«Fire of the Sky»
I have a loot of questions
and I go often to the library to look for answers.
«inspired by the book "COSMOS" of Carl Sagan»
Where babies come from? But why the sky is blue?
In the books I had a lot of answers to my questions,
but even answers I did not ask for...
I learned evolution of Man ...
and when the man started walking on two legs, he began to speak too!
"Nice dog"
And I also know that thanks to a lightning ...
... the man learned to control the fire.
Well... We are not sure,
that's how people think it happened.
I also learned that the medieval times
people believed that the world was flat.
Today we are sure that the world is round ...
And at prehistory times?
Man believes that the world was flat?
So... what if they believe that the stars
were other people with their own fire?
it's funny they really imagine that ...!
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Hello, World!
Today we are in Novocheboksarsk!
It's the second biggest town in Chuvashia Republic
21st region of Russian Federation
Quiet and cozy, this young town
comfortably located on the right branch of the mighty Volga river
the biggest river in the world that is not flows into the ocean
Novocheboksarsk originates in 1960
mainly because of construction of one of the biggest chemical plant in soviet union
It was a common practice in soviet days to create lesser towns
satellites near the big ones
It was originally the fate of Novocheboksarsk
"Satellite" was even an official name at the beginning
City was fastly growing and expanding
simultaneously absorbing small villages placed nearby
that assimilated villages gives names to cities blocks
for example
Yurakovo
Elnikovo
Ivanovo
In 1968 starts creation of one the most significant cities facilities
Cheboksary's water-powered plant
one of the biggest in modern Russia
Cheboksarys Dam is not only a source of energy
its used as road bridge at the same time!
Novocheboksarsk total area is nearly 51 square kilometers
The city estimated population is 126 thousand peoples
Let's compare it to the biggest neighbors cities!
just in 17 kms to the west, lies the capital of Chuvashia Republic
Cheboksary
just in 82 to the north, is the capital of Mari-El - Yoshkar-ola city
in 150 kilometres to the east lies capital of Republic Tatarstan – Kazan
Novocheboksarsk has a moderate continental climate
with distinct winters and summers
The average temperature of summer is +17,5°C (63,5°F) winter is –11°C (12,2°F)
The young town attracts people because of its relaxed, really peaceful rhythm!
Novocheboksarsk is constantly growing
but despite of that its not hectic as big cities!
In 2008 was raised a question about combining two cities as one
Novocheboksarsk and capital – Cheboksary
the majority of Novocheboksarsk residents was against incoming combining
The proud town keeps it integrity
People of Novocheboskarsk are proud that their home
takes place on the great Volga river
The promenade is the townsfolk favorite place
of peaceful walking and relaxing.
The one of the unquestionable advantage of the Novocheboskarsk
is the abundance of trees and "greens" in general
The largest and best-known towns park is Elnikovskaya grove
It stretches on the total area of 128 hectars
placed nearly at the towns center
Sometimes townsfolk even call their home
"The Green Town"
This big amount of trees and other plants
helps town negate one of its biggest flaws
harmful emissions from industrial area
and close proximity to the chemical plant
In the towns center stands religious relic
the Knyaz Vladimir's cathedral
another townsfolk favorite place of relaxation and meetings
Another popular place is town pedestrian walking street
the Glory alley
Novocheboksarsk have a strong emphasis on developing physical education and sport!
There are several sport oriented schools functioning in the town
Novocheboksarsk "Sportcomplex" is particularly noteworthy
inside of it you can find modern swimming pools
freshly reconstructed track-and-field athletic hall
that now meet the highest standards
and already became a home of all-Russians sport competitions
Novocheboksarsk have an ice palace as well
that named the same way as local hockey team – "The Falcon"
The Nikolaev central stadium is not only a place of football games
it hosting different concerts too
Small and not well-known
but young and cozy
the "Green" town Novocheboksarsk
lies on the bank of Volga river
He's like the flow of this river itself
attracts people by peace and tranquility
Thank you very much for your support!
Best regards from "Hello World!" team!
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End Racial Preferences at Colleges? - Duration: 4:33.
A lawsuit against Harvard.
The outcome could affect the future
of affirmative action.
Harvard has been sued for
illegally discriminating against Asian-Americans.
The legal action forced the school
to make its admissions data public
for the first time.
That did reveal that Asian applicants
must score 22 points higher on the SAT than whites,
63 points higher than blacks.
