Pakistani actor Kumail Nanjiani was unprepared for US cultural shock
The Business · KCRW
December 2, 202230m 2s
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<p>When actor, writer, and producer Kumail Nanjiani was 18, he moved from Karachi, Pakistan - a city of more than <a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22044/karachi/population">9 million people</a> - to the United States to attend <a href="https://www.grinnell.edu/">Grinnell College</a>, a small, private liberal arts college in Iowa in 1997. The town of Grinnell’s population was about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinnell,_Iowa">9,000</a> then. Though he had visited New York as a teenager, and “sort of knew America the way it is in movies,” he was not prepared for the cultural shock. </p>