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My name is Jamal I was born in Morocco,
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I came to the US to further my education
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I came here when I was about 24.
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To be honest when I first came here I was so scared
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because back then I didn’t know anything about the US.
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Anyway I came for educational purposes, I got married here, I met my wife here, started my career
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and now every summer I go to Morocco
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I have sisters that live in Austria
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They are married there and live there
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I am currently in a city called pensacola in florida,
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the beach is not that far.
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This town is small and beautiful and good for those who want to raise a family, those who don’t like crowded places and places with a tons of traffic
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A lot of people know about the existence Berbers, or Amazigh,We call, them Amazigh in our language. Berbers exist a lot in Morocco, we have Chelouh people, Rifi people,
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they also exist in Algeria, Tunisia and even Libya,
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you find them mostly in Morocco
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you find them mostly in Morocco
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Some of them only speak Berber.
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Many people when they hear about Morocco they think it is an Arab country,
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but those who speak Berber outnumber those who speak Arabic
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Morocco doesn’t really have Arabs but rather Berbers who became Arabized and forgot their identity , those who basically forgot their history after the coming of Islam
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Many of those Berbers, forgot the Berber language and started using Moroccan Derija
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but the number of Berbers is very large, the number of those who speak Tachelhit is estimated to be more than 10 millions in Morocco
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but they now have a big issue which the arabization of Morocco
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the government doesn’t do much for Berbers because it only encourages arabic but Berbers
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and their language is not very well taken care of
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When I have kids I will teach them Berber in order to speak it because it is who we are, it is our identity ,
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it is not only a language, it is our origins, our culture, our traditions
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It is who we are, If you don't speak Berber anymore, then you have nothing left
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Many people tell me that Berber sounds like German or polish or even Russian to them sometimes
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the RIFI Berber is a bit different from Tachelhit though