Trust me, you don't want to be a foriegn-looking in this country right now. We have American Indian students getting threats. It's insane. One of my frat bothers was from Lebanon and was a Christian. He HATED Muslims because he was from Beirut. I bet he is keeping low because someone might think he is a Muslim terrorist.
Actually I don't discuss it too much with my kids but they see it at school and they have friends so they can't be completely isolated from reality. I'm not the kind of parent who believes in total isolation and telling fairy tales to my kids.
As far as being foreign looking I don't know exactly what you mean by that, I live in an area with mostly immigrants and they blend in pretty well as far as looks with the native born. But they aren't the kind of foreigners who are dressing in robes so maybe that's what you mean.
What makes me more sad is the Jewish woman I talked with who was telling me about all the security guards they have in the back of the synagogue this week and she got tears in her eyes describing how that looked and felt. Once there was a time where except for a rare exception, people in the USA had freedom of religion and could pray in a synagogue without fears of being targeted for a mass killing, because most people don't think this ended with those 19 dead hijackers. It's bad that they let in all these people who can't accept freedom and peace but are bringing terror to all Americans.