WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.677 America stands for but it means it was as if I was here, it was a 00:00:03.710 --> 00:00:07.146 transition, it was a bit of a transition and then I go to South africa in 00:00:07.179 --> 00:00:12.967 Johannesburg relatively all countries with a lot of resources. Yeah. You 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:17.396 know the diversity that I have to live with in terms of student population 00:00:17.429 --> 00:00:20.657 I'm gonna get in the academy. It's a very international, very 00:00:20.690 --> 00:00:24.907 international. 00:00:24.940 --> 00:00:28.096 You know, kind of like you heard me especially if they can be academic 00:00:28.129 --> 00:00:32.436 transition when I came to see I don't have issues using a laptop, laptop 00:00:32.469 --> 00:00:38.756 and have issues browsing the internet but using academic platforms. Where 00:00:38.789 --> 00:00:44.707 did my assignments and racing class all that was um 00:00:44.740 --> 00:00:50.207 for me it's less of a culture shock but more of like a learning experience 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:54.696 cause I'm a big fan of best practices. The reason why I mean my best 00:00:54.729 --> 00:00:59.807 practices, there's one words in certain regions of societies and how can 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:05.167 it be duplicated or and others by others and in South Sudan youngest 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:10.307 country in the world, early 70 years old, 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:16.186 21st century you would think that countries will be in here like the US 00:01:16.219 --> 00:01:19.906 almost two decades now have had their talent to experiment and make 00:01:19.939 --> 00:01:25.257 mistakes and succeed and there's always a book the best practices recorded 00:01:25.290 --> 00:01:29.617 right? Yeah that a country like South Sudan that is trying to avoid 00:01:29.650 --> 00:01:34.296 failures be a successful state. You can look at them to read those 00:01:34.329 --> 00:01:38.816 connections and be asking you the country that have lived for decades and 00:01:38.849 --> 00:01:42.626 what have you learned, what has worked for you but hasn't worked and can I 00:01:42.659 --> 00:01:48.247 take it as a representative of South Sudan and going to a penny work for 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:55.417 my country. The U. S. Is a major example of those best practices. It's the 00:01:55.450 --> 00:02:00.807 most successful working democracy the more 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:04.277 you guys have your own issues managing diversity but at least you're 00:02:04.310 --> 00:02:09.886 working at. Yeah. Hypothetically you know how it could work. You're still 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:12.427 having challenges, bring it all together and it's something South Sudan 00:02:12.460 --> 00:02:18.906 could be discussing as well have racial issues but we have ethnic issues 00:02:18.939 --> 00:02:24.717 in sub client issues. It's a country that is ethnically diverse and we've 00:02:24.750 --> 00:02:29.506 had our own conflicts but now we are one country. Do we translate those 00:02:29.539 --> 00:02:32.207 conflicts into 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.976 live under the umbrella of one nation? I guess I guess kind of what I'm 00:02:37.009 --> 00:02:41.406 asking is also. 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:45.327 Yeah you may have had something in your mind about what to expect when you 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:47.946 arrived in the United States because you're going to go to four years of 00:02:47.979 --> 00:02:53.906 college here. And is there anything about the country that has 00:02:53.939 --> 00:02:59.696 disillusioned you? Which you said oh I expected something quite different 00:02:59.729 --> 00:03:06.506 and then I got this. No. Yeah. Yeah. 00:03:06.539 --> 00:03:10.936 Or did it meet your expectations? You know What is 100%. I think they 00:03:10.969 --> 00:03:15.406 shock for me was 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:18.777 because when we where I come from when people hear about America and its 00:03:18.810 --> 00:03:23.497 wealth its older you know the glamour and the fan system And then I come 00:03:23.530 --> 00:03:28.506 here and I see that there is actually something level of poverty in this 00:03:28.539 --> 00:03:32.807 rich