>> anthony: attitude about many things are decidedly different here. where many post-colonial cultures are ambivalent or conflicted about their bloodlines --picking black or white to identity with-- here, people are proud of who they are and where they came from. all of it. >> anthony: i'm curious why the post-colonial experience in senegal is so different than the post-colonial experience almost everywhere else. >> man: i think that the pre-colonial and the colonial experience in senegal is different, also. not only the post-colonial experience, because in saint-louis we had lots of influences, i think. >> anthony: arab, portugese, uh --. >> man: so, because, yes, the portuguese and the english first they were here and after that, the morocco, from the morocco. >> marie-caroline: my feeling was this -- that because we are at the crossing of various roads, eh, independently from the colonization prior, makes the senegalese people very