Nevertheless,
Harvard denies it discriminates
against Asian Americans or any other group.
Harvard says, race is just one factor
among many.
That is just a lie.
Lee Cheng supports the students suing the school.
Harvard didn't just use race as one of many factors.
It was the determinative factor.
Harvard says many Americans of Asian descent
don't get in because they score lower in
personal attributes.
Harvard rated Asian Americans on personality,
right, on subjective factors like likability
and courage lower.
This is because Asian Americans
are boring little grade grubbers.
They just focus on getting good grades
and good test scores.
I can categorically say that's bullshit.
If you only look at grades and test scores,
it looks like a lot of discrimination against Asians.
Economist Harry Holzer,
who went to Harvard, defends the school.
Asians are not interesting?
They don't have interesting qualities?
The personal ratings reflect
a wide range of characteristics.
Now it's possible.
It's possible that some of that is anti-Asian bias,
but you certainly can't prove that.
I don't think they're discriminating against Asians
but I assume they're discriminating for
blacks and Latinos
because there's been a history of discrimination.
I wouldn't label it discrimination.
I would label it as leveling the playing field.
Isn't that discrimination?
No, no, it's,
it's race conscious assistance and
when you have a long history of discrimination
based on race,
you have to take race into account.
Hasn't Harvard,
like lots of other schools,
been deceitful about
what they're doing?
They basically lied for years.
I don't know if they were lying,
they were putting their own spin.
This case is expected to get to the Supreme Court,
and the new court may ban racial preferences.
If that happens,
you'll see a large increase
in the white student population,
and you see a precipitous decline
in the black and Latino student population,
about 50%.
50% decline in those of color.
Harvard would be a less interesting place
if that happens.
There are many, many, different ways
to achieve diversity
without discriminating against Asian Americans.
The reality is that race-focused affirmative action
helps rich people.
Seventy percent of the students
of every ethnic group at Harvard
come from the top 20 percent
of family income.
I think It's okay that some of the minorities
admitted under affirmative action come from
higher income families.
Race in America matters,
at any level of income.
The groups that are harmed the most
are actually poor whites and poor Asians.
Cheng is passionate about ending racial preferences
because when he was in the 8th grade,
he applied to San Francisco's Lowell High School.
I was just shocked when I found out
I had to score higher than kids of any other ethnic
group because I've just taken civics.
I was just taught in civics and history
that in America everybody was supposed to be equal
under the law.
Lowell High School excels in everything
from music to math.
Cheng got in to that high school, but –
The kids who were negatively affected
were the kids of the dishwashers and the seamstresses
who lived in Chinatown, who were very poor.
Cheng later went to Harvard.
He became a lawyer
and successfully sued San Francisco
over its race-based preferences.
We got rid of the quotas in San Francisco.
You Asians, we white people.
We're doing well in America.
We don't need extra help,
but some other groups do,
and there's a history of nasty discrimination
against them.
Isn't it Harvard's job to
try to make up for some of that?
The right path
out of the history of discrimination
against individuals based on race is not more
discrimination based on race.
I have three kids,
and I'll be damned if I'm going to not fight
very, very hard to make sure that they don't get
treated as second-class citizens
in the land in which they were born.
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Waking up at 5AM is ruining my life - Duration: 8:06.
I've seen loads of people going on about our waking up at 5 a.m. is changing
their life making this new better person about me think yeah right
an apartment we think like I could really be a better version of myself I'm
actually quite sick of like the potential people who think waking up at
5:00 a.m. makes them better than me because it
does and it's really annoying I'm trying to be better so I can look at
you guys and think 9:00 a.m. you wake up ah I remember I used to a hoping I am
oh darn a yo-yo oh boy wake up no really you know 5:00
I'm having a lie-in but sometimes I just don't sleep at all yes 11:43 now this is
how my alarm normally no 11:30 you're not who puts on for 11:30 11:57 hello
darkness my old friend my phone's there I'm gonna be going bed
right there when he gets to 5:00 a.m. I'm going to be waking up running over
to my phone banging on me alarm I'm awake no got a gap at 5:00 a.m.