country, you know, the most powerful nation in the world with strong 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:37.337 economy, it has its own, what the most shocking was for me to see homeless 00:03:37.370 --> 00:03:44.557 people on the street. Arizona has a lot of them. You see the street that 00:03:44.590 --> 00:03:49.376 kind of shocked me really just, I think mainly because I come from what 00:03:49.409 --> 00:03:52.677 can you do in a society where it's all about community and people share 00:03:52.710 --> 00:03:58.707 resources. Put it okay. It's unthinkable to see someone in the street that 00:03:58.740 --> 00:04:01.967 didn't have a shelter, you have food because they didn't have it because 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:05.416 everybody else will come and try to offer something to you, try to provide 00:04:05.449 --> 00:04:10.077 you place in their house. So that was 00:04:10.110 --> 00:04:13.696 homeless people are homeless people in the United States. I can't find a 00:04:13.729 --> 00:04:18.207 house regardless of the fact that there's a lot of room somewhere. Yeah. 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:24.707 And besides the fact that per capita it's one of the, 00:04:24.740 --> 00:04:31.467 so that was what about what about because your country is in conflict. 00:04:31.500 --> 00:04:36.527 There are a lot of obviously a lot of political turmoil. I'm not. What 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:41.077 about politically that was there something that was eye opening to you 00:04:41.110 --> 00:04:45.507 politically about the United States that you didn't expect? 00:04:45.540 --> 00:04:49.077 I knew it was a democracy, I knew it was working and I did watch, I think 00:04:49.110 --> 00:04:55.806 my first introduction us election process was Barack Obama's First term 00:04:55.839 --> 00:05:03.596 2008, 4009, I was able to watch that kind of issue. BBC's here. Mhm. It 00:05:03.629 --> 00:05:07.426 was that must have yeah that must have been terribly inspiring. But now 00:05:07.459 --> 00:05:11.976 that you've been here through the trump election, you know, does it change 00:05:12.009 --> 00:05:18.416 , change your mind about which? Yeah it's a switch understand it has its 00:05:18.449 --> 00:05:23.176 own failures. But at least you know when I compare it because I always try 00:05:23.209 --> 00:05:27.007 to compare everything to South Sudan. When I compared to South Sudan, the 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:33.106 U. S. Is way ahead in terms of you could have trouble but trump is not 00:05:33.139 --> 00:05:36.306 freezing your assets. You know, trump is not chasing you out of your house 00:05:36.339 --> 00:05:39.717 at the moment as a U. S. Citizen. Why? Because you have a constitution 00:05:39.750 --> 00:05:43.656 that protects you. Mhm. And that's the difference if trump was the 00:05:43.689 --> 00:05:48.507 president of South Sudan or any other developing countries resident who 00:05:48.540 --> 00:05:51.046 would have created to send troops to your house and the same troops to 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:56.606 your house. You killed that at that chase that out and change this and but 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.577 it's not happening in the US. Yes, you have a bad president but you have 00:06:00.610 --> 00:06:04.476 constitutions because whoever put those constitutions in place, they knew 00:06:04.509 --> 00:06:09.637 you couldn't rely on a human, we have a whole failures and that's exactly 00:06:09.670 --> 00:06:15.777 what happened. So trump is more of an eye opening example why we need 00:06:15.810 --> 00:06:18.207 strong institutions 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.207 that protect others. 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:27.306 When someone like trump comes up, let's try to change. 00:06:27.339 --> 00:06:31.736 Okay well thank you, congratulations so far. And uh would you manage to do 00:06:31.769 --> 00:06:34.947 with the undergrad and good luck at the Thunderbird is a very good school 00:06:34.980 --> 00:06:40.846 and uh I hope you can navigate at all and kind of figure out where you 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:45.897 want to land, especially, especially in this time, as they say. All right 00:06:45.930 --> 00:06:50.916 , thank you so much. I appreciate you taking the time. I'm sure julie will 00:06:50.949 --> 00:06:55.639 be able to get you guys copies of this. Oh. Mhm.