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"South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated"

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There is a quiet flex in the way Honor Blackman ranks nations like roles: declarative, brisk, and with the authority of someone whose life has been measured in sets, locations, and impressions that arrive fast and stick. Calling South Africa "the most beautiful" isn’t just postcard praise; it’s a stamp of lived experience from an actress whose career depended on movement and looking closely. Beauty here reads as sensory certainty, not policy argument, which is precisely why it lands: it sidesteps the usual moralizing travel talk and makes room for awe without pretending it solves anything.

The second sentence is the sharper instrument. "Canada is also hugely underrated" is a corrective, a little contrarian, and culturally telling. Canada, especially in British and American pop imagination, gets flattened into politeness, snow, and proximity to the U.S. Blackman’s phrasing pushes back on that lazy shorthand. "Underrated" implies an audience that has failed to see what’s there, which subtly casts her as the seasoned observer rescuing a place from cliché.

Put together, the pair creates a map of taste rather than a map of geopolitics: South Africa as sublime spectacle, Canada as the overlooked character actor of countries - less flashy, more depth than its billing suggests. Coming from a performer associated with glamor and cool command, the effect is to legitimize wonder while keeping it brisk. She isn’t selling a thesis; she’s curating attention, nudging the listener to revise their default settings about what counts as "beautiful" and what we dismiss because it seems familiar.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Blackman, Honor. (2026, January 15). South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/south-africa-is-the-most-beautiful-country-i-have-149177/

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Blackman, Honor. "South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/south-africa-is-the-most-beautiful-country-i-have-149177/.

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"South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/south-africa-is-the-most-beautiful-country-i-have-149177/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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Honor Blackman (born December 12, 1927) is a Actress from United Kingdom.

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