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Hour and 35 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Atlantic Council. Im paul awe dobriansky im on the executive committee of the Atlantic Council board and i really want to commend counsels center for todays program which is entitled the state of human rights in putins russia. As many of you know the center has been extremely active and a vigorous voice on a range of issues from russias disinformation to the issue of ukraine, the scale and scope of the aggression in ukraine and the illegal annexation of crimeya. Russia has kperned the worst crack down in human rights in decades and we...

Time zone. We have run out of time. It has been an interesting to enough hours. Thank you so much are being a part of it. It is the centennial week of the u. S. Entering world war i. We think the museum for allowing us to be part of their busy week to tell you more about the history of our countrys role in the first world war. Thanks to our callers for adding your questions to it. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] if you missed any program today, all coverage will read air tomorrow night on ...

Having to explain that all the time as a kid, it was a lot. It just made me feel like it was different because nobody knew about me. Nobody knew what hmong was because there is no hmongland. I felt ashamed of being hmong because i didnt want to have to explain and do a History Lesson every time i told somebody i was hmong. When people would say your name sounds like chinese or hawaiian, i would just go along with that. Yeah, sure, i am. That way i didnt have to do the whole History Lesson. I think that goes to the same with our generation not knowing a lot of our history. And the background. T...

Having to explain that all the time as a kid, it was a lot. It just made me feel like it was different because nobody knew about me. Nobody knew what hmong was because there is no hmongland. I felt ashamed of being hmong because i didnt want to have to explain and do a History Lesson every time i told somebody i was hmong. When people would say your name sounds like chinese or hawaiian, i would just go along with that. Yeah, sure, i am. That way i didnt have to do the whole History Lesson. I think that goes to the same with our generation not knowing a lot of our history. And the background. T...

In china, they were looking for more opportunities. So, a lot of them came here. Their passage was paid for by, you know, other chinese merchants. And so, in coming here they had to work to pay back that expense. They primarily came here to mine for gold. And but they also ended up, you know, working in agriculture, in factors, also working for, you know, major houses and plantations. And also on the transcontinental railroad. During 1850 and onwards, life for the chinese here, i mean, there were primarily no workers. There was a lot of friction between them and, you know, other kind of ethnic...