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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. [history]

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
1 posted on 11/12/2003 8:17:48 AM PST by rface
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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?

2 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)
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What exactly is "multicultural education"?
3 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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