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You are listening to WMPG Gorham, Portland. Welcome to Let's
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Connect Greater Portland, the show about the changes and challenges
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we face in our region. What do we really know
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about China? Today we're having a conversation about culture, innovation,
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and misconceptions. My guess is Hazel Shang, a mapping and
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data analyst at the Greater Portland Council of Governments, who
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recently returned from a three week trip to China. And
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we're going to talk about what was it like for
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Hazel to return home, how China is embracing new technology,
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and some of the differences and similarities she sees between
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life and China and life in the United States. Listeners
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join the conversation. Call us at seven eighth four to
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nine nine. Hazel, welcome to Let's Connect Go to Portland.
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Hello, it's really good to be here.
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Before we begin our journey to China, tell us a
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little bit about yourself. Where did you grow up?
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Yeah, I'm Hazel and I'm a photographer. I'm a data analyst,
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but also I'm from China. I have been to the
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US for four years and I grew up in northwest
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of China. It's not a big city. It's called Lando.
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It's a middle sized city in China.
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And where did you study and what first brought you
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to the United States.
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I came to here because for grad school I studied
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urban planning related stuff, and I feel because the US
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have more democratic urban planning, bottom up urban planning, So
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I really want to come to here and then learn
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a new system.
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This is a big question. We could spend the show
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on it. But has your understanding of the United States
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change during the four years you lived here?
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Oooh, that's a really good question. Before I came to here,
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I have a imagination of the US is perfect, and
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people are voting for the people for the president they want,
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and they're choosing all of this stuff by voting, and
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people can go on the street and then protest and
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free speech. All of these is what I didn't have
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when I was in China. And now I started to realize, Oh,
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it's still a system and we can't really control the
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result we want, and it is democracy, but in the
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same time that it's not really efficient. Another way, Yeah,
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it's interesting. My bubble was broken when I after I
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came to hear So.
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You've been here four years? Yeah, and during all that time.
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Have you been back to China.
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No, I didn't, so it was a big thing for me.
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And tell me who's at home for you? Your parents? Yes,
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all my family, your brothers and sisters.
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No, I'm the single child because of the single child policy.
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So their only child is here in America. And how
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do they your parents feel about that?
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It's really tough for them. They really want me to
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be around because they have spending all their time on
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me to educate, to help me to have a better
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education in the whole time when I growing up. So
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I think our dream is still to be together in
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the future.
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So tell me about your journey home, just sort of
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how how did you get there?
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I had a lot of layover. I spent around thirty
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hours from Portland taking bus to Boston and then Boston,
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flight to Hong Kong, and then Hong Kong, layover to Shanghai,
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and then Shanghai go back to my parents where I
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grew up Lando.
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How long does it take you to get from Shanghai
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to where you grew up?
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It's like two hours flight, so it's not close either.
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So did you just spend any time in Shanghai and
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that stopover.
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Yes, I did. I even tried the hospital system when
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I was in Shanghai because I got a fishbone stuck
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in my throat the tenth hours when I was in Shanghai,
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so I went to the er and I experienced a
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whole that side of China.
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The So what was it like to to to you know,
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to your Portland is a tiny little city in a
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rural state and Shanghai is one of the large cities
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in the world, right, so what's it like to be
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transformed from little Portland, Maine to Shanghai.
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It was really overstimulated. I felt overwhelmed. I felt the
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air was hot, and everyone is really loud. I have
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so many people surrounding me, and plus the jet lag,
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it really feels I was in a dream, even if
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I grew up in that environment. But I was still fine.
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It's really hard to adjust it.
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And what was the air like in the atmosphere? Was
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it like heavy and humid?
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And yes, it's really hot and humid. And because people
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don't really have a lot of patience in China, so
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it's also feels rush Russia.
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Was there anything about China that immediately felt familiar?
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Ooh h, I think it's the language. The moment I
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was there, I realized, Oh, I can say whatever I want.
