Maz in New York
Maz in New York.
but what are the questions young people have to ask themselves in a world rattled by a pandemic?
Spending quarantine in a cockroach infested apartment, Maz finds herself questioning the land of opportunities.
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Stronger than ever
Quarantined in a shithole.
Will you stick your neck out?
My immigrant parents
Goto first pageMy immigrant parents.
Survivalists.
I don't want to live here
The land of opportunities.
I don’t know what it’s like to go hungry for days, or to not be able to (constantly) speak my mind. Here, or so the dominant narrative goes, anyone can have it all. That’s the beautiful thing about this country.
Most people would never dream that leaving America could be a good thing."
Maz Do for Huffington Post
Back to where?
American exceptionalism
Best country in the world.
I'm very lucky to be American but I was really pushing back on the idea that we are the best. You don't have to be the best country in the world. What does that even mean? According to what metric?"
Disenfranchised billionaires.
Covid truth.
Generation Z
The decline.
Lessons to learn.
There’s a lot of lessons that we need to learn as individuals but that we can also take away as a country. I hope it does get learned. But we’ll see, I guess."
Generation no choice.
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