AFRICA n CULTURE TV SHOW

is your host of African country TV show

Christina David Pinto jr. I am finally

out of the studio and I decided to come

out and interview some people to catch

up on their perspectives are not really

important to know where you come from

for getting culture and American culture

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done fire artist originally from

Washington DC danced with conker on West

African dance company one of the

nation's premier West African companies

here and I'm here now there's a solo

artist and very grateful to come down to

Encinitas to bring a piece of the West

African drum dance culture to match with

the drum and dance culture here so it's

like my family and this class is

organized by Diane she's here every week

making sure that sometimes the schedule

varies but how they're going we are a

multicultural West African traditional

West African dance class we have a co-op

of teachers that come from San Diego and

Los Angeles and even other states New

York and DC Chicago and other countries

Africa and in some coming from Europe

who come to share the African culture

with with people of the culture and

people who are not of the culture a lot

of our teachers find it part of their

calling to share their gift and that's

what this class is about

we have a give a platform for West

African dance teachers and obviously

drummers as well here in Encinitas

California my name is Tony being a

drummer who has not yet been to the

continent of Africa for me Africa is a

future dream a goal and a place I would

like to more of the culture firsthand

and so that I can bridge that gap

between West African culture and

American culture kizomba is a historical

type of dance originally in Angola has

sensual steps and it has spread

worldwide and people look forward to it

let's watch misconceptions that I come

across with

all ages from children to adults is that

people think that Africa is a cult

continent of lack where it is very rich

very rich in culture and resources in

history everything that you need to

sustain life is there and in abundance

so I think one of the biggest

misconceptions that we have here in

America and it's just based off of pure

ignorance and that is one of the things

that he stresses is to ask your teacher

to get an understanding and so that you

know what rhythms you're playing and you

know what they mean because everything

every song every rhythm every dance has

a purpose and so that's something that

for me I enjoy about the culture is

learning all of the history and every

movement means something

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in Canada in the West Indies and I live

in so I never had the chance to share

and see my so I came here to visit his

family and to learn about Portuguese and

like Mozambique and all the culture you

know certain just think that it's really

important to know where you come from

and who is your family that's why I came

here and culture and how I think that

family or African family he's my friend

he never sold them the African culture

we are open to everybody

it's about generosity like being like

helpful with people always trying to be

nice with them and I think that's

about African people you you

have to use somewhere like love like

generosity opening be nice people like

that's it and when I came here I visit

this family from Mozambique I can tell

that's totally true like

as I said you don't know me and I can

sleep I can eat I can do whatever I want

like you family yeah for sure and we

live in Canada what is the difference

between African culture and American

culture but I would say in the Nigerian

culture specifically they're very

family-oriented they're thinking about

how can we all grow as a community

I know one thing like in Nigeria if I

grew up there I know that I would be

going to neighbors homes and my parents

wouldn't really be worried about me

because they trust their neighbors to

raise their kids here I feel like

there's a fear of your next-door

neighbor like you don't know if they are

serial killer you don't know your

neighbors like that so I'll say that to

me being born here and having a

background of Haitian that everything we

do is always found in us together when

we do parties is families having parties

together and everything when it comes to

the American scene it's always like the

kids are their own thing the dogs I

don't think it's never combining a

family affair so I feel like a cop again

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you're watching episode 11 was just

recently coming back from Abidjan West

Africa and Cote d'Ivoire I was able to

see the strong family minds that were

present there the laughter and joy that

was found over a simple meal

in a dance class or in a drum circle

there was nothing but love and joy and

peace and happiness and that's something

that we desire to bring here especially

to Southern California and Diane is

definitely doing that here by bringing

masters from all over the world to

Encinitas it's a very important place

for our African pioneers as we still

have African pioneers residing here

within the area who bring the culture

directly from Africa

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here at Encinitas West African dance and

one thing we explained to all the new

students who come in is that by taking

West African dance you are actually

foundation in yourself to be able to do

all rhythmic dances

if you foundation yourself in the rhythm

and learn to connect with the African

drums you are much more able to move

forward into all of the rhythmic dances

so we appreciate that the ruse of the

rhythmic dances are coming from the

continent of Africa

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so the misconception is that there is

nothing there

everything we use even down to our

televisions and cell phones and video

games in the cars use alloys and metals

that are only found in Africa so our

iPhone or Android phone would not work

unless it was for that alloy in in

Africa misconception is that African

Americans and Africans are different

that is a huge misconception when I

returned to Africa

I felt as one there was no difference

there was no

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oh I'm from Binney no I'm from Abidjan

