Cape Town is "Cape Town" in English, meaning "cape town". This is very consistent with Cape Town's geographical location, because it is located on the Cape of Good Hope. When it was first established, it was just a town built on the cape, and its name is very consistent with its characteristics.
In addition, Marin was too lazy to think of another name, and thought that this name, which was already very classic, was very suitable for the situation, so he simply used the original name.
Also, giving this important place a name like "headland town" is more low-key. In fact, it is more appropriate to build a town in the strategic location of Cape of Good Hope, called a fortress. However, if it is too high-profile, it is easy to be valued and taken back by the Portuguese. Therefore, using the name like "headland town" is more likely to be ignored by the Portuguese.
Anyway, the Portuguese had very shallow eyelids. Generally speaking, Portuguese colonists who were active on the coast of Africa only favored areas that produced sand and ivory. Or they liked to deal with some more violent black indigenous people and bought black slaves from them. However, the purchase of black slaves was generally accompanied by the trade of sand and ivory as a bonus. Therefore, the Portuguese only turned their attention to the coast of West Africa. Because not only had sand and ivory resources there, but also could buy black slaves.
In the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, because the local black indigenous people cannot be exchanged for Sands, the combat effectiveness of the local black indigenous people was also poor, and the Portuguese were not interested. Because even for ivory and rhino horns, the Portuguese colonists did not like to hunt themselves, but instead liked to deal with powerful black tribes and exchanged with local black indigenous people with worthless glass products.
In this era, the San and Koi people on the southwestern coast of South Africa were not very strong in combat, and their ability to hunt ivory and rhino horns was not as good as those of the blacks in West Africa. After all, the blacks in West Africa had entered the era of slavery, and civilizations such as the Mali Empire and the Sanhai Empire appeared. The level of civilization was higher than that of the San and Koi people, and they also had more trade and utilization value.
Therefore, the Portuguese actually placed such an important place as the Cape of Good Hope, and did not establish strongholds or fortresses here. Then, it was not until the Dutch rose that it established a town here in 1652 in the 17th century, which was later Cape Town. For more than a hundred decades before that, the Portuguese did not even think about establishing a town in an important place in the Cape of Good Hope...
Of course, it is not that the Portuguese completely ignored this place before. In fact, the Portuguese also had activities on the South African coast. As Marin's ships reported, Portuguese merchant ships had already been active in the Cape of Good Hope. However, they did not stay here, but instead stopped temporarily. Then they landed onshore to trade with local Sand and Koi people, exchanging products such as ivory and rhino horns. After the exchange, they left immediately without the idea of ​​establishing a stronghold again.
No wonder, the ivory and rhino horns produced near the Cape of Good Hope can be purchased on most African coasts, while the West African coast is closer to Portugal and can be exchanged for Golden Sands, which is much more cost-effective than buying and selling on the coast of South Africa. Therefore, the short-sighted Portuguese have never established a permanent base here until the Dutch established Cape Town here...
In fact, the Dutch established Cape Town in the Cape of Good Hope not for trade, but for the establishment of a transit supply station. At the same time, they also had the task of intercepting merchant ships from hostile countries.
After all, before the opening of the Suez Canal, the Cape of Good Hope was the only passage for European merchant ships to Southeast Asia. As long as the Dutch deployed warships here, they could intercept and loot the merchant ships of the enemy countries. Even the original Cape Town colonial leaders were not called the Governor, but the Commander, and they were not renamed the Governor until 1672.
In fact, at the beginning, the Dutch did not find profit points in the Cape Town colony, but only used Cape Town as a supply station. For this reason, the Dutch established many farms here to produce fresh vegetables. Because, in the 17th century, Europeans also realized that eating more vegetables could reduce the chance of scurvy.
It was precisely through several simple farms established in Cape Town that the Dutch colonists took root in Cape Town and continued to expand their territory, eventually forming colonies rather than colonial strongholds.
Moreover, the early Dutch did not only immigrate to the Dutch to Cape Town, but immigrate to a large number of poor German farmers and even French farmers. After all, the Dutch had a strong commercial atmosphere at that time, and the Dutch either went to engage in nautical colonization or served nautical colonization. Only German farmers and French farmers would do such a poor job in farming. Of course, many Dutch poor people were hired by the Dutch East India Company to make a living and run farmers.
Therefore, the white people in South Africa in later generations had very mixed blood, not just descendants of the Dutch, but also many Germans and French. Because of the mixed population, the local Dutch accent was deformed. Then, the Boers' Afrikaans became less and less like Dutch and became a new language. This also led to the fact that when the blacks turned over and bullied the Boers, they would not choose to immigrate to the Netherlands. Because the Afrikaans they spoke were no longer the Netherlands.
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These original historical events gave Marin enough experience and lessons. Therefore, Marin attached great importance to colonial education. Not only did he pay attention to text education, but also to accent education. He specially created standard phonetic symbols and did not allow mispronunciation.
Never underestimate the influence of accents on politics. Even if they are in the same language and speak the same language, if there are differences in accents, they will also create barriers.
Just like in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there were obvious local factional disputes. For example, Qi Party, Chu Party, etc. The biggest factional disputes were the opposition between southern officials and northern officials.
As for why this is the case? As soon as you open your mouth, the differences come out. Therefore, many times, fellow villagers have to join in to keep warm, because others are out of place with them.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, this problem has obviously been greatly solved in China in the 21st century. Especially since the post-80s, everyone speaks Mandarin in a terrible way. It is difficult for people from all over the world to hear the difference in the pronunciation, and regional discrimination and other things have gradually decreased. By the post-90s and 00s, children only speak Mandarin in school, which is less accent differences than those of the previous generation.
An obvious phenomenon is that the post-70s and post-60s who were born in the 1980s and post-70s were generally not good, and there were many situations of fellow villagers joining together. However, since the post-80s, because everyone speaks very fluent Mandarin, the regional differences began to become smaller, and the barriers between people were not as heavy as before.
Of course, the post-80s generation is a generation that has been vigorously promoted by Chinese Mandarin. Therefore, many post-80s born in rural areas do not speak Mandarin very well. This is mainly because in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a serious lack of rural teachers. At that time, there was a kind of person called "private teachers". Let's not talk about the great contributions these private teachers have made to Chinese education, objectively speaking, the level of these private teachers is really not very good. Many rural private teachers in rural areas do not speak Mandarin themselves. The children they taught naturally cannot speak Mandarin well. Later, the "small and secondary technical secondary school" teacher trained a large number of professional teachers and spread to the countryside, which gradually improved the situation. In the 21st century, the state mandated to use Mandarin in classroom teaching. Then, children born in the 2000s and 10s usually speak Mandarin at home.
When speaking the same Mandarin, everyone will naturally ignore regional differences. People from different regions can also become good friends and no longer have the behavior of joining fellow villagers. Because everyone speaks Mandarin and does not have any communication difficulties, there is no need to joining fellow villagers. Dialects are often used when calling their family members.
Therefore, after learning from previous lives, in order to strengthen the national (including the people of the colonies)'s sense of identity with the country, and at the same time eliminate regional differences, and avoid the emergence of "Boers" like the original history, Marin ordered that while building the Cape Town Castle, missionaries should be selected, and "standard" textbooks should be carried, and local children should be taught "standard pronunciation" German and English (Friesian). In addition, standard German and standard English pronunciation tests will be implemented in the Cape Town colony, and those who fail the test will not be allowed to hold public office. In this way, local people can be forced to not change their accents and avoid differences in cultural, language and identity with the local people.
Chapter completed!