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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1887/chinese_grad_comment.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Chinese Student Criticized for Graduation Comments' data-article-id='2404'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12625'>A Chinese student has apologized after she received heavy criticism for a graduation speech she gave in the American state of Maryland.</span> <span data-start-time='12625' data-end-time='19333'>Yang Shuping gave the speech at the University of Maryland on Monday.</span> <span data-start-time='19333' data-end-time='24229'>A video of her comments was posted on the Internet.</span> <span data-start-time='24229' data-end-time='31438'>The video has been played more than 50,000 times on the YouTube website.</span> <span data-start-time='31438' data-end-time='44208'>In her prepared comments, Yang talked about breathing “the fresh air” of free speech after arriving in the United States to study.</span> <span data-start-time='44208' data-end-time='55479'>She described arriving in the U.S. this way: “The air was so sweet and fresh and utterly luxurious.”</span> <span data-start-time='55479' data-end-time='63771'>“The moment I inhaled and exhaled outside the airport, I felt free,” Yang said.</span> <span data-start-time='63771' data-end-time='76771'>She added, “I grew up in a city in China, where I had to wear face masks every time I want outside, otherwise I might get sick.”</span> <span data-start-time='76771' data-end-time='87917'>Radio Free Asia reports that the video of her speech appears on China’s Sina Weibo social media website.</span> <span data-start-time='87917' data-end-time='97708'>By Tuesday afternoon, it said, the site’s users had played the video more than 56 million times.</span> <span data-start-time='97708' data-end-time='107083'>Many users accused the Chinese woman of unfairly criticizing the shortcomings of her home country.</span> <span data-start-time='107083' data-end-time='117458'>Yang wrote an apology that appeared in the Chinese newspapers Global Times and the state-operated People’s Daily.</span> <span data-start-time='117458' data-end-time='125500'>In it, she said, “I love my country and hometown and am proud of its prosperity.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button 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