Growing up in America v. Iran

Growing up in America I never had to deal with what was going on in the government. I spent my days only worrying about what doll I wanted next. For Marji it was much worse. Marji grew up with a constantly changing and confusing government. Her school was telling her to believe one thing while her parents are telling her to believe the opposite. Marji feels as if she is being pulled in different directions all because of the government's actions. I could never imagine having to fear that you might not see your family again because of an ongoing war that might kill anyone close to you. The only disturbance that I ever experienced that even closely relates to Marji's is 9/11, and even this I did not fully fear. All i can remember of that September 11th in 2001 is seeing it on the news. Because it did not effect me, I did not seem to care. I heard on the news many times about all the lives lost, and suffering and yet it never seemed to upset me because I personally was not effected. In this way I can see that Marji is definitely a more mature person than me because she did experience such terrible things that forced her to grow up and have her own opinions. I know that when I was growing up I did not have my own opinion, my opinion was my parents opinion and what they thought, I thought to. Thinking back I can remember when my mom took me with her so she could vote for the new president in the year 2000. When we got there we saw that they had a kids booth so minors could vote as well even though it did not count. Going into the booth with my sheet of paper, I realized I recognized none of the names on the sheet besides George Bush, and that was only because my parents had talked about him before. I ended up just checking off random names, including George Bush because I knew my parents were voting for him. This just shows that unlike Marji, government really was not important to me growing up, and I rarely thought anything of it. Marji and I may have both grown up with a love for dolls and cute clothes, but I definitely did not grow up having to deal with the struggles Marji went through.