In recent years, a new trend has emerged within East Africa: more and more East Africans are identifying themselves as Rhine people.
Besides the older generation, who still take pride in being Germans, the younger people mostly refuse to flatter Germany. Many young East Africans already acknowledge that East Africa can completely stand as a new nationality since national integration cannot be faked.
Moreover, the term "Rhine" is not in opposition to "German"; the two can be seen as a set and subset relationship, similar to how Germans refer to the Germans of the Austria-Hungary Empire as Austrians.
In short, the evolution of East Africa's external appellations has been quite complex and intricate, changing alongside the development of the East African countries.
For Alidinar, a Fur person, to understand the twists and turns between East Africa and Germany is relatively insightful among African natives, although he is not an African Black but an African Arab White.
