JahanKhalili

Baldrick

First of all I am glade JK or Baldrick is learning so fast. He has learned to make civilised responses. 

However I have made a second discovery about him.

He is also a TYPICAL Iranian, for the following reasons;

- He been in Iran for a short time but he THINKS he knows them all. In fact Iranians are generally less sure of themselves. It is possible his dad's family are the way he is generalising everyone.

- He THINKS he is the only one who knows all these cultural issues. For years different bloggers in different ways have expressed themselves.

- What he preaches he does not practice. i.e. he just talks.

- He contradicts himself and in my opinion this makes him more Iranian then he can imagine.

- He is complaining about everyone and everything Iranian.

Following my last point, I have a question to ask him. How perfect is his other self????????????????? Has anyone seen him mentioning it???

And one word of advice to Baldrick, fix you dad's family before they do more psychological damage to your feelings.

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Our identity and cultural impact....

by Iranian for Aryans on Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:26 AM PST  our language has been heavily bastardized …. And we have few leftover cultural celebrations such as Nowruz.

I find the above statement uninformative and insulting not just to Iranians but to other cultures in the region.As a person who has travelled to Pakistan, Tajikistan, and other countries near to Iran, I can say that 30% up to 90% of countries that border us have benefited and use Persian language.  If people have NO respect for Persian culture, they should respect Afghan, Tajik and other cultures.  Urdu language uses at least 30% Persian words and I can easily communicate with people from Afghanistan and Tajikistan.  

I am a believer that a united element in Persian culture has been Nowruz and its impact on neighboring countries’ culture as well.  You need to be in these countries to understand the impact.

I am not a history major, I learned my history by travelling and observing what is happening in the world.  A year ago when I was in Toos, I met many admirers’ of Ferdowsi who had came there from as far as South Africa and Australia (NO they were not Iranians who lived in these countries)

Iranian for Aryans, although Iranian.com was created in the USA, expect comments to be posted from all over the world.... world is not where you live.   

100 years, 200 years, are small numbers in comparison to 2000 or 4000 years.  I admit that we have had down years in our history.  Which countries have not made mistakes?  I blame most of the problems which Iran has had on our internal enemies more than people who have attacked us.  Iran has had its share of traitors. 

 I will end by a personal encounter with a British citizen in Tehran’s bazaar.  Many years ago when I was in Tehran’s main Bazaar, I noticed a blond person.  I said hi and greeted him.  When I was at Mehrabad airport for luggage’s to be checked out, he was in front of me and I recognized him.  I translated for him and he waited for me to talk (we were travelling to London.)  He said….  Iranians do not realize or appreciate what they have… he had travelled to several cities including Toos and mentioned if one looks at the ground in Iran, he or she can pick up something valuable.  Western museums are  testimony for our stolen artifacts.

We cannot blame others for not preserving our treasures and protecting we have.... and we run away to other countries to blame all our problems on others.  Many Iranians have taken refuge in other countries because of the wealth they have either legally or illegally taken out of Iran.  Iran provided FREE education to many who are not willing to help it.   Iranians have placed their personal interests ahead of their national interests where it lies our major downfall. 

So

The Greeks conquered Iran, held Iran relativly briefly and  then got  defeated and pushed out by the Iranian Arsacid dynasty. Almost all countries have been conquered and have conquered other countries at some point.

 It's nothing to be ashamed of. Alexander the great was an exceptional military strategist. 

Mr. Ala, name one Iranian scientist who has made a difference

in people's lives in modern times.  Poets, yes.  We have plenty of useless poets.  We are a dead poet society for sure.  But name one Iran scientist--from inside Iran-- who has discovered anything of value in modern times.  Those who may have done something outside of Iran don't count, as they were working under a different set of cultural values and their education, research and possible resulting discoveries were facilitated by their host countries.  But please name one from inside Iran. 

What identity?

Mr. Ala,

The only things from the "glorious" past Iranians have are the language (heavily bastardized), sharing the same ancient geographic area, though drastically shrunk, and a few leftover cultural celebrations, such as Nowruz.

Contrary to what you wrote, Iranians have not kept their identity. I see Iranians - EVERY DAY - who resemble Indians, Mexicans, Arabs, and Mongols. How has Iran maintained its identity when it's racially different from its forbears?! The Arab conquerors called Iranians "red bearded" and "red moustached". How many Iranians nowadays have those NORTH EUROPEAN racial traits? Very few.

Iranians do NOT have the "best artists, poets, and scientists in the world." Whatever was done, was done over a millenium ago, and by Iranians who looked German, not like Rafsanjani or Ahmadinejad. The best of the best comes from NORTHERN EUROPE.

I find it funny, and oh so telling, that you did not quote an Iranian's work on the nature of civilizations, but north European's. This is yet another example of how Iranians "got their a$$es kicked" even in peaceful endeavors.

One last thing, you are oozing Iranian nationalism. Do it in Iran. This is America, land of Mr. Khalili's mother's people: White people. Why don't you show loyalty to them? Why don't you praise them? Why don't you advocate for them?

