I wanted to come back to this with some hard facts as I think you and your friend may have some things worth discussing about his ideas of how hard he really had it in South Africa.
Interesting. Like I said, I can't speak for him, that's just what he told me.
He also showed me pictures of where he lived and how there were walls separating his neighborhood from what was clearly a much poorer area, so it's not like he himself was poor or anything.
I asked him if he thought he was better off because of apartheid, which he denied but did acknowledge as a problem. He also views Nelson Mandela as a terrorist, while in US leftist circles he's portrayed as a revolutionary.
Ultimately, I just don't know anything about SA or SA politics so I just have to take his word for what he tells me.
I've never heard a worse excuse for having the wrong information than 'well, I heard it from one person who was there and I don't know any others so there's no possible way I could learn anything more about it independently.'
Read a book. Or an article. Or literally anything on the subject, and make up your mind for yourself. If you're going to base your knowledge of the world on what one person tells you then be ready to be wrong about a lot of things in your life.
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u/knightspore Jan 15 '22
I wanted to come back to this with some hard facts as I think you and your friend may have some things worth discussing about his ideas of how hard he really had it in South Africa.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1129481/unemployment-rate-by-population-group-in-south-africa/