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Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.
Aasif Mandvi
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Aasif Mandvi
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
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Aasif H. Mandviwala
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My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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