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The Japanese are a homogenous people who see nothing wrong with wanting to stay that way. This doesn’t make them exclusive, it makes them self-preserving. On the other hand Michio Kushi, the ‘One Peaceful World’ avatar and renowned teacher of macrobiotics, would frequently point out to his audience of college graduate, bourgeois, ex- hippie studentsContinue reading “On Exclusivity”

The ninety-eight year-old speaker at the Republican National Convention, Sgt. William Pekrul, was born the same year as my mother, making him a teenager when he fought at the Battle of the Bulge, where my uncle Calvin fought and was wounded.  He is one of the last of the great American warriors of WW2.  I took particular note of his comments regarding America as not just an idea, but his homeland.