this is
for a minute to be honest I think I thought I was going on holiday when I
woke up so I like a bit happy but I'm not I'm not going all day that sucks
it's so fucking early only not do so I was going to do the normal stuff I would
do all right so I've gotten ready and got to say normally it's like showering
and brushing my teeth which take the longest but today it was finding the
will to live this is the worst thing ever it's a bit later on of the day by
that I mean 6:00 a.m. apparently waking over 5 a.m. gives you
a winner mindset I do not feel like a winner feel like a loser actually cuz
for one thing why I keep falling asleep while I'm doing stuff
so I'm trying to do some work at the moment I've been saying for about half
an hour all over written I don't even know where that sentence was going I'm
sure take that away I thought this is a good representation of my life right now
just like completely empty with no meaning whatsoever waking up at 5:00
a.m. that's the best you got do it absolutely just real this is what the
top dogs do 5:00 a.m. wake up back so who's winning in this situation
situation all right so it's 10:30 now at night which I didn't has a distinguished
before 10:30 I'm not I know what you're probably
thinking go to bed early makes sense right except it doesn't let
me tell you why wild I go to bed early when I'm waking up early two wrongs
don't make a right today so basically I'm just going to stay up as late as
possible that way it's like balance in it that's
what it's like everything in moderation so you gonna have the late with the
early isn't it Oh why's your jug too Early's well how does that make sense
then you just early you got bean lake all right so this 1157 now basically I
want to get five hours sleep so I ran the numbers like five four three two one
zero I think if either their bed at zero I'll
get exactly five hours and obviously zero doesn't exist it's like 12 it's 12
p.m. because at nighttime to 12 p.m. and yeah so I did like a Google and like I
found out that it takes the average person 7 minutes to fall asleep but I
know that I'm like well quicker stuff like girls and stuff but we've both
saying or you finish so fast light or wide you finish so fast like and
obviously that's like I'm a compliment I'm not boasting about it
and then yeah ready for like a 5:00 a.m. wake up again I met on that grind I just
showed you mine I'm like you work hard you can achieve anything
who would think that I would get up at 5:00 a.m. that isn't mental I actually
can't wait to get out now I'll see you guys tomorrow
laughs night-night let the bedbugs bite
and then quite wake up with the enthusiasm I had last night
yeah just fell but I shit behind and I'm getting so excited and go to sleep but
actually just stayed awake most of time I think I probably should have gone to
bed a bit earlier I thought the logic was flawless
now I'm starting to think maybe maybe actually looks better bear earlier no no
that's not that's not I thought why I thought I even if I went to bed at 5:00
you know in the afternoon I still would have been all right all right so my food
and second day and yeah I'm feeling pretty great to be honest I'm going to
the gym because if that's what us 5 a.m. is doing that's why I call it's not 5:00
a.m. you got beginning to understand obviously energy but fighting enemies of
waking up at 5:00 a.m. so yes that's that's you can see the correlation oh
yeah I think he's lactose free gluten free dairy free protein free protein
shakes when excited actually to come tomorrow which is really anyway I'm on
this is
five minutes later well we made it it is 9:15 I just want to go back to bed
and wake up a reasonable hour such as 1:00 in the afternoon I feel like
there's a snooze button for a reason just press it and you press it ten more
times and that's how a normal functional human being should behave I was 5 a.m.
somewhere that's what they say anyway oh it's 5 a.m. somewhere shut up
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AMORE o SICUREZZA? INVIDIA BUONA o CATTIVA? RISPONDO alle vostre DOMANDE #AskColors pt.1 - Duration: 17:49.
Hi all colors welcome in this one new video "ask", it was a long time since not
I did an "ask" and I'm happy to do another: I'm shooting after Christmas
in practice, but you will see me in January. And nothing, let's start right away because I do not know
if only one part is enough or we should divide it into two parts, however
you will see it from the title and duration surely: let's start from facebook, where the
first question the "Mami" makes me, Giovanna Paolucci and asks me: hello riccardo
I begin: I ask you this question how do you consider Christmas? I primarily like
religious festival but for many it is only consumerism. In fact I have already answered
this question in the tag
I never remember if mine or yours Christmas, however, I'll put you in the
cards (although I think you've already covered it) so you can know a little about it
I think short, however briefly I also say here that it's a bit of an excuse
in my opinion to bring together people who normally during the year does not
they would be seen or seen less. I was forgetting to answer the
mom's boyfriend's question, so the youtube virtual pops,
robert king of the robert king canal comedian and writer that you
invitation to visit, then we will add the your question
he asks me: consider yourself more a father than Santa Claus or more elven of malefics
snow names? I do not know if behind "dad" the meaning that comes is hidden
given we say also in south Italy (therefore stupidotto) so no, I think I am
unfortunately too smart, sometimes I would like to be stupid dear popes and
but unfortunately it is not possible, it can not be done regress unless you pull me one
head-shot. "I ask this question because not everyone knows that day
of the nativity our spirit is reborn modeling itself in something abstract and
at the same time unpredictable: the legend tells that the heart could
be infected by a mysterious force occult, so your answer is
important to know the future respect to the whole humanity "if
let's continue with this illiteracy functional dear papino you will go, yes
will go as they say to a bad end here, then
this is my answer for you, and I hope to have been exhaustive.