I do.

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Mr. Khalili, besides being correct, you are hilarious!

I had to grab my belly as I guffawed uproariously over your analogy of crickets chirping and Iranians "zer-ing"! I swear to God, it was funny as all.

Anyway, I see that, finally, there are Iranians that are coming to the forefront and calling a spade a spade. However, and this should come as no surprise, the majority of commentators are know-it-all big-noses who keep on blabbering pretentious and defensive claptrap; e.g., Iranians have "tree-tousend years see-vee-lee-zay-sion" (and not much to show for it, really). Compare what your mother's people (north Europeans), Mr. Khalili, have done in a few hundred years of Western culture and civilization compared to Iran's 3,000, no, now it's 7,000, years of civilization! What ludicrousness.

I have still to see one Iranian here answer Mr. Khalili's statement concerning Alexander the Great's payback for Iran brazenly attacking Greece and burning the Acropolis. What's funny, given Iranians' obsession for blustering and keeping face ("aaberoo"), is that Alexander the Great, who kicked Iranian a$$, was a homosexual!

Iranians: admit that you lost horribly to the Greeks and get over your inferiority complexes. "Harchee maymoon bad gheeyaafetare, baazeesh beeshtare."

Stop blaming others!

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J K

Jk  Jk J K

Babba you good

we bad  o k?

bekesh biroon !

leave it to beavers man ..........

Maziar

Have's and have nots.... rich and poor...

Kaveh jan.... there are different theories… in my view, the fight has been over have’s and have not’s.  Iran has been attacked by both inside people and people from outside for its strategic and natural resources.... just an example, rich taking their wealth and leaving Iran....  Iran has been milked by many... 

In all the problems that we have faced and you mentioned several of them, there have been people who have cared and placed  Iran’s interest(s) ahead of their personal interest(s).  We owe these individuals a great deal.

Mr. Ala

Our capabilities are of no value as long as we continue to get in our own way. And frankly, we are our own worst enemy.

I would venture to guess that history was not popular because nobody wants to learn the lesson that the past offers. This is why we continue to go around and around in circles.

Nobody has learned from 1953. Nobody has learned from 1979.

Nobody has learned from 2009. And on and on and on.

Iranians are capable people... we shall rise again.

When I was a student, I read a book, entitled “Rise and Fall of Civilization,” by Ernest Dale, this is an old book that libraries will have it.  The trust of this book was/is that all civilizations have had rise and fall.

Almost a dozen of times you stated… “Iranians got their asses kicked …”  Iranians have lived for thousands of years in Iran. We have faced many enemies and difficulties, yet we have kept our identity. Attacks from Greeks, Arabs, Mongols, among others, have hurt us, but we have always survived and have produced some of the best artists, poets, and scientists in the world.  This is a proof that we are capable people and will rise again.

On the topic of history, this is not a popular major in universities so your father was correct.  You can start by studying recent history and ask yourself whose asses are being kicked in our region now.

Herein Lies The Truth!

I have already said in another post that JK should tone down the rage. That being said, there is a ton of truth in what he is saying. Truth that we Iranians like to avoid as though it is an Olympic Sport, and we are the Gold Medal winners every time. A couple examples:

1. Andre Agassi: "Image is Everything". It's a reflection of his upbringing. Read his book.

2. The House of Sand & Fog: Col. Behrani drives a 20 year old Benz, and tells people he works for Boeing, when he is in fact working on a Caltrans road crew by day and a convenience store at night.

I've posted this in one of my very early posts, a few years ago. We are so caught up in our own self-created collective bullshit that at the end of the day the only people we are fooling is ourselves. There's a reason why we have 3,000 years worth of history and we have nothing to show for it. We have the distinction of being a nation that, in its history, has been conquered not just from outside our borders, but worse yet, from within them.

jirandoust

You don't know me.

But I can understand that you might be unable to criticize your own culture very effectively.

It might be the only thing you have, and unlike myself you may have nowhere else to turn to.

"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."

-Eric Hoffer

The Blame Game is an Iranian Game

Here you are all blaming Islam, foreigners, dictatorship, Arabs and Akhunds for everything wrong with you, and I just showed you something you can't blame them for.

Now what do you have to say about it?

As usual, you can't bring yourselves to see what's in front of you, but have to pretend that I am making up things or hallucinating when I describe the stupefying effects of your own pride to you. 

Professional Help

Its Iranians who need professional help.

Look at you all. 

Professional Help

Your hatered of Iran and Iranians leads me to believe that the relationship between your Iranian father and American mother was a bitter one with you (and possibly your mother) blaming your father and his culture for all that gone wrong in your life. Get professional help, my young friend, get professional help!

ایرانی = همه چیز دان

حالا خودت قرآن و احادیث را اصلا خواندی؟

چرا در موردش حرف نداری؟

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حالا بگذریم.

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We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

-Eric Hoffer 

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