I take direct physic damage every day then I guess.
On the plus side we have a great constitution, legalised LGBT rights with constitutional protections in 2006, socialist/revolunary past.
On the downside is exteme abject poverty, government corruption, constant political scheming, neoliberal reforms have undone a lot of the work by the early ANC and Mandela, HIV/AIDS capital of the world, extreme racism, inequalities of the past not being corrected anywhere near quick enough, women's safety is very bad, average social attitudes don't line up with progressive constitution, and yeah, easily the worst thing, the past of apartheid and the way it effects the present...
Don't worry it's basically Yankee racist history, except the British win the war of independence, but the group that lost the war gain power after WW2 through "elections" where only white people can vote. Become an independent Republic, make the racist slave state 100 times more racist. Then go to war with Mexico and northern South America for over 25 years to stop communism. And lose. And segregation only ends in 1994. MLK Jr was sent to prison for a long time for "terrorism" that never actually happened and becomes president, but is hamstrung by capitalist powers and has to compromise endlessly.
From there on its much more different though.
(Obviously this is a massive simplification and the analogy is not quite there, but still).
South africa is one of those places that I pretend doesnt exist in order to not take direct psychic damage
I take direct physic damage every day then I guess.
On the plus side we have a great constitution, legalised LGBT rights with constitutional protections in 2006, socialist/revolunary past.
On the downside is exteme abject poverty, government corruption, constant political scheming, neoliberal reforms have undone a lot of the work by the early ANC and Mandela, HIV/AIDS capital of the world, extreme racism, inequalities of the past not being corrected anywhere near quick enough, women's safety is very bad, average social attitudes don't line up with progressive constitution, and yeah, easily the worst thing, the past of apartheid and the way it effects the present...
I dont even know the full brunt of yankee racist history my brain is too smooth to remember a whole different country's
Don't worry it's basically Yankee racist history, except the British win the war of independence, but the group that lost the war gain power after WW2 through "elections" where only white people can vote. Become an independent Republic, make the racist slave state 100 times more racist. Then go to war with Mexico and northern South America for over 25 years to stop communism. And lose. And segregation only ends in 1994. MLK Jr was sent to prison for a long time for "terrorism" that never actually happened and becomes president, but is hamstrung by capitalist powers and has to compromise endlessly.
From there on its much more different though.
(Obviously this is a massive simplification and the analogy is not quite there, but still).