Re: Millions of Muslim Converting to Christianity
Hahahaha Iranians are always trying to be very "open-minded" and "modern".
There's loads of them around me, it's funny how they'll change their Persian/Arabic names to Anglo ones on coming to this country and name their children with Anglo names, they think they can pass off for white, they have fair skin but their eyes, nose and chins just shout Iranian, they have this distinct look about them..
There was a guy on BB last yr and he kept trying to pass himself off as Liverpudlian, but I knew before anyone even said anything that he was Iranian.
So many times I'll walk into an Iranian hairdressers (they're all hairdressers for some reason) and embarass the poor guys infront of their white clients by saying "Salaam, haaley shomma chhetor astey?", they are sort of pleased and embarassed at the same time, you can tell they're naustalgic towards their culture but shamed of it at the same time.. I don't know why they can't just accept themselves for who they're and why they're trying to be something they can't be, they've got a wonderful culture of their own.
My friends mum says during the Shah regime there was a strong effort to westernise Iran as much as possible (like with Ataturk in Turkey) and a lot of the people of that generation grew up watching American movies dubbed in Persian and the people copied the media and were Western in every way except language and genetic makeup.