Before I say my peace about the subject matter, I want to congratulate Jahanshah and Iranian.com for its 13th year of service to the Iranian community and wish you another 31 years of success. You are providing a great service. Also thanks to your family for lending you $$$.
I have met a lot of Nationalist Iranians in my days. Men, women, young, old, poor, rich etc and because of their attitudes on/about Iran, I often wonder what is nationalism. Why do we have or pretend to have such affection for a specific piece of the earth, and what do we do about this love. I personally miss many things about Iran; like side-of-the-road cafes between Tehran and Chaloos, or the Bazar or the Caspian sea, or 33-e pol.
But in reality I think I miss the good times I had when I visited these places with friends and family. That is to say, if I had these good times in a city in Australia, I would have missed Australia.
What gets on my nerves are the Iranians who live in the U.S. or U.K. and keep talking about Iran; how they miss it; how they long for it; how its the best place on earth.
When most (not all of course) Americans waive their flag and talk about loving their nation, they are ready to sacrifice for it; tens of thousands enlisted to fight in WWII. Thousands enlisted to go to Vietnam and Iraq.
Tens of thousands of young Iranian youth (mostly villagers) did go to war with Iraq. But not one of these soldiers was a Benz driving, Armani wearing Beverly Hills brat from Los Angeles.
I can understand if a Jewish or Bahai Iranian doesn’t want to go back to Iran because its not a 100% safe or inviting place for them. But how many Muslim Iranians do you know that claim to love Iran and call themselves a nationalist, but haven’t done a damn thing for Iran or its progress?
I bet you know at least a dozen off the top of your fingers.
Lets be real folks. First of all, nationalism is a bad thing. We all are humans. Borders are a man made idea. God didn’t create earth with borders. But if you insist on “loving” Iran then shut up and do something about it. Go there. Invest there. Help people in villages. Teach children. Send them $$$.
Stop this bull shit about Iran Iran. Wearing t-shirts with the Iranian flag or rooting for the Iranian national soccer team or singing along with Dariush about Vatan at a concert in LA is not really a sign of love for Iran.
There. Thats my peace. Whats your opinion?
