“I’m learning to imagine being a North American,” he said. “In order to think in a certain way one must learn how to enter the mind of another, as a guest to be sure, but to feel another’s reality from within. I’m not studying you,” he said, “I’m learning you, and you could use your time here to learn what it is to be Salvadoran, to become that young woman over there who bore her first child at thirteen and who spends all of her days sorting tobacco leaves according to their size. Now that would be an education.”
