tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681965017862727203.post485793295218024265..comments2023-10-12T11:53:27.816+02:00Comments on My Thoughts From The Deep End : July 15thAmerican Expathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02120771156192016020noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681965017862727203.post-44447095425605105492016-11-08T09:03:27.629+02:002016-11-08T09:03:27.629+02:00I always find it funny that people unintentionally...I always find it funny that people unintentionally view different ethnic groups somewhat monolithically. A couple examples. In SA, non-Zulus tend to have very clear opinions about Zulus either good or bad. Another example is how many Africans react negatively to the mention of Nigerians as if they are criminal by default. I always laugh at this because here in the USA most of the Africans I know are from Nigeria and I think they are great. I get such a kick out of how stereotypes very from country to country and culture to culture.<br /><br />As to the crime comparison you are correct. I often hear that Mexico has similar numbers but I always feel it is a poor comparison as the nature of crime in Mexico is so different and can be random in a way that it does not tend to be in SA. W. A. Jeffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16338840796110110051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681965017862727203.post-87873647294373754082015-07-17T16:46:25.680+02:002015-07-17T16:46:25.680+02:00Ah - I hope to hear the driver story soon too. Our...Ah - I hope to hear the driver story soon too. Our driver story was that he did pick us up from the airport, even brought a colleague with a bakkie for all our luggage, then pointed to Alexandra on the side of the highway as we were driving by and said "don't ever go there if you don't want to die." He himself lived in Soweto - it has always struck me as funny how not only whites are afraid to go into townships, but blacks as well, when it is not the one they live in. Of course, I went there not three months later and spent a lot of time driving around on my errands with Alexandra baseball and lived to tell the tale:-)Sinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09971554811306102478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681965017862727203.post-50638778522272842452015-07-17T08:35:32.363+02:002015-07-17T08:35:32.363+02:00Yes, the first time we came here I think I threw m...Yes, the first time we came here I think I threw my body across our luggage in the airport while we were waiting for our driver to come pick us up so no one would steal it. Of course the driver never showed up but that's a whole different story. And yes, we found your blog and we saw that somehow you were surviving (with your kids no less) and we figured we could live here as well. I'm so glad we are here and didn't let fear stop us from coming. What a shame that would have been.American Expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02120771156192016020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681965017862727203.post-27708033885274393882015-07-17T00:56:54.322+02:002015-07-17T00:56:54.322+02:00Not so different from our story. Except we found w...Not so different from our story. Except we found way worse stories about crime when Googling SA. Literally that we would be murdered on the way from the airport. And limbs hacked off to get to our jewelry. I hope that in your search my blog already popped up and you were less disposed to ditch the whole thing based on crime because of it:-)Sinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09971554811306102478noreply@blogger.com