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	<title>Silicon Valley Voices</title>
	<link>http://voices.reedmag.org</link>
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		<title>Set Designer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After my grandparents got married, they moved into their house in Arroyo Saratoga, the same house my mother and her siblings were raised, and the house where my grandparents are still living today. My father was born in Mississippi. Later his family moved out to Fremont California. I was born on July 9, 1980 at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voices.reedmag.org/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Swedish University Student</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of my life I’ve had somewhat of an obsession with the United States of America. I’ve always felt as if I was destined to go there to live my own version of the American dream.  As I got older, my obsession narrowed to the San Francisco Bay Area. To me, the Bay Area was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voices.reedmag.org/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Poet/Entrepreneur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Danny (Dandiggity) Le is a Vietnamese-American shop owner by day, entrepreneur by night and incredibly gifted poet, no matter the time of day.
I was born in Oklahoma in 1981 and didn’t move to Silicon Valley until 1989. My parents came to America with less than a hundred dollars in their pocket, not knowing English or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voices.reedmag.org/?p=158</link>
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		<title>Indian Engineer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ll let you know secrets about India, I mean, have you ever wondered why there are so many Indians in Silicon Valley? It’s not a freaky coincidence that a hundred thousand students pick engineering as their lane. How does a country mint so many techies and engineer guys? I come from Bombay, in the Indian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voices.reedmag.org/?p=155</link>
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		<title>Professor of Communication Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have lived in Silicon Valley since 1998 when I took a job here at San Jose State. I applied for a job in what they call computer mediated communications. But when they said “well, we might get you a job here at San Jose State, come and apply,” I had to kind of realize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voices.reedmag.org/?p=152</link>
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		<title>Bank Employee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I moved to San Jose in 1974.  Like everyone else, I moved to the Silicon Valley for work. The differences between Salinas and San Jose were immediately noticeable. San Jose was bigger, had better jobs, better food, better shopping, and night clubs. I ended up transferring from the Salinas Wells Fargo Bank to the bank [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voices.reedmag.org/?p=148</link>
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		<title>Daughter of Sicilian Immigrant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother, a Sicilian immigrant who came to the United States before World War I, moved to the Silicon Valley and worked in Sacramento at the canneries for many years. My mother had a very tough time in this area as my grandmother was Sicilian and my grandfather was Albanian. At that time, it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voices.reedmag.org/?p=144</link>
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		<title>Serial Entrepreneur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rocco Chappie is a 36 year serial entrepreneur who just returned to Silicon Valley after time in Los Angeles and in Phoenix. Born to a political family, he was raised in northern California above Sacramento.  While a young man, the center of the known universe was Sacramento, and then Washington DC.  All that changed when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voices.reedmag.org/?p=141</link>
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		<title>Semi-Retired Engineer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first came out here around ’59 to ’61 time frame visiting some friends in Cupertino, after getting out of the Navy. I didn’t actually move out here until probably about ’69. At the time I was working for Ampex as a field engineer, and I would travel around to do work in Chicago, Dallas, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voices.reedmag.org/?p=138</link>
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		<title>Airport Employee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do I think about silicon valley? Well it’s where all the jobs are, the high tech jobs are.  I work for the airlines, airline employee at San Francisco Airport.  I work on the ramp, move bags, luggage, help prep planes.  It’s not a high tech job.  It’s not a good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voices.reedmag.org/?p=134</link>
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