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I have the full control of the language.
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Was there anything that felt unfamiliar even though it was
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your home country.
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One thing I remember clearly is about the traffic. I
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found people on the street don't really stop for pedestrians,
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so you need to find your own way to cross
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the crosswalk.
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Every man for himself. Yes, And what did you notice
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because you had been living in the United States that
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you might not have noticed before.
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I think it's how convenient it is. When I lived
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in the hotel, the hotel have the robot to delivering
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packages for me, and I take public transportation a lot,
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and it's fully connected. I don't really need to drive
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or take Uber. I can just from point A to
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point B. I can just transfer transfer and then get
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to the place I want. And yeah, it just feels
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super convenient, fast speed.
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And people that have really embraced technology.
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Yes, oh yeah, that's another part I found interesting. It's
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for our generation. Most of my friend in the US,
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I feel they're kind of anti technology. But most of
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my friends in China, they love technology and they want
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to be part of it, like to go to tech
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company and then or to be an influencer.
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And in America there's a lot of opposition to AI, right,
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but is that different in China.
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It's totally different. I think it's also because China was
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benefit from the technology improvement in the past twenty years.
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So people feel really positive about technology and AI and
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think about where can be a developed country by this technology,
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and everyone want to be parts of it.
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Was there a particular moment when you thought, I'm really
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packing China?
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Oh, there are a lot actually.
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Any foods for example, that you were you missed that
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you finally were able to eat.
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Or yes, yes, a lot of that. But in the
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same time, I got the feeling of a lot of
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food feels overprocessed, and I kind of missing the salad,
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the raw stuff, that type of feeling that feels more
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natural to me.
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Tell me a bit about your journey home. Now you
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recover from the hospital, Yes, get back on the plane
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and you fly two hours. Yeah, and so where you're going.
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I'm going to northwest of China. It's pretty It's called
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Gansu Province. It's part of the Silk Road back to
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I don't know, it's always been part of the Silk Road.
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And it's high elevation, it's really dry.
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And is it cold in winter?
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Yeah, it's it would be like thirty twenty degree Okay,
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not as cool in the winter, no, and not a
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lot of snow because it's a really dry area.
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Your parents must have been so thrilled to see you
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after four years.
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Yes, it was. It was really exciting to see them.
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In the same time, it makes a goodbye a lot
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harder too.
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Is there particular a song that reminds you of your region?
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Yeah, that region is called Lowis Plateau and that kind
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of means a sandy high elevation playing. So there is
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one song is specific for that.
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Okay, well let's take a listen to it.
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Yeah, let's do it.
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Jags walk, Oh, Go Go.
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Go Wody Worthy.
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If you're just tuning in, I'm Tom Bell and this
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is Let's connect Great Aportland. We're talking about China. What
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do we really know about China today? We're having a
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conversation about culture, innovation and misconceptions. I guess is Hazel Jang,
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a mapping and data analysts at the Great a Portland
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Council of Government, so recently returned from a three week
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trip to China. Hazel this music, what are the lyrics?
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It's saying my home lines on the lowest plateau where
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strong winds sweep across the slopes with the scent.
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So was there any particular moment or in the family
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reunion that really stayed with you?
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Yeah?
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I guess it's the time to spend with my dad
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because he's not a really good communicator through the fall,
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but he's a really in person person, so we actually
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talk to each other a lot, just two of us.
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Was there anything about your hometown that feel different than before?
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Did it feel much bigger or noisier than maybe you
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had remembered it.
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I think everywhere is a lot noisier than I remembered.
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I just didn't remember it's so crowded and so everyone
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is really don't have patience. That was one thing that
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stand out to me.
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Did you find yourself seeing your home through both Chinese
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and American eyes?
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Yeah?
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Like, tell me about that. What would be like when
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you're looking at it through your American eyes? What did
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you notice?
