and it might be useful to consider that--as you witness here with Jasmine, people who 'blog' on the internet can be especially angry and hateful with their posts, probably much more so than they are if you met them personally. I have still not fully appreciated the reason for this, but you will see for example, some "chat room" about say Amy Winehouse being arrested, and there will be multiple posts saying things like "I hope she dies." Sometimes on the site for American Idol, you read the worst insults you can imagine directed at children no older than 16 or 17 years of age. You sort of see this syndorme now with the Beijing Olympics. If an individual has any hidden animousity towards China--or even towards Asian people in general, they may decide to use the olympics as an excuse to vent their anger and hatred at you on the internet. I HOPE you don't take it personally.