Cultural Differences National Geographic
African Man: Do people go to the river with containers to draw water for themself?
Male Interviewer: For?
African Man: For bathing. If they want to take bathing.
African Man 2: There is something called apartment I’ve never never heard, met and I've never seen it.
African Man 3: Shower? How does it look like. Shower?
African Man 4: I have never used electricity so I imagine that it is really very hard for me to do that.
African Man 3: In the United States we heard this, only one wife. These things are going to affect us.
[A man is eating food on a plane.]
African Man 5: The food we got in the plane, was not really good as what we used to be eating at Kakuma.
[Another man is eating food (butter) on a plane.]
African Man 6: It tastes like soap, you know, that small one. I don't know if it is soap or bitterly. I guess it is good people say, ' it is good you know, eat." But when try a taste, it is like soap, actually.
African Man 7: And even now I cannot tell. Is that meat? Is that milk? Is that cheese? I cannot tell.
[A man is smelling food on a plane.]
African Man 8: You use this to cook it. You know. Here they make it different. No, ones, they make it in different way. They call these chips. You know they slice it they fry it. They put it in a bag. OK?
[Man 8 gives chips from a bag to three other men.]
African Man 9: It’s ready.
African Man 8: It is already cooked, yes. Try, it is yours. Everything here has belongs to you. We do not throw things away through the window. We put here in plastic. Push.
African Man 9: Is this a food?
African Man 10: These are doughnuts.
Woman at bakery: These are colored sprinkles that we decorate them with. Want to try one? Want to taste it? Go ahead. They seemed fascinated.
African Man 11: Excuse me it looks like beans.
[Men are tasting a doughnut.]
African Man 12: I've never.
[Santa Claus is shown with a little boy sitting on his lap.]
African Man 11: This is Santa Claus, it's Santa Claus.
African Man 13: And how does he connect with the birth of Jesus Christ. I think many of us have so many questions to ask, but I think we have a few, few people to answer them.
[A bus is driving by outside.] [People are shown walking down the sidewalk.]
African Man 14: Everything is different. Everything is different. It's kind of irritating because people know you're from Africa. They say, "Where are you from, Africa?" "Yes." Some people say do you live in the forest? Nobody is born in the forest you can't live in the first, you have to live in a house.
African Man 15: In the United States, people are not friendly.
[People are outside waiting for the bus, walking, on their cell phones, etc.]
You can find someone that's walking in the street by himself, you know. Don't even talk, you know. You cannot go to the house of somebody who you don't know though you are all Americans. They call the police and say, "why did this guy come to my house, I don't know him." But in Sudan they can ask you, "have you got lost? Are you new to this Place?" They can ask you that. You say, "I'm new to this Place." They can show you where you are. You can even talk with them.
[Four men are sitting on a sidewalk talking.]
It is important we ask them how do people walk in this area. How do people feel when you ask somebody, now can you show me a way? How do we feel, you know. That's difficult. You cannot even ask them because these are different people. [Shaking head.] That's really difficult. I don't know. How are we going to be acquainted with this life here. It's a great shame, actually.
[A group of men are shown walking, then at the store, then at the pool.] [People are shown playing in a pool.]
Female Narrator: Much in Daniel and Panthers neighborhood have filed complaints with the local police in Pittsburg. They feel intimidated by the boys entering their stores in large numbers. So a meeting was called to advise the boys not to travel in groups.
[Shouting, playing]
Woman at pool: Do you find everything really new and different here?
African Men 16 & 17: Yes.
Woman at pool: Do you have a lot of freedom here that you didn't have?
African Men 16 & 17: Yeah.
Woman at pool: Yeah.
African Man 16: [Talking to a group of children.] S-U-D-A-N.
Girl 1: What does that mean?
African Man 16: Yeah, Sudan.
Girl 1: What does it mean?
Boy 1: What does it mean?
African Man 16: It is the country where I came from.
Children: Oh!
African Man 16: So it is a country of black people. They look black all of them. You go there you cannot find white man.
Children: Oh!
Boy 1: Now I'm getting ya.
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