DiaBlog #1

"There comes a time,' Abba said grimly, 'when the writing is right there on the wall. Why should we wait for them to kick us out?' he added, 'I want to live in a place where I can hold my head up.' " (10)

I thought that this little paragraph was really important, because it shows the predicament that all the Bangladeshi and Iranians were in after the 9/11 attack. I thought that Abba was very sad and defeated, as he had to leave the country he lived in for a long time. I noticed that America has started a trend. Every time something devastating happens, like the World Wars, or Pearl Harbor, they blame other people, like the Japanese in World War 2, or the people from countries like Bangladesh, Iran, and Pakistan in the 9/11 attack and the Iraq war. It's like America is a small child, blaming everything on their older brother. All of these poor people, who probably lived in America for half their lives, had to flee because they were being prisoned for their nationality.