Libbie panties in a wad

I highly doubt she'll post this. She's already binned some of my more pedestrian efforts, but she needs to have another, proper perspective.

http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/gillianschutte/2012/12/05/dear-brendon-henry-shields/

G-man:

Gotta love this. A do-gooder goes back to SA in the hope of drinking in some of that Ubuntu and becoming a card carrying member of Desmond's Rainbow Nation and finds out he set his sights too high, and Gillian has a race-cryptological fit finding new reasons to label him! Why is it that we always hear how WHITES need to do the adjusting? And why is the simple act of cleaning up after yourself all-of-a-sudden a Eurocentric practice? And why should Brendon have to lower his cultural standards, and why should he accept shoddy and disrespectful behaviour?

The problem with Africans is NOT that they can't clean up, play by the same rules as the rest of us, or behave a little better with regards to other people's personal space, but that they seem to always think - thanks to this Socialist Ubuntu lark - that things will always take care of themselves somehow; litter will magically pick itself up, libraries will be stocked, and swimming pools will be filled when the next rain comes along. It always seems to be OTHER people's responsibilities, and this bizarre attitude to life can be seen being 'put into practice' by the ANC government who prefer putting fires out, to planning ahead (ask any Limpopo student how their text book saga has worked out).

Brendon has now been welcomed into the world of we realists. He should be congratulated for taking the time and effort to make a go of it. It wasn't to be. He found out he prefers Eurocentric standards, Western organisation and Germanic discipline over broken fences, loud, repetitive music in the wee hours, and to the bellows of slaughtered cows in the leafy driveways, not to mention the filth, decay, general mayhem, crime and grime that seems to be acceptable to Gillian.

But a question for Gillian; What is the 'African Way'? I won't hold me breathe on this one. No one has been able to answer that question yet.