The conceptualization of poverty and disadvantages that formed a trade mark for Coloured people, can be the critical influence when revering to some stereotypes that included the reference to Coloured people as being particularly disposed to laziness, alcoholism, violence, drug addiction and being gangsters, as well as not having any recognised culture or language of their own. Coloured identities can be seen as a continuous, self-motivated process where groups and individuals shape and re-shape their personal and social identities. The essential concerns of social constructivism are to elaborate why Coloured identity came into existence and to indicate the intricate ways in which it has found expression (Adhikari, 2008).
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