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[Woman] Go, go, go, go, go, go! <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A part of the surreal nature of those protests is that <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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sure, you are listening to weapons go off <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and also you’re seeing tear gasoline <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and there are stampedes coming. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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However you additionally search for and there is Louis Vuitton <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and Victoria’s Secret and large advertisements <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and also you assume, I imply, am I in a warfare zone? <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Or am I in a shopping center? <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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And generally, it is each. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The Hong Kong protests have gone on for 5 months now <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and as I spent weeks there <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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speaking to numerous members of the inhabitants, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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not simply the protestors, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I noticed that this story is about <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Hong Kong’s reckoning with its personal id <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and its relationship to the skin world, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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that means China and the West. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The protests started with an extradition invoice in early June. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The extradition invoice would enable suspected criminals <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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to be extradited to mainland China. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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It invited plenty of anger and suspicion <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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as a result of if folks in Hong Kong <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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could be taken throughout the border and tried in <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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mainland China’s very questionable, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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opaque, doubtful courtroom system, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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then what else will the get together do subsequent? <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The Hong Kong folks really feel like <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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mainland China is encroaching upon the freedoms of this metropolis <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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that was assured autonomy <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and mainland authorities was actually reneging on its promise. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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[Newsreader] There was a symbolic reducing <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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of the Hong Kong and British flags. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Hong Kong was a British colony for over 100 years. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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In 1997, it was lastly given again to mainland China. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The one nation, two system coverage stipulates that <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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for 50 years after the handover, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Hong Kong would nonetheless proceed to take pleasure in <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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a terrific diploma of autonomy. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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There was real perception that in about 50 years, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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China, having reached financial stability and prosperity, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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would develop towards a Western liberal democracy. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Within the 20-odd years that we now have left, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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it’s exceedingly unlikely. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If something, will probably be much more authoritarian regime. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Beijing’s want to totally possess Hong Kong <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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has to do with two issues. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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China’s world picture, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and it is about its capability <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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to carry on to the remainder of its territory. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Tibet and Xinjiang, areas that could be <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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emboldened to interrupt away, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and Taiwan, which China nonetheless thinks of as a rogue state. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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In Hong Kong, this very cosmopolitan metropolis, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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they rear kids who develop up talking three languages, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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English, Mandarin, Cantonese, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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who’re uncovered to folks from each nation <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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who come to do enterprise. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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They’ve a terrific social welfare system, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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cutting-edge hospital services <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and most significantly, an training system <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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that also permits them to query the world they dwell in, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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far more so than in China. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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This isn’t solely a metropolis motion, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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it is a motion for each citizen <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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that lives in Hong Kong. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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So, Hong Kong id, for a lot of, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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is that this immense sense of delight of their cosmopolitanism, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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their capaciousness of id, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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in a way that they will comprise <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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each being culturally Chinese language particular person <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and an individual who holds many liberal Western values. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u266a The land of the free \u266a <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Within the 60s, 70s and 80s, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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many financial refugees from coastal villages in China <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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who’re fleeing from the political chaos <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and the dire poverty, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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they termed Hong Kong town of sunshine <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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as a result of they may see the glittering skyscrapers. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Their one purpose is survival <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and the flexibility to discover a job, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and you’ve got their kids, these younger protestors <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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asking their dad and mom, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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you swam right here, you fought for a greater place to dwell <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and also you fought for a possibility <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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to make life higher for your self. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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That is what we’re doing. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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This younger man, in his mid-20s, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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he gave his title to me as No Title <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and he talked so much about his relationship together with his father. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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His father tends to be fairly violent, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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so No Title grew up being crushed by an authoritarian determine <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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that isn’t so totally different, in his thoughts, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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from what the Communist Occasion is like now. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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He mentioned, After I was 9 or 10, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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it wasn’t that I did not need to battle towards my father, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I could not, I used to be too bodily small and weak. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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So, he feels this ethical obligation to assist the protest <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and, if want be, die for it. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The protest has change into one about police brutality <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and common suffrage, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and for the present Chief Govt, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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the very unpopular Carrie Lam, to step down. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The violence is actually escalating <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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however what’s so tough about these protests is that <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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it acquires a momentum of its personal. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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It is virtually like an organism <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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over which you have misplaced management. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I discovered myself questioning what was actually happening. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I attempted to make sense of the that means of id <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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this development of nationalism throughout the metropolis. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Hong Kong will not be, at this level, a nation <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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however as a result of it feels so imperiled, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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so besieged by these exterior forces, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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it desires to carry onto its sense of native Hong Kong id <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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As a result of Mandarin is the actual dialect that <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Beijing has tried very laborious to popularize throughout China, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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it is perceived as a approach by which <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Beijing is making an attempt to erase native tradition. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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As a reporter, I used to be carrying my inexperienced neon reporter vest <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and I used to be accompanied by a retired faculty trainer <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and we had been talking in a mishmash of Mandarin and English. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Upon overhearing the Mandarin I used to be talking, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I used to be stopped and I used to be requested <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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if I used to be certainly a journalist from the West, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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then why did I converse Mandarin, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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why did I look the best way that I did? <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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And that was, I believe that was unsettling for me <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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as a result of, within the U.S., I am so used to everybody <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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accepting a bifurcated id of being Chinese language-American <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and to actually be the item of suspicion <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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was alarming for me. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I am proud to be each Chinese language and American <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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however what precisely does that imply? <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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And who am I swearing my loyalty to after I say that? <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Or is there any form of loyalty? <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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We really feel the necessity to carry out our identities, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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each within the context of a protest on the streets, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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but in addition with the appearance of social media, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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we have to broadcast to the world <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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the place we stand politically and socially. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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And our id, via efficiency, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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is one thing that we continuously should affirm and ensure. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I believe that is a break from the earlier era. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Hong Kong makes me take into consideration protests <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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raging elsewhere on the earth proper now, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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and the way they’re all about principally younger folks <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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who really feel the necessity to actively carry out the best way they really feel. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The sense that in the event that they really feel themselves to be one thing, <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n