why do people think that all South Africans are racist when the rest of the world is probably more so?

Question

what i have noticed

Answer 1

THANK YOU ROSS!!! I am from South Africa and I often ask myself the same question. Yes I know that apartheid was disgusting but what people need to understand is that we no longer live that way!

What really upsets me is that kids have to study post-apartheid poetry. I know it is a part of our history but i do not believe it is at all beneficial! I remember walking out of English class (after a poetry lesson) feeling bad for being white. That is actually so unnecessary, none of the people in my class were in any way a part of apartheid. I never had anything to do with the black people that were killed and none of the black people in my class had any memory of apartheid. I do not understand why we should live with the guilt of our ancestors decisions and behaviour.

I would also like to say that the English speaking people were not really involved in apartheid, it was mostly Afrikaans speaking people.

About racism in other countries i couldn't agree more...think about how Australians treat their native people not to mention the KKK in the USA. In some states that still exists.

PLEASE GIVE SOUTH AFRICA A BREAK. I am not condoning what happened all those years ago but people need to realise that prejudice is human nature and that , to some extent, it will always exist, in all nations.

Answer 2

First, I do not think people consider "all" South Africans to be racist. The global support the anti-apartheid movement received is testament to that. South Africa was for decades the only country in the world which legally upheld racial discrimination. Apartheid was evil - no question. The trouble is that the legacy of apartheid will take a long time to sort itself out.

Many white South Africans suffer difficulty in understanding what all the anti-apartheid fuss was about and far too many see themselves as superior to their non-white countrymen. Meeting white South Africans in London is instructive. Many have very negative views of the country they left behind which sometimes are heavily tinged with racism. Given South Africa's history the mentality is understandable but certainly not excusable.

Answer 3

Because most people don't know any South Africans but the ones who came to live in Europe during the last years. Most of them are white and a very high percentage of those are racist. The ones that don't know anything about South Africa still remember apartheid.
I've spent some months in South Africa and love the country and most of the people, and I wish the "rainbow nation" will become reality soon.
I'll be back in October!!!

Answer 4

Part of the reasons for South Africa's semi-racist ways in the past, was to hold off the influx of communism(which is what Mandella turned out to be) and socialism..... two inhuman forms of government that are like Islam.... demanding obedience to the ideology....

Answer 5

Probably because they were so openly racist, whereas everyone else just pussyfoots around it.

I've got loads of South African friends and they aren't racist at all. But they've had to do quite a lot of 'unlearning' after being fed racist propaganda for years.

Answer 6

I'm from South Africa. I thnk people think that because while other parts of the world were democratic, South Africa was still in Apartheid.

Answer 7

Because white people were never the majority there. I agree that racism exists everywhere, but when 1 in 6 people are white, and they are running everything? Apartheid needed to be abolished.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

it's always more comfortable to hurl accusations somewhere else to bury your own racism - e.g. america accuses south africa and neatly averts their own racist history,past and present. And so on.

Answer 10

I don't, as for the rest of the world it's obvious.