The Iranians I met in college believed in magic. It was like talking to someone who was younger than seven. They believed, for example, if they said something that it became true, despite all the evidence to the contrary. If they told you a lie they would stick to it, regardless of whether you could show them it was a lie. It was one of the most important things I learned in college. All cultures ARE NOT alike.
Sounds exactly like liberals. They are smarter than you because . . . they are.
PDJT would gain political capital if he were to proclaim “Fortress America” and make every patriot a soldier in the war against foreign invasion.
In my small Southern state we have no Muslim problem (cowed by all us armed redneck Bible thumpers) and the Hispanics are mostly seen in Lowe’s buying construction supplies. Our race relations are better than most people think since we’re all Christians (”Have a blessed day!” is the usual farewell).
We’re armed to the teeth & gun-related billboards abound. Sick to death with the all-cultures-are-equal-except-ours-which-sucks garbaaage on CNN & MSNBC.
The culture war is going to turn violent this summer like it did in 1968 and for the same reason: Democrats.
I feel range time coming on. Forget shooting stands, practice defensive fire from one’s vehicle, both moving and stopped.
Read “The Arab Mind by Raphael Patai “, Because in Patai’s book its one of the cultural characteristics he addresses in great detail. Even though Iranians are not Arabs in your experience there’s a similar cultural habit. Patai has some shocking and perhaps not intended humorous examples. I am assuming this is the imprint Islam has made up on their minds.
Maybe they watched a lot of Seinfeld. Didnt George say, “ It’s not a lie if you believe it.”
The ancestors of the present-day Iranians, the Persians, gave great credence to the powers of the black arts, even before they later became Muslims. Tales of Arabian Nights were in fact much more based on Persian folk tales than on actual Arabic oral history.
The Persians had a thousand years of culture while the Arabs were ignorant nomads, when Persian were subjected to the conquest of Islam.