>>85288457She's a second generation immigrant with the baggage that comes with: she's more secular and acclimated than her parents, and has to deal with other side of second generation immigrants in her brother, who has become more religious and counter culture than their parents. This leads her to being slightly distanced from both, because she's not only a teenager but on a different wavelength from her older family members. They all care about her and none are as one sided as they first appeared, but they have different ideals from her when it comes to what they think is right for her (things like her hobbies or love interests and so on) that she has to convince them to get over.
She wants, or wanted (the story has developed past that by now sort of), to be better accepted by her classmates and other Americans her age. The first issue has her dealing with this, with her coming to realize the others she wanted to be a part of weren't willing to meet her halfway when it comes to her personal beliefs, which are still grounded in her foreign heritage that she's unwilling to discard out of hand.
More recently, she's tried to grapple with the fact that her idol has begun to pay more attention to her. She's been selected to work with her, but has begun to see her flaws and the flaws in the system she's trying enact. Currently, she's caught because she jumped in feet first because of her hero worship, but it's conflicting with her personal sense of heroism, which is far more local and interpersonal than her hero. It's important to note Kamala's sense of community and heroism is rooted heavily in being from Jersey, not Ms. Marvel or her personal ethnicity or religion. Her disconnect from Carol's policy's comes from personally knowing the people it's affecting, and so she knows the nuances being washed over.
