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typical hong kong girls don't do things like this, like these crazy adventures. rooftopping is a kind of new extreme sport among young people in hong kong now. the idea is conquering a building without being discovered by security. my heart is always pounding, and then my hands are sweating, but i try to overcome this fear. my rooftopping friends, they all have same value w with me. i thk
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they're all rebellious, and they also think that the government is not serving the people now in hong kong. they just want you to be obedient. benjamin: i don't want to see any police because i have a helmet with me today. airin: you can say you have helmet for bike. ha! benjamin: because maybe there are d donstrationon tonight, maybe. i don't know. protests out the popolice and govvernment
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man: ok. airin: i actually don't want to get famous from rooftopping. it's just an instant. i think the protests inspired me. they were not satisfied with the electoral system in hong kong, so they start a demonstration here. the police didn't know what to do, so they used tear gas to make people go home. we used umbrella to protect us, and that's why the protest was called umbrella movement. i held
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hong kong flag on the roof, and that went viral in hong kong. talk about that photo to anyone. they know about that photo. i don't think nothing changed. the government didn't changed, but the society changed. people awakened. benjamin: sorry. my hand is trembling. ha ha ha! i love to use cameras to record this city for some disappearing landscape. when u.k. agreed to hand over hong kong to china, china has agreed the living
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in hong kong, even going to a cafe or just have a dinner is really expensive. you cannot do this every day, so roof is free. let's try that one. you can see the street. there is a familiar in hong kong--graduation, find a good job, get married, have kids, be grandparents, and die. if you don't learn anything or you don't contribute in society, i think such kind of life is meaningless to me.
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[speaking cantonese] [crowd chanting] man: each ofof you with yoyour e you give edward a bullet. where are the bullets? you guys have got the bullets. hold his machinegun and fight in the legislative council for us hong kongers. long live hong kong! long live hong kong! benjamin: he doesn't have any trust in the communist party and the hong kong government. he's saying to regain hong kong, and the younger generation is going to battle with the older generation in fighting for democracy but also
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airin: i was shocked when i saw the news at home. i was like, "what?" i didn't imagine that hongng kong peopople could do sh viviolent thin o on the strereet like burning stuff,f, throwing bricks, attacack the police because i it's susuch a big cont to umbrerella prototest. it was rereally peaceful, but that t n, it was r really violenent, and i think people try other ways, other peaceful ways already, and they realized thatat it doesn't wwork, so they had to i it. i's kind of ththe governmement forcd peopople to be violent. i'm sick of it all. this is t t ridiculous. it's
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like a group of rerely stupid people who are controlling the city. on the roof, you can see a lot of working robots, walking around without any purpose. then you think, "what's life for, just work?" when i see the robots, i think i don't want to be one of them. that's why i'm on the roof and seeing g you working. it seems that many peoplpldon't knonow the meaning of their liv. you put meaning it. you have to find the meanining for your ownn life.
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airin: art is a kind of self-expression, which is being ignonored in hong kokong. hong kong is not just a financial center. we have a lot of other traditions, culture, and values. i want to show that, show that t in photos. this is culture, hong kong culture. we-- we havave paper stufuff--these l are made e in paper, and we burn it for ancestors. they receive it in the other world like food, money. nowadays, we also have cell ph--iphone--ha--car, ipad,
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everything g you can imagine. yeah, i think it's important because traditions is a kind of identity. we can change hong kong by changing ourselves. learn m mor, speak more cantonese, try to keep this culture. we should always start from ourselves first. small, little things will lead to big changes like butterfly effect. in my books, i always write message just about "enjoy life, be yourself, take adventures."
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man: hi, chico. woman: i'm a bit wary of you, chico, i must say. [laughs] they might look happy, bubut these rare animals have been stolen, drugged, and sent far from home. man: this boy was born somewhere high in the trees, given birth the mother, and the mother must have been shot, ow, just because some rich person somewhere in this world believed that having an orangutan as a pet is ok. [orangutan vocalizing] woman: tononight, inside a multibillion-dollar global business. we meet the smugglers. that's like killing a human being. man: ooh... woman: and the campaigners putting their lives on the line. man: it's a well-oiled,
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