Why is African americans culture the most imitated and duplicated. around the globe.

Added: 2026-05-25

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[00:00:45]African-Ameans are the most imitated group of people on the planet.

[00:00:52]We're the most imitated. We're the most emulated. We're the most cosplayed.

[00:00:58]our culture, all right, the culture that we have cultivated, right, through our shared African culture and our shared oppression, living with and dealing dealing with the savage barbarian Neanderthalss, all that that that that cold that was pressed into a diamond that is African-American culture, right? Have created a culture that is now, whether we like it or not, becoming world culture, global culture.

[00:01:26]You see the people who want to gatekeep culture, right? It's always been an issue. When you want to gatekeep culture, the problem is you can't gatekeep it, especially if it's popular because people experience culture through experience and visual, you know, observation, right? Our culture comes from our observation, right? Even if you are within the community or without the community, your ability to observe a particular practice of a culture and you emulating that is you practicing that culture, right? And you have to be inspired and you want to practice that culture. And once you do it enough and once people around you do it enough, it becomes a part of your culture and then you blend that culture in with your culture and make a new culture. So right now, right, if I'm not sure if anybody's paying attention, but the entire world's new culture, we're talking about the youngans. We ain't talking about old heads like myself. All right, usually it's the old heads like myself that want to suppress our culture being spread out throughout the world, right? Cuz we want to keep it for ourselves, keep it pure, right? At what you say, you know, pure.

[00:02:31]But I'm sure there was a time in the past with us individual Africans when we were trying to figure out what the hell we doing over here in this new world and we had our cultures. I'm sure within the sphere of oppression and slavery, we are battling how to maintain our own individual particular African cultures while being forced to practice this white culture or live within this white European culture. Right? So there's always been points of time where our cultures, class and cultures change, right? good, bad, or indifferent. Now, at this moment, since African-Americans are the most popular group of people on the planet, unforced, you see, white people are the most popular group of people on the planet. Forced, right? They had to force, kill, rape, murder, and trick their way into becoming popular, meaning well-known, mean people want to do be like them, right? And they only really want to be like them so they can relieve themselves of the oppression, right, that the people like them have created because they're not like them. So it's not like, "Oh, you guys are white and cool. I want to be like you." It's more like, "Okay, if I'm white, I ain't got to deal with the oppression that you white people place upon my people." And then how my people adopt your ideologies place upon itself via colorism, cast systems, and [ __ ] Right?

[00:03:48]So that's how people relate to want to be white. It ain't because it's cool. is because it's convenient, right? But black people want to be black. They desire it. They want it. They see the oppression and the difficulty, but they still want to get there. They like the elements and they try to steal it and add it to their own. Or they like the elements and they practice it and they merge it with their own. It all depends on what the intentions are. But like it or not, the way we speak because people resonate with our voice, right? They're going to start speaking that way.

[00:04:21]nothing we can do about it. It's just it's a it's a compliment to be emulated, right? It's a compliment that people think, damn, I want to be like those people, right? We're celebrated in many different ways around the world. Now, a lot of us don't know that because a lot of us don't travel. Most people don't travel. 80% of any population don't go anywhere, right? Don't get to experience other cultures. Don't get to experience how other cultures appreciate our culture, right? And that's why we have incidences where, you know, they had the Japanese people talking about the black folks, you know, being a a cause of death, not understanding Japanese culture and how they speak because you've never been to Japan or never interacted with a Japanese person, understood how their English works, you would maybe get offended by that, say, "Oh, why why you saying that?" But if you understood the culture of the Japanese, you would know that that was not derogatory, right? It was damn near continent. What they were saying is, "Damn, these people can whip my ass.

