Facebook and Apartheid

March 1, 2010 By Sean Jacobs Leave a Comment

This piece on nostalgia for the old South Africa among some whites–including among young people born after legal Apartheid ended in 1994–on social network site, Facebook, is genius. It is in Afrikaans.

[Wat Kyk Jy]

Filed Under: FEATURED Tagged With: Apartheid, Facebook, South Africa, Wat Kyk Jy, whiteness

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