"long before the americans, before the japanese, before the french even, there were the chinese." what does the word even imply here?

This shows that the Chinese are the oldest people around, according to that extract. Long before Americans, Japanese, the French, were the Chinese. That "were" is the key.

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the autor of the text is bringing the point that one achievment of the president john f. kennedy was a success and this caused the next president to use a similar idea. the purposefor the use of the quotation in the text is to support the idea that peace corps was a result of the president's call. in this case, the quotation is presented as part of the writing and does not stand on its own.

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