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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 I was 11 my friend’s mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, ‘I’m never eating anything else again.’ And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
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Ate Eating Friend Made Mom Peanut Butter Sandwich
Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
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Chechnya Country might Narnia Suburb
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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Dad Discover Image Naked Peek Sneaking Thinking Woman
Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.
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Chicken Dish Food National Reverse Today
In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism – this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
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America Essential Idea Ideas Individual Kind Own West
I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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Allowing Beauty Exist Hijack Islam People Spiritual Think
Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
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Election Statistically Voter Voter Fraud Zero
If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Believe Levels Prophet Muhammad
Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It’s already happening, and it’s hot!
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Children Future Hot Interest Love Making
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.
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America Decide Family Land Like Opportunity Seem Sort
Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.
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Bigot Chechen Committee Creative Good Luck
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you’re a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn’t matter where you come from.
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Come Fact Matter Views Where You
I said we are Ghodratis and there’s nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.
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Bargain Ghodrati More Nothing Said
So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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America Complete Idea Unrealistic Wanted
I mean, but obviously, in people’s eyes, it still – it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they’re white?
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Difference Eye Mean Obviously People White
I don’t want to tell people what they should think.
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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.

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