0:08 - Classes she teaches, ESL, basic literature, changes with students, Hong Kong, literacy skills, blue-collar workers, hardships, 9/11, counseling, smoke, towers, social worker, hatred, feelings, experience, free lunch, assistance programs, pollution, health effects, air quality
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0:10 - Immigration, occupation, born in Hong Kong, father’s job, restaurant, growing up in Brooklyn, not knowing English, Chinese school, American school, reading books from library, childhood, speaking Cantonese, waiter and seamstress, parents’ occupations, siblings, not many Chinese growing up, Chinatown, dim sum, family in America, gambling, Canton, college, Brooklyn College, first-generation Chinese, Asians, NYU, diverse backgrounds, education, post-college, being a teacher, kindergarten, master’s
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30:45 - [Distorted Audio] Parents immigrating, childhood, Nixon presidency, sponsored, Taishan, opportunities, going back to China, tourist, becoming American, considering herself as Chinese, students
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46:01 - Cultural differences, blending in, being mature, rebellion, independence, running away, being good, studying hard, listening to parents, dating, secrecy, teenage years, having a boyfriend, dating Chinese people, convenience, commonality, Chinese and Russian, opening restaurants, immigrants
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66:02 - Her generation, speaking the language, food, cooking Chinese food, eating habits, McDonalds, saving money for rent, going out to eat, apartment, moving into a house in high school, savings, making parents happier, memories, patriotism, post-9/11, jury duty, concluding statements
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