‘We want to be appreciated for who we are’
Each week, this series will introduce you to an exceptional American who unites, rather than divides, our communities. To read more about the American profiled here and more average Americans doing exceptional things, visit onenation.usatoday.com. I think it means that I am privileged. I have opportunities I would never have had in India. It means freedom, it means a new perspective and ways of looking at things from when we first moved here from India . ... In America, you can achieve your dreams. came to my mind. My hope for our nation would be that it would continue healing. I feel like it has been on the right path of equality and acceptance for all man for who they are, whether they are disabled, whether they are of a different race, whatever makes them different, that we would celebrate the differences . ... We are not all alike, and we want to be appreciated for who we are, inside and out.