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Hope for a better tomorrow
By Patrick Whiteley (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-10 16:02
American expats flock to Malone's Bar in downtown Shanghai last week to watch the US president election. Gao Erqiang Eighty-year-old English teacher Rowell Hoff and his wife Carol live in Inner Mongolia and like thousands of US expats, were closely tuned into the elections last week. The couple say they were greatly pleased with the historic outcome because of the ramifications. Rowell says the election result is a giant step in the development of true equality in the United States. "Sixty years ago, in any of a large number of states, black citizens were prevented from voting," he says. "Even after the partial successes of the civil rights movement in the third quarter of the 20th century, it would have been difficult to imagine that this day would come at any foreseeable time. "But it has happened now." |
