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Besides a proclivity for business, a continued attachment to Europe and an apparent inability to organise politically, the acollectivity of the group has been the focus of the literature on the subject, and its cause has been a matter of some bewilderment on the part of authors. This work examines WESSA identity from a new perspective, one influenced by the proliferation of writings on the topic of \"whiteness\" in Europe and America in recent years. These writings concentrate on how whiteness as a set of discourses positions being white as neutral or \"raceless\", in contrast to other race groups who are constructed as \"ethnic\".","abstract_html":"Given South Africa's ethnic complexities, comparatively little has been written about the group known as white English-speaking South Africans, or WESSAs. 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