In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism – this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
Aasif Mandvi
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I think you had
I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.
Aasif Mandvi
Of course the law’s
Of course the law’s not racist.
Aasif Mandvi
North Carolina precinct chairman
North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state’s new voting restrictions are just fine.
Aasif Mandvi
I grew up on
I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.
Aasif Mandvi
When my family decided
When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like – America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.
Aasif Mandvi
This was in the
This was in the ’70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there.
Aasif Mandvi
I think I discovered
I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad’s store.
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My father got a
My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for – I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? – like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always – he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that’s where I grew up.
Aasif Mandvi
I don’t want to
I don’t want to tell people what they should think.
Aasif Mandvi