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Nestride Yumga's Journey
00:02:57
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| And she is Nestride Yumga. | |
| She's originally from Cameroon. | |
| She's immigrated to the U.S. The U.S. is lucky to have her. | |
| And her video is, I love America too much to stay silent. | |
| And Nestride, it is a delight to meet you. | |
| It's my pleasure to be your guest today, Dennis. | |
| I'm happy to be here. | |
| Wonderful. | |
| So are you happy with the video and the reception? | |
| I am more happy that I was able to connect to Americans and remind them of the treasure we have of the country. | |
| Wow, that's beautiful. | |
| You know, but just as a matter of interest, both Alan Estrin and I were in Cameroon, and so, you know, you're not a... | |
| You're not a stranger in that sense. | |
| Cameroon is not just a name to us. | |
| We have been there. | |
| When did you want to come to America? | |
| Erica, at what age? | |
| First of all, I was sad by saying that I grew up in very tough conditions. | |
| You know, there's always the need for an escape. | |
| That has always been a permanent need for an escape. | |
| America, you know, is the country everybody on the world knows about them. | |
| I don't know when I realized a place in the world called America existed, but I knew about America. | |
| There's one lady in America who inspired my childhood growing up. | |
| Her name was... | |
| She's Kando with the Rice. | |
| She... | |
| Don't get me wrong, I was very young. | |
| I didn't know much about politics. | |
| I didn't know about Republican, Democrat. | |
| All I knew was a very, very strong woman in America who inspires me and don't even ask me how. | |
| She inspired me a lot. | |
| In the midst of the feminine, you know, search for the escape, you know, there was hope. | |
| There was some kind of hope, and there were a few situations, you know, which triggered the, okay, this is it. | |
| Either you find an escape or, yeah, you stay here and rot. | |
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Absence of Other Experiences
00:02:25
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| It was a permanent search for an escape. | |
| Right. | |
| Wonderful. | |
| Well, as I said, thank God you're here. | |
| You are an asset to the United States. | |
| How do you explain, in your mind, how do you explain the hatred even of America among so many Americans? | |
| Oh, quite frankly, I truly want to be as respectful as I can be because as an American, I truly want to be as respectful as I can be because as an American, I citizens. | |
| But I firmly believe it. | |
| It's an absence of other experiences. | |
| It's an absence of, you know, sometimes even maturity. | |
| It's an absence of appreciation. | |
| And sometimes I want to say maybe it's because we haven't had the chance to see what happens in other parts of the world. | |
| And sometimes I even... | |
| That's just me and my thoughts when I see some of these situations. | |
| I feel like I would be glad to someday organize a film trip to different places. | |
| And when I say different places, I'm not talking about those necessarily known for the most dangerous, but just the average places in the world and have them see what... | |
| But people outside of America go through and realize what we have as a country. | |
| And don't get me wrong here, Dennis. | |
| I'm not saying that we are perfect. | |
| There's room for improvement. | |
| There's definitely room for improvement. | |
| But if we do not appreciate what we have, we're not going to move forward. | |
| We're going to destroy what we already have. | |
| That's right. | |
| Hold on there, would you? | |
| Nestride Yumga's video on why she loves America. | |
| As an immigrant from Africa is up at PragerU. | |