DISCOVERING CHARACTER
Richard Sears grew up in a small town in Oregon in the U.S. where the people were mostly Caucasians. He was 10 when he saw a Chinese girl, the first time he saw a Chinese, and he was enamored by their physical difference. Many years later, this drove him to make a bold decision. In 1972, he bought a one-way ticket and flew to Taiwan to learn the Chinese language, though at that time, he knew nothing about it.
His father tried to oppose his plan. That year, there had been a historic event: U.S. President Richard Nixon had visited China for one
