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...Dwelling on the Grief Pico Iyer, in his commentary "Move On," advised Americans to recover from their grief over 9/11 [Sept. 15]. Although this might be considered good advice from a psychologist, it is folly from a national-policy point of view. The U.S. was not attacked by a troublemaker from whom we should simply turn away. This is a war, not an academic debate over cultural norms or schoolyard bullies. Iyer said we should learn something from the Japanese, who embraced their conquerors. He forgot that they did so only after years of brutal war and a total defeat...
...Journey Home" made me realize that, indeed, blood is a secondary factor and home is no longer a fixed location. As a Taiwanese-born citizen raised in Costa Rica and the U.S., I am quite aware that more and more Asians are becoming citizens of the world. Although Pico Iyer wrote that "home nowadays has nothing to do with a piece of soil and everything to do with something I carry around inside me," I have a different reaction. Having recently made my own Asian journey home and with three identities deeply inculcated in me, I find it hard...
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