[00:05:12]Look how big and strong and muscular they are." Right? Look at them. I mean, it's the truth. It's not like it's a lie. It's the truth. It's an objective truth. Some people can't can't take objective truths. They can't take pure facts. They can't take people who would just say they look at you and say, "Oh, you know, have you been, you know, some people say, oh, you look a little like you like you've been happy lately. Oh, you gained a few pounds, right?" Or try to easily, you know, how some people try to ease in the fact that they've noticed that you gained weight. Well, there's some countries where they say, "You done got fat. It's just that simple. You done got fat." They're not trying to be derogatory. They're just saying they observe that you are bigger than you are now. I mean, you bigger now than you were before. Therefore, you have gotten fat. Fat is the word, right? You'll get offended, but they weren't trying to be offensive. But you would have to understand how people speak English in different countries to understand it, right? And that's also a part of culture, right? And so, like it or not, African-American culture because people resonate with it for some think ask yourself this. Why do people resonate with African-American culture? A lot of these people from all over why do poor Russians, poor Ukrainians, poor and even notice this. Usually the poor side, right, who resonated the hardest, right, the people who are struggling within their own communities, right, who who resonate with it to the point to where they emulate it completely and totally making their own versions of it, right? You ever wondered why they resonate with us so much and don't resonate with other groups of people in the poor echelons of various societies that create their own artistic expression?

[00:06:48]You ever wonder that why other people who've not who've been marginalized why they're not popular? Why is it that the artistic rap music in the form of rap is that being used by every impoverished and uh group of people on the planet to express themselves? Why? Why? Why? Why is that the main way people feel like they can speak with power and authority to whatever whatever power or machine they're fighting against? Why?

[00:07:14]You ever think about that? Right? So, deep down in the heads of a lot of people, they admire us. They envy us. We are the heroes. We are the inspiration for multiple revolutions within countries that you don't even know about. A lot of revolutions happened because people were watching us revolt against the European, watching us revolt against the American in America as Americans who were secondass citizens.

[00:07:38]They watched us like basically we was on Viltro fighting the Viltrammites on their own land. Then we became the Viltromites because we had to defeat the Vigilmites like straight straight battle world. They seen us on battle world, right? It's like damn these guys came out unscaped. They fought the most vicious deathdeying demon on the planet.

[00:07:57]the only group of people that ever drop a nuclear bomb twice on other people and we defeated them. We grabbed power and position within a country that they control. If they can do it, we can do it. Literally, we have inspired many revolutions around the world based off our natural ability to fight back, not be complacent. Even though we have the ability to be complacent, because god damn, we can cope so good. We allow ourselves to cope, right? and let Europeans do what they want to do to us in America sometimes because we're so good at coping, we forget that we're being oppressed. We're so good at it, we're so good at walking and standing with the pressure on our back that our backs just get strong, we don't never move out the way. We don't even dodge and weave sometimes. We just take the hit cuz we know we can take it. And that's a problem. We don't have to take the hit because we can take it.

[00:08:43]Sometimes we need to whoop move the hell out the way and not take any of the damage. But anyway, I just want y'all to realize how important and special you are as a group of people. You are African. You are descendants of great Africans who done great things, right?

[00:09:00]You are descendant of many types of Africans. And because of that, you were able to take that African power, that that energy from the multiple West and Central Africans, and you were able to take that and combine that and create one of the greatest greatest and most influential cultures Africa has ever produced, and that's African-American culture. Every African should be able to celebrate African-American culture because it's African culture in America.

[00:09:28]Every African should be able to see the African-American and say, "I can do that because they did that." And since they are me, that means I have the capability of doing that. Because there's nothing about them. Nothing that they have that I don't have. There's nothing that African-Americans have that continental Africans don't have. But we use the things we have to do what we got to do, right? And we show and inspire other people that they can use the things that they got to do what they got to do, you know? So just you got to just, you know, when when people are talking trash and you see people talk trash mouthing us, it's just because they don't know. It's because they're not educated or just because they're jealous. Either way, it's not really our problem unless they make it our problem by physically doing something, right? Because of the way they feel. Other than that, right, when they speak, they're projecting their insecurities onto us. And we can't help.

[00:10:22]Yeah, we got the juice. We can't help it. We can't help that most America's gold medalist come from us. We can't help that we are in fact black excellence incarnate.

[00:10:33]We can't help it. It's just what it I'm sorry. Uh not sorry. At the same time, we can't apologize for our greatness and we can't allow the disrespect because people are jealous of our greatness.

