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World Service,22 Jan 2011,25 mins

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In this week's edition of From Our Own Correspondent ... Justin Rowlatt finds out why blue collar Americans blame China for the decline of industry in the United States. Mike Wendling visits the headquarters of the world's largest social network. Mary Harper travels to a corner of Somalia forging its own path to independence. Nadene Ghouri meets the only western graduate of south Asia's largest Islamic school. And in South Africa, Christian Parkinson explains why it helps to have some cattle handy when you propose to your Sotho girlfriend.

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