Learning to Serve in Swaziland: Different Worlds

One of the things that I've been struggling with on this blog is the total inadequacy of words. I can write many things, from anecdotes to statistics, and I'll still never be able to convey the experience. There will always be things that you cannot understand until you actually walk the streets and talk to the people here. Trying to put those unquantifiable properties into a few paragraphs is the challenge I struggle with.

So today, I'm going to take another shot. One of the newspapers here conducts online polls. To be clear, only about 200-1000 people answer these polls, and the sample is definitely skewed, so please don't take this to be authoritative. But I do think that the polls provide an interesting insight into how people think here. So I'll post some of the results that I think you will find most interesting. One of the most difficult things to do when reading these is to refrain from answering them ourselves. I'm not putting this up as a referendum on Swazi culture or the beliefs of people here, just an insight.

Swaziland's army is about 3,000 strong and is mainly used to quell protests.

A few years ago, there was a serious controversy because the kombi drivers raped a woman who was wearing a miniskirt and significant portions of the population didn't think it was wrong.