Highlight Video of Rwanda Cultural Day San Francisco
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01:08 What is it in us that defines us?
01:13 What are the traits that Rwandans can be identified by and identified with?
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01:31 Rwandans know what it means to be Rwandan.
01:35 You don't eat food on the street or
01:38 the sidewalk because another Rwandan may go hungry.
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01:45 >> When the Rwandans say,
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01:52 It means literally the culture is the bedrock of
01:57 posterity and of any nation's prosperity.
02:02 And when they say,
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02:09 That means hard work is the foundation for a better future.
02:18 When they say, [FOREIGN]
02:26 That you can understand actually,
02:28 both traditional Rwandans, they understood good service delivery.
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02:47 There is no nation on Earth like the nation of Rwanda.
02:54 >> [APPLAUSE]
02:55 >> There really isn't.
02:57 There isn't.
02:58 And I say that without fear of contradiction.
03:02 And I will say this to those of you who are in the Rwandan diaspora.
03:05 If you have not been back home in a few years, and
03:10 if you have just been getting all your information about Rwanda from the newspapers,
03:16 they're wrong.
03:19 They are wrong.
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03:32 >> When we first decided to do a cultural event, everyone started to dance.
03:39 There was joy in the air.
03:41 Among our friends of Rwanda, but also among the Rwandans throughout the United States and beyond.
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03:59 >> We belong to a place, to a nation,
04:05 that can engage in a conversation.
04:13 That can give and take.
04:17 We just can't be a nation of taking.
04:22 No, we must be a nation of giving as well.
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04:29 >> I want to be an African, a modern one,
04:34 an African that can relate well,
04:39 meaningfully to the rest of the world.
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04:47 >> These lessons were hard to learn.
04:50 >> But we learned them, brah.
04:52 >> So well, we give lessons now, brah.
04:54 >> Schooling the world on resilience, persistence, consistence, and forgiveness.
05:00 >> And I don't know if you've been told,
05:03 but ever since we've got things in control,
05:06 we've got other countries looking at Rwanda like, squad goals, squad goals.
05:11 >> [LAUGH]
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