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I saw a lot of cool traditional art, like a
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painting on a wall or the stone carving thing on
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a temple. I found out myself really appreciate this type
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of art, and we went to We took a trip
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to a lot of different temples, either Buddhism temple or
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Muslim temple, and then I found the art in there
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are all beautiful and how people are religious like fully
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respect that religion also really inspired me.
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Were people from your home area as into technology as
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they were in Shanghai?
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Not as much. The people from my area is more
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like might going to be replaced by AI in the future.
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So the economy is not really good and a lot
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of people starting to find other ways to make money.
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You mentioned to me before how the telephone. Yeah, that
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everywhere you went people were looking at their telephone. Yes,
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why are they doing that?
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I think one of the reasons is most of the
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service you want to get you have to use telephone
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to access it, including pay for the taxes or like
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all the e payment is really advanced. Nobody is carrying
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card or cash anywhere. And for booking stuff you also
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need your pall. Yeah, just anything you have to use
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full and the more frequent you take out your phone,
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the more easier you will be attracted or distracted by
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the content on the phone.
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You mentioned before to me that this concept of a
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K shape economy. Oh yeah, you noticed that in China
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during your trip home. Tell me about that.
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Yeah, so I did a little bit research on that.
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It's called K shaped divergence, which refers to a situation
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where different parts of an economy moving opposite direction at
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the same time. And I have noticed this because my
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parents will keep complaining with me about how bad the
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economy China is. Their company are not paying salary to
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them and people are losing their jobs. But in the
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same time, a lot of my friends works in the
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AI company. They're earning a lot of money and they're
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just having a great time. And then I found this
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theory and it's showing like in China, some industry are
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going booming, like AI, robot, microchips, all of these are
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leading in the world. But opposite like construction or service delivering,
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all of these industries are losing money and people are
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losing jobs. So this, my potentially leads to a consequence
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is China is gonna go to a more inequity society potentially.
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The other thing you mentioned is how hard people are working.
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Yes, yeah, I'm at five of my college friend and
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three of them are working from ten am to ten pm.
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And like more than five days a week, and one
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is working really intensely. She's working seven days a week
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and then from nine am to ten pm. So people
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are working really, really hard because of the high competition
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in China.
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And if you're in the portion of that k shape
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economy going down, you're working more and more just to
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try to stay ahead.
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Yes, yes, I was feeling sad about I want to
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do my nails in my hometown and they spent four
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hours on my nail and then they only earned twenty bucks.
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So it's really what do Americans commonly misunderstand about everyday
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internet for the younger generation, and I found that's interesting.
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US right before is Chinese are what. I actually don't
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speech and state control. And I think maybe they may
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have an unfavorable China. Well, maybe the younger people are
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watching these internet videos, yeah, and seeing that China is
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becoming a modern country.
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that politicians keep talking about. Yeah, and is that what
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of seeing China being viewed as a threat to the
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fully built. It's just really convenient in China, and everyone
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China is a threaten to the US. In the same time,
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if we look at individual different people are having really
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to your poor parents. Back to America. What does it
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feel like to come here? Come home?
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really fresh. And I remember you had a comment and
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so as the North Pole, right, Yeah.
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the North Pole the air is also very fresh. It's
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I think I have a lot of free time to
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think about myself because China is so busy and there
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are so many things happens on the same time always,
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so I feel I was passively receiving a lot of messages,
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but I'm not thinking actively when I was there. But
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after comeback, I finally have the time to debrief.
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China is embracing technology so quickly and building new infrastructure
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it's really not convenient here and we're still talking about
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protected bike lanes or let's not build, let's not drive,
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let's take public transportation. In this way, yes, I feel
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convenient here.
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people about your life in America, and you heard a
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lot of questions. I'm just interested what those questions were like.
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They really curious about my working schedule and they found oh,
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you're leaving a really work life, balanced life. And another
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thing is I think they're surprised by how inconvenient the
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explain what is Bernie Man for them. It's a wild
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concept for my friends, and that was interesting, Like to
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explain DIY culture, the art scene. It's hard for them
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to understand.
