>> people with express themselves. be whoever they want to be. >> that's not true in much of the world. >> if i stayed in india, there is a very good chance i would have become an engineer or a doctor like my grandfather or maybe a computer programmer. so i would have gone -- it's not that i would have no choice. >> john: just what you are expected to do. >> influenced by how are, your place in the family, what your parents did. you are social lived into a very particular track in life. >> in some countries, i my mean, you don't have the right to decide what profession you want to be in. can sometimes be based on family or class. >> nicole came here from the dutch antilles to be a dancer. and she made it. here she is dancing on broadway. she even got her picture on the theater marquee, finding out about it only after her roommate called and said. >> you have to come down to 49th street because you are on the marquee of the building. did i not believe her until i came down here and saw it