Greetings Warlights

South Africa was one of the first countries where gay marriage was legalised. In 2006, but country they are 3rd to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage

South Africa is also the only country in Africa where gay marriage is legal. Where in some parts of Africa the penalty for homosexuality is death O.o

Edited 11/27/2015 19:17:49

Wrong 5th
1. The Netherlands (2000)
2. Belgium (2003)
3. Canada (2005)
4. Spain (2005)
5. South Africa (2006)
6. Sweden (2009)
7. Norway (2009)
8. Iceland (2010)
9. Argentina (2010)
10. Portugal (2010)
11. Denmark (2012)
12. England/Wales (2013)
13. Brazil (2013)
14. France (2013)
15. New Zealand (2013)
16. Uruguay (2013)
17. Scotland (2014)
18. Luxembourg (2014)
19. Finland (2015)
20. Ireland (2015)

Just to back up SirSalty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_South_Africa

Scotland didn't legalise it as early as England/Wales because of those brutes in the highlands having too much political leverage here.

those brutes in the highlands

You mean the Scots?

This (watch closely, you might learn something!)... is Scotland:



And the Highlands are a region of Scotland. Definitions vary, but restricted to the council area itself, these are the highlands:


(Other definitions might include some bordering territories, the Outer Hebrides, Shetland, Orkney, the Grampian mountain range and Cairngorms National Park -Scotland invented national parks [like everything else]- and to its furthest extent, anything north from the central belt)

Now, the Highlands are the birthplace of a lot of traditional Scottish culture, for example, the caber toss.



The joke was, that people from the Highlands are generally very "manly" and (watch closely: here comes the joke) therefore opposed to homosexuality. It's a bad generalisation joke that you might hear, for example "A Russian woman is more manly than a Belgian man", or something like that.

Hope you learnt something about foreign culture today :)

Edited 11/27/2015 22:03:46

> implying what scotland has can be called "culture"

Yes, because national cuisine, sports, dialect+accent, general similar ethnicity, unique customs, history, politics, and music can't be called "culture".

*yawn*

Scotland can look after the isles while the rest of us go on holiday to France to play in the euros. Keep our seats comfy Ox !

Gooooood... Goooooooood!