Reply #35: You'll be sick when you hear this [View All]

[_testify_]

My company hired a young man who had moved here from South Africa. (He was white.) When he came by our office to fill out paperwork, our office manager asked me where he was from. I recognized the accent as either Dutch or Afrikaner, so I told her so. She gave me a blank look, so I repeated myself. She told me he must be Dutch then, because there are no white people in Africa. I was floored - I quizzed her on her knowledge of the region and she:

A) Had no idea what apartheid is,
B) Was unaware of the difference between Africa the continent and S.Africa the country
C) Conceded there might be whites in Africa, but they were probably "all scientists" (I'm guessing she was referring to anthropologists?)

I pretty much stopped talking to her after that.