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{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
Leave their homes and run to the hillsides to avoid the Japanese soldiers, that's another thing. And, but we, that-that was history to us and we didn't live through it, so we didn't feel that conflict, and um, so I-I think at the time there was, after the Vietnam war and, you know I think Asian Americans felt that we still experience a lot of discrimination, that we, you know, we didn't have much of a voice, so I think this is still like the first wave of, in the late 70's and early 80's to sort of um, like, all of the sudden Chinese Americans- I was never really a member but I have friends that were, and I guess that was there goal to sort of, um {SILENCE}, get the people together so that we can, um, have a voice, you know, have A voice, have a say and instead of just being, you know we would be slight being that uh, model minority, you know- just kinda like get along all the time, it's like-no, sometimes-I don't like this outcome. You know and we wanna-we wanna to tell you what we think. So I think that was rude to say - at the beginning like I didn't want I think one of the posters was like, uh, people merging and that's exactly how we felt that, you know, we've been here long enough. We feel pretty comfortable now and now we're quote on quote "Americans" as well as having another heritage, so.

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{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
And what did it mean to you then start helping work on a mural, you know, that was called "Chinese in America" that kinda represented.

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{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
Right

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{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
the history and to be able to work on those letters that was, that were dealing with these important issues of the day, um.

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{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
So if, here's a little sketch of the mural so we try to include everyone you know you have your uh, your generations, your chefs, and then the doctors and, um you know seamstress and, so it so really that's like that this large panel is more of the current um composition of all the Chinese Americans. And then we have here uh these three panels, is more of the uh, history. Leaving China, coming to the US and the whole construction of the railroad, um, so that was a sense of history as well as that we are a group of multi, um-talented people, it's not just one facet you know. We're not all bookworms, we're not all, you know, cooks. So-um-and that's why it was more of a, um-

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