Seriously, I have some South African friends, and after my experiences with their morality and work ethic, we can only hope the South Africans forced to flee that dying socialist state come to America. Why are they fleeing?
Because the UN decided that apartheid was raciest and boycotted and sanctioned a thriving free democratic country to death. Now everyone is fleeing the financial ruin and something much more wicked than apartheid, the UN replacement, Genocide and Socialism.
Yep, the UN fixed South Africa but good.
Actually, I'd say it was another disaster foisted on the American public by the Old Media.
If we had been told the truth, we never would have allowed it to happen.
The same for Rhodesia.
2 points:
1) Apartheid WAS racist, and it wasn't only the UN that decided that. Basing "separate but equal" access to opportunities on race alone is rooted in the idea of race, as the Apartheid government freely demonstrated. The fact that there was little "equality" in what was available to people of different racial categories means that it was not just racialist, but racist.
2) A "thriving free democratic country" does not automatically disenfranchise 70% of its citizens because of the color of their skin. SA elections before 1994 were competitive but South Africans were not free to participate in them unless they belonged to the "correct" tribe -- the one in power.
Aye, I've known and worked with a number of former South Africans. Competent and well-educated people, and with quite an entrepreneurial streak in my experience. They always seem to do well here.
You're 100% correct about their work ethic and in spades!