When the easiest way to feel safe is offering help to others
What does belonging mean to Akhil Sharma, an American who immigrated from India? Offering help to another opened him up to the realization that the world is greater than himself. Sharma, an...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: We end this week with one immigrant's take on belonging. Award-winning novelist Akhil Sharma is a professor of literature at Rutgers University and a contributor to "The New Yorker" magazine. He offers his Humble Opinion on opening up to understand the experiences of others. AKHIL SHARMA, Professor of Literature, Rutgers University: People ask me all the time if I feel more Indian or more American. When I was younger, if it were an Indian asking, I would say American. And if it were an American, I would say Indian. I did this because I was wanted to bother people. I was unsettled, unhappy, irritable. And my taking the opposite of whatever the questioner was, was a way of unsettling him or her, making the person anxious about hi...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: We end this week with one immigrant's take on belonging. Award-winning novelist Akhil Sharma is a professor of literature at Rutgers University and a contributor to "The New Yorker" magazine. He offers his Humble Opinion on opening up to understand the experiences of others. AKHIL SHARMA, Professor of Literature, Rutgers University: People ask me all the time if I feel more Indian or more American. When I was younger, if it were an Indian asking, I would say American. And if it were an American, I would say Indian. I did this because I was wanted to bother people. I was unsettled, unhappy, irritable. And my taking the opposite of whatever the questioner was, was a way of unsettling him or her, making the person anxious about hi...
