"Sinthia Schmidt," she answers plainly--she doesn't lie, not outright, because it's uncomfortable and her father hates when she tries it on him.

"My father's name is Johann."

It isn't that she doesn't like Steve because of who he is, or because of who her father is, though she's very aware that they do not like each other. It's mostly that Steve is new, and everything she's been told about America is bad, and here he is epitomizing it and that makes Sinthia feel more than a little bit lost.