I don't think you should ask that question to a woman
It's happened; I'm not saying that's the truth of North African men
but I will say - it has happened
Yes, sometimes
Everybody who's not in the first world marries women
Listen -- and men, for visa purposes
Let's be honest, listen - you try living in there
Not only men, actually; even women
and not only North Africans, all over the world
And who's really doing whom a favour?
A young stud who's 20 years old who marries like a 50 year old woman
Is he really a villain?
There was this story in the news
A 28 year old man married an 85 year old British woman
He was an Egyptian man, he married an 85 year old British woman
It's cra -- I mean; it's a love story, guys
Back off, let the man take his visa, who cares?
He ends up here carrying two Uber Eats cubes
Exactly - double the work of everybody else
Who's working harder than this guy?
And he's dealing with this old lady
Giving it where she needs
This guy's busy, don't worry about his visa
There's no Arab homeless
We'll come in, we'll f*cking ride a bike, a scooter
to deliver Uber Eats
We make the country a better place; we're not a liability
So let us hook up with a 50 year old lady
But we are marrying for visas though
I guess there is always that idea that in Europe there is a better way of life
because you get social insurance
I think if we had an equal world, people wouldn't do that right? So
It's a really hard conversation and discussion
Egyptians will say they're Arab all day
Moroccans are deep in French
They would say they're more Arab than a Sudani
cause it's a complexion thing too
Majority is Arabic in North Africa, but we have other ethnicities
like Berbers; we have almost 60%
The real truth is that we are Berber because we were here before the Arabs
You really are ruffling some feathers right now
I'm just gonna hold you accountable for anything that happens
I don't think you should ask that question to a woman
Truth, yeah it's true; next question
Yeah; yeah?
Yeah definitely
There is a large percentage of them are in my experience
I agree, I agree
I don't think it's their fault
I think they think they have to be that way
They won't let the woman
take the errands for example
stuff like - they don't cook
It's for woman
The macho stuff is in there deep
The ownership stuff in relationships is in there deep
They're very possessive
and they get very jealous so
if you get other guy friends or stuff
it's like - who's this guy? Why are you going out with him?
but I think other than that, they're good
They're very spoiled too
Yeah, I just think there is a lot of pressure for men
to deliver: deliver results, deliver money
sometimes it becomes very toxic
We need to definitely encourage vulnerability in North African countries
False, false
I think North African women are very strong
False, I wouldn't say subservient
Not as much as people like to think
I think women are very feisty and angry in North Africa
I mean, obviously I'm biased cause I'm one of the feisty ones
but I see a lot of women who are very assertive in their own way
No, it's a myth
I think it's the truth
Again, you cannot take one cloth and admit it on the whole of North Africa
It's not possible cause we are different countries
but I do believe that that exists in some areas in Tunisia itself, so yeah
The perception of being a woman and not being
able to do things, patriarchal ideas like
the woman can't get an education or whatnot
so the fact that the women have to deal with that
every day, it's quite impressive
It's a cultural stuff, even sometimes if women
they do refuse it, inside of them they do believe
in it and they practice it unconsciously
I mean even if talking about myself
It's because it's in there
We're improving for sure, like, it's a modern aspect
but you still see people with this mentality unfortunately
Women are kind of more focusing on their careers
and kind of prioritizing that over marriage
it's not as bad as it used to be
Female doctors are super common in Sudan
Absolutely; super common
A lot of cities are governed by women
That's like, in the previous elections
This is why there is a lot of divorces there
because women, they know their rights right now
Ah! No
No .. No.
What is this - is this a joke?
Yeah, whoever said that?
True; that's very true
That's pretty true; no it's not
If anything, if you were over to look at the statistics
there's more terrorist attacks happening in our countries that in Western countries
Like there is a bigot watching this like
He's like - yeah, I knew it
Both
I would say yes, there are white but not all of them
if you go to the North of Morocco, they are very, very white
they have those gorgeous green, blue eyes
In the South you'll find black people
The more you go South of Morocco,
the darker you get
I call myself brown, but we're not brown
no I think it's a myth because
North Africans come from so many different backgrounds
my dad's family have Turkish descendants; my family too!
Libyans, because other Arab countries fear us
so they don't really tell us what they think about us
That we're Arab
Within the Arab community, sometimes they think Moroccans we're not Arabs
I was talking to someone who was Canadian
he was saying - I would never hire an Egyptian person for a job
and I'm like - why? He's like
you guys are too emotional
Listen - yes, we're emotional, but we're very hard workers
For Sudan people it's definitely the laziness
not driven thing
that goes deep, that's always like
and there's lots of lazy Sudanese I know
alright? I'm not saying we're not lazy at all
Guys speaking Arabic thing, linking that to terrorism
or terror in general
is just a narrative that unfortunately happened after 9/11
and super hard to get it back because of just the way
it's been portrayed and it's a generation right now that
has that mentality so it's up to us to kind of
rewire that narrative
The Western Sahara is ours
We are so fun
and we party harder than anyone
and Egyptian youth - they're so strong
they're so smart, they're so driven
Sudanese like to laugh, you know what I mean
they're not confrontational people
you're gonna hear them sh*t talk before you hear them
go up to a guy and be like
Its location basically because it's bordering the beach
all over the country, you have Sahara, you have the beaches
It's a rich country so guys, welcome - anytime
It's so pretty. You can see art everywhere:
in the food, traditional clothes, the architecture
Libyan people - we're very generous
even if you don't want our generosity, we will abduct you
and force you to stay the night and feed you
Like, the biggest, biggest, BIGGEST
challenge for North America or Europe life for me was
seeing someone fall down and hey - you don't touch them till ER comes
Nah, that's not how we work
There's something about our culture that teaches us to be so
kind and just be human
and I just love that, in a world with social media
where it just dehumanizes a lot of things
our culture teaches us to be human.