"You jump from making my family stronger and raising my own living standards, to raising my community's living standards hopefully to raising my sub-county's living standards to raising my district's living standards, to raising my country's living standards."

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To keep that conception in regard to decent race relations alive and growing has been the aspiration of generation after generation in many an American family, judging by my own and by those I know.

美国世世代代,都憧憬这一种理想,那就是保持,广博开放的胸襟，来正确面对种族问题。

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But, one of the things I'm interested in is national identity, in fact because we kind of have complex attitudes toward our own identity I suppose, me and my family.

不过有一个我感兴趣的就是国家身份,其实因为我们对于自己身份,的看法比较复杂,我和我的家庭

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