Green passports were suddenly being rejected visas to other countries and international media was othering the citizens of my country on the basis of religion. Similar to Diane M. Kimoto’s experience with the negative influence of being labeled and stereotyped as multiracial (1997), my multiple identities had melted together since the world had given me a stereotyped identity instead: suspected terrorist. Even though I never came across racism or discrimination by another civilian in this world, other Pakistanis still did; this made me realize that stereotyping and labelling is not just limited to calling the most studious student of the class a
Green passports were suddenly being rejected visas to other countries and international media was othering the citizens of my country on the basis of religion. Similar to Diane M. Kimoto’s experience with the negative influence of being labeled and stereotyped as multiracial (1997), my multiple identities had melted together since the world had given me a stereotyped identity instead: suspected terrorist. Even though I never came across racism or discrimination by another civilian in this world, other Pakistanis still did; this made me realize that stereotyping and labelling is not just limited to calling the most studious student of the class a