Original sentence: 'Boer' literally means 'farmer', but its precise meaning inside South Africa can be ambiguous, and tends to shift depending on the context and the way in which the word is said, and is sometimes a pejorative.Mixed Afrikaner/non-Europeans with observable non-European phenotypes are considered a part of the "Coloured" group, even if the Afrikaner ancestry predominates in their background
Edited sentence: 'Boer' literally means 'farmer', but its precise meaning inside South Africa can be ambiguous, and tends to shift depending on the context and the way in which the word is said.It has been used pejoratively, and for that reason 'Afrikaner' is usually a better term.Mixed Afrikaner/non-Europeans with observable non-European phenotypes are considered a part of the "Coloured" group, even if the Afrikaner ancestry predominates in their background in accordance with the One-drop theory (or one drop rule).This principle was also practiced in the United States, but was declared unlawful in that country in 1967