I'm sorry if you think that I think all White South Africans think the
same.
The tone of this posters reply just doesn't sound like it comes from
Europe
or North America, so I made a joke, attempting to make fun of this
ludicrous
and outdated type of predudice.
I have met some "privileged" White South Africans, not many, but was
quite
astounded to hear certain attitudes that seem to be buried in the
culture,
that you just don't hear in Europe. Similarly, I have met quite a lot
more
Israelis while travelling in India, and again was astounded to hear
certain
attitudes toward whole races of people, not least the Indians whose
country
they were a guest in.
Now that is not to say that I think all Israelis have a bad attitude,
but if
I hear a similar attitude from someone, I may liken it to the attitudes I
have experienced when meeting travelling Israelis, or White South
Africans
for that matter. In this case I heard something and made a joke about
it, I
didn't mean to offend anyone, except those with thise sort of attitudes.
I know the British also have some very arrogant attitudes, and I have to
say
that when I am abroad, I am often embarrassed to be British, to the point
where I avoid other British people. I think "we" deserve any jokes you
can
throw at us to be perfectly frank.
I dunno, humour is humour. There's a great debate about whether
Holocaust
jokes are acceptable or not, or at what point do we say "now it's OK to
make
the joke, last week it wasn't".
Gareth.