>> anthony: right. >> papa: and then you have a small group of guys like us who went abroad and are coming back. >> anthony: now, a phenomenon that i have seen i other countries in west africa was one where people leave either because of war, oppression, necessity, financial, education. and when they come back, there is resentment. how do they feel about people like you who go and then come back? >> papa: you know, unlike most other places over here, there's a tremendous amount of pride in your family. senegalese rarely go and just cut off. >> pierre: cut off, yeah. it's true. no, that's true, but in addition to people who go, they send money back home. >> christian: there is more money coming from the immigrants than the money that we receive from the world bank of imf or anything like that. >> anthony: why is this the case in senegal? where does this attitude come from? >> papa: it's just the nature of the social fabric. it's not an individual, individualistic society. >> anthony: what about the french colonial experience? uh, that too, was it different