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.
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.
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=...
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...