BoosBoos

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Good point

We are actually very worried about discriminaiton in Iran. Specially the women, Kurds, Baluch, Turks, Bahais, Christians, Sufi, Jews and Sunnis. Why don't you ask them also to right something.

Ejazeh ?

After we're done logging........

should we send our finding to the "Dafter-e  Imam" or the ACLU in D.C?

honestly nobody here cares where are we from ,exept if you happened to be in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong time.

Maziar

Discrimination

Is a fact of life if you don't belong to a dominant group. Immigrants are always subject to discrimination no matter where they are and what their status is.

In 1980 as an 8 year old kid in Orange county, southern California - and less than a year out of Iran - I experienced relentless harrassment, bullying and discrimination in elementary school as a result of the US embassy hostage crisis. There wouldn't be a day on the school playground or as I would walk home from school that someone wouldn't taunt or harras me with "f-ing Eye-ranian, give us back our hostages!" Teachers would also treat me and the other Iranian kids a little differently than they would treat the white American kids. As a result of the nightly news broadcasts from Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, the American public was hyped up to unbelievable levels against the newly arrived Iranian immigrants amongst them, never thinking that the newly arrived Iranians had actually come amongst them to escape the situation in Iran.

To make a long story short, and given constant physical threats, bullying and intimidation by the white American kids, I took on the martial arts (Praying Mantis Kung Fu) and within months got good enough at it that I was decking kids older than me who dared to bully me. From that point on, whether on the playground or outside of school, no one dared to call me an "f-ing Eye-ranian" ever again!

SIÈÈÈIÈÈÈÈIIIIIIIICH to death of the SAVAGES'

insinuations.

I know that you have worked out a stronghold on this website,via provocation and whatever very really pre-neanderthal tactics, KEEP TO THE TOPIC!!!!

BoosBoos,ain't gooing to bite you!  

But Really...

Once I flew to England on business and at the airport the immigration officer , after taking his sweet time looking at my passport, asked me (in British accent, of course):

"Why have you allowed a bunch of mullahs to hijack your country and run it into ground?" - I felt so discriminated against, wouldn't you? After all, where does he get off criticizing one of the greatest independent and competent regimes in history? Doesn't he know that we are making sophisticated weaponry to defend Islam (not even our own religion, mind you) and helping the Pals and now paying off Syria while our own people clobber with skyhigh inflation and unemployment and astronomical high cost of living?

What was he thinking?

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IRAN FIRST

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Nah, Vildemose

He's on assignment in the West.

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IRAN FIRST

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Honestly XOXO

I have never felt any discrimination living in the states for the last 22 years of my life, quite contrary I have been blessed having American friends and coworkers who truly respect me, as an Iranian-American and as a muslim.  

I know U.S has it own problems and I have voiced my opinion very clearly in numerous occasions; but if U.S is not perfect it is at least the best compare to the rest of the world.  I hope things stay as they are but sadly with all these Neocon agendas and Islamophobia fever that has started I am not sure which direction it is taking especially for the next generation....

The more I enjoy this freedom and the more I see how my rights are being protected by the democratic laws , the more I want it for Iranians who live inside Iran.  That is why I think even IRI supporters who are living in the west should think it twice and be fair and for sure very much critical to the ruling clergies and their undemocratic laws otherwise they should either go back to Iran and live there or stop being such a hypocrites .....

Now taking credit cards ....

" by vildemose on Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:16 AM PDT ... boosboos, Do You live in Iran??? "

  @ Vildemose, Please note at the top it says: "Please stay on topic." If you want to mail me your credit card, I have no objection; but please do that privately.  (All written with a kind smile.)  : )  

discrimination? Only on IC

The most racist or possibly perceived bit of discrimination I have ever experienced apart from the god-awful-dustbins-of-only-some-god-knows-what I have experienced in real life was that some silly tall Englishman thought I'd be good at backgammon. The idiot didn't know that I could empty his pockets in no time!

Discream of which nation?!

ven dey askkt ver arrr u fraamm I seid i vaz perrrrzhen........den no dicrimm to me....discrim iz for deh blaakk bank robberrr......me is children of kooorosh u knoe....me arrryaan.....ve had a shah dis beeeg....,

 boosboos, Do You live in

 boosboos, Do You live in Iran???

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