Who is America? (with Shereen Marisol Meraji)

Closer Than They Appear

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🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Carvell Wallace turns to Shereen Marisol Meraji from NPR's Code Switch to ask: How can we come together as a country when it seems like so many things are working to keep us apart? Thanksgiving is one of the only days of the year when a lot of us - literally, physically - have to come together with people we might not agree with, whether we want to or not. It's the quintessential American holiday. So who are the quintessential Americans?

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0:36.4	So like, Shreen. Yes. is this your country?
0:43.7	Are you just going to start with that question?
0:45.7	Yeah.
0:46.5	Wow, you're just going to go there?
0:48.1	Yeah, I'm, yeah.
0:51.0	This is closer than they appear.
0:53.4	I'm Carvel Wallace and this is Shireen Marisol Maragi.
0:57.6	Is this your country?
0:58.5	Is this my country?
0:59.8	Yeah.
1:04.4	So I feel like it's, it is my country because it's the only country I really know, right?
1:10.7	This is, I was born and raised here.
1:13.2	I think the mix that I am, Puerto Rican and Iranian,
1:17.5	it's probably a mix that could only happen here.
1:20.8	You probably will only find here.
1:22.7	I don't know if there are any other Puerto Rican Iranians out there.
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