it's so important for people to remember, these places you eeo see on the news are also people's homesit different than america i think here you have to make a choice between be french or be your origin. >> like the citizens. >> no, not officially. first of all you are french. but you feel. >> yeah. >> because sometimes you are not feel french. especially when you are fireman from a place like this. because here is far from center. here we have nothing like the big mouses, no galleries not too many shops. >> but you create your own culture. >> yeah, all the good culture is from the suburbs. ♪ ♪ >> this is paris. >> no but that's cool. i love that. >> i was raised in a neighborhood very similar to this. and the media only seemed to report on our struggles and hardships. the good stuff always got buried. this community much like where i grew up is filled with joy, laughter, love and pride. i've never felt so at home in a foreign country as i do here. >> we don't feel french. >> you live in sort of the gray. >> that's why in this event you feel somewhere. for just one moment. staying up h