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Speaker 1: Well. The University of Maryland selected top student Shoo Ping

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Speaker 1: Yang to deliver remarks during last Sunday's commencement ceremony. Her

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Speaker 1: speech created an international uproar. She said that people often

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Speaker 1: ask why she chose to come to the University of Maryland.

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Speaker 1: Her response was fresh air. Miss Yang revealed that in

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Speaker 1: her hometown in southwest China, the air was so polluted

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Speaker 1: that she had to wear a face mask every day.

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Speaker 1: She described her arrival in America as breathing air that

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Speaker 1: was so sweet and fresh. She said that she would

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Speaker 1: be forever grateful for the fresh air of free speech

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Speaker 1: that she found at the university because she grew up

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Speaker 1: believing only people in authority could define the truth. The

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Speaker 1: right to free speech on college campus, she said, is

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Speaker 1: a right worth fighting for. It's amazing she thinks that

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Speaker 1: exists there anyway. Her remarks went viral for telling the

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Speaker 1: truth about her experiences in American as Yang was vilified.

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Speaker 1: Millions on Chinese social media denounced her. Some warned her

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Speaker 1: not to come home. She later apologized, saying she hadn't

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Speaker 1: intended to demean her own country. That tried comes which

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Speaker 1: she loves. Miss Yang revealed more than she perhaps realized.

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Speaker 1: Radical environmentalists have convinced American kids in our country is

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Speaker 1: wallowing and pollution, but it isn't. And the fresh air

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Speaker 1: of free speech that Miss Yang is grateful for it's

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Speaker 1: under constant attack from the politically correct left, and yet

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Speaker 1: it is worth fighting for as she is doing h