Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.