How to pronounce "pragmatist"

But he had no insurance, so they bounced him.

His family in Bangladesh begged him, "Come home."

But he told them he had a dream to see about.

He found telemarketing work,

then he became an Olive Garden waiter,

because where better to get over his fear of white people than the Olive Garden?

(Laughter)

Now, as a devout Muslim, he refused alcohol,

didn't touch the stuff.

Then he learned that not selling it would slash his pay.

So he reasoned, like a budding American pragmatist,

"Well, God wouldn't want me to starve, would he?"

And before long, in some months, Raisuddin was that Olive Garden's

highest grossing alcohol pusher.

He found a man who taught him database administration.

He got part-time I.T. gigs.

Eventually, he landed a six-figure job at a blue chip tech company in Dallas.

But as America began to work for Raisuddin,

he avoided the classic error of the fortunate:

assuming you're the rule, not the exception.

In fact, he observed that many with the fortune of being born American