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    My Life’s Backbone

    I recently watched a documentary on Netflix called “World’s Busiest Cities” and I was pleasantly surprised that the first episode was about Hong Kong, my home. One segment of the documentary that resonated with me was about domestic helpers. Growing up, my family, and many families in Hong Kong had a domestic helper. Most of them are from the Phillipines, Indonesia, or more or less poverty ridden countries that allow their citizens to come to Hong Kong to work domestically. Domestic helpers live with the family they work for to do house work, take care of children, among other things. Having a domestic helper is not for the privileged in…

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