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In my experience, we only wear dresses for special occasions and to go to church. So when we go to church we are required to wear dresses or skirts, and the boys have to wear suits. When there is a wedding that you go to you also have to wear dresses to, you can not wear white, because that is supposed to be the brides moment wearing white. Also when you go to funerals you have to wear all black to honor the dead.

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In my experience, we wear our cultural clothes in new years, at weddings and at church. We make our clothes with our hands. We wear that on new year to show respect.

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In my experience we wear kitenge (African fabrics) but many people think its a formal fabric, and wear it for special occasions. Some people wear it as “asoebi" for special occasions. "Asoebi" means "family clothes". People wear them when they have women's meeting or going to parties or weddings. In Congolese culture, people make many meetings when they have business they want to talk about. They sit together, all the women, and talk about it. They meet at one woman's house. And they wear these clothes. Kitenges are similar to kangas and kikoy, but only a long side. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Nigeria, Cameroon and Congo.

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My family

My family experience is loving, respecting and caring for each other. We all love spending time with each other and we share all our problems and take advice from one another. My siblings and my mom are close to me. The time we get to spend with each other is priceless and i really enjoy it. To me family is everyone that love, respect, support, and truly care about me.

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Ezra:
Family is something I really love and andore, In my culture family is not just your bro/sis or your related , we as a community make a family. in the village that i lived in, there was a celebration called (come together family), and every other week they would come together and they cook a lot of food and we all dance/sing sort of partying. In my culture when a family has an invents the whole village is invented. whenever a family has a problem with another family, the leader of the city will make an appointment for them to solves the problem before they do something crazy.

Lersa:
I don't really know much about African families. In my experience family it's happiness, you know, when adult come to visit us only our parent can sit in the living room, and talk to them, we are not allow to talk to them because we are kids and our parent don't want us to be disrespectful. When we cook something special we would invite our related and eat together. whenever our neighbor are sick they would ask us money to borrow so they can buy medicine. Yeah, in each villages it is just like one big family. When there is a NEWS in our villages the leader will ring the bell to get everyone's attention and he will announce the big NEWS to the village.

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I don't know much about the families of Africa but the experience that I have with my family is that in my family we always eat together, and nobody can speak if they have food in their mouth
Something in common that African families have with my country is that children care about parents, not like north Americans that children follow the example of parents
because parents when their children are small they send them to day cares all day and the children pay buck to their parents when they are old they send them to the nursing homes.

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In my experience, we as Christians believe that there is one God and only worship one. We also believe in having a relationship with him and reading the bible on a daily. As well as praying or talking to God whenever we need his love,help or just need guidance in a life situation. The way we dress does kind of matter but many don't follow this expectation, were supposed to dress in modest clothing to show respect for ourselves and those around us. I haven't gotten the full experience of being a christian since my parents are catholics. They also have similar beliefs to mine except for in their religion they worship saints and statues but we don't. Adding back to what someone said from another class about being careful who you accept food or anything from because it could  have "poison". In my opinion this could be true. My dad once told me a story of how his brother passed away because he ate something from a person with bad intentions and it made my uncle sick to the point he couldn't get out of bed,move for himself or talk. He sadly never recovered from that and died at a pretty young age.

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In my experiments African religion consists of  mainly Christianity, Islam n  Black Magic.
African Leaders use Black Magic to stay in power.

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My experience with family:
So I don’t know about African families and I want to learn about them but in my home country and experience about family to me is that in my family we don’t say family to only who have born in our family, we say family to the people that are close and if we are friends then we are family and sometimes even our neighbors are our family. Like sometimes if we cook food and feed people today, then tomorrow another home will make food and they will invite us to eat, and then the next day, another home and as Ezra have said, the same thing happen in their country Africa, so it is kind of same, so like that we say everyone we know is our family.

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My experience with food when i was in Tanzania i would come home hungry when my mom isn't home, i would make fufu, me and my friends we was go to forest to find fruits to eat one day we went to the forest there was four of us we went to the forest to eat fruits / papaya/ mangos/ after we was done eating fruits we was so full, we had fishing rods so went fishing my friend got a lot fish but he didn't want it so give to me, after that we starts going home it was getting dark, we went home my

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in my experience  in africa, in Burundi there is a lot of food there is ingame ; banana ;foufou;etc.. on simple days we eat rice , and beans , bananas ;potato and sweet potato. on feast days we eat rice, filter , chiken ,meat; and salad. Every meal, we eat together at a table. There is a lot of conversation. Conversation of the family. Our parents tell stories from when they were little.

my father, he loved to play basketball in Congo. my mother, she loved the play with her friends, I dont know what.

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In my experience, we wear this dress called baati. There is one that we wear every day and one that is designed differently so we wear it on special occasions. For everyday, we follow the Islamic rule of dressing, dressing modesty and wearing hijab and men wear thobe. In somalia women wear abaya a lot because it covers our whole body.

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As my experience, when the eid arrived at the morning we all muslims (men, women and kids) going to Masque (Masjid) and performing Eid prayer and then when they are done with praying, they hug each others and say "Eid Mubarak" means happy Eid, they also invite their relatives to there houses for Either lunch or dinner and spending hours together talking.
it continues for 3 days and then after that every one mind their own businesses.

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My experience with my religion, we pray five times a day, we always respect parents and we live with them throughout our lives. During the holidays, we go to our relatives and neighbors' houses to get money and candys. Music is one of the basic needs of all of us because we rest our souls. Me and my family read or listen to the Qur'an because it is very good for our souls and makes our lives easier.

We have two Holidays a year, Ramadan and Sacrifice. On the feast of sacrifice, we slaughter goats, sheep, or cows, and we pack the meat and share it with poor people in order to enable them to eat meat. The purpose of our holidays is to bring people together, to teach love, respect and sharing.

To compare with Joshua's experience. Joshua He is unaffiliated but he knows about his country's religious beliefs. There is 3 main religion in Africa Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

He used to believe in Jesus Chris. He changed his religion many times and he decided to be unaffiliated. In Africa there are types of schools depending on your beliefs for example in Christianity you learn religious education and in Islam you learn islam religious education.

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My experiences about family, is the people who always there for you and who you can share your problem with and you can trust them with everything. Family is the people who love you  the most like no one else and family is your life.

Story of a family: A year year year ago there is a small village in thailand and there is a mother and a son who is the only two person in the family the dad had passed a way when the son was 6 year old and the mother take care of him until he grow up and he is a teenager that is 16 years old, the son think he is a old enough to take of himself. The day when he was going to sleep over to his friend house the mother told him that ¨tonight is a people who is going to come and ruin our country ¨. The son didn't listen to his mom and he left to go sleep with his friend. That night the army come and everyone runs away but the guy is the only one who is left in the village.