Talk:Asians in South Africa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Ethnic groups, a WikiProject interested in improving the encyclopaedic coverage and content of articles relating to ethnic groups, nationalities, and other cultural identities. If you would like to help out, you are welcome to drop by the project page and/or leave a query at the project's talk page.
NB: Assessment ratings and other indicators given below are used by the Project in prioritizing and managing its workload.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the Project's quality scale.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the Project's importance scale.
	After rating the article, please provide a short summary on the article's ratings summary page to explain your ratings and/or identify the strengths and weaknesses.
WikiProject Ethnic groups open tasks: Here are some open WikiProject Ethnic Groups tasks: Meta-tasks: Place the {{Ethnic groups}} template on the talk page of articles within the scope of this project. Articles about ethnic groups that currently have issues needing resolution: Category:Unassessed Ethnic groups articles Category:Ethnic groups articles needing merge action Category:Ethnic groups articles needing infoboxes Category:Ethnic groups articles needing reassessment Category:Ethnic groups articles needing attention Iyer Peruvian people Start an article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups/Article requests Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.

I recall reading somewhere that many Chinese labourers were bought to South Africa to work on building Railway lines in the Transvaal in the early 20th Centuary, but the majority of them were forced to return to China after the work was completed.

For completeness the Cape Malays should be mentioned as technically they are Asian, hailing from Malasia/Indonesia. --Htaccess 03:27, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "Honorary whites"

I find it very interesting that Japanese and Taiwanese Chinese were given "honorary white" status under apartheid, and I would love to use this fact in the essay I'm writing. However, there is no citation for this fact and I cannot use it without proof in my essay. It's too late for me to use it, but perhaps for future use someone could provide a link to a site which backs up this historical oddity. I'll take a look myself in the meantime.

Ernestleonard