Go Back to Where You Came from: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American Ali Wajahat
Go Back to Where You Came from: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American Ali Wajahat This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children…
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Go Back to Where You Came from: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American Ali Wajahat
This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place to live? Go back where, exactly?
("Become a doctor!") He had turmeric stains under his fingernails, was accident-prone, suffered from OCD, and wore Husky pants, but he was as American as his neighbors, with roots all over the world. Or Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago?Growing up living the suburban American dream, young Wajahat devoured comic books (devoid of brown superheroes) and fielded well-intentioned advice from uncles and aunties. Then, while Ali was studying at University of California, Berkeley, 9/11 happened.
Muslims replaced communists as America's enemy #1, and he became an accidental spokesman and ambassador of all ordinary,