<p>Wow, see I have to come to the aid of my S in law here. She is Japanese, not Japanese American, though went to grad school here, but awhile ago. She lives in an overseas multicultural city similar to San Francisco, works in a multinational environment. This country, in Japan, has a reputation for violence, due to our gun control laws, or the lack thereof. I don’t know if the violence bit was going through her mind, but central Iowa was an unaccustomed environment. If any of you found yourselves in rural Africa or Asia, no one around that looked like you, and you were unsure of local sentiment toward your race, might it be a bit disconcerting? Like you wouldn’t want to be dropped off alone in that place? That was the feeling I referred to.</p>