[Music] What you have just heard me saying is only a one pattern that you could hear in the United Arab Emirates of how to sayalamu alaykum. 30 years ago you would have have heard this pattern only in the mountains of Risa and in the coastal line of Da but not anymore. Actually this could be the pattern of every day of a person who is sitting next to you and therefore it is part of his identity and part of his um his identity. Yes. This is in fact the um legacy behind the United Arab Emirates uh long histor ...

[Music] [Applause] Imagine being at a water park, a place where joy and laughter should flow freely, a place of laughter and splashes. is you are speaking your mother tongue, a language that carries centuries of stories and songs. When suddenly someone interrupts you and says, "What the are you speaking? Is it Jamaica?" I watched as the middle-aged Caucasesian man's face contorted with disgust and a doineering audacity as it interrupted my conversation in Euroba at a water park in Philadelphia, Mississippi. ...