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you because you are a DJ here at WMPG and
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they can hear you every other week. Tell me about
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Shanghai Restoration Projects. And I found it really beautiful because
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it has beautiful elements in it and it has seen
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mapping and data analyst at the Greater Portland Council of
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producing the show with the Greater Portland Councilate Governments. You
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with past episodes wherever you get your podcasts. Join us
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next week for another conversation about the changes and challenges
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shaping our communities. Until then, beconnd yourself into each other.
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You are listening to WMPG Gorham, Portland. Welcome to Let's
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Connect Greater Portland, the show about the changes and challenges
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about China? Today we're having a conversation about culture, innovation,
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and misconceptions. My guess is Hazel Shang, a mapping and
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Hazel to return home, how China is embracing new technology,
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life and China and life in the United States. Listeners
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nine nine. Hazel, welcome to Let's Connect Go to Portland.
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Hello, it's really good to be here.
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Before we begin our journey to China, tell us a
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but also I'm from China. I have been to the
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US for four years and I grew up in northwest
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of China. It's not a big city. It's called Lando.
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It's a middle sized city in China.
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And where did you study and what first brought you
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to the United States.
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I came to here because for grad school I studied
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urban planning related stuff, and I feel because the US
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on it. But has your understanding of the United States
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change during the four years you lived here?
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people are voting for the people for the president they want,
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people can go on the street and then protest and
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free speech. All of these is what I didn't have
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when I was in China. And now I started to realize, Oh,
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it's still a system and we can't really control the
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result we want, and it is democracy, but in the
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same time that it's not really efficient. Another way, Yeah,
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it's interesting. My bubble was broken when I after I
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You've been here four years? Yeah, and during all that time.
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Have you been back to China.
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all my family, your brothers and sisters.
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It's really tough for them. They really want me to
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be around because they have spending all their time on
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me to educate, to help me to have a better
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education in the whole time when I growing up. So
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how how did you get there?
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hours from Portland taking bus to Boston and then Boston,
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flight to Hong Kong, and then Hong Kong, layover to Shanghai,
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in the world, right, so what's it like to be
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transformed from little Portland, Maine to Shanghai.
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air was hot, and everyone is really loud. I have
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so many people surrounding me, and plus the jet lag,
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it really feels I was in a dream, even if
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packages for me, and I take public transportation a lot,
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and it's fully connected. I don't really need to drive
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to the place I want. And yeah, it just feels
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super convenient, fast speed.
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for our generation. Most of my friend in the US,
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my friends in China, they love technology and they want
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to be part of it, like to go to tech
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company and then or to be an influencer.
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think about where can be a developed country by this technology,
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you finally were able to eat.
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same time, I got the feeling of a lot of
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food feels overprocessed, and I kind of missing the salad,
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the raw stuff, that type of feeling that feels more
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natural to me.
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recover from the hospital, Yes, get back on the plane
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and you fly two hours. Yeah, and so where you're going.
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I'm going to northwest of China. It's pretty It's called
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Gansu Province. It's part of the Silk Road back to
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I don't know, it's always been part of the Silk Road.
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And it's high elevation, it's really dry.
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And is it cold in winter?
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not as cool in the winter, no, and not a
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lot of snow because it's a really dry area.
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Your parents must have been so thrilled to see you
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after four years.
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Yes, it was. It was really exciting to see them.
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In the same time, it makes a goodbye a lot
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harder too.
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Is there particular a song that reminds you of your region?
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Yeah, that region is called Lowis Plateau and that kind
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of means a sandy high elevation playing. So there is
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one song is specific for that.
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Okay, well let's take a listen to it.
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Yeah, let's do it.
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Jags walk, Oh, Go Go.
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Go Wody Worthy.
