essentially his father's standard of success. This classically American dilemma suddenly seems far away from the China I am seeing on the streets and in the poverty of our actors' clothes and of what I know of their living quarters and level of life. Is there anything in China now that I can relate Happy to, or is the whole success theme something he will have to imagine as happening way out there across the ocean?

Ying Ruocheng is not only a translator and actor but of necessity a kind of diplomat who, like it or not, represents this theatre before me, and this obligation, I believe, must narrow his field of candor. But there is a production at stake; I am not ready by any means to askWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just days after two Muslims were accused of gunning down 14 people in California, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows 51 percent of Americans view Muslims living in the United States the same as any other community, while 14.6 percent are generally fearful.

Muslim students pray before at a rally against Islamophobia at San Diego State University in San Diego, California, November 23, 2015. REUTERS/Sandy Huffaker

In the first poll on views of Muslim Americans taken in the aftermath of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, much of the division is partisan. Among Democrats, 60 percent said they view Muslims like any other community, compared with 30 percent of Republicans.

How Americans should treat Muslims, both those already living in the United States and those seeking to come to the