Social Media Reacts to Charlize Theron Calling Afrikaans a “Dying Language”
Social Media Reacts to Charlize Theron Calling Afrikaans a “Dying Language”. She is currently the lady of the moment on various social media platforms. Charlize Theron got the whole country talking after sharing her views about the Afrikaans language.
Although based in America, Theron was born and raised in the small town of Benoni in South Africa. She moved to the States years ago, where she did modelling as well as acting. Theron’s career expanded by the end of the 1990s, and she became one of the best actresses of our time.
The great thing about her though, is that despite her global fame, she has not forgotten her roots, and constantly helps underprivileged South Africans where she can. Theron has done a lot of amazing work against racism, HIV and AIDS, Women’s rights and is the United Nations ambassador for peace.
In a recent interview the multi-award winning actress and philanthropist rubbed some South Africans the wrong way. She called her native Afrikaans “a dying language”, and joked that the language is spoken by “about 44 people” and is “not very helpful”. Well, as expected some feathers were ruffled and the issue has escalated to social media with different views.
Millions in South Africa who speak Afrikaans are not happy about her take. Probably they hoped Theron being a global star, will use her status to promote her culture abroad. But hey, she decided to say what she feels is the honest truth about Afrikaans.Other South African though, do not see anything with Theron sharing her views about her native language.
White Afrikaners that are so pressed about Charlize Theron’s comment. You conveniently forget that the language is a symbol of oppression and a crime against humanity
So julle moet almal net julle tiete kalmeer
— Natasha Huckfield (@dramadelinquent) November 17, 2022
This Charlize Theron thing is painful because they can’t even boycott her.
— Bonisile M. (Positivity) (@Bonisile_RMS) November 17, 2022
Charlize Theron is right…. Afrikaans is the most useless language on earth. 😏
— TumeloTuks (@TumeloTuksK) November 17, 2022
https://twitter.com/UncleCul/status/1593227050785054723?s=20&t=f_MPkLx46Oe1GeZKT4ys3Q
The only negative to what Charlize Theron said is that now we're gonna be inundated with amabhunu playing victim.
Yall know how much these colonisers love to play victim even though they've raped, pillaged, stole, killed and apartheid their way to our lands since 1652😒 pic.twitter.com/81jBj2uaZg
— Former Kleva Black🇿🇦 🇿🇦 (@SneKhumaloSA) November 17, 2022
