Comment by E-Reverance
23 days ago
This says very little about the quality of the culture averaged over those thousands of years
Quit cherrypicking for the sake of being an edgelord
23 days ago
This says very little about the quality of the culture averaged over those thousands of years
Quit cherrypicking for the sake of being an edgelord
You don't think history has an effect on the present?
I didn't even bring up SAVAK or Basij.
You haven't shown that the lineage is connected to modern Persian people nor whether it is particularly prominent in Persian culture as a whole
Torture and power preserving/seeking are emergent and universal, nothing particularly Persian about it
I feel you must not have met any people from continually-multi-thousand-year-old cultures.
I believe Crete was the first country to unilaterally declare itself a part of another country, because being Greek is possibly the strongest and proudest connection they share. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete#Cretan_State_and_union_w...
The Jewish Diaspora take great lengths to preserve their traditions; you can walk into a synagogue (sharing the same movement) anywhere in the world and it'll be the same as your hometown.
The Persians I have known have had a connection to their history similarly, for better or for worse. Their views and values are a little different than, say, your average Euro-mutt "white" American -- and I think we "white" Americans have some lessons we could take about culture, identity, and values.
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