is always an interesting experience. I’ve been here for about 2 weeks and am in my last week before I have to go back to school. First off, I can’t believe I ever considered winter here as cold. Boston is cold. OC’s winter is weak sauce.
Besides the weather, I always notice things that many people who live here probably don’t notice since it’s the norm to them. I have to give a disclaimer here as not all OC Iranians fit this stereotype and I am grossly generalizing when I say there is a lack of individuality here and a lot of conformity. I mean, when a trend hits here it hits hard! For instance, one time I came back and many kids were then riding pretty much the same BMW as their friends. Another time, they all bought motorcycles on the side. And then they all got tattoos, or bought a dog and took it with them to 13 bedar (and all the girls brought their new cats). Then, of course, all the boys began to spike up their hair. Then came the drugs; first many of the boys were doing steroids then they moved up together to cocaine. And the funniest trend for all gherti Iranian boys in OC was the little mustache thingy below their bottom lip (and above the chin). Don’t get me wrong, OC is home for me and I love it here, but I just can’t help but notice the conformity and I must say, it’s a little overwhelming and conflicting, especially since I know that many of these Iranians are about so much more than they present.
You said:
“It’s a little overwhelming and conflicting, especially since I know that many of these Iranians are about so much more than they present.â€
My Response:
Oh no Pouya, there is nothing behind what they represent. It is either “poz-e-aali†( pretending to be a Bill Gates), or “mokheh khaali†(no brain, but talking cute). The Americans have a saying for it … “what you see is what you getâ€.
Behind all that OC/Westwood/Tehrangeles stuff, there is nothing but, at best, a bunch of Google-mania. These days, the American-born Persian girls and boys are clinging to their IPod/I-Phone and their interactive video via cell-phone, trying to outsmart you – merely by clicking on their cell/video/google, based on the last word you said – whether your word was a Persian poem from Hafez, or a piece of philosophy from Albert Camus. It is all about the bandwidth and bps speed of your I-phone/Blackberry. Amazing how you can dazzle an audience these days with a bunch of dot.org and dot.gov facts/statistics/ references, while baffling them with bullshit !! (see http://www.iranian.com/main/node/14709 )
That’s it. Stop. Stop. No longer can an Iranian ass-hole fart his/her mouth – ever-again- without giving a credible reference on the Internet to back up his/her diatribe/claim.
I am afraid the days of Haafez and Saadi poems maybe over, simply because they have no credible references to back-up their POV/argument.
Hey Pouya, you have advertisements now on your site. Did you know that?
Yeah, I put them there. It’s funny though since many of my posts are about Israel, albeit critical, some of the ads appear reading “Volunteer in Israel.” Grrrrrrrr.
CJ, there’s also a saying that I hope is applicable here… “Never judge a book by its cover” and I say that hoping that there is “more than meets the eye.” 🙂
But I’m sure “poz-e-aali… mokheh khaali” applies to many as well.
Do you get paid for those ads?
Pouya:
Re. your comment “Never judge a book by its coverâ€, I just finished reading a 2007 book by Shoja-e-din Shafa called “The Human Rights … “. See http://shopping.ketab.com/addprod.asp?id=17583&pgs=3&cat=1&all=Shafa
I hope the above reference is not interpreted as “an advertisement” by Jamshid.
FYI, the book is written in Farsi. (Since you can read Farsi, will you take the time to translate it to English !!). The book was published in Spain last year, and was sold-out after its first 10,000 copies published. It is already in its second printing, and obviously, it is banned in Iran. I wonder how many OC/Westwood Persians bought (and read) the first 10,000 copies.
yawwwwwwwwwwwwn. how many times are you going to talk about this.
we get it.
you like the OC, but you think you are different.
you’re not.
you are the OC everywhere you go, no matter how many times you go to Cuba or eat at Ethiopian Food restaurants
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