What is South African culture?

[Kodi]

Uncertainty culture - a culture of bad expectations every day...

Will it be news of yet another catastrophic SOE failing, or news of a Cadre that embezzled millions/billions intended for the poor, or will
natives wake-up restless and in the mood to burn down infrastructure.... And and and and.

I could list way more..... But meh.

 

[jibo82]

I agree that we have no unified culture and no real sense of solidarity as South Africans.

Perhaps the only thing all the various groups have in common is braai

Oh, those poor poor victims...

Ja koos, the real victims.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Ja koos, the real victims.

Really? With the best standard of living in Africa at the time?

 

[grok]

Denial..

And not that river in Egypt either.

 

[jibo82]

Really? With the best standard of living in Africa at the time?

best standard of living for you?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

best standard of living for you?

Nope, black South Africans. Best standard of living on the African continent at the time.

 

[chrisc]

Friendliness
’n Boer maak ‘n plan
Unique accent you can hear immediately when overseas
Despite a poor exchange rate, good spenders overseas

 

[RedViking]

Other

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Drinking umqombothi and watching girls dancing around the fire, tits flopping around.

One night at @Pineapple Smurf

 

[Thugscub]

Burn everything.
Eish, no food.
Eish.
...

 

[Kelp1]

Racist policies.
Rape capital of the world.
Murder capital of the world.

Poor countries put us to shame. What is the solution and means to an end?

 

[jibo82]

Nope, black South Africans. Best standard of living on the African continent at the time.

Lmao, yeah I’m sure they were thrilled to be treated like second class citizens in their own country and to have their lands stolen from them. Get the **** outa here.

 

[jibo82]

To add the the points raised already I this thread…

- South Africans tend to be very anti-intellectual
- cliquey\ clannish
- not particularly interested in travel or understanding other cultures
- very hands on
- lazy
- happy go lucky
- impressionable
- myopic\ short sighted
- very utilitarian world view
- herd mentality
- helpful
- mostly pragmatic
- morally apathetic
- toe the line
- aggro or passive aggressive
- extroverted
- cowboys
- lacking intellectual curiosity
- simple
- tribal
- resourceful
- self ignorant
- resilient
- politically apathetic and passive
- optimistic

 

[Bonywasawarrioraway]

Braaivlies, rugby, sunny skies and VW

Oh f**k. Now i wont be able to get that tune out of my head all night.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Lmao, yeah I’m sure they were thrilled to be treated like second class citizens in their own country and to have their lands stolen from them. Get the **** outa here.

Another that doesn't understand whites were second class citizens in black areas and blacks second class in white areas. Apartheid laws discriminated equally. Whites couldn't use the biggest state of the art hospital in the world at the time - Baragwanath.

 

[Gozado]

Many South Africans speak at least some of a second and third language, some fluently. Bi- or trilinguilism promotes coginitive development for other matters besides the languages, themselves. Coupled with our long history of race issues (in whatever way one happens to see and experience them) South Africans have an automatic and fundamental awareness that someone else is very likely to see things differently, which in turn makes us, by and large, mentally flexible.

To illustrate, by contrast, once, when in Europe, I was asked to help a tourist from a USA city to buy a slab of chocolate. To my amazement, she could read neither "Milchschokolade", nor "chocolat au lait", by which I mean not even identify "shokolade" or "chocolat" as a word relating the one she knew! She had hit a concrete wall. Later, I found out that her whole social environment was not only homogenous, but premised on that very sameness, limiting her need to think differently, in a way that no South African experiences.

In everyday situations, South Africans reach out to bridge the gap, not necessarily because of being nice or helpful (though many are) but because different-thinkedness is a blank fact or our reality, so that, in everyday interactions, it is realistic and practical to take account of our differences so as to find sufficient similarities to communicate.

 

[jibo82]

Many South Africans speak at least some of a second and third language, some fluently. Bi- or trilinguilism promotes coginitive development for other matters besides the languages, themselves. Coupled with our long history of race issues (in whatever way one happens to see and experience them) South Africans have an automatic and fundamental awareness that someone else is very likely to see things differently, which in turn makes us, by and large, mentally flexible.

To illustrate, by contrast, once, when in Europe, I was asked to help a tourist from a USA city to buy a slab of chocolate. To my amazement, she could read neither "Milchschokolade", nor "chocolat au lait", by which I mean not even identify "shokolade" or "chocolat" as a word relating the one she knew! She had hit a concrete wall. Later, I found out that her whole social environment was not only homogenous, but premised on that very sameness, limiting her need to think differently, in a way that no South African experiences.

In everyday situations, South Africans reach out to bridge the gap, not necessarily because of being nice or helpful (though many are) but because different-thinkedness is a blank fact or our reality, so that, in everyday interactions, it is realistic and practical to take account of our differences so as to find sufficient similarities to communicate.

I'm not too sure about this. We might be more "mentally fkexible" than someone who lived in a majority homogeneous culture all there life but at the same time we are not as understanding as we should be. Most SAfricabs gave the mentality that other people of other tribes see the world differently so I will just stick to mingling with my len tribe and when I talk to a person of another tribe they must concede to my worldview.

 

[jambai]

To add the the points raised already I this thread…

- South Africans tend to be very anti-intellectual
- cliquey\ clannish
- not particularly interested in travel or understanding other cultures
- very hands on
- lazy
- happy go lucky
- impressionable
- myopic\ short sighted
- very utilitarian world view
- herd mentality
- helpful
- mostly pragmatic
- morally apathetic
- toe the line
- aggro or passive aggressive
- extroverted
- cowboys
- lacking intellectual curiosity
- simple
- tribal
- resourceful
- self ignorant
- resilient
- politically apathetic and passive
- optimistic

Essentially good warriors if you can get them fighting for you in a war