It only got worse from there as Yeonmi realized that every one of her classes at the Ivy League school was infected with what she saw as anti-American propaganda, reminiscent to the sort she had grown up with. "’American Bastard' was one word for North Koreans" Park was taught growing up. "The math problems would say 'there are four American bastards, you kill two of them, how many American bastards are left to kill?'"