Sontina Effe asks me:
You are at a crossroads: the person who it makes your heart beat faster,
the one that represents all that you want but you know it will make you suffer
a lot during your relationship, or the person laid, responsible
that loves you and that guarantees you a life serene but to which you simply want, who
choose? Kisses " Let's start by saying that the question is very very interesting, e
so I'm very happy that it is arrived first because I did not want to
arrive, as they say ... somehow tired, one
similar question, and then then answer hurriedly for the
hurry to close the video: let's say that I'm a bit 'two extremes (probably
wanted) and then I answer that surely the person must love her,
which would lead to the first option but you have to see a bit 'which
suffering, because if by suffering we intend to bear a distance
temporary is a speech that is supported for love it is tolerated, or in any case others
things like that I know he does a heavy job, we see each other very little
and then that's another thing that yes bears if suffering means
become a deer in spring, if you suffer it means for example the fact that you do not
show with you in public, the fact that somehow you are ashamed of yourself, that
does not introduce you to friends or to loved ones in some way ... then
that kind of suffering is not good for me, let's say that my person is a mixture
between the two things because I can not stay with a person I love.
michele and fabio (hello guys!) ask me: would you accept a political assignment, and if
yes what would be your first law? If I'm not wrong
among other things this question had been me made to the other "ask", but since it is a lot
long (I do not want to bore you with half an hour of "ask" I answer you also here:
the important thing would certainly not become too famous, too much on the planes
high because then the private life would go a little 'walk (to say nothing else
words "family friendly"
but let's say at a not too famous level I would probably accept it, and I would do it right away
pressure for a law against homo-b i-transphobia that ... I know about these things not
we always agree after your video on homophobia, though
I would be very very strict at least a pecuniary level, especially at the level
pecunirio because then also depends on the entity, in the sense to punish an offense
verbal with the prison would seem excessive to me, while the fine
it is never excessive; if instead there are aggravating factors of the type
that you are the one who pecks - or worse you still kill her - that is absolutely prison
and indeed, in case of murder I would give just the prison for life without even
to think (for a homo-bi-transphobic matrix.) Another law is not less
since this also concerns me, one more attention to "after us" ed
to the housing emergency, which often it also affects people with disabilities,
so there must not be anyone must live with 283 euros a month,
there must not be anyone left on the street because he can not pay a
rent, because the money the state has them, so this would be another law; not
I could do only one because for me one does not exclude the other, I thank you
for this question to which surely the answer will have been different, so fine
that has emerged again. brother & sister travel me
asks: you have other tattoos scheduled or piercings in the near future or you feel
to be okay like that? So, tattoos new ones I have not planned
honestly speaking, I would like to have idea and money especially for how much
it's about a cover, a cover of mine first tattoo (that of the eagle)
because I do not like it anymore, I do not like the meaning that I do anymore
remember and I would like to cover it, but the problem is that I'm not working
too much, but we'll talk about work later, in another question and above all
I have to have a good idea because a tattoo is forever.
clay & bonny (I'm always happy when new stylists ask me questions!)
we would like to ask you what do you think of envy?
believe that it can be a feeling good to spur yourself to be better
for example, or give to this feeling a negative connotation?
So, in the meantime, I respond to this because then there's another one:
in my opinion there are both, in the sense for example, I find myself much more
often to try the first one, for example when I saw that there were some
youtuber with a love life initially not beautiful and now
made, I began to think that this thing was possible for
me ... about positive envy. At the same time there is also an envy
negative to which I am not immune absolutely, because I am a
be human like all of you, I try to keep away because it's all
negative that is not good for the spirit and to the soul, but I'm not immune
the other always question of Clay & Bonny is: if I were a character in a book, what would you be?
