QUOTE : I never liked North America, even first trip. It is not most <br />crowded part of Terra, has a mere billion people. In Bombay they sprawl <br />on pavements; in Great New York they pack them vertically--not sure <br />anyone sleeps. Was glad to be in invalid's chair. <br /><br />Is mixed-up place another way; they care about skin color--by <br />making point of how they don't care. First trip I was always too light or <br />too dark, and somehow blamed either way, or was always being expected to <br />take stand on things I have no opinions on. Bog knows I don't know what <br />genes I have. One grandmother came from a part of Asia where invaders <br />passed as regularly as locusts, raping as they went--why not ask her? <br /><br />Learned to handle it by my second makee-learnee but it left a sour <br />taste. Think I prefer a place as openly racist as India, where if you <br />aren't Hindu, you're nobody--except that Parsees look down on Hindus and <br />vice versa. However I never really had to cope with North America's <br />reverse-racism when being "Colonel O' Kelly Davis, Hero of Lunar Freedom.