It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.
Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.