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I’ve always pictured it more as “Tacky luxury, maybe with Mediterranean flair.”
ie: gilt everything, over-decorated, looks expensive for the sake of looking expensive.Iran is not on the Mediterranean
Yes. I am aware.
A lot of Arab countries on the Mediterranean though none I would call tacky or over-decorated. You are perhaps thinking of the Arabian Gulf instead?
i think the original commenter is just reaffirming the idea presented in the meme by sharing their own conceptions of iran. this highlights how westerners generally seem to view the region.
i wouldn’t use the word mediterranean here myself but i see where they’re coming from saying that, especially with regards to cultural perception versus the real, lived culture.
westerners traditionally associate the stylings of like, Parthia or maybe the Sassanids with iran/persia. those cultures are also inextricably linked with a wider western image of the bronze age and greece. i think the more interesting part of note here is that westerners tend to conflate classical cultures as all having a general “vibe” that might be described as mediterranean, and both in the case of modern iran or greece it seems that this lasting cultural image is heavily impressed in the social consciousness
I knew a girl in college (was pursuing a girl in college) who said she was Persian. When I was confused, she explained that her family came from Iran but, the political climate being what it was in the late 1980’s, she found it safer to say she was Persian.
I’m an Arab and this is my conception too lol
Westerner here.
If disturbs me how accurate this is, and how I never realized it till just now.
Also, not all Iranians are Persian. There are multiple cultures, despite nationalist attempts at cultural genocide.
American perceptions in one image. Persians in the palace, Arabs in the slums.
Is… is that not what they are?
Hah. No, they’re not Arab and they don’t speak Arabic. Iran was actually very progressive until the Revolution of 1979.
I like to imagine, as a Canadian, that people from other cultures look at the British as “luxury whites”. Or maybe the French.
Not sure that anyone except americans is really all that obsessed with skin colour. But French often prtrayed as luxury europeans and modern japanese as sci-fi asians.
No, racial inequality happens everywhere to varying degrees, and it is usually tied to skin colour. South Africa for example.
Race is not as important in my corner, sure there is racism, but the blackest man that is your contryman is better than whitest aryan looking dude that is your nations historical rival/enemy as far as I can tell. Asian countries (which i visited) are noticeable more racist, but they are separated more by religion it looks like. What I’m trying to say skin color is secondary at best.
Honestly so do I but more like culturally rich rather than literally. Islam would be Hella dim if it wasn’t for Persian influences, and I say this as a non Persian.
Iranians aren’t Arabs and don’t speak Arabic
Iranians have been fighting arabs since Elam and Sumaria were around.
Yeah we know that but does the average American whose only use of the word Persian comes from rugs, coffee, and mahbe some sweets.
Excuse me I’ll have you know I played Prince of Persia and its reboot.
