ArenaNet:International cultural references/South Africa

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International cultural references
  • Has a high percentage of white population.
  • Dutch traders founded cape town, causing South Africa to become a trading hub in the 1600-1900's
  • Nelson Mandela became president, finally getting black people equality
  • Rasicsm is still rampant
  • Koeksisters is a very good africaans dish, its like a doughnut =D
  • The south african motto is "unity in diversity"
  • The national language of africaans is very very similar to dutch
  • Diamonds found in South African have been used in the royal british jewels.
  • Biltong is a popular type of south african jerky
  • The band Seether is from south africa

SweetEscape 03:08, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

How about the movie The gods must be crazy? I can just a imagine a quest where you help a Grawl take a "cursed" object and toss it into the bottomless pit. --SirFranz 05:39, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
BTW it's not africaans it's Afrikaans :P 198.54.202.146 09:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
I know someone who's Dutch, and she says that Afrikaans is the dialect of Dutch spoken in the region of the Netherlands she comes from.