Describe the difference Lalami notes between how she was treated at work in 2000 after she became a citizen and how she was treated a year later after the September 11 attacks.

After Lalami became a citizen she was greeted at work with a surprise party that included apple pie. A year later, after 9/11, Lalami approached a coworker about a deadline. This coworker, who had been at her party the year prior, asked her if she was going to shoot him suggesting that was how "you people solve things" (13).