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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (71982)9/13/2009 4:50:24 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) of 224748
 
saw this,looks pretty easy.

It seems it IS possible to be born in one place, yet be documented being born in another. Can someone explain how a person born in China winds up holding a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth?

Background:
en.wikipedia.org

Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 or 24 November 1870 – 12 March 1925)

Sun Yat-sen was born on 12 November 1866 to a peasant family in the village of Cuiheng, Xiangshan county, Guangzhou prefecture, Guangdong province (26 km or 16 miles north of Macau). The latter claim is likely to be correct, as the Certificate of Hawaiian Birth was issued based on Sun’s typewritten testimony, rather than on any documentation from witnesses….

After receiving a few years of local school, at age thirteen, Sun went to live with his elder brother, Sun Mei, in Honolulu. Sun Mei, who was fifteen years Sun Yat-sen’s senior, had emigrated to Hawaii as a laborer and had become a prosperous merchant.

The certificate:
scribd.com

A portion of the certificate reads: “……And it appears from his affidavit and the evidence submitted by witnesses that he was born in the Hawaiian Islands on the 24th day of November A.D. 1870…”
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