generations, people in industrialized nations still live longer than people in non-industrialized nations.