Blog Week XI
This week there have been some crazy events that have taken place in our glorious country. Even though some people were not happy about the outcome, that doesn’t mean school was not a priority (unless you’re weak), which means that we pressed on with gaining knowledge of the Iranian culture, and learned a bit more about their history. In class we have started watching a show with world renowned Chef, Anthony Bourdain as he takes a trip through Iranian cities and experiences the food and culture from the locals and the people who have decided to live there from other countries. It is shown that the people who live in the major cities especially, the way they live their lives is actually based on three different cultures melded together, being traditional Iranian, Western, and Islamic. This happened because of the turbulence of their social and political structure over the past several decades. The complications that they have ran into have been because at first they were greatly influenced by the West, because the Shah had been loyal and had ties with France and Brittan at the time, followed by him being overthrown and replaced by the Ayatollah who instilled a strict Islamic rule heavily dictated by the Quran, and instituted some classic Persian (ancient Iranian) culture as well. This has blended the people to live their lives a bit differently than what is commonly believed by other cultures. The people are actually quite pleasant individuals who don’t shame, or use outright hatred towards anyone who is not like them. There are however, a fearful nature to the common people, because there is a group of people known as the Basij, who are people with no authoritative power, yet they go out looking around for people being “slightly” rebellious, such as women not having their headdresses on all the way, or they dying their hair, or even talking about certain parts of the country and culture to people from the outside, rat them out to the police and have them arrested while gaining small rewards for their actions. Their world is much different than ours, but ideologies are hard to change, so until there is any real reform, or another revolution, that will be the way the Iranian people will have to live their lives.
Until next time my good people!

















