2:52 Introduction
3:30 Ethiopia’s regional distinctions
4:06 The current regional conflict in Ethiopia
6:33 The media’s role in misrepresentation of Ethiopia
8:53 Tribal differences in cultural traditions
11:11 The Visa lottery
14:25 Story: Arriving in New York
17:22: The importance of honesty in communicating the American experience to those abroad
19:35 Exchanging American currency
22:07 The role of immigrant advocates
22:55 "The people who arrived here first should take responsibility for [the safety and comfort of] newcomers"
24:00 Fear of deportation
25:01 "you don't just come here and relax"
26:40 "America is uniquely challenging", mental colonization, cultural erasure by assimilation to whiteness
30:08 "is America glamorized?"
31:12 The impossibility of hiding your identity as an immigrant
34:04 The experience of immigration to America from an uncolonized African country
37:18 The Ethiopian Orthodox Calendar
38:49 America as a closed society
41:20 The importance of finding community
42:02 "When I travel somewhere the first things I look for are where the Orthodox church and Ethiopian restaurants are"
42:28 Food as a connection to culture
43:24 "The more I make what they make, the more it feels like they're living again, so it means everything to me"
44:19 "What inspires the importance of you holding your culture close to you?"
45:39 "I'm not gonna cut your hand and keep it with me"
46:25 Ethiopian culture post-civil war
48:35 "How your re-learning of Ethiopian history shaped your worldview and understanding of who you are?"
51:48 "The African immigrant experience is so consistently centered around education"
58:40 The stress and emotional invisibility of education and immigration
59:27 "No one knows who I am here"
59:53 African misrepresentation in American media
1:02:01 The importance of "informing our own"
1:06:09 Mitigating the emotional toll of immigration
1:07:29 Imagining alternatives to traditional community resource networks
1:11:46 Perspectives on America's future
1:13:03 Returning to Ethiopia
1:14:38 "No matter what condition I go back to, I feel like I'll be happier there"
1:17:24 Perspectives on Africa's future
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