Other questions to ask:

• Why are you not a super model?
• Why are you not a MacArthur Fellow?
• Why are you not a 10?
• Why don’t you have swagger like Shakespeare?

“‘Why don’t you have a Pulitzer Prize?’ the consular officer asked. A Nobel would suffice, too.” It’s getting more difficult for foreign journalists to work in the US, my latest for @CJR https://t.co/wJ5E0rqQV5

— Amanda Darrach (@akdarrach) September 12, 2018

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