Pakistani actor Kumail Nanjiani was unprepared for US cultural shock

02/12/2022 30 min
Pakistani actor Kumail Nanjiani was unprepared for US cultural shock

Listen "Pakistani actor Kumail Nanjiani was unprepared for US cultural shock"

Episode Synopsis


When actor, writer, and producer Kumail Nanjiani was 18, he moved from Karachi, Pakistan - a city of more than 9 million people - to the United States to attend Grinnell College, a small, private liberal arts college in Iowa in 1997. The town of Grinnell’s population was about 9,000 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.