You have to fight for your spot in here.
It's hard, isn't it? Because you've got all these older kids
that want to go around doing acid attacks, and younger kids
robbing phones, robbing motorbikes.
It just ruins it for the little ones.
You just want to go out and play football,
go shopping. Ralph Lauren, Armani,
Stone Island, Moncler …
That's what all children like. You want to fit in with everyone, don't you?
Most of my family are in a different country, they're in Ireland.
But they just live everywhere round here too.
They're Travellers.
O'Briens.
I remember when I was a kid, my parents wouldn't allow me
to go out, so I would rely on my imagination
to be like, what's the world like? What is New York like?
Right when I got out of the airport, I became a black man.
People don't see me as Haitian,
like as that immigrant kid that came like in this country.
They saw like a black kid, walking.
I feel like my friends don't hate Jakarta as much as I do.
Which is why I feel like I identify with western culture more.
They're not really accepting towards people who are too outside of the box,
whether that be creatively, intersexually ...
I feel unsafe online because that's where I really show what I stand for
and that's where I speak up about what I believe in.
So many girls in India and Bangladesh don't even go to school.
Me, when I was growing up I just took it for granted that, you know,
I'd go to school.
It's like what all children do.
After realising that it's not, it's something I realised I should value a lot more.
We are like sisters,
we are very different.
Alice is like the good girl.
I don't listen to the same music as the most of young girls and boys here.
So, sometimes I feel a little bit different.
I have problems with bullies in school.
I got bullied and then it got worse and they start hitting me and that stuff.
It has made me strong and kind of independent.
I always fixed it myself.
But you need your family, you need friends.
You can't carry around that big bag with all the problems alone.
It doesn't work that way.
I always had the mindset that I want to bring change to my country
and I want to bring change to my people.
Even if things are going great for me, things are not going great for them back in Haiti.
They are my biggest worries.
If I make it, I want them to make it also.
I believe in LGBTQ+ rights.
It's not illegal to be part of that community
but there aren't definitely any laws to protect you.
That's why I have the Pride flag in my room.
That's why I waved it at the women's march.
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If we have the privilege of getting a good share of education
and having the resources to study really make something of ourselves,
I think it's important to like,
do your bit and give back to society.
We've given all of these luxuries,
it would be a shame to waste it and not really do something to help out.
Try as hard you want, you'll eventually get there.
That's bringing yourself down – you wanna bring yourself up.