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Why Jamaicans Are Built Different: Confidence Secret REVEALED! #shorts · Babes, how did you get here

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  I just want to ask you, I'm a dad of two girls, he's a black man.
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  And he's like, how do you walk into these spaces so confidently?
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  And to be honest, it was the first time I had really thought about it
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  because we are who we are.
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  And so when he asked me, I stopped and I thought about it.
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  And I was like, it's because I was raised in Jamaica.
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  Like the reason why I'm able to move through these very white spaces
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  that are not necessarily made to be the most welcoming
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  and not care is because I'm Jamaican.
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  Yeah, Jamaicans are actually both different.
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  And I was raised in Jamaica.
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  And when I then think about my children and their childhood
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  and what I want for them as adults,
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  but there is something about growing up in a country
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  that not only is black like majority,
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  but in Jamaica, I also had the privilege of growing up in a class
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  that I wouldn't be considered a part of in the UK, right?
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  So when you have your dad's friend is the owner of a bank, right?
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  And you have access because he's at the dinner table.
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  It does give you this sense of, I can do anything.
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  I can be anything that I don't think they would have
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  if they stayed in the UK.