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I am rereading the book "To see and see again". There is one part when the author says that a classmate tells her "Go home Iranian." It reminded me of an incident I had in the 4th grade. We had come to the US for the summer but then the war with Iraq broke out and all flights to Iran were cancelled and we got stuck in the US. They enrolled us in school. There was a curly haired kid in my class that every time they took us outside to play wall ball, he would call me Iranian and pretend he had a machine gun and be firing bullets at me, most of the time in the presence of a teacher. They never said anything to him. 


 

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