My MIL like most people is ignorant about African Geography

[Anonymous]

South Africa is very dangerous if you don't know how to get about safely, OP. I hope your daughter is aware of this.

Most people in this world are massively ignorant about lots of things, you and me included. So it's not very nice of you to create a post solely to criticize your MIL about this, on this one instance you know more than she does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go ask the people of South Africa to identify Atlanta or Boise or Phoenix on a map

Then come back and post how about the ignorant people of Africa don't know American geography

Get over yourself, OP

Not OP, but PP you just confirmed what OP was pointing out. The comparison to Americans not knowing that Sudan is worlds away from South Africa geographically is the same as someone in South Africa not knowing that Canada is incredibly far away from Mexico, not that Phoenix is far away from Atlanta. In many countries kids study world maps and world geography, and that is something we are a little weak on in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go ask the people of South Africa to identify Atlanta or Boise or Phoenix on a map

Then come back and post how about the ignorant people of Africa don't know American geography

Get over yourself, OP

Not OP, but PP you just confirmed what OP was pointing out. The comparison to Americans not knowing that Sudan is worlds away from South Africa geographically is the same as someone in South Africa not knowing that Canada is incredibly far away from Mexico, not that Phoenix is far away from Atlanta. In many countries kids study world maps and world geography, and that is something we are a little weak on in the US.

DP, disagree. If MIL didn't know that Egypt and South Africa are far apart, that'd be comparable to the Mexico/Canada example. But expecting her to know where Tanzania is in relation to Chad is akin to asking an African to identify Illinois and Kentucky on a map

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter leaves Thursday for a month in CapeTown. Not a day goes by with my MIL calling to tell us how much she is worried about what is going on in Sudan and how unsafe “Africa” is.

I tell her my kid is now an adult and thanks for your concern. I tell her to look at a map of the continent again and again but she shows her ignorance daily.

/rant off

You don’t like your mother in law. We get it. You’re a boring DCUM cliche.

I love my MIL. Like most Americans she is ignorant of African Geography.

And? So what? Leave her be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a reason why anyone of means in SA has gates around all four sides of their house.

So does anyone of means here.

No they don’t. That’s prohibited in most nice areas in the US.

[Anonymous]

Potomac doesn’t allow privacy fences.

[Anonymous]

I hope she has fun; we honeymooned in SA and it was my favorite vacation ever.

It sounds like your MIL loves your daughter. It’s ok that she’s not great at world geography; I’m sure she has other strengths.

[Anonymous]

There aren’t any first world ie completely safe countries in Africa. Even N Africa is a cr*pshoot, sorry to say. I did visit Tunisia but only traveled around with local friends.

[Anonymous]

Cape Town now ranks as the eighth-most violent city in the world, according to the latest global ranking by the Mexican Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice.

In the 2019/20 ranking, four South African cities feature in the top 50, marking a return for Johannesburg to the list for the first time since 2015.

Cape Town recorded the most deaths out of all the countries featured in the top 50, recording 3,065 murders among its population of 4.5 million.

https://www.urbanabroad.com/is-cape-town-safe/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a reason why anyone of means in SA has gates around all four sides of their house.

So does anyone of means here.

Laughably incorrect

[Anonymous]

Cape Town is not that safe. I was there a couple of years ago and had an ex-military driver who basically body-guarded me the entire time. I was not allowed to walk outside in the street - he would pull up outside the building and I would exit directly into the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s a reason why anyone of means in SA has gates around all four sides of their house.

News flash, a majority of homes throughout the continent are gated. That is the style of architecture. Look at homes in Ghana, Nigeria and other countries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cape Town now ranks as the eighth-most violent city in the world, according to the latest global ranking by the Mexican Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice.

In the 2019/20 ranking, four South African cities feature in the top 50, marking a return for Johannesburg to the list for the first time since 2015.

Cape Town recorded the most deaths out of all the countries featured in the top 50, recording 3,065 murders among its population of 4.5 million.

https://www.urbanabroad.com/is-cape-town-safe/

Grandma isn’t citing the very real and worrying statistics about Cape Town. She’s citing an issue halfway across the continent. That is OP’s annoyance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cape Town now ranks as the eighth-most violent city in the world, according to the latest global ranking by the Mexican Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice.

In the 2019/20 ranking, four South African cities feature in the top 50, marking a return for Johannesburg to the list for the first time since 2015.

Cape Town recorded the most deaths out of all the countries featured in the top 50, recording 3,065 murders among its population of 4.5 million.

https://www.urbanabroad.com/is-cape-town-safe/

Grandma isn’t citing the very real and worrying statistics about Cape Town. She’s citing an issue halfway across the continent. That is OP’s annoyance.

Not a day goes by with my MIL calling to tell us how much she is worried about what is going on in Sudan and how unsafe “Africa” is.

[Anonymous]

How lucky your daughter is to have so many people who love and care for her regardless of their grasp of geography.