^^ Salaams Sister Ma mooli 
Something must be seriously wrong at the home front!!
For 7 to 8 or 8 to 9 year olds to have such negative impressions about themselves must come from the parents at that tender age!!
Smacks of some sort of inferiority complex syndrome imparted in the home front to such impressionable minds.
May be they were living in of some very hard core Sunni neighbourhood!!
I thinks same would apply to Sunnis kids living Sadr city or any hardcore Shia neighbourhood.
Trust me Sunnis are quite accommodating