We are told to take off our shoes in front of a king and before a king's palace. All cultures experience conflicts based on different expectations. Sometimes our culture comes into conflict with that of other people in terms of ideas, languages, habits and other things. Our cultural heritage is both African and other. The full-blooded native African has a heritage that is not purely African in anything but geography.
African culture is a mixture of Arabic and European and various heritages of African values.
I remember a teacher who challenged us when we were in secondary school. He promised to give 1,000 CFA to any of us who could speak our mother tongue only, for five minutes without borrowing any word from a foreign language. Of course, he repocketed his money, not because we did not try, but because none of us could win the bet, although we did our best to do so. We love our grandparents and often admire aspects of their old ways, yet we cannot be like them. Admiration, nostalgia, embarrassment, and pain and pride are all part of our heritage.