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South Africa seems to be having a lot of trouble lately, of a sort that doesn't comport with most people's understanding of 'first-world' country.

https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+trouble

https://www.google.com/search?q=is+south+africa+safe+for+whi...

https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+violence

Accounts of Johannesburg:

http://imgur.com/BO5YwQl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNYOwKlDIE

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Racist 4chan screenshots, really?

South Africa is a complicated country, but it's not like the "first world" (US in primis) is completely void of huge ghettoes and racial issues.

That was just one striking on the ground account, the recounter didn't seem 'racist.'

You can find plenty of other info from more respectable sources. Albeit more staid in presentation.

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2015-12-09-the-da...

I really don't understand the cherry picking of arguments. Someone posts 6 links and you have a problem with one. So what?

Anyways south Africa is definitely not a first world country. Gdp per head at ppp is 13k[1]. This is substantially poorer than countries like Turkey and Thailand that are often considered third world.

Middle income though? Sure.

[1]http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?order=...

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