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Defector, 13, torn between two countries
Boston Globe ^
| November 12, 2003
| Patricia Wen, Globe Staff
Posted on 11/12/2003 8:17:47 AM PST by rface
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:01 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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AMHERST, Massachusetts -- When Yu-kun Jia, 13, races to catch her school bus in this Western Massachusetts town, she tries to block out the fact that she is one of China's most well-known political defectors. Or that her future in the United States remains uncertain. Or that she desperately misses her mother, who still lives in a rural Chinese village.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; china; defectors
liberals hate when oppressed people flee communist countries.....I am sure they would hate this story even more if the defector was Cuban instead of from China
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posted on
11/12/2003 8:17:48 AM PST
by
rface
To: rface
When Yu-kun Jia, 13, races to catch her school bus in this Western Massachusetts town, she tries to block out the fact that she is one of China's most well-known political defectors. Or that her future in the United States remains uncertain. Or that she desperately misses her mother, who still lives in a rural Chinese village. She defected from communist China...to communist Massachsetts?
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posted on
11/12/2003 9:34:00 AM PST
by
lowbridge
(As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. -Mr. Carlson, WKRP in Cincinnati)
To: lowbridge
What exactly is "multicultural education"?
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posted on
11/13/2003 1:51:50 AM PST
by
August West
(Half of my life, I spent doing time....)
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