Maybe that we live in huts? Haha. When I worked in the states with kids, many of them thought that SA isn't developed. I got asked if we rode elephants to school and such.
Edit: I wrote on instead of in
Riding to school on an elephant should be considered the height of developed countries. Every day riding to school, surveying your land, crushing all those who would threaten your recess and lunch money....
Edit: I wrote on instead of in