> My family is Chinese-American … A Japanese waitress stood by, smiling, her pen poised over her notepad. It was obvious I was a foreigner from the way I was dr

> My family is Chinese-American … A Japanese waitress stood by, smiling, her pen poised over her notepad. It was obvious I was a foreigner from the way I was dressed and from my company; but still, I felt some wild instinct flare up inside of me, an urge to acknowledge our shared ethnicity … Y'know, there are a huge number of both Japanese & Chinese who would disagree that they have any shared ethnicity at all …