South Africa

In Geography, we've been looking at development and I figured something out for myself. People overseas seem to think that people from South Africa are always black, very poor and live in mud huts. But in looking at development, Ive realised that there are some very poor people in SA as well as some very rich people and the people in between. But, for some reason, people overseas only manage to see the very poor people and not the "middle class" people like you and me. Which irritates me. I dont know, maybe its just lack of knowledge (?) (Okay well, I think thats very obvious.) 
Another thing overseas people dont seem to realise is that English is spoken here. (okay maybe not as widely as Zulu or Afrikaans) but when I went to Ireland, I met this American lady who seemed surprised that English was my first language (?) 


OKay. Im going to stop harping on now. Seriously, I could debate this topic all day. Its just something that I feel strongly about and something that irritates me. LOL