What The Vuvuzela Tells Us About South Africans

“It is an extremely minor consequence of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid that foreigners have been slow to appreciate the South African national character as a whole. … [It’s] high time that we in the international community develop appropriate derogatory stereotypes of the South African people as a whole, black and white, Boer and Bantu. In the noise of the vuvuzela we may well hear the expression of a few special traits.”