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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
4 Nov 2020 Conversations with Tyler Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature
“Let’s start with one about you. Now, you moved to the United States from Haiti, I believe, when you were 12.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- belief
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- 4 Nov 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Thank you so much for having me. I have so many questions. Let’s start with one about you. Now, you moved to the United States from Haiti, I believe, when you were 12. How is it you have learned so much about Haitian history in the meantime, since you didn’t do most of your schooling in Haiti? I often say, and my parents used to say as well, that I left Haiti, but Haiti didn’t leave me. Twelve is, I think, young enough to transition somewhat easily, but also to have formed so many memories. I had, actually, a big chunk of primary education in Haiti. Having learned both oral history and written history, I brought a lot of that with me to the US, enough that I was curious when I got here to find out more from this side of things. I think it was, in part, a love for Haiti that continued and also a curiosity about history in general, but Haitian history in particular.…
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