Dozens of events to honor Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month kicked off in Palo Alto on May 1, with celebrations planned during the next four weeks that will include films and discussions.
"I look at anybody who might be discriminatory and think, 'It's probably a reflection of their own life. They're deprived and their life might be really pathetic, so they take it out on people who look different.'"
Kishimoto referred to "The Third Century," a book she co-authored in 1988 about the political and economic culture of the United States.
"We talked about the U.S. being a 'world nation,' predicated on democracy and the rule of law and not on any one race," she said. "We predicted that California and the U.S. would become majority minority, where no one race or ethnic group would hold a majority position. ... That obviously came true for California and the Bay Area.