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Posts: 580
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: USA
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08-06-09, 09:25 PM
Yeah... 
Back in the day when I had a mess of hair I used to go to my bootleg guy's wife to get it braided and that's how I got hooked on the movies. That's all they'd be watching in there. Folks all glued to the small screen high up in the corner, the volume turned up all loud.
Yo, I'm craning my neck trying to get a look and the woman's braiding the back of my head hehehe 
I should have cashed in too.
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About Haitians,
I find like you, that Brooklyn Haitians are way way more 'in the know'. The further South you go, the more 'homegrown' Haitians are. And that's not a bad thing.
Whenever I've gone down to Miami to the Little Haiti section (which is fast disappearing), it was like straight up Port au Prince, everybody speaking patois and going about their business without having to blend into the surrounding US society. That plus the fact that they're like a stone's throw away from Haiti and there's always someone coming and going home every day.
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Also, those movies are big EVERYWHERE there's Africans/Caribbeans. Also on the Continent. Where I lived in Africa, that's all folks were doing, watching those Nigerian movies.
I think what it is is that Africans/Caribbeans grew up in societies back in their countries where all they saw on tv was Black folks doing all kinds of stuff, from the president on down. And American tv (and the way AAs are depicted here) has always foreign and 'other' for them. So it makes sense that they'll want to see stuff that feels more real to them.
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