American Dreaming with José Díaz-Balart: Tariq Farid
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 12 June 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What does the American dream mean to you? |
| 0:02.5 | For me, it's passing it on because I think as I came here, |
| 0:06.1 | other immigrants passed it on to me and kind of inspired me. |
| 0:30.6 | Terrick, for you, what a pleasure to meet you. |
| 0:33.6 | I'd say it's really nice to be here because it's an honor. |
| 0:36.8 | Terrick, you know, for so many of us, edible arrangements have been a part of our lives at one |
| 0:45.6 | time or another. And we don't often kind of think, well, how did this come about? You know, |
| 0:55.0 | how does edible arrangements start? And I wanted to take you back, Terrick, to when you were 11 |
| 1:02.6 | years old. Tell me about that journey. Yeah. So, I mean, as you said, I was 11 and, you know, one |
| 1:10.9 | day my father says we're all going to be going to the States and, you know, we, |
| 1:16.8 | five brothers, one sister, the whole family kind of loaded up on a plane and with literally |
| 1:24.0 | nothing. My father was a machinist here and worked at Burger King and McDonald's and had all these |
| 1:30.4 | part-time jobs. And we showed up at our uncle's house on August 14, 1981. And, you know, what I |
| 1:38.3 | remember the most magical thing of that was what my mother said as we arrived here. She said, |
| 1:43.9 | my life starts today. And, you know, there's a little bit of a history there. My great grandfather |
| 1:51.4 | had come to the U.S. as a laborer. He was recruited in India. He was a farmer. He was recruited. And |
| 1:57.1 | he came to U.S. worked in California and the fields and made about $2,000 by working a year. |
| 2:04.6 | And with that, changed everybody's life back in India. And my mother felt that that was the |
| 2:10.8 | completion of a journey. And she said, for me, life starts today. And I remember that. And it |
| 2:16.0 | truly started that day. That's an amazing story because it's the grandfather who essentially |
| 2:24.3 | fulfills his American dream. Yeah. It's an American dream, Eric, that is not necessarily |
| 2:31.1 | based in one geographic location. The United States and America represents so much for so many |
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