What a complicated history! I've learned so much from this blog. I remember learning about apartheid in middle school but there wasn't much time or effort spent on it. The teacher didn't do much beyond saying it was a bad thing. Then I remember Nelson Mandela being elected President. That's about all we heard about South Africa in American mainstream media.

American history is no stranger to racial inequality either, as you well know. Traveling really opened my eyes to how much our home country can limit our perception. Although things are much better here now I think many Americans still see color first before the content of a person's character. I think it's a bit better in parts of Europe.