Redneckistan!

If you are an Iranian, you’re probably familiar with the overall negative steorotype image of ourselves that we Iranians have. This is much more noticeable outside Iran, where despite the known concerts and major parties here and there, we tend to avoid dealing with other Iranians, mainly because we have assumed that (jensemoon sheeshe khoorde dare!)

Among all the negative aspects of our attitude there’s one that really stands out! It’s none other than ‘vanity’ and all its ramifications.

I guess this has its roots in Iran itself, a country without clear identity, where the national subcounciouss relies on the good and better West and the bad and lower ‘rest’. Most Iranians are naturally attracted to the better and superior West, imitating and adopting ways of life and attitudes that naturally belong to other cultures and nations. However, all these adopted attitudes stay on a very superficial level, a level visible to the eyes. Once here in the West, specially in some countries like Canada, this ‘wanna-be’ attitude reaches its peak, where most (but not all) Iranians resemble a bunch of recently arrived kids to a huge toy store, where each kid quickly finds its favourite section grabbing as many toys as possible, while giving the looks of ‘don’t touch my toys’ to the other kids. Back to the real world, in the daily affairs and mainly in the work enviroment, Iranians have always shown a very unique attitude ‘ass kissing’ and ‘selling’ other Iranians in order to make a good impression and impress their blond and blue eyed managers and bosses. Years ago, one heavy weight Canadian police chief in Vancouver had clearly mentioned that there’re times they have to work hard to get spies within so many minorities living here, but with the Iranian community no effort was needed as this particular community has a large number of ‘volunteers’ doing the job happily.

Without a clear understanding of their homeland and what really took place there, without having any curiosity about their ‘second’ country, you have a bunch of westerner wanna be consumers, whose only gathering as a community happens from concert to concert, where the last thing that matters is the music played but the car, clothes, grirl-friend or boyfriend showing off. I’m well aware that not all Iranians are like this and that the population outside Iran varies from county to country, but believe, me the overall population of Iranians in Canada, specially in Vancouver are just like that. This city with a very large Iranian population, does NOT have a single ‘cultural center’, where you would go to meet interesting people, in order to have interesting conversations and debates. To me, despite the appearances, the very best of Iran is still in Iran, the very best and pure of the Persian soul is still there. In the meantime, while Iran is evolving, growing, slowly but surely, while the world is changing, we are so lost in our ‘oghdeha’ with our crap, that are missing everything around us. We’re pathetic as a community.

By the way, when is the next concert?

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