Not only do people go into Chinese restaurants, but people are more likely to work with other Chinese-Americans, more likely to marry them.
We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force-then there could very well be a backlash.
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
Even if you wanted to be a hermit, people come out looking for you. I don't want to cloister myself away, but it is important for me to write about issues that have universal significance. One of them that have resonated with me all my life has been the theme of injustice.
The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are the most unpopular of all the races. They found that people were less likely to vote for Chinese-Americans than other minorities.