William Reading the inestimable Mark Twain (this time, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,”) it occurred to me that the book might be available online. Sure enough, it is, at Gutenberg.org: https://gutenberg.org/files/86/86-h/86-h.htm Twain was a periplectic guy. He traveled and lived across the country, particularly in the “west” (when the “west” meant anything to the west of the Ohio river), and the characters he met had great influence on his works. In this novel, characteristics of gender, educational level, social status and wealth embody each character. The reason I am bringing this up on this page is that a read gives insight into the rubric with which Japanese - Kumamotoites - might view non-Japanese (and vice-versa). It is worth a read - and it’s free! (though non-native English speakers will find his “local” dialects - those of a 19th C. New Englander and a 9th C. Englishwoman - difficult to parse).