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HH: Over the course of your time at Penn, being a teacher, you met a number of students and probably, maybe while you were there, the number of Asian students at Penn may not have been as numerous as they are today, but they probably still had quite a few. To what extent do you personally identify with the label "a quiet American?"

MW: Okay. You're asking me to what extent I identify with the label "quiet American"? You have prefaced this with a lot of remarks about Penn, which I will not respond to at the moment. The label "quiet American," I'm not really sure what it means. To me, I would think that there are times in one's life when one is not going to stick out and say things. But I think my usual tendency is not that. I don't really identify as a "quiet American," at least, I don't think, if something came up and I had to be obtrusive and assertive in order to state my position, I think I would do that. However, it's clear that I did not go and fight the evacuation. And I think if you were really strong, "unquiet American," you might have done that.

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