Life in South Africa as an African American *No one tells you this*
Life in South Africa as an African American *No one tells you this*
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Why do you think 95% (not scientific) of fellow Americans appear not to like what you are saying, almost unanimously saying that you are anti-American? As I see it from Pretoria, as a minority Mutsonga, no one speaks in the 10 other official languages and I cannot understand, having growing up in my native Johannesburg (actually apartheid Soweto) and Britain for 20 years during apartheid, fighting from my freedom!
The 4 languages min. is also true in my country of Iceland.
South Africa is the MOST UNDERRATED country in the world BY FAR!!!!
don’t try white technology mind in south Africa fake power
All continental Africans speak multiple languages.
While some of this is interesting. However, it gets a little confusing and a tad misleading that there’s a hint about the challenges, and you say “it’s so hard “…..filled with advantages and positive. So what’s hard.
The polyglot factor is exciting and humbling as Americans are just not up to par with learning.
Your take on American politics is correct and sobering.
You are spot on about south Africans Loving partying yes we basically work three days in week it's not law but Friday to Monday it's 🎉 time even if we go to work Friday and Monday
im from the USA, thanks for this video! ill be watching many more of your vids since God just recently opened my mind to the real idea of visiting!
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It seems like you are a single mother things could be litle bit difficult for you.
I have just one question. What the heck is an African American?? You are either American or African, and even African is such a broad spectrum because you can be a Zimbabwean or Malawian or Rhodesian or Nigerian or South African, which technically the only people who can call them selves Africans because it is in our name South AFRICA.
OR is it part of the woke culture that if I call you a black American, it is racist?
At least in South Africa, we are proud of our heritage, and although we are white or black and accept that we are white or black South Africans, we just call ourselves South Africans.
To Africa ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Do you think it's a good idea to move from California
I went to Johannesburg for my birthday and I loved it so much ❤ I’m trying to learn Zulu and Sesotho 😂 I’m struggling. I definitely would like to visit again.
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In South Africa, as a black woman with an authentic American accent, you will never experience South Africa the way a local black person UNLESS you drive a Mercedes and live in a "rich" neighborhood. This experience is typically NOT the norm – NO such thing as 3-day work week for the average South African – if anything it's more than 7.
I can understand your enthusiasm, but I can see there is still a LOT of American thinking in your ways. Here in South Africa we call a spade a spade. This is Africa, not America, say what you want to say without being afraid or cautious about offending anyone.
Your country is screwed BIG time, you ran here instead of staying in your own country and fighting (liberals always run away). You come here with your woke American liberal bullshit to poison our people.
Just remember, you are AMERICAN and you will NEVER EVER be African!!!!!!!!!!!
so hard? why? why? why?
Welcome from Cape Town lovely listening to you blessings to you and your family 🌹
I can't wait to come.
Where is your children's father
The biggest mistake people make when they live in a non native land is expect it to be like their own homeland. No such thing. That mindset will mess you up. I lived in SA and i learnt to accept it as it is and learn. Lived in UK, Singapore and India and they are all so worlds apart from my Zimbabwe. But i was raised to be open minded so wherever I lived and worked i adapted. Do as they do and mingle. You will not struggle. And the word you should use is "DIFFERENT" and not "DIFFICULT/HARD"
I never understood the American obsession with working themselves to the bone. Often see people in America claiming that they are holding 3&4 jobs and I'm like what about work-life balance! These people are often applauded and talking about chasing the American dream, but what is it really? Seems to me this 'dream' is more about accumulation material possessions then anything else. So enjoy our 3-day work week in Mzansi.❤
Welcome to a country that allows everyone to coexist, indeed the USA is a horribly seggregated country where whites want to
dominate and impose no matter what. You are lucky to be here and an enjoy SA…
Cape Town isn't the same as it was 10 – 15 years ago. A lot of illegal immagrants & the drug trade that goes with it.
Wtf are you talking about? Americans go to other countries then complain
More african Americans should come to live in South Africa with your own people 😂
Sounds so horrible haha… love your positivity about the amazing SA.
Hi Ashley. As a South African, I really appreciate the positive image you're painting about my country. You remind me that even though all is not great, I'm blessed to be born in this beautiful country. I really appreciate you and hope you stay longer in our country. Please share this info with your countrymen who have been fed one single narrative about Africa as a whole. May the good Lord bless you!
