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Meanwhile the local Chinese families don't consider me as a dangerous creature 
any more. Klavka again plays with X at their house. Unfortunately, they leave for China soon. 
L's husband found a job in the States, so they visit their homeland before moving to the USA.
L told me about one Chinese boy who is X's and Klavka's classmate at the public school. The boy told his mother that another boy, a white one, said something like "You were born in China, so you have to live in China, not here." L's exprеssion was "Grapes of Wrath". I listened and didn't interrupt, didn't add anything or argued. I understood everything. I understood her reaction. Perhaps I grew up. Finally.
Now I sleep well after reading about Chernobyl victims in the evening.
I just sneer at all the Jewish-Slavonic/Baltic conflicts and misunderstandings.
I am not surprised with the cornucopia of complains about "blacks and mentally challenged" in the American schools from the good woman who asked about "my Chinese husband" (for the full picture I have to add her membership in a kind of a "church", where there are "normal families").
I don't want to tell L anything about what was that - being a foreigner in China. She is not responsible of all the foolery and thirst of "using" a foreigner that surrounded me those 10 months. She is a cheerful person and an excellent diagnostician: imagine me once telling her about Baobeir's health complains - she suggested one acupoint - Baobeir felt improvement right on the spot!!!
I didn't want to tell her what attitudes she would meet living in the former SU!
I'm just sorry that the more experience of this kind I get, the more often I stay silent when people express their anger or embarrassment about these issues. Perhaps speaking that out will help humans be more human. But there is politeness. And only anger (where there is no room for politeness) tells the truth.
any more. Klavka again plays with X at their house. Unfortunately, they leave for China soon. L's husband found a job in the States, so they visit their homeland before moving to the USA. L told me about one Chinese boy who is X's and Klavka's classmate at the public school. The boy told his mother that another boy, a white one, said something like "You were born in China, so you have to live in China, not here." L's exprеssion was "Grapes of Wrath". I listened and didn't interrupt, didn't add anything or argued. I understood everything. I understood her reaction. Perhaps I grew up. Finally.
Now I sleep well after reading about Chernobyl victims in the evening.
I just sneer at all the Jewish-Slavonic/Baltic conflicts and misunderstandings.
I am not surprised with the cornucopia of complains about "blacks and mentally challenged" in the American schools from the good woman who asked about "my Chinese husband" (for the full picture I have to add her membership in a kind of a "church", where there are "normal families").
I don't want to tell L anything about what was that - being a foreigner in China. She is not responsible of all the foolery and thirst of "using" a foreigner that surrounded me those 10 months. She is a cheerful person and an excellent diagnostician: imagine me once telling her about Baobeir's health complains - she suggested one acupoint - Baobeir felt improvement right on the spot!!!
I didn't want to tell her what attitudes she would meet living in the former SU!
I'm just sorry that the more experience of this kind I get, the more often I stay silent when people express their anger or embarrassment about these issues. Perhaps speaking that out will help humans be more human. But there is politeness. And only anger (where there is no room for politeness) tells the truth.