Sunday, March 05, 2006
Persian Pride
Mr. Behi, a writer from within Iran, explains a very important term in the handy Getting to Know Iran Guidebook (one size fits all):
One of the top priorities if an attack on Iran is palpable would be to understand and develop a sense of association between persian pride of their heritage, and the sense of victimization or subordination they feel from post-Islamic Iran.
You can see for yourself, even Mr. Behi displays that ever feeling of pride and then slumping reality of denial.
We, Iranians have a very common habit that we can not help not to expose, and that is a pride we have to our history especially to the ancient glorious era of the Persian empire. When chatting with non-Iranians, we can not help it not to lecture them about the great history we had in our land and this happens as soon as they ask a question from us about Iran whatever it is. It happened to me many times and I found myself explaining the fact that we had this and that in our history, Insisting to correct the wrong impression of many of the Europeans that our language is not Arabic but Persian and smile from ear to ear when their eyebrows were rising in surprise. I can not help it as an Iranian but all the time, I feel it is silly to divide history by the present borders as it is to divide Earth as such.
One of the top priorities if an attack on Iran is palpable would be to understand and develop a sense of association between persian pride of their heritage, and the sense of victimization or subordination they feel from post-Islamic Iran.
You can see for yourself, even Mr. Behi displays that ever feeling of pride and then slumping reality of denial.
