A Documentary Narrating About Chagga People's Traditions, Culture, Life & Families.

"A Lot Like You" is an impressive documentary narrating about life of Chagga people's Culture, tradition, life and families. Chagga People live under the falls of Mount Kilimanjaro, found in Tanzania, East Africa. Chagga People are evolving. 

Happy New Year, 2018. This is a must Watch, documentary. It's about a Mwika guy and family documenting Chagga Culture & Tradition. Cousin Dr. Patrik Nilsson, Cousin Dr. Deodatious T.J. Mashitaki, Cousin Praksedi Nilsson and the Movement, we recommend you to watch this documentary because it is an eye-opening on what is transpiring onto us, Valerian Family, and you are stakeholders as your directly involved, not otherwise.

This documentary is narrating a fascinating, sad, interesting and mixed emotions life-long experience that cannot be found in any literature. Most of the critical and sensitive issues documented here are coded as taboo to document. They are spoken by the word of mouth and pass through generations in a form of story. I'm glad this documentary is made and published. Many people can use it to reference pending experiences as educational tool.

As you may have witnessed that observing the father, he hides his emotions and expressed logical explanations unlike mother and daughter, who were emotionally expressive. Hence, there is nothing much new to us, who were born & grew up in the Chagga village with vast interdependent family. But, watching it again and again, it can give one an enlighten observation that can further expand our observations to understand the evolving phenomenon and teach our families that did not live our life in the village those days before the new Millennium, before the new high technological environment that we have now. Also, this documentary gives us a perspective of our culture, both good and bad, in the eyes of outsiders. Outsiders can can be a non-Chagga persons and Chagga persons who never live and experience how Chagga traditions are practiced in this fast evolving social-culture, economic and technological boom era.

There are so many truths to this documentary about unspoken things that needed to be documented for a the prospective Chaggas and their prosperity. I concede that this documentary teaches us and others a lot about the evolving culture, traditions and life of Chagga People. We live and learn new things everyday. It is for us to understand this commentary's concept in today's life and use it to pave the future from these echo chambers.

The raw truth is, there are no enough literature, if any, about Chagga Culture and Traditions. We need more literature to match our expanding life.

Enjoy 2018

Reference: https://youtu.be/ztse3n1w0xc

Complementary: Read and watch what former US President Barack Obama warns of social media echo chamber (BBC: Prince Harry interviewed former President Obama), which, in this case, we, Valerian Family can relate this to the way cousin Dr. Nilsson's Movement is doing on to us.