User blog comment:Kingofawosmeness777/The Band Comes to Bullworth Ch. 1/@comment-68.2.211.107-20120210035616/@comment-3145713-20120211173653

I think what King is trying to get at is that Ivan isn't really naturalized within American society, kind of like Juri. And Russians to this day are pretty homogeneous as a civilization.

If even that's not what his thoughts stem from, then I'm beat.