I never understand the excuses people make to claim South Africa used to be first world under apartheid. They show highways, railways, blocky skycrappers, car ownership, telephones, people dressed in suits and dresses.. latin america had all that by the same time period and no one would consider it first world neither then or now. South Africa was developed to the standards of subsaharan Africa, and still is to the most part, but it was never first world.>but they had nukes Pakistan, India and North Korea have nukes but are not first world>but they were aligned with the west Most of latin america was aligned with the west for a major chunk of the cold war but were not considered first world>but they used to design computers and jets and whatever Brazil used to make computers, Argentina was one of the first countries in the world to produce jet engines, but were not first world.It's all but excuses.
Iran used to make computers with their own native operating system coded in their own programming languages in full persian and arabic, but were not first world
>>218269449You're missing the most important thing is that South Africa was white
>>218269449Because it was ran by white people>Senor, Argentina and Brazil are ran by a white elite In America all of Latin Americans are thought of as brown
>>218269522Whites were never majority in South Africa
>>218269449During the apartheid era it might’ve been “first world” for European communities but for everyone else it was still probably a dump. It was still the most industrialised part of Africa and largest economy on the continent for a while.
>>218269522>that South Africa was whiteUsing a very generous definition of the word there.>>218269550All of Latin America is Western. Retards just project a shitty "country club" logic to the term.
>>218269550But the fact that matter is South African society was not on par with the first world, and all the evidence presented of the contrary comes in mentioning the tecnologies they produced and things they had which were just things the other slighly better-off shitholes of the world had.
>>218269578>All of Latin America is WesternBut it’s significantly influenced by Amerindian culture. Including the people who run the government.
>>218269713>But the fact that matter is South African society was not on par with the first worldThe white elite of South Africa had a quality of life on par with the west. And rich white people = western
>>218269746>The white elite of South Africa had a quality of life on par with the westNope. It was still quite below the rest. South Africa was basically a Latin American state with even more delusional "we are like the other blancos" mindset in the government.
