…I pretended I didn’t understand Arabic when he spoke to me in public places. Because when I was a younger child, Arabic was a secret code in the family – I think that’s true for a lot of immigrant families. But then I didn’t want to speak Arabic. I didn’t want to be different from my friends at all…
On formerly not wanting to connect with her father’s heritage in “An Interview with Diana Abu-Jaber” in CutBank (Fall 2005)…I pretended I didn’t understand Arabic when he spoke to me in public places. Because when I was a younger child, Arabic was a secret code in the family – I think that’s true for a lot of immigrant families. But then I didn’t want to speak Arabic. I didn’t want to be different from my friends at all…
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