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School to write. i wanted to meet you in person, because you were raising a lot of points about what it s like to have been raised here as an american and feeling that foreignness, which we all reject as kids. we all want to belong. and then realizing that the real innovation is, in fact, in the country of your ancestral roots. in a way, what i ve lived just by the fact of when i grew up in the early 80s and 1990s, i ve kind of lived the transition that you ve been talking about this hour. i grew up in america in a time when it was still kind of unquestionable, in which tuesday night s speech wouldn t have been necessary to remind us that this is the most innovative country in the world, the most dynamic country, the country where reinvention is most possible. but over the course of my lifetime, the country that my parents left in the 1970s, india, emerged from a long period of dormantsy to come in
Always seemed a place where people had so much potential within them and then that potential had nowhere to go, it had no head room. and my parents came to america because that potential had ample headroom here and anything was possible. and now when you go to india, i spent six years there and came back a year and a half to go to this country, when you travel in india, small town india, even the villages of india, you meet people with almost nothing, who somehow have gotten the idea that great things are possible for them. that destiny can be changed. that no one can come in their way. and it s very striking in this country, if you think about our political discourse, just to take money example, we are will all behaving the way we talk to each other, the way we argue on television, as though we re fighting over the last scraps of greatness. and i think we really need to think about not just economic competitiveness, of which the president focused on on tuesday, but also cultural compe