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If you're just tuning in, I'm Tom Bell and this
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is Let's connect Great Aportland. We're talking about China. What
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do we really know about China today? We're having a
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conversation about culture, innovation and misconceptions. I guess is Hazel Jang,
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a mapping and data analysts at the Great a Portland
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Council of Government, so recently returned from a three week
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trip to China. Hazel this music, what are the lyrics?
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It's saying my home lines on the lowest plateau where
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strong winds sweep across the slopes with the scent.
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So was there any particular moment or in the family
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reunion that really stayed with you?
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Yeah?
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I guess it's the time to spend with my dad
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because he's not a really good communicator through the fall,
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but he's a really in person person, so we actually
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talk to each other a lot, just two of us.
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Was there anything about your hometown that feel different than before?
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Did it feel much bigger or noisier than maybe you
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had remembered it.
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I think everywhere is a lot noisier than I remembered.
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I just didn't remember it's so crowded and so everyone
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is really don't have patience. That was one thing that
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stand out to me.
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Did you find yourself seeing your home through both Chinese
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and American eyes?
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Like, tell me about that. What would be like when
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you're looking at it through your American eyes? What did
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you notice?
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I saw a lot of cool traditional art, like a
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painting on a wall or the stone carving thing on
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a temple. I found out myself really appreciate this type
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of art, and we went to We took a trip
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to a lot of different temples, either Buddhism temple or
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Muslim temple, and then I found the art in there
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are all beautiful and how people are religious like fully
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respect that religion also really inspired me.
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Were people from your home area as into technology as
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they were in Shanghai?
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Not as much. The people from my area is more
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like might going to be replaced by AI in the future.
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So the economy is not really good and a lot
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of people starting to find other ways to make money.
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You mentioned to me before how the telephone. Yeah, that
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everywhere you went people were looking at their telephone. Yes,
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why are they doing that?
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I think one of the reasons is most of the
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service you want to get you have to use telephone
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to access it, including pay for the taxes or like
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all the e payment is really advanced. Nobody is carrying
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card or cash anywhere. And for booking stuff you also
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need your pall. Yeah, just anything you have to use
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full and the more frequent you take out your phone,
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the more easier you will be attracted or distracted by
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the content on the phone.
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You mentioned before to me that this concept of a
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K shape economy. Oh yeah, you noticed that in China
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during your trip home. Tell me about that.
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Yeah, so I did a little bit research on that.
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It's called K shaped divergence, which refers to a situation
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where different parts of an economy moving opposite direction at
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the same time. And I have noticed this because my
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parents will keep complaining with me about how bad the
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economy China is. Their company are not paying salary to
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them and people are losing their jobs. But in the
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same time, a lot of my friends works in the
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AI company. They're earning a lot of money and they're
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just having a great time. And then I found this
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theory and it's showing like in China, some industry are
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going booming, like AI, robot, microchips, all of these are
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leading in the world. But opposite like construction or service delivering,
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all of these industries are losing money and people are
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losing jobs. So this, my potentially leads to a consequence
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is China is gonna go to a more inequity society potentially.
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The other thing you mentioned is how hard people are working.
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Yes, yeah, I'm at five of my college friend and
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three of them are working from ten am to ten pm.
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is working really intensely. She's working seven days a week
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and then from nine am to ten pm. So people
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are working really, really hard because of the high competition
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in China.
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And if you're in the portion of that k shape
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economy going down, you're working more and more just to
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try to stay ahead.
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Yes, yes, I was feeling sad about I want to
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do my nails in my hometown and they spent four
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hours on my nail and then they only earned twenty bucks.
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So it's really what do Americans commonly misunderstand about everyday
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life in China.
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I saw there's a trending on short video is I
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want to leave. I'm leaving my Chinese life right now.
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And people are appreciating China more and more on the
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internet for the younger generation, and I found that's interesting.
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That is interesting because there is a stereotype in the
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US right before is Chinese are what. I actually don't
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know what steeotype US have to Chinese China.
