What's Left Of The American Dream? Ep.2/4 : License to Belong | ALL IDENTITIES COMBINED

At school in the Paris suburbs, Walid was taught that America is a melting pot: a country where coming from somewhere else was not a problem, but part of the story - even something you could be proud of.
Born there, raised there, American. Period.
For years, one idea seemed to make that promise real: birthright citizenship.

But belonging is something else. It is the moment your voice counts — when you too get to help define the "we."

In Atlanta, Walid sits down with Gyun Hur, a Korean American artist and educator, and Amenah Arman, a Palestinian American trauma therapist. Both grew up with mixed messages about what their families' choice of America was supposed to mean.
Both are professionals navigating a political climate that shapes their work — and sometimes pushes against it.

Both are also mothers, now facing the same question: What do you pass on, when belonging feels like permission granted by others?

What’s Left of the American Dream? / Que reste-t-il du rêve américain ? is a bilingual documentary series by Walid Hajar Rachedi. Set in Atlanta — the city of Martin Luther King Jr., a “Black Mecca” and a new crossroads of migration — during the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term in 2025, it explores the stories of those who still live the American Dream, those who question it, and those who never believed in it.

Editorial and sound support for this episode : Ryad Maouche.
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