Yes! Phuza Thursday is a real thing in South Africa (phuza – poozah – 'drink' in Zulu). Great way to kick off the weekend haha. Just keep your wits about you in JHB. It's a fun place but is also known as the most dangerous part of South Africa for a reason.
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Yes, the UK can take a leaf out of South Africa's book on how to live in a multi-cutural society!
I can't wait to come back home to my country!
South Africa has the warmest, friendliest people with the best sense of humour in the world!!
Ons is ń baie vriendelike nasie – right across every group of people.
I don't know where you get the idea that we work a 3-day week. I'm at my desk until 6pm on a Friday, and then take about 5 hours of work home with me for the weekend. Last night, I turned off my computer at 11:30 pm (Sunday) just to get a head start on Monday. Internationally, South African are known as hard workers. You make us sound like a bunch of slackers.
Thanks for your positivity! Glad you are settling in here. Not sure about the three-day workweek. I think that’s very much a small group of people who experience that. Would like some pics of what you have seen of the country!
A lot of this sounds akin to what a rich person would say in the USA because they have the resources (money) to be in places that foster this (spa, house manager, work life balance, etc etc) and they ultimately become blind to the desperation of normal ppl in the country. It's tiring. Think of the "I don't see color, everyone here lives in harmony" quip that white ppl in the USA say all the time, meanwhile shit is hitting the fan and those same ppl are voting against us AA's having equal rights. Or rich ppl here saying "this is the best and most moral country in history and is a meritocracy – yay capitalism, mankind's best creation", meanwhile our country is an oligarchy that is corrupt beyond redemption and actively destroys democracy around the world in order to maintain its own power.
I hope your viewpoint isn't as naive as it sounds from the outside. Really. I'm happy you're enjoying your time in Africa – I always support us AA's venturing out and becoming global. But it's very important to recognize your privilege and lead with that, or at least make it a major component. Cuz having American dollars makes our lives WAY more comfortable all over the world. We can live like upper middle class or wealthy ppl in other countries with funds that would make us working class or poor in the USA. And because of that, we usually don't experience the hard lives of locals in the places we live around the world.
In short, don't be the guy that mansplains to women how wonderful the world is and how lucky they are to live under capitalism and how women are doing just fine.
Anyway, genuinely glad you're enjoying South Africa, you deserve it. Be well.
The people that owned 90% of all capital and land before Apartheid supposedly ended, still own 80% of all capital and land. So exactly what changed.
Hi. How are you? .. The world is BIG…. of all countries… why did you choose SA? America… North as well as South… both continents… are REALLY nice… you know I find this…. so hard to process…. WHY does everybody come to SA?… there are SO MANY other nice countries…. SO MANY
South Africa is great for a lot of reasons, I agree with you on almost everything in this video. The politics is wild though, they have party leaders in South Africa singing “Kill the Boer.” I really can’t imagine the politics are better than America, as aweful as America is
The way you're able to accumulate so much information, store and quickly recall it at will is amazing.
And your emphasis on accuracy, it shows that you're generally a diligent person.
Without the cold and desolation of winter there could not be the warmth and splendor of Spring George Lester Jackson from San Quintin
As a South African watching this video, I can say that, as a teacher I do not work a 3=day week. Mostly, it’s a 6-day week😂😂
Thank you for highlighting the media as a problem in SA.
Ashley. I have a lot to say to you but the best advice I can give a descent foreigner is: Go home. You deserve better
I think that your positive vibes will draw people to you. I would amend what you are experiencing as the work play is very much a Cape Town thing. South Africans in general are known for their work ethic wherever they are. My sons all live on different continents and all three of them are total workaholics in their chosen fields. I remain a South African of European descent but I share my home with my housekeeper of 37 years because my sons are paying it forward to their other mothers children at private schools in Port Elizabeth which is also called Gqeberha.
Summer is traditionally…spoken like a true entitled "american." Fk man, you're on the southern hemisphere. Didn't you pay attention in school?
Best thing about South Africa is BRAAI
Thursday is called Puza Thursday {Poo ZAR} meaning Drinking Thursday and Sundays sometimes is called Sheila's day
So basically life is GREAT in South Africa? That's all I heard
June, July, August, winter, lol, funny.
good grief.
hey how is the electrical grid?
America is not going backwards politically. The friction is because we are going forward and the old powers are trying to prevent it