We had coffee with a family from South Africa recently. I was interested to learn about something that one of them misses from home.
Often, as an expat here you bump into someone from your country. It can be fun to say "hi, what part of Australia are you from? Wow, we are both Aussies in Cambodia"
These white South Africans get excited when they see a black person here. Someone from home! "Hi! Where are you from?" they ask.
But the black Africans don't recognize them as someone from home, probably assuming they are from the USA, France, etc etc.. So they just answer "Africa".
The girl we met told us she heard someone speaking zulu and got excited so she waved furiously at him as his tuk tuk went past. But he just looked blankly at her.
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