[00:10:44]They should find their greatness because everybody can be great. Every group of people have the capability of being great in their own way. And they should be able to do that without murdering and killing and stealing and lying to a group of people on a systematic uh on a systematic basis because that just shows how weak that they are because they can't really stand up on their own two feet and they ain't got no motion to create any light for anybody to pay attention to in the dark. Anyway, you guys tell what you think about this in the comments section. It's from Think Tank. Learn something, teach them something. I'm out.

[00:11:14]>> All right, racist.

[00:11:26]The way you shine the fake crime allowance. a [ __ ] holding [ __ ] >> Every time outside cultures invite themselves into black American culture, the authenticity is destroyed. But we must ask, why is black American culture the only one that's shared? Everyone else gatekeeps their culture but sees the culture in America as something they automatically get to engage in. Why is that? It's clear there is a culture of disdain shared amongst inferior groups of people culturally. You all seem to have a chip on your shoulder when it comes to the true indigenous people of this land. Yet, you can't wait to hop on the next black American created cultural expression. You all see it as an open invitation to join in when it was never meant for you or for me. It's meant for those with the rhythm and composure to match. The rest of you look ridiculous. You lack the rhythm and the grace to flow through movements with agility and poise. This was another cultural moment for dancers at H.B.CU.

[00:12:56]And we get the wannabe club wanting attention. It's not flattering. It's annoying. You guys are quick to catapult to social media virality for being mediocre. While the curators and the originators get their culture pushed down and squashed. The dance challenge is not even cool anymore because it's been taken over by parasites. Parasites who want to fit in and only see it as a trend. The internet would come undone if black Americans dressed like this and started dancing. No such footage exists because black Americans can understand it to be disrespectful. But no one views it as disrespectful to black Americans.

[00:13:28]We are tired of seeing mediocre people in the front. The way people sound singing Beyonce's music is the way you all look when you try to emulate black American culture. And even those who are good at it, the culture is still not yours. No other culture is welcoming to black Americans. You all gatekeep and yet you feel that you're entitled to VIP passes to their culture. No one wants an off-brand replica when we can just appreciate the original and authentic version.

[00:13:55]>> I challenge you to think of something truly American. Don't worry, I'll wave.

[00:13:59]>> I challenge you to highlight the contributions of immigrants without erasing black American culture. arguably the most influential culture on the planet. Argue with a wall. There is not a single continent on this planet that does not imitate black American culture in some [ __ ] way. You almost had it when you mentioned rhythm and blues, but then you lumped us in with immigrants.

[00:14:21]And we are not immigrants. Neither is our culture. Yes, American culture absolutely takes from immigrant culture.

[00:14:28]The message is correct.

[00:14:30]What isn't correct is ignoring black American culture, which is uniquely black American. It's not immigrant culture. It's not African culture. It is black American culture that has been being built from the ground up for the last 400 plus years by black Americans.

[00:14:49]We can all acknowledge the contributions of immigrants and their culture without erasing black American culture. doesn't get a lot of >> credit.

[00:14:59]>> Credit.

[00:14:59]>> Trinies.

[00:15:01]>> No.

[00:15:01]>> Who?

[00:15:02]>> I think black American don't get a lot of credit. I think within our discussions, like when I hear like Caribbean people or African people, I'm like, >> "Please don't."

[00:15:10]>> You know what's so crazy?

[00:15:11]>> Act like a black American man.

[00:15:13]>> Let me tell you why. Let me tell you why they don't get credit. And it's very obvious.

[00:15:19]>> When you go to a Caribbean [ __ ] and you was [ __ ] with Cuz in New York, we call them Yankees. Oh, in Miami who said yikes.

[00:15:28]>> When you're [ __ ] with them and the fact that they don't have like a real culture like in terms of like >> No, they got culture now.

[00:15:44]>> Well, when I say a real culture, you know, when you're in Jamaica, you're eating your rice and peas, your curry goats, and you're listening to dance hall music. In America, of course, you're going to eat like what do you eat? Lamb chops, burgers.

