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An exploration of the tension between ancient cultural traditions and modern transformation, where long-held values of heritage, ritual, and identity meet the accelerating forces of change.
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00:01It doesn't matter you're second generation, third generation, fifth generation,
00:05tenth generation, you're still overseas Chinese.
00:12Remember, everybody is an individual.
00:14Somebody who's elderly Chinese who came from, say, a rural area in China
00:19is going to have a completely different life perspective than somebody who, say, came from Shanghai.
00:41Some of these things seem very obvious to us. Why?
00:45Because people have been saying these things and thinking these things
00:48for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.
00:58Economic factors, cultural factors, political factors.
01:04Is the elderly person a product of the pre-revolutionary empire slash democracy?
01:11Or are they a product of post-1948 Maoist revolutionary empire?
01:19Was this person a war veteran?
01:22All of these factors very strongly influence who this person is
01:26and how they look on life in the world, even in America.
01:45And that means you're a source of healing.
02:05You're probably not.
02:05Man!
02:06You probably have problems from peeking this information,
02:07Then, I'm so happy to have to be happy about most people,
02:08but, by the time of people,
02:08Learn back at them while we look at them.
02:10There are times in this game where we talk about government

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