U.S. Relations with the People's Republic of China (2005)

U.S.-Brazil Youth Ambassadors Program Fosters Understanding

State's Zoellick says program is "life-changing" for student participants

Following is a transcript of Zoellick's remarks:

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
October 7, 2005

Remarks

Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick
at the Official Announcement of the Participants of the 2006 Edition
of the Youth Ambassadors Program
United States Embassy, Brasília, Brazil

October 6, 2005

Deputy Secretary Zoellick:

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So I really appreciate the fact that I had the chance of meet with all of you. I asked them who the American they would most like to meet -- living or dead -- and came up with some interesting answers in combination. I told them in a cross-cultural sense that I cross-tabulated this with the answers I got when I asked the question in China. And I would say that Brazilian group has a good sense of history, law, politics, but as we noted, the Chinese were focused heavily on some of the economic aspects, particularly in the software industry, since a lot of them liked Bill Gates. But it may reflect the fact that when I was in China, his book had just come out.

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