[00:16:02]When I No, no. When I I'll tell you this. My boyfriend, he's from North Carolina and I visited his family recently and they have a lot of traditions, a lot of cultures.

[00:16:14]>> I think the most attractive black men in America are >> folks. Do y'all ever think about black American culture and how it is duplicated worldwide?

[00:16:26]Folks always sit up on this app and other social media platforms and say black folks have no culture. Let's get straight into that delusion. If we look around the globe, our fashion is copied, our music is replicated, our slang, be it good or bad, stolen and watered down.

[00:16:47]The way we walk, the way we talk, the rhythm. We are studied, mimic, and monetized.

[00:16:55]It's a white woman on this app named Gigi. Black rappers just flock around her just cuz she got white skin. Don't y'all know it's black mothers doing the same thing that she's doing, but she done mimicked us and monetized on it.

[00:17:08]They wear black culture like it's dress up. And you negroes be in the comments cheering that [ __ ] on.

[00:17:17]Think about this. Why does the globe want to imitate people they claim who are at the bottom? Why do foreign brands, foreign artists, influencers build their entire careers off of black aesthetics, y'all?

[00:17:31]Because deep down inside, they know the truth. See, influence don't come from just power alone. It comes from culture.

[00:17:40]And black America has shaped globally culture without permission, without protection, and without credit. You can't copy what you look down on. You copy what you can't replace.

[00:17:54]See, if the world is mimicking us while disrespecting us, that should tell you everything you need to know. Just look around. I always want y'all to look around. Start with this very app that we're on every single day. You will see how we are mimicked and monetized. It's white folks on this very app, y'all, teaching what I'm teaching. And y'all are down in the comments eating it up.

[00:18:20]Plenty of black creators are teaching black history and doing stuff, but y'all listen to the very people who misled you in the first place. And I ain't going to even get on the white rappers that you black rappers push forward. Don't y'all know that's how we lost rock and roll?

[00:18:37]Y'all think rock and roll is something white when folks like they biggest ones Elvis Presley didn't do nothing but steal and copy from black rock and roll artists and as whitewashed.

[00:18:52]So when I see y'all pushing white rappers, you ain't doing nothing but whitewashing yourself in the future and they going to see a white face on the cover of rap instead of your black face.

[00:19:04]They mimic us and they study us and they take our own culture and refeed it back to us and we push them. We got such a I I don't know what it is.

[00:19:19]We we push we push it and we welcome them in like the welcome wagon of society. Meanwhile, they talking about you low life and feeding you back that [ __ ] you have no culture when whether it's good culture or bad culture. But black culture dominates the globe and it dominates America. You see it on commercials. You see it everywhere you turn. Some form of black culture. It's in our rhythm, in the way we dress, we talk, our hair, our walk.

[00:19:53]But y'all to let somebody sit around and tell y'all y'all have no culture when we dominate the globe in culture.

[00:20:01]The next time somebody tell y'all that or you see somebody saying black folks haven't showed no kind of culture in the last 25 years, think about that and all you got to do is take a stroll through each and every one of these social media platforms and you will see your culture mimicked every day whether it's good or bad. wigs, weaves, BBLs, rappers, cars, clothes, slangs, foods.

[00:20:28]The way we season food. Our culture, y'all, is everywhere. Don't ever let nobody water that down and resell it and repackage it back to you in a different skin tone. I'm Dr. O, y'all.

[00:20:41]>> Number one, um, my hot take is that black Americans are who they think they are. They are the moment. They are the culture. And I think they have the most impact in this country. And as Africans, we owe them more respect.

[00:20:55]>> Oh, I love that.

[00:20:56]>> Yeah, she's definitely black.

[00:20:57]>> She's definitely Amen.

[00:21:11]Amen.

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[00:21:36]Oh, man.

[00:21:52]Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?

[00:21:57]Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose?

[00:22:00]Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such extent that you bleach?

[00:22:07]Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?

[00:22:14]Before you come asking Mr. Muhammad, does he teach hate? You should ASK YOURSELF, WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE BEING WHAT GOD GAVE YOU?

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