Felix Oberholzer-Chi
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So part of what I loved about the story is that it didn't come from Microsoft, that didn't come from Apple, that it came from another organization.
Oh, no.
I fear the worst.
Wow.
Okay.
We'll post it on our website.
No, we won't.
I have a book that I just finished reading that I absolutely loved.
It's by an author I had known before, Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, and maybe best known for Half of a Yellow Sun.
But this is an older book of hers called Americana.
And it's the story of a Nigerian person who moves from Nigeria to the United States and
And then experiences the United States as a black person in America, but also as a Nigerian in America.
And much of the story revolves around these two parts of her identity and how they relate to what happens in the United States at this period of time.
And what I find absolutely fascinating is as a person who moved from somewhere else to the United States myself, there was always this interesting contrast.
Some of the things that you will experience in America today, you only experience when you're Black.
And it's really race.
And for her and for the person in the book, everything is reflected as a function of her being Black.
But I share many of the experiences that this person has, even though obviously race is not the underlying cause.
So for instance, and I think everybody who moves to the US will notice this, you have to be really exuberant in your use of language.
You have to say wonderful and spectacular and amazing all the time.