In “Some Are Born to Sweet Delight” written by Nadine Gordimer, foreigners and especially Arabs are portrayed as poor, secretive and different as opposed to the Westerners who are classified as “normal”. Gordimer represents this negative portrayal through the characterization of Rad and Vera. The negative representation of foreigners is made to underline and criticize the stereotypes and generalizations that Westerners tend to make about them. In this short story, Gordimer focuses on Arabs as her main representation of foreign populations. This foreign population is portrayed through the characterization of Rad; a young Arab boy and the classification of this population is done through Vera; a young female Westerner. Gordimer explores the common stereotype and generalization that all foreigners are running away from their countries to escape poverty as a way to highlight the misinterpretation of these foreigners. When Rad is describing his home country to Vera, she realizes that the image she made in her mind of his country widely differs from his description: “He described streets and cities[...]一it wasn’t at all like her idea of deserts and oases” (74). This quotation shows how Vera assumed that Rad lived in a highly underdeveloped place solely based on the fact that he is a foreigner. Through this misconception, Vera shows her ignorance but also how she shares this ignorance with many Westerners who have the same idea of what a foreign country looks like. In addition