SUPREMACIST

some extent

Look in 1970's we did loose the touch with reality a bit, simply becuase the country was booming rapidly (thanks to the efforts of shah of iran) we thought we are some thing else. well since chusseini and islamo facists have come into power we have become a bit humble. having said that there is still considerable difference between us and many of our neighbors. so much history, culture, and science originated from Iran that many of our neighbors now start claiming everything iranian as theirs! By the way Iranians are still most hospitable and friendliest people out there. Khod bar tar biny as you call is not confined to Iranians, look at europeans, chinese, japanese,list goes on an on....

The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens

"That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race."

"Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth."

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."

What's your real name ?

Dear Mr. Adib, I have been a student of "Oloume Ertebatat" in 1355 too.

Would be nice to know your real name if it'sat all possible. Maybe you are one of those "old lost friends" of mine's ?

Regards,

As individual we might be ok but collectively as a nation we are

LOSERS.

To Majid

Don't need to go as far away as Germany, our Tehran and Tehranis. They think Iran is Tehran and everywhere else and everybody else is Dehat and Dehati and I am sure you know what the true meaning of Dehati is as far as a Tehrani thinks. What the author is saying is true and I can't agree with him more.

"enlightened" origins of our Tafar'on

Thank you so much for highlighting this difficult topic that few of us willingly face. Reading your piece reminded me of a brief well-documented book that makes the same argument:
"The Image of Arabs in Modern Persian Literature", by Joya Blondel Saad (published 1996). For excepts see this old post on Iranian.com:
iranian.com/Opinion/Sept97/IranArab/index.html .

One more thing: In my experience, educated Persian-speaking Iranians suffer from a greater degree of ethnic superiority feelings than others in Iran. I believe this was brought back by the early generations of Iranians who studied in Europe in order to modernize Iran. Along with all the good things they learned, they were infected by the rising right wing pseudo-science notions of racial purity and boundless pursuit of "progress" for the sake of progress that soon led in Europe to eugenics and eventually massive ethnic cleansing. This gift from Faragestan was then adopted and made respectable as Aryan pride in the Pahlavi kings' desperate quest for legitimacy.

Mr.Intellectual! Don't think too much, bro!

جناب روشن فكر كه 8 سله كه تو امريكا روي اين موضوع فكر ميكني:اگر همين يه ذره تفرعن هم نبود عربها تا حالا زن وبچمونو برده كرده بودند.بذاريد ملتي بد بخت حد اقل دلش به يه چيز ي خوش باشه. در ضمن يه سر بريد كابل يا اسلام اباد پاكستان تا بفهميد فرق ما با اونها چيه.فقير ترين مردم شهرهاي دور افتاده ايران از عراقيها و پاكستانيها تميز تر هستند.روشنفكران محترم لطفا خفه چو نتيجه فر مولاسيونتون رو در انقلاب اسلامي كه هدفش دوستي  با ملتهاي مدرن همسايه بود را ديديم

Adib, great article and

Adib, great article and observation. We are so infected with this disorder that one of the most frightening side effects of it is that we believe we can never make mistakes and it’s always someone else’s fault. One can easily observe how much some of us blame America, Europe, Arabs, ….. for what happens to us. Its like we’re incapable of making wrong decisions. Its amazing the level we blame others, specially the U.S, on our historical faults. I truly haven’t seen that in any other nationality. I really haven’t’.

تیتر بهتر

ایرانی ها عقده خود کم سنده بینی دارند. علاجی هم فعلآ براش پیدا نشده

It's not just US, Iranians

Although I agree with the article to a certain point I might add that it's not just us, Iranians.

I lived for quiet some time in West Germany "as it was called then" in state of Bayern, they had the same mentality.

For West Germans "they were the true Germans"! East were not as pure "communism" , now in West Germany, Hambourg and Koln were polluted because of tourism, so was Eastern part"neighboring France", then in Bayern itself was the same story, center Bayern was different than the rest! and the story goes on and on....

This unfortunately is a process that once it starts there's no end to it, not even between two neighbors in the same neighborhood.

SAD isn't it?    

i think this article is just

i think this article is just a politically incorrect statment. for examplein europe it is politically incorrect to say immigirant must become like us. so they tend to use word such as multi culturalism. in my opinian every culture and language has its own character and its people can be proud of it.for example french people can think they are the best, well we can think iranian culture is best and be proud of it. are we the best? we might not be but why we shold doubt ourselves. if we think we are the best we may indeed be the best, it does not matter what other culture think of us. being confident personally is the most important part of everybody's life. for culture is the same or we might loose this culture as well.

Aknowledging our Rich Culture and History

I totally agree that when it comes to comparing ourselves to our neighbors ,sometimes we go too far.Having said that we must acknowledge that Persian (Iranian) culture has contributed so much to this world in a very positive way. Unfortunately since the history is always written by the victors,in Western and Arab countries most of these facts are ignored or purposely swept under the rug. We definitely have a duty to teach our children and even foreigners about these facts and be proud of our forefathers.As one of our popular proverbs state," A tree with lots of fruits bends towards the earth".We need to love our heritage and be humble at the same time.Pirooz baad har Irani.

Huh?

Great article. Couldn't agree more. But I failed to see Daryush's point? In looking down upon our "neighbors", there are not really much differences between "northern Tehran" and "Baluchi" or "Khuzestani". Prejudice, sadly, exists among all of us.

SHOMAL, JONUB, SHARGH, GHARB

I absolutely agree with the observation made in this piece, but I would like to emphasize also when it comes to Iranians comparing themselves to OTHER Iranians from various reigons WITHIN Iran, this mentality takes yet another dimension...

not necessarily Daryush

what tools do you use to justify the statements that Iranians are much smarter and more educated than "any other time in our history"?

Don't let a few computer and modern facades fool you, as a nation we might be as stupid as any other time in our history....

when you say Iranians

When you say Iranians, what do you mean? Do you mean Iranians in that resided northern Tehran or do you also mean Baluchi or Khuzestani? Nothing wrong with your points but the lack of accuracy. Iranians today are much smarter and more educated than any other time in our history...