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“Inside America”
“The greatest city in the world” – but do dreams still come true in New York?
– People celebrate the new nationwide holiday “Juneteenth” in Times Square © Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AP / dpa
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by Raphael Geiger
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New York has long been considered a city of immigrants and newcomers. But is that still true? That asks stern-Correspondent Raphael Geiger a young start-up founder from Nigeria.
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Anyone can do it in New York – that’s the city’s old “American Dream” promise. It has been attracting people who have been looking for happiness here for two centuries. Now, after the corona crisis, is a good time to ask: Is that still true? Is New York still open to the new? Or is the ascent here even more arduous than anywhere else in the world?
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This is what America sounds like. stern-Correspondent Raphael Geiger moved to the US shortly after Joe Biden’s inauguration and shares his reporting life with us every week. How are people after Trump and last year’s riots? Do you believe in a new beginning? Geiger takes us with him every Wednesday – to the heart of the country.
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After this stern-Reporter Raphael Geiger met an old punk rocker and surfer in the Queens district last week, in this episode he describes the encounter with Abbey Wemimo, who immigrated from Nigeria.
The young start-up founder wants to make it easier for people to prove their creditworthiness. People like him – who came to the US as a child from the Nigerian slums. “That was tough,” says Wemimo. And for his own success he had to be more diligent than others. But he is convinced of one thing: “New York is the greatest city in the whole world.”
A new episode of “Inside America” about the summer of summer in the city of cities.
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