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{SPEAKER name="Esther Chow (Interviewee)"}
So think that it's the, the way that I experience uh, ra--, race, racism but with our name we I did not know the name of racism until I came to the United States. It is a new vocabulary that give me awakening about my experience being a bitter subject and being living in colonized society and even though I was a majority being governed by the minority and that kind of oppression and domination and exclusion and discrimination [[laughter]] against us. And so I think that it really plants seeds in my racial awakening. So, by the time I came to the United States and I look at all the Civil Rights Movements and the, uh, Vietnam War movement, brought not only racism, not only colonization but also the militarization and also um nations in the forefront of our everyday life in addition to conscious being a woman so I think that that I think I was so, uh, privileged at that time without that, the challenges of that historical time I would not be so sensitive to so many issues that I care about and, uh, so I turn myself