Children internalize repeated racial and xenophobic harassment. [causal]
This incident was not an isolated one. Her children were with her at a restaurant when another customer yelled at them to "go back home." Nasreen told me how her children internalized these collective experiences.
XREF: Plausibly connects to literature on racial socialization and the psychological effects of discrimination on children.
Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 416