PREDICTION: South Africa Is Gonna Be Huge This Year
That South African white people rap video taking over the Internet has reinforced my hunch that we’re on the cusp of a big South African moment. Last year we had District 9, now we’ve got Afrikaner hipsters (?) blowing up on the ‘net. This summer is the World Cup, and as long as everyone who goes there isn’t raped and mugged we’ll be hearing Bob Costas or whatever talk about how awesome the country is for two-and-a-half weeks. Meanwhile, J.M. Coetzee keeps cranking out the heavy psychological novels and swinging his Nobel prize around.
We’ve reached professor Malcolm X. Gladwell’s infamous tipping point. Which is good because I’m pretty sick of the whole India thing. It’s time for a new American post-colonial obsession, and I, for one, am ready to love South Africa.