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Actually, I think it depends upon what age the persons
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and older people remember China as being a communist country. Yeah,
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and they're going to be focused on impression of free
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speech and state control. And I think maybe they may
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have an unfavorable China. Well, maybe the younger people are
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watching these internet videos, yeah, and seeing that China is
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becoming a modern country.
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And in the politics, of course, China is looming threat
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that politicians keep talking about. Yeah, and is that what
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are you as for someone living in America that's kind
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of seeing China being viewed as a threat to the
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United States.
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I think it definitely is based on what I've seen,
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because it's super convenient and a lot of infrastructure are
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fully built. It's just really convenient in China, and everyone
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are working really hard. So I think in this way, yes,
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China is a threaten to the US. In the same time,
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if we look at individual different people are having really
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different lifestyle. I think one thing I want I found
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interesting is people are competitive and creative in China, and
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they're providing a lot of full service to people. Like
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when you go to anywhere, when you go to a place,
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it feels like a full experience.
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So three weeks go by, Yeah, you said, go by
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to your poor parents. Back to America. What does it
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feel like to come here? Come home?
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I found here is really quiet and the air is
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really fresh. And I remember you had a comment and
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so as the North Pole, right, Yeah.
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I was thinking that's a great compliment, until you realize
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the North Pole the air is also very fresh. It's
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also very quiet.
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I think I have a lot of free time to
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think about myself because China is so busy and there
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are so many things happens on the same time always,
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so I feel I was passively receiving a lot of messages,
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but I'm not thinking actively when I was there. But
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after comeback, I finally have the time to debrief.
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China is embracing technology so quickly and building new infrastructure
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and yeah, bullet trains and so quickly. It's coming back
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to the United States that they feel like, in a way,
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kind of going back in time.
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I think based on convenient it feels like comeback because
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it's really not convenient here and we're still talking about
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protected bike lanes or let's not build, let's not drive,
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let's take public transportation. In this way, yes, I feel
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convenient here.
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You probably had to do a lot of explaining to
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people about your life in America, and you heard a
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lot of questions. I'm just interested what those questions were like.
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They really curious about my working schedule and they found oh,
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you're leaving a really work life, balanced life. And another
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thing is I think they're surprised by how inconvenient the
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US is when we're talking about we have to drive
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around to do a lot of stuff that surprises them.
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Another thing I think it's cool is I have to
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explain what is Bernie Man for them. It's a wild
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concept for my friends, and that was interesting, Like to
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explain DIY culture, the art scene. It's hard for them
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to understand.
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So we're coming to near the end of the show,
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but our listeners don't have to say go bye to
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you because you are a DJ here at WMPG and
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they can hear you every other week. Tell me about
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your show.
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Yes, So my DJ name is two which one and
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me and my partner DJ you Anda Me have a
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show called asyn Khawait is every other Friday from ten
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to eleven thirty pm and it will be next Friday.
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What kind of music do you play?
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I like to play electronic music, but also have a
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lot of other elements in it, like folk music or
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different instrument or jazz electronic like the fusion electronic music.
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Well, I asked you to bring an example the kind
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of music that you play in the show. Could you
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tell me about the song?
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Yeah, so the track is from an artist called the
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Shanghai Restoration Projects. And I found it really beautiful because
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it's also a song is limiting a radio show and
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it has beautiful elements in it and it has seen
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it has like music.
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Yeah, I want to thank you, Hazel. Hazel Jag, a
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mapping and data analyst at the Greater Portland Council of
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Thanks to Camur sound engineer today and WMPG, our partner
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producing the show with the Greater Portland Councilate Governments. You
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can find us on Instagram at Let's Connect Radio and
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you can listen to the show as a podcast along
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with past episodes wherever you get your podcasts. Join us
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next week for another conversation about the changes and challenges
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shaping our communities. Until then, beconnd yourself into each other.
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I'm Tom Bell. Thanks for listening to Let's Connect Greater Portland.
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