I've been away from home for 6 years now and during my time I had the opportunity to visit the Vaderland of the Boers back home. Must say that I don't think the Boers left by choice; instead, I think that they were forced to leave.
The current day Dutchman is a completely different breed to that which we find in SA. In fact, I probably feel more comfortable in Amsterdam than a regte egte boer would. I mean, there is a decent-sized Coloured population in Holland and I would like to think that they are generally treated as equals although, yes, every country seems to have its racial problems, but hell, you don't hear much about the need for racially over-toned policies to increase the representation of certain sectors of their population in sports; and yet, just look at the current Dutch football side. And of course there have been the past greats like, Gullit and Rijkaard with the latter being national coach for a stint and now having a rather successful run at Barcelona.

Now the obvious thing about a place like Amsterdam is that it is beyond the SA horizons, but unfortunately, there are many South Africans whose minds tend to stop at the horizon. Almost as if in their minds beyond the horizon the world ends - there is no more to experience. Well, our Boer brothers and sisters (we are all South African after all) had the experience of life beyond our SA horizons, but instead of instilling their new found family with their knowledge, they chose to close them in. And damn were they successful. So successful that their minds became closed. So today we find some South Africans with a mentality of superiority based purely on racial differences, i.e. before being put to any test there is the assumption that one is better than the other and super-superior does not want to mix with the lesser-loser. But when we decide to release ourselves from our self entrapment and seek out that which is different the obvious happens - we learn more. And through this learning we all become better people.

 
In SA vehicles drive on the right hand side of the road and we all learn at primary school that when crossing the road to first look right, then left and finally right again BEFORE actually ATTEMPTING to cross the road. (Had to add that emphasis cause as a little aside I cycle to and from work and almost every day without fail I will come across Mr or Mrs Pedestrian who first steps into the road before looking for traffic. The thing is that cyclists cycle very close to the pavement so one day I think I should actually wipe the idiot out but I fear the injury to myself.) Anyway back to my point. Most of you probably know that vehicles in  probably the whole of Europe other than Britain drive on the right hand side of the road. Now believe me there are certain things you learn at school that apply directly outside of school and consequently become ingrained in you. Besides Pythagoras' theory, the lesson on crossing the road is one of them. So when it comes to the country where vehicles drive on the right believe me that even the highly educated and those who are forewarned get it wrong. No longer is it right-left-right. Now it is
left-right-left.