I’m an American

Strangers

Lea Thau

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Lea recounts the personal journey that led her to become an American citizen this summer. It starts in Sweden in 1945…

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0:00.0	Would everyone please rise?
0:02.0	Welcome to strangers.
0:05.0	Raise your right hand from KCW and Radiotopia.
0:09.0	And repeat the oath of allegiance.
0:11.0	I'm Leah Tao.
0:13.0	And that's me being sworn in as an American citizen.
0:17.0	I hereby declare on oath.
0:20.0	I hear by declare on oath that I absolutely and entirely.
0:24.6	That I absolutely and entirely.
0:27.6	Renounce and abjure.
0:30.6	All allegiance and fidelity.
0:33.6	All allegiance and fidelity.
0:35.6	To any foreign prince. To any foreign prince.
0:38.3	Potentate.
0:40.3	State or sovereignty.
0:42.3	State or sovereignty.
0:45.3	Of whom or which?
0:47.3	Of whom or which?
0:49.3	I have heretofore been
0:52.3	a subject or citizen. A subject or citizen.
0:55.0	A subject or citizen.
0:58.0	After 21 years in this country, I finally made the leap to become a citizen two months ago,
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