And this powerful awareness rolled in over me that I was a minority, and in my own home country, based on one facet of my character.

They form part of the South Downs in East Sussex, between the towns of Seaford and Eastbourne in southern England.

And as a consequence of that presumption, my hometown was burned to the ground by an invading army, an experience that has befallen many a Hungarian town and village throughout its long and troubled history.

By the way, when I showed this slide to a group of Kiwanians in my town, they all rose in indignation from their creamed chicken, and they shouted at me and said, It was raining that day when you took that picture!

I came out of a blue collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind of industry and that also informed my work. But you know, to see China and the scale at which it's evolving, is quite something.