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know an Afghan who lived during the Taliban regime. Her sister was unable to attend school for seven years and was wearing a burqa.


know a Vietnamese born during the war who admired Ho Chi Minh. He now works for Columbia in the recruitment industry.


know a Sri Lankan who has never been in Jaffna. If you ventured over there might be kidnapped for years, waiting for a ransom. It is part of an ethnic minority.


know a Colombian who lives in the capital. He never saw the end of a war that has lasted for sixty years.


know a Georgian whose city was occupied and destroyed by the Russians on the eve of independence. For two years she lived in the bombing, and for other five were taken refuge along with thousands of others. He started from scratch and now it is here, alive.


know the Chinese whose grandparents were killed by the Cultural Revolution, whose parents were in camps or were sent the Red Guards.


know a Taiwanese do not describe China.


know a Venezuelan who knows how easy it is to be kidnapped in his country for money.


know Indian Hindus, Christians and Muslims. What after all are in agreement, apart from the diet ..!


un'iraniana I know he did not want to be represented by Ahmadinejad, was proud and yet, here in America, to be Iranian.


know a South African who is not a highly skilled labor because it is black, and that post-apartheid continues to suffer from white racism.

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know an American who believed that Rome was a state ... There would have been closer if he had spoken of the Empire (at least once existed!)

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