![]() ![]() I eat rice every day and I went to Catholic school, but my dad is a Muslim who lives in Egypt. I grew up with my Filipino family here in Cerritos. MALAKA GHARIB: (Reading) I found it really hard to answer. When she was in high school in California, Malaka says that wherever she went, she always got the same question, what are you? They have since divorced, and her dad's back in Egypt now. Her mother immigrated from the Philippines, and her dad came from Egypt. GREENE: Malaka was born and raised in California. ![]() I had to somehow rise above my parents' life in America. MALAKA GHARIB: (Reading) She never explained what she meant by that. MALAKA GHARIB, BYLINE: (Reading) When I was growing up, my mom would always say.įLEURDELIZ SAN PEDRO: You have to be better than us. So what does it mean to live the American dream? Well, this is something NPR editor Malaka Gharib has been thinking about since she was a child. ![]()
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