no I'm from Guinea it was all unity war

starving and without and that's that's

not what I saw when I went there the

difference that I feel between

african-american family culture and

African family culture it's just a level

of unity slavery has really pulled us

away from that aspect of the unity

that's why we encourage a lot of African

Americans to return to Africa so that we

can see our original state and sort of

speak will you see that the entire

family donates to the household that no

child is left behind everyone's taught

everything everyone knows how to sew

everyone knows how to cook everyone

knows how to provide for the family no

one is left behind and I think that's

something that's a major difference

between African American families and

African families that we need to bridge

that gap and definitely look out for one

another just add a little bit to that I

think one thing that we as Americans

could stand to do a little bit more of

is to pay a little more homage to our

our ancestors and our elders that may be

one thing that I see Africans tend to

give their elders a little more respect

just in general and broad as a human

being if you are older than me there

they give a greater level of respect

than

I would say our day and age of

african-american does and that I think

would even change us as a people and

push us forward if we don't look towards

those who have already paved the way for

us and get the knowledge and the wisdom

that they have for us then we fall into

some of the pit stops and pitfalls that

they have already you know worked around

and it's giving us unnecessarily work

and I just think it's a level of when

you have a respect for yourself and when

you come from it's much easier to just

give honor to those who have come before

you

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it's very important to be an African

American in this country

not a lot I studied some things about

Africa I do do you have some friends

from Africa

I believe that Africa is country and

culture TV show come to you to introduce

great Africa entertainment I think is

important to preserve our culture here

it's having an understanding and feeling

of our culture grounds give us pride of

our identity food artistry music and

fashion enriches our life and

appreciation of rich constraint and

family ties between members of different

generation please give us your feedback

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you're watching episode 11 what are you

doing here and how is it important to

use a misconception about misconceptions

is you know I don't know you know enough

for the Tarzan movies that I've seen and

I used to think it was immature somewhat

of what I'm missing in the movies what

do you mean is most important in you

from

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see I think in my immediate family is

that my children learned to love each

other and respect others it's up for any

of you sir no problem main foundation

for just building I would say our

culture even stronger everything starts

at home I think the more that we can

take care of home the more we can take

care of others I have a good

understanding that Africa as far as

today or what it was was a was a place

of peace paradise for its own people

nowadays I will say is more you're

watching episode 11

a shopping mall if you is to say

property and real estate is more of it's

not hard to come up with the word for

what it is my opinion is it's not what

it used to be which is a problem

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communication is key to every

relationship without communication

furlings agendas cannot be passed on a

family has to be able to communicate

with each other on different levels

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you know everybody has to do things I

love you might not want to do something

in our brothers we do it out of love I

think that it fully it sort of makes a

good effect that's you're trying to do

the difference between African culture

and American culture we have been you

know absent after and we have been shown

after African purser is me myself I have

not been so after I have had encounters

with people from there and they tell me

that

we are

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cultural values respect loyalty is like

just kind of how I pretty much those are

the two words that mean the much the

most to me definitely go along with that

respect has a lot to do with pretty much

everything so what is a priority family

I want to provide for my family so

everything I do would be for my family

like anytime I'm doing something I'm

thinking about my family so I can make a

better life for us in general so same I

just pretty much want to create a few

times you know about Africa just like

reading books and TV cultural values my

culture values to be respect number two

will be loyalty what is what is a

priority in your family my family watch

I build my family of love and loyalty

number two will probably be like

financing knowledge and education what

is the difference between African

culture and American Court

tough question probably say I will

probably say it's more like not just

family wise what culture was hi my name

is Rosie Herrera you guys doing here we

took out our children to go eat and then

we wanted to spend a little bit of

family time are your cultural values

what we like to spend family time we try

to teach our children to be respectful

to Africa is it's a big country

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beautiful jungle the Safari you know a

lot of people that are African American

and they're pretty good people did you

know that there was a misconception

about Africa

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and no keep them a little bit about what

you think on the way people judge Africa

as far as the people or maybe whether

they judge the way to think about it

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you're watching episode 11 a lot of

people do think that maybe over there

it's like a more needy country I've

known co-workers that are they have gone

and they say they have it's beautiful

parts to what is a priority in your firm

just to be healthy and learn to be a

respectful

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if you haven't visited a country then

you don't know really what it's like

what is the difference between African

culture and American culture the

difference would be what they do maybe

the way they dress how they spend family

time thank you to that man you don't

think you want is African African

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music and ordinarily the beloved in

