I like Steve's enthusiastic view on this racial issue and wish to share, but I somehow got trapped and cannot throw away such pessimistic view with fear on Asian minority as well because such racial hatred only reflects a genuine human nature: "birds of a feather flock together", hopefully I am wrong!!!! But I still believe this country is the best in the world to accommodate all the varieties of human beings from four corners of the world and pray for the best to become a melting pot if not at least a 'salad bowl happily ever after' for our own children's generation. 

BB Lee

Civil War never ended, Dr. Ohn. I came and I saw and I believe so! 

Indeed, I convinced myself through 4-year experience in Columbia, SC before I returned to the civilized world, Yankeeland, to settle in Washington DC in 1978 after I finally gave up the original plan to go back to SNU to pay back/resume the work.

Yes, they, Southerners, live in a different world we will never understand, with different concepts, refusing to accept Yankee’s liberal concept.

YES, the Civil War still continues down there and Trump simply took advantage exploiting their grievance: “Yankee go HOME”- we all saw Confederate flag carrying riots through the Capitol incitement!!!

Of course, they also wish ‘damned foreigners like me ought to go their home country’, if not, at least back to Yankeeland where they belong to, by all means!  How did I know? They told/confessed to me when I became a genuine friend to them enough to share their honest feelings/advice.

Yes, a few weeks after I settled at Columbia, SC to join the new medical school of Univ SC temporarily in 1975 after I finished the training at MCV, Richmond, Va while negotiating with SNU for the condition to go back to SNUH, I had a unique chance to save one old man's life from the ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm on Sunday morning when I happened to pass by the ER on way to my office to pick up the camera. He was a leading senior member of their society and also the father-in-law of Columbia mayor so that I became a close friend to his family enough to share a genuine friendship till I left/moved to Washington DC later.

Indeed, as they remind us, the Civil War is now barely over one hundred years, not enough time to heal(?) for them. A foreigner like me is the worst combination they will never accept. Because they really loved me, they reluctantly told me ‘you do not belong here! you go back to where you belong to for your own welfare especially for the children’. So I took their advice deep down to my heart and moved out to Washington DC as soon as I decided NOT to go back to Seoul. So I know how they feel about the Northern intruders too well!!!!

I wonder how much has been changed through the last two decades?!  

BB Lee