In the story Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas, she conveys that American’s can be very helpful and accepting (despite the very evident language barrier) to foreigners who are coming to our country. On page 96-97 of her story, she uses the scenario of a young girl offering her and her mother to come inside and call themselves a ride when it looked like they were lost. Also on Firoozeh’s first day of American school, The teacher was trying to give them a geography lesson. Even though they struggled to even know where they came from, the teacher didn’t laugh. She just slowly helped them until they both fully understood. In the story Firoozeh says “After spending an entire day in America.... I realized that my father;s description of America had
