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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My spouse is iranian and I can tell you that LA iranians have a lot of wealth and the show does depict the reality of iranian life and culture there. They are generally materialistic. Lots of iranian women admire blond hair so they color their hair blonde (at least the affluent ones do). Many are uncomfortable if they have the typical iranian nose and get nose jobs. They are not religious per se but more attached to their culture.

And I should add that there is no such thing as being "Persian." The Persian empire hasn't existed for eons. Would it be appropriate for anyone to go around saying they were "Roman" or "Mesopotamian"? These civilizations haven't existed for centuries. These people are Iranians. Persia was once Iraq and Iran combined. Iraq and Iran, however, are now distinct cultures with separate ethnicities and language. One group is arab, the other is not. I think they like to call themselves Persian because the U.S. has not had good relations with Iran in many, many years and they fear discrimination. [/quote]

Well, you just showed you are a liar, or that your husband is a liar because if he was Iranian he would have educated your ignorant lying ass Although as much hate as you showed towards Iranians I seriously doubt you are married to one.

Persians are a ethnicity and in Iran they are found in 3 folk groups, the Pars, Lors and Bakhtiari, these 3 central states in Iran make up the Persian ethnic group. Jewish Persians are a separate ethnicity but are grouped together with Persians because of cultural assimilation, and since they lived with Persians for +2500 years its probably safe to say they are ethnically Persians too. There are also Persian minorities in Armenia, Azerbajan, Turkmenistan and other Caucasus countries. Iran as always been know as Iran or a version off that name by it's own inhabitants, the name with its current pronunciation has been used for about a 1000 years, before that it was know as Ayran. Iran has been known as Persia to outsiders because many of the dynasties who rose to power and formed the different Persian Empires where in fact members of the Persian ethnicity. Back when Iraq was a part of the Persian empire there where no arabs there the population there was a mix of Persians and Assyrians and other ethnicity, which significantly changed after the arabs invaded in the 7th century. Modern Iraq, in fact, is not a very old country, and its borders were demarcated and formed in essence by the British in the 1920s, the name Iraq comes from Middle persian Er?q which means the lowlands. I am sure there a remnants of Persians there as there are in other parts of what belonged to the Persian Empire. Iran and Iranic people are composed of many different ethnic groups, i.e. Armenian, Turkmen, Kurds, Azeri, Gilani, etc, put together these groups outnumber the Persian ethnic group. Imperial Iran issued a decree in 1935 that instructed countries with diplomatic contact to refer to it as Iran instead of Persia, in at least all political contexts. USA was the first country to immediately comply with this change. However until today both names are recognized by the UN as official names. There are other countries with similar confusion over name and ethnicity, for example Hungary, which is derived from the name of the Hun folk group (you know Attila the Hun), but in fact the majority of Hungarians identify themselves as decedents of the Magyar ethnic group, and in the hungarian language the name for their country is Magyarosag and not Hungary.

There a little free education for you since you felt forced to comment on the issue.

/A Persian   [/quote]

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