Luanda Angola of course when my dad came

from let's watch me being born here and

having a background of Haitian that

everything we do is always families

together will be new parties families

having parties together and everything

when it comes to the American scene it's

always like the kids have their own

thing

the dogs I think it's never combining

it's never a family affair so I feel

like an African and Caribbean families

are more connected I always promote

dance in general I feel like the answers

a way to express yourself in some type

of a heart that it speaks language to

people can be from a different

background speak a different language

but speak the same thing when it comes

to dancing music is universal

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hello guys it is your host of African

culture TV show and the weather is

fantastic today so I decided to come to

the beach interview some people on their

perspectives on Africa what they know

about Africa what are their family ties

cultural values what is the difference

between African culture and American

culture let's watch about Africa it's in

Africa are that the children are raised

very respectively

marriage is a priority and the family as

that it's more United

now as to America out here everything is

individualized it's between African and

American family ties family ties in

Africa then here in America is that

primarily your goal is to make money and

family is secondary so you have to do

whatever you have to do and go through

all the struggles and life to make sure

that you're able to provide for yourself

it's very selfish here in America

as to Africa families first and they do

whatever they can to make their family

work together to get whatever they need

this is not so much of a union you do

what you want to do you can show as much

skin as you want the children are not as

respectful because the family values in

the older generation have changed today

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having an understanding and feeling of

our culture grounds give us pride of our

identity food artistry music and passion

in which is our life an appreciation of

rich constraint and family ties between

members of different generations being

raised in an African family than in

American family because I can only see

young kids playing with phones play

watching TV all day and the parents they

don't they just had enough of them

screaming so they just turned the TV on

sit them there and let them behave and

do whatever they gotta do I don't think

that's the right way when I was younger

even because maybe I I don't know I was

raised by an African dead I was I don't

know outside working and I had to

deserve my lunch or my dinner I had to

work for it

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and also if I if I'm meeting new friends

certainly I don't use like Xbox or

Playstation like they do today playing

on fortnight or whatever to meeting

people online I just used to go outside

in the park play some football some

rugby with friends and just meet see new

people that's how I made friend my

opinion is just to different world

Africa is one war the USA is completely

another one

there's there's no way to protonate them

to have a beautiful life live here

because maybe for them is more easy but

maybe even in Africa this situation

doesn't meet friends go out for what

they can do so maybe you go you meet

friends I go in Italy for example from

Africa respectful each other the dance

you know as a sister ELISA teaching

Kazan back competition I think you know

we just wanna tell you a little bit how

this dance is beautiful and it is

densest are in the house of the family

you know and it's a lot of different

ways of hit that you can involve your

pants music and the look in Luanda

Angola of course when my dad came from

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faster Nathan Terry you tell me a little

bit about your plan you today basically

I'm just spending time with my kids and

my grandkids now here two redundant beat

sister have some family time I think

family time is very important especially

being a grandfather being a pastor it's

all about family values you know

communication learning how to spend time

together to interact with other people

but I reside in Tulare California where

I am a pastor just try to relationships

because I feel that relationships are

very important culture

changing the diameter what you make your

life it's not about what people say your

life it is if you want to be successful

you get up and go to work if you want to

drive a nice car you gonna work for it

if you want to succeed in this society

you work for it no one's going to give

you anything can you talk about the

misconception on Africa well a

misconception I think on Africa is

everybody's one in one bucket

you just throw everybody in one bucket

and say hey this group of people is bad

or this group of people is this or if

this group of people is that when if you

don't personalize yourself and get to

understand the culture of how a person

was raised where

come from them it's a different diameter

when you do that grow up with a family

that are hard-working

and you begin to see that hard work and

then it rubs off on you and you become

that kind of person so it's in the

society they say that we're are one kind

of people we're not because we were

raised in so many different cultures and

different styles every race you have to

go from there african-american culture I

think the difference to me is sort of

the same thing

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oh yeah night going today's you tell me

a little bit about what the card is

about and what are you doing here well

it's about the IRA Chuco of

end-of-the-year parties your cultural

values well one of the culture and

values is for you know for you to

respect your elders you have to dress

properly you have to address people in a

proper manner when you go out there you

want to represent your community in a

good standing you want to make sure you

make your people proud make them

understand that you coming from Africa

and we still go back home we still go

back to the roots where we come from

that's our roots it's just that my

interview oh you welcome anytime anytime

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but your family ties

my mother family from losing in there

my grandma's she came out here on the

train and raised nine children my mother

she come on found me at nine

and I have about 30 some cousins I grew

up in the household which is my mom and

my sister I'm learning everything on my

kind of two feet you know tell me a

little bit about the difference on

African culture and American culture yes

it's more of a competition there's more

of a fight for your rights I walk into a

job and it'd be probably like five six

more different races in my race so it

probably like two of my race and you

know but you still there

you know is this you know it just feel

like on uneven you know battle where you

feel kind of like uncomfortable

sometimes and you feel like you're

always being watched in music the look

and wander and voila

of course when I thank you

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what suggestions would you give to the

