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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
1980

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
He also came in 1980, and lives now in the city of El Cerrito in the San Francisco Bay area between Richmond and Berkley.

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And finally, [[?]] on the end. [[?]] is the president of the [[?]] Association in Stockton. He's lived there since--

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What year?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
1980

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Since 1980, he is the from the same region as his uncle [[?]].

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Two weeks, three weeks ago when you were thinking about coming here, did you expect to see something like this?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
[[?]] said he expect to see too many people and also the people came from different country and different regions.

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When he actually came here and see, he see all of those and he could see the different people and different culture and different show as he walk around and see the other group.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
What [[?]] said is his dream is came true because he expect that his got a see a lot of people here and he got the good opportunity that invited to be in the festival and he has a chance to show whatever he has about his skill and so in [[attend?]] here

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
He's very happy to see all of our friend and he feel that the he can extend his life a little bit more to live longer that he see everybody in the festival here.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
What about you?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
For me?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Yeah

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Oh, yeah. I'm very glad to be here and very happy too because I made a lot of new friend and make friend [[?]] with the others and see a lot of culture and got a chance to show illustrate what we have in our [[attendance?]].

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Chin, would something like this ever happen in Laos. Do you think?

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[[?]] said that he never saw like this at any time since he was the chief of the village and the government never invited him to come to a new year or to illustrate their culture or-- and now meet with a lot of people.

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He just living in his village whatever they want to use him to do the work, they just call him or somebody else go with him and he feels so grateful and happy to get a chance.

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This is the very first time in his life to see the people and can meet with different people all around the world.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
He said when he was in the his country, the government never invite or call him to come to any kind of ceremony or like a festival in here.

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Whatever they want in their village, they just create or make it by themselves, so the government never concern anything about this religious

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and when he came here the government tried to recognize or try to keep or preserve the different culture that they have brought from various or to many country in the United States here.

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He's very glad to accept that and to research more, try to recall back about the culture that he has.

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So, what, what do you think you will do differently in the future? Talai says now he will try to remember more, remember more things from the past. Can he tell us more about that?

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