My family is originally from Afghanistan, but when the Taliban took over, they started the genocide of the Hazara people there. Unfortunately, we are very easy to identify because we have distinctive facial features so it wasn’t safe for us to live there anymore. As a result, just before I was born, my family fled to Iran, where it was safer and easier for us at first. However, over time things also became bad for us there because the government and the people were really discriminatory and there was a lot of racism.
Eventually, my dad decided to leave . . .