new generation fight strong stand strong

stand your ground don't let nobody take

your ground if you were there stay there

because things will change you know one

person could change many you know so if

you have an opportunity to show how

strong cuz I worked at the pleasure here

I was the only black dude and a black

woman but just me just you being there

standing your ground makes makes a

process makes a mix of other days make

makes makes you look like you know I'm

here we actually from Irvine California

when you're asking where we born maybe

we say we have Korea Sunday afternoon

sunshine what do you know about Africa

I forgot really know too much about

Africa cultural values Africans they

value family a lot more than here in

America that's a lot different of how

you treat your family and certain things

Africans seems like from what I've

experienced cuz my cousins I have extra

cousins that are from Ghana so they

stick together they're there for one

another there

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African African African culture TV show

I hope you enjoy watching the show I

really wanted to please stay tuned stay

tuned why is the difference between

African culture and Korean there's a lot

but make a simple and short African

culture is very secret and didn't

explode my shout the world obviously

many countries in there that are not

being exposed it's being belittled but

Korean culture is diverse flying very

fast and laugh so we are Korea is little

dynamic Africa is a hidden treasure

African culture so I could really

compare

two countries

about American culture the difference

between American culture and Korean

culture

again Korea is pretty dynamic lot of IT

business software IT technology but USA

is just totally good on every corner

it's been here 400 years of lead over

King in the worst American culture hard

to say what is what very strong nation

with a good custom cheese Amba is a

historical type of dance originally in

Angola has sensual steps and it has

spread worldwide and people look forward

to it let's watch

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ain't got no someone that can dig escape

from some combat your honor

good my yamaraja very much

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the misconception is that there that

Africa isn't just something someplace

that needs help besides I mean the

United States has a lot of homeless

people too so you know it's where we're

not being judged by just our homeless

people so much more here and then

there's so much more to Africa than just

you know famine and disease and poverty

there's more to it than that in the

United States they are creating an image

of the single parent and the single

parent household and how the the family

unit is not as strong as it was in the

United States as it used to be maybe

Africa's family units are a lot stronger

and it's not just a mother and father

that's in the family it's you know the

mother-in-law's the grandfather's aunts

and uncles it's all together one family

instead

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is African African African culture TV

show I hope you enjoy watching the show

I really wanted to please stay tuned

stay tuned hey guys his name Nakia

antoinette what did you plant here today

just hanging out we came after lunch

just to have some ice cream because it's

a nice beautiful sunny day

where's the ice-cream good it was very

good I had strawberry cheesecake one of

your favorite suits what is your actual

favorite probably mint chocolate chip so

what are your cultural values my culture

values I was born and raised here in

California my whole family is here I

have family also in Texas I was born

here in California also you can tell me

about your family ties I'm very close

with my family very close-knit family we

hang out we spend all of our holidays

together

family functions Thanksgiving we're all

together I have a small family just my

immediate family with mom and kids

that's it you know on Africa I have a

lot of co-workers that will knit that

come from Africa some from Nigeria some

from Ethiopia some from Ghana

I know they told me it's very

inexpensive to live there and they plan

to retire there but they come here

because they make more money and they

send their money back and build but if I

base it on what I see on TV they always

show you the part where they're polished

and starving and like Ethiopia and send

money for the children get to taste a

lot of different foods from my

co-workers from the culture I have

students they ride my bus I'm a bus

driver so I have a lot of students that

ride the bus and they just tell me

different things when they go a lot of

them have not been to Africa their

families are from Africa but it's in

fact the younger generation has it had

not been you know going back to visit

their country

what is a priority in your family health

what is most important education

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seems that you guys are like take care

of each other more like more family live

in the same house and take care of the

parents the younger kids take care of

the kids live with you guys till they're

married or you know different things but

I know that family values do mean a lot

the misconception about Africa

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here is that there just have less

opportunity and that they're poor then

America do you appreciate when I hear

stories from people from Africa because

it gives me a better understanding about

my culture as well you're watching

episode 11

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