I like Sarah. Hope she posts this, but she has no stomach for controversy, which I understand considering how pedestrian her columns are. So I gave it a whirl anyway.
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/sarahbritten/2012/12/14/angry-people-verbal-diarrhoea-and-other-things-that-make-me-tired/
G-man:
Expanding on a few of your points.
South Africans today appear to have no middle ground, they sway from extreme melancholy to misplaced delusions of grandeur. They're either so depressed and frustrated over their political future they'd make Hamlet look like an hysterical optimist under the influence of laughing gas, or they're (usually) suffering from some mass Dunning-Kruger Effect where their beliefs in themselves is really way out of kilter with reality. This comes into play when dealing with SAns in the international business arena. They're usually first to voice their worthless opinions, and complain over why they don't have enough time, money or anything else we all seem to have to grapple with. We're then given a list of reasons of why they need special treatment. Personally, I won't have a bar of it.
The happiest South Africans I've met don't live there anymore. They ALL appear to have knitted in with their new communities, stopped chasing newer model Beemers and generally accepted that they have something to offer life, and it may not be all that unique.
Not so your New unimproved SAns. They're still delusional and believe that SA is the center of the universe. That the most violent nation in the world is the friendliest, that the most unproductive workforce I've encountered somehow houses cheap labour, and that the most unequal society is populated with people who are all equal under their laws. And they believe it. They're your NuSAns.
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