阿非利堪人(Afrikaner)
旧称布尔人（Boer）
操阿非利堪斯语，且具荷兰或法国新教徒血统之南非人。阿非利堪人原称布尔人（意为农夫），特别是从开普殖民地（Cope Colony）移居特兰斯瓦（Transvaal）及橘自由邦（Orange Free State）的早期居民。他们是虔诚的喀尔文教徒（Calvinist），自视为上帝的选民，天命他们来统治这片土地，建立了自给自足的教区。他们发展出自己的语言和特殊文化，还实行种族隔离政策。为了与英国争夺边界地区的统治权，而发动了惨烈的南非战争（South African War, 1899～1902）。後虽战败，他们仍保有自己的语言和文化，并且最後也以政治方式取得其以前未能以军事手段取得的国家政权。在支配南部非洲大部分国家政权近一世纪後，於1994年首次进行多种族选举後不得不放弃国家统治，但大部分国家的经济财富仍掌握在阿非利堪人手中。至今人口约6,400,000。亦请参阅Cape Town、Great Trek、National Party of South Africa。
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Afrikaner
Any South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent whose native language is Afrikaans. The Afrikaners were originally called Boers (“farmers”), since many Dutch and Huguenot settlers of the old Cape Colony (founded 1652) became frontier farmers in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Staunch Calvinists, they saw themselves as children of God in a pagan wilderness. They established self-sufficient patriarchal communities, developed their own language and subculture, and were committed to a policy of apartheid. They fought a bitter war with the British (the South African War, 1899-1902) over the right to govern the frontier territories. Though defeated, they retained their old language and culture and eventually attained politically the power they had failed to win militarily. Having dominated South African politics for most of the century, they were obliged to give up national power after the first all-race elections in 1994. Much of the country's economic wealth remains in Afrikaner hands. Today they number about 6.4 million. See also Cape Town, Great Trek, National Party of South Africa.