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Americans love labels. They help them know what to expect. Sometimes, though, I think labels stop them from thinking.

I still smile at everyone in the street. Not everyone smiles back though. When they don’t I want to say, “You don’t have to worry about me. I’m just a girl who likes movies.”

You should care about your country too, he says.
I do, I say, but what I mean is I care about my brother and my baba and my mama and I just want to live in a country where we can all have dinner again without shouting about our president or rebels and revolution.