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

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

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.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

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.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.