excerpt from Chapter 3 of Snow Crash: > Beneath this image, it is impossible to see Hiro's eyes, which look Asian. They are from his mother, who is Korean by w

excerpt from Chapter 3 of Snow Crash: > Beneath this image, it is impossible to see Hiro's eyes, which look Asian. They are from his mother, who is Korean by way of Nippon. The rest of him looks more like his father, who was African by way of Texas by way of the Army—back in the days before it got split up into a number of competing organizations such as General Jim's Defense System and Admiral Bob's National Security.