Growing Up African

This is a story about Growing up african and everything that comes with it

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[dylanm]

“is it water or WATA” is so relatable 😂

[strr.lee_]

“do u speak african” literally started my anger issues ..

[chocolateaddictedartist]

I'm Indian, but the clothes smelling like food is so relatable💀

[almondiefrancis]

I'm from the Caribbean and got about the same treatment. I was asked if we washed clothes on rocks, if we climbed trees for food, if we slept in huts., etc.

[alexisakanson-qjyt]

The African child starter pack is so accurate😂😂.
Where my Ghana guys at??🇬🇭

[kaleewalee]

as soon as i saw them hesitating to pronounce a name i always knew it was me 😭

[jnoesbz]

My mom didn't let me miss any school even if I had a cold. So I, the african kid who just got back from a trip to africa, came to school with a cold DURING THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC ERA. Getting yelled "DO YOU HAVE EBOLA!???!!" in front of everyone by your classmate after coughing and seeing the teacher say nothing was scarring.

Can we also talk about how white kids would randomly talk to you about their missionary vacations, I mean trips. I'm just thankful were more aware about other cultures and problematic behaviors and microaggressions so the younger generation isnt as traumatized

[praisesade]

Being Nigerian was a struggle especially in elementary school people called me fish sticks and on top I was a darkskin girl😭

[TheLastNoodleInThebowl]

“do you speak African” and the clothes smelling like rice is so relatable

[Slence]

Finally a fellow Nigerian on YouTube 😊

[KwabenaHuslin-pbip]

Being Ghanaian- Jamaican my friend literately said i was shipped from Africa so today I ignored him and blocked his number

[fansaaga]

I’m not even African but the “do you speak African?” Is soo true. My Nigerian friends get this a lot and it’s just soo stupid 😂
Like you speaking European? You speak Asian?

[udyemesue-ufid]

😰… being Nigerian is just a struggle and Igbo specifically is in its own category

[ashwin._arts]

I'm South African and these are real asf, the water question, lion question and the "I didn't know they had lights skins over there" 🤣.

[t.e.stroud]

Great video. Black American male here. I feel you. By now, everyone knows we did not grow up with the best knowledge of Africa. Even today, in too many areas, knowledge of Africa has not progressed at all. Most of our information came from these infomercials that always made Africa synonymous with civil war and extreme poverty (time before the internet got big) and a place we were somehow connected to, but most of us would never see.
I admit, the insult “African Booty Scratcher” was a part of standard insults in middle school. I guess the only difference is, everybody got roasted in school and called these kinds of names - not just the kids who were born in Africa. We believed in equality, you see 😂 it does not make it better, of course, but that’s just how things were. This video, I hope, can be used to make sure things aren’t like that for our kids and future generations.

[angelfeliz]

“ I’m gonna sniff everyone of you and see who smells like the McDonald’s ball pit” had me dying🤣🤣🤣

[Dryknees]

This is so true and the stereotypes be the hardest part of my day 😭😭

[damilolaowolabi]

As an fellow Nigerian, I can confirm that this is so relatable

[mamboawasum-henry]

I find this relatable. I’m Cameroonian. I’m also an 80’s baby. What I’m about to say sounds really catty. In high school me and a lot of my African female friends looked a whole lot better than some of the girls who bullied us. However, they felt superior to us because we were African. In college I also encountered some girls who felt superior to me for that reason. It didn’t matter that they were single mothers, had marks on their skin or had guts that stuck out farther than their behinds. One of my college roommates reminded me of Mr. Potato Head but she had the audacity to say something about the way I looked behind my back. She even said it was rare for her to find dark skinned women who looked good. In spite of those experiences, I still have good memories from my childhood and formative years.

[walnutsss]

As an African who grew up in a white country this is so relatable, I remember when the ebola epidemic started and I was getting all kind of looks and backhanded comments. My home country wasn’t even affected by it and a teacher had a whole argument with me that my country too had it cuz it was “the whole africa”.

Don’t even get me started with the name pronouncing, they don’t even try.