Omer Mozaffar discusses Avatar

Omer Mozaffar, Graham School instructor, discusses James Cameron’s Avatar for Sun-Times rogerebert.com.

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I was born in Karachi, Pakistan. At a very young age my beloved parents rode the huge wave that was the South Asian diaspora, landing here in Chicagoland, where I’ve been ever since. Thus, like many of my peers, I’ve been in a state of constant exile.

On the South Side of Chicago, I’m a Pakistani. In the rest of Chicago, I’m a Southsider. In the rest of America, I’m a Chicagoan. In the rest of the world, I’m an American. That is today’s “normal,” isn’t it? We are simultaneously, unintentionally local and global.

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