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South Africa seems to be having a lot of trouble lately, of a sort that doesn't comport with most people's understanding of 'first-world' country. https://www.
by cb18 10y ago
South Africa seems to be having a lot of trouble lately, of a sort that doesn't comport with most people's understanding of 'first-world' country.
https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+trouble https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+trouble
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+south+africa+safe+for+white+people https://www.google.com/search?q=is+south+africa+safe+for+whi...
https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+violence https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+violence
Accounts of Johannesburg:
http://imgur.com/BO5YwQl http://imgur.com/BO5YwQl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNYOwKlDIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNYOwKlDIE
- toyg 10y agoRacist 4chan screenshots, really? South Africa is a complicated country, but it's not like the "first world" (US in primis) is completely void of huge ghettoes and racial issues.
- cb18 10y agoThat was just one striking on the ground account, the recounter didn't seem 'racist.' You can find plenty of other info from more respectable sources. Albeit more staid in presentation. http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2015-12-09-the-day-we-realised-were-in-serious-trouble/ http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2015-12-09-the-da...
- Will_Do 10y agoI really don't understand the cherry picking of arguments. Someone posts 6 links and you have a problem with one. So what? Anyways south Africa is definitely not a first world country. Gdp per head at ppp is 13k[1]. This is substantially poorer than countries like Turkey and Thailand that are often considered third world. Middle income though? Sure. [1]http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?order=wbapi_data_value_2014+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=asc http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?order=...