Well I will seem obvious but not even, because in reality
I want to enrich my answer obvious: I would be a Harry Potter but a little
stronger and a bit 'less lucky, that is .. you that you follow the saga you know what I am
speaking, in the sense that anyway Harry Potter for all seven books and eight films
I'm always a large number of exaggerated butt buttes
I, on the other hand, would like to be a Harry Potter who yes, inevitably succeeds with the ... with the help of others
however, at the same time, there is a little more ... a little more talent, a little
more than ... of attributes and also does a little more alone, a revisited Harry Potter
this is my personal version of Harry Potter, so much so that Harry Potter is not the
my favorite character of the saga strange but true.
"food mania" obviously asks me my question is: what is your favorite dish?
So dear, let's say that I first tell you what I do not eat: I do not base myself
like fennel cooked au gratin, while instead for example I would not have
problems with eating fennel salad, it is the gratin variant that I do not like
and then I do not like them beets, if anything on the
on the salty snack the cream of beetroot at its best but not
more, and ... just think, for the rest I like pretty much everything can be said
sure if I had to tell you we do so, three favorite dishes: from
good Italian pizza, especially like it is made in Naples (as it should be); in
winter pasta with lentils, while in summer I liked so much a cold pasta that made me the mother of an old friend, She was the mother of an old friend
because it was precisely vabbè pasta obviously, with pitted green olives,
gruyere, the Swiss, in other words that type of cheese there, peppers and saffron
in cooking ... very good! Then I like them very sweet also, all kinds of desserts
if anything, I avoid those with too much alcohol content because
I can not stand alcohol, nothing, zero you make me drunk because no.
the wellness channel claudia bardi with whom I also made a collaboration (which I'll put you on the cards) asks me:
what color is life seen by riccardo? kiss sweetheart! * Smack * kisses you too, hello dear <3
So, what color is life ... let's say that ... here, now comes the answer
deep .. let's say that like everyone like everyone, but maybe a little 'more than other people of my age
my life has often changed color, in the sense that as a child I was very
on clouds like all children, but then ... and therefore my life could
being kind I do not know of a beautiful blue here, a series of events have
done early to bring me a series of black events, very black blacks for which
I had changed my mind, I did not want to ... I did not want to like me anymore
before being in the world ... I do not even know how I'm still here to tell you why
they were really very, very moments ugly: now I place myself in the middle, not
I'm in black, I'm not in the rosy because however there are still many things that
I want to see made to stay Better possible,
But now I do not know pale colors pastel between black and blue.
Recipes and RISATE in a few minutes the channel of Clara and Mirella, but lately managed more by mirella
well I have to say then believe more in your mirella skills!
what is the gift you would like for Christmas and what would you do if you made your gift?
From the tone of the question I believe that a gift in the broad sense is meant no, e so I answer you in a very broad sense
the greatest gift, as I say practically in all the videos where I have the chance
(you can not stand me anymore to hear) would be the construction of one of my family, then a companion
let's say that at this moment I tell you without children, but einstein said that
only fools do not change their minds, so right now, without children, then
in life you never know .. what would I do if yes realize, well I answer you in a way
very superstitious, I'm turning this video the day after Christmas
Tomorrow I will meet a person with whom I have many common points, though
rightly he too answers "step by step "which translates into English
step by step, this thing I find myself ... I find myself deeply in this thing
so if this were the realization of my desire, a tomorrow, farther
in private I will make a good cry, but just those on tap
and then I would do my best to grow it, because love is a bit like plants, if
do not grow it dies (I see it that way) in the hope that obviously from the other
part is the same thing, and..surely I would believe more in life because so far
Yes, I learned to believe in myself but in life little, and in life
(excusing the pun) it would be necessary be able to believe both in themselves and in life itself to be more serene.
Boys in the end I decided to finish first because it was coming too long, but I announce that
there will be a second but not a third part, so forgive me if the second part
it will be a little longer, to the next video Hello!
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Getting your car ready.
When it comes to preparing your car,
here are a few things to keep in mind
that'll keep you safe on the road.
Some cities may require you to keep your phone mounted
and have a Bluetooth headset for taking calls,
allowing you to keep your hands on the wheel.
A phone charger insures you're always powered up
and ready to take your next trip.
Many cities require drivers to have the Uber decals
clearly displayed on car windshields.
Many cities may require that your car pass an inspection
before you can go on the road.
Look for an email from your local Uber team
on the rules in your city.
We also asked some highly rated drivers
how they set themselves up for success.
A lot of drivers say they get higher ratings
and more compliments when they have a clean car
free of heavy scents.
Some drivers go the extra mile to delight their riders
with things like mints or bottled water.
With a little extra care,
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iPhone screen locked in portrait orientation mode - Duration: 0:36.
In case if your iPhone display is stuck in horizontal or vertical mode then there is
a simple solution to fix this one.
Just open the control center and we will see this icon here with a lock and then a circle.
If it is active like this then just deactivate it.
So, this is portrait orientation lock.
So, deactivate it and then you should be able to rotate the screen now.
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Stossel: End Racial Preferences at Colleges? - Duration: 4:23.
A lawsuit against Harvard.
The outcome could affect the future
of affirmative action.
Harvard has been sued for
illegally discriminating against Asian-Americans.
The legal action forced the school
to make its admissions data public
for the first time.
That did reveal that Asian applicants
must score 22 points higher on the SAT than whites,
63 points higher than blacks.
Nevertheless,
Harvard denies it discriminates
against Asian Americans or any other group.
Harvard says, race is just one factor
among many.
That is just a lie.
Lee Cheng supports the students suing the school.
Harvard didn't just use race as one of many factors.
It was the determinative factor.
Harvard says many Americans of Asian descent
don't get in because they score lower in
personal attributes.
Harvard rated Asian Americans on personality,
right, on subjective factors like likability
and courage lower.
This is because Asian Americans
are boring little grade grubbers.
They just focus on getting good grades
and good test scores.
I can categorically say that's bullshit.
If you only look at grades and test scores,
it looks like a lot of discrimination against Asians.
Economist Harry Holzer,
who went to Harvard, defends the school.
Asians are not interesting?
They don't have interesting qualities?
The personal ratings reflect
a wide range of characteristics.
Now it's possible.
It's possible that some of that is anti-Asian bias,
but you certainly can't prove that.
I don't think they're discriminating against Asians
but I assume they're discriminating for
blacks and Latinos
because there's been a history of discrimination.
I wouldn't label it discrimination.
I would label it as leveling the playing field.
Isn't that discrimination?
No, no, it's,
it's race conscious assistance and
when you have a long history of discrimination
based on race,
you have to take race into account.
Hasn't Harvard,
like lots of other schools,
been deceitful about
what they're doing?
They basically lied for years.
I don't know if they were lying,
they were putting their own spin.
This case is expected to get to the Supreme Court,
and the new court may ban racial preferences.
If that happens,
you'll see a large increase
in the white student population,
and you see a precipitous decline
in the black and Latino student population,
about 50%.
50% decline in those of color.
Harvard would be a less interesting place
if that happens.
There are many, many, different ways
to achieve diversity
without discriminating against Asian Americans.
The reality is that race-focused affirmative action
helps rich people.
Seventy percent of the students
of every ethnic group at Harvard
come from the top 20 percent
of family income.
I think It's okay that some of the minorities
admitted under affirmative action come from
higher income families.
Race in America matters,
at any level of income.
The groups that are harmed the most
are actually poor whites and poor Asians.
Cheng is passionate about ending racial preferences
because when he was in the 8th grade,
he applied to San Francisco's Lowell High School.
I was just shocked when I found out
I had to score higher than kids of any other ethnic
group because I've just taken civics.
I was just taught in civics and history
that in America everybody was supposed to be equal
under the law.
Lowell High School excels in everything
from music to math.
Cheng got in to that high school, but –
The kids who were negatively affected
were the kids of the dishwashers and the seamstresses
who lived in Chinatown, who were very poor.
Cheng later went to Harvard.
He became a lawyer
and successfully sued San Francisco
over its race-based preferences.
We got rid of the quotas in San Francisco.
You Asians, we white people.
We're doing well in America.
We don't need extra help,
but some other groups do,
and there's a history of nasty discrimination
against them.
Isn't it Harvard's job to
try to make up for some of that?
The right path
out of the history of discrimination
against individuals based on race is not more
discrimination based on race.
I have three kids,
and I'll be damned if I'm going to not fight
very, very hard to make sure that they don't get
treated as second-class citizens
in the land in which they were born.
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