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Ginobili
01-16-2008, 12:42 AM
... but I want to move to Tehran, Iran. Every around me considers me crazy, but the culture and city its self is just...beautiful! And from what I've heard (people who have actually been there), the people are very receptive.\

What I was planning on doing is teaching english in europe for 5 years, and over the summers fly over to Iran just to kinda check it out. Then if things chill down here in the U.s.a, teach in iran 3+ years, then probally move back to the states.

Thoughts?

tom4ronpaul08
01-16-2008, 12:46 AM
it will be bombed before this year is over Israel is adamant about destroying it

Kludge
01-16-2008, 12:47 AM
Better research their customs THOROUGHLY if you go, and make sure you're able to get back here when RP wins as an independent.

Ginobili
01-16-2008, 12:49 AM
Better research their customs THOROUGHLY if you go, and make sure you're able to get back here when RP wins as an independent.

Oh yes, I dont plan on getting whipped 100 times for saying something incorrectly or looking in the wrong direction at the wrong time. :P

Kludge
01-16-2008, 12:53 AM
I remember we had an Arabic translator came in at my "America at War" class in High School. Said he was kicked out of a guy's house for speaking to his wife first.

InLoveWithRon
01-16-2008, 01:02 AM
I remember we had an Arabic translator came in at my "America at War" class in High School. Said he was kicked out of a guy's house for speaking to his wife first.

Don't sound like you are stupid.. Iran is not arabic.. They are not arabs.. They are persians.. Over 90% of them.. Persians are descendants of Europe.

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McDermit
01-16-2008, 01:04 AM
I'd sooner go to Jordan or Egypt.

InLoveWithRon
01-16-2008, 01:10 AM
Iranians by nature are known to be extremely kind and very caring people.. They are extroverted and very easy to befriend because of their honesty and kindness.. Not to mention they are very good looking beautiful people, especially the women.. And are extremely clean people.. Take all those things from me as I live close to an Iranian neighborhood of 200,000 Iranians here in Canada..

With that said, here's a good video showing their kindness.. An American girl vacationed in Iran and then there was an earthquake.. Her dad in the US rushed to Iran to see his daughter.. He discovers she got operated on by a doctor in Iran when he got there.. When her dad asked the Iranian doctor how much it cost, the doctor said it was a pleasure to operate on a visitor to his country, and said it was free of charge..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=q9Eal1cLPRU

Everyone needs to watch this video, it will totally change people's minds on Iranians.

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InLoveWithRon
01-16-2008, 01:19 AM
Everyone needs to watch this.. It is a british reporter who returned to Iran because he loves the energy there. Keep in mind 65% of Iran's population is under 30 and it is very energetic.. He tours Iran in this documentary-

Shopping in Iran -- http://youtube.com/watch?v=E2YP04P8q4A&feature=related

Part 1- http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pjgl6ClLh7w&feature=related

Part 2 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=DTpPJn6X3lg&feature=related

Everyone needs to see that documentary.. It is about the "people", not the stupid politics and the media.. It's not an alien society like the stupid media portrays it to be, like you will see...... enjoy ;)


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Kludge
01-16-2008, 01:21 AM
Don't sound like you are stupid.. Iran is not arabic.. They are not arabs.. They are persians.. Over 90% of them.. Persians are descendants of Europe.

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As in, he translated to and from Arabic, the language. He came in to the class to talk about the army and employment opportunities, we got somewhat off-topic and started talking about customs in the Middle East.

InLoveWithRon
01-16-2008, 01:38 AM
As in, he translated to and from Arabic, the language. He came in to the class to talk about the army and employment opportunities, we got somewhat off-topic and started talking about customs in the Middle East.

Iranians are not arab, nor do they speak arabic.. They are persians and descendants of Europe.. This is yet another case of ignorant Americans knowing nothing about the rest of the world..

Look at the tons of pictures of Iranians in Iran on this page-

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=351718

Scroll down the page to the 2nd half of the page after the first post... .. Iranians look much more like Italians than they do arabs.. It's not even close.. Again, Iranians are persians, not arabs, nor do they speak arabic..

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smartguy911
01-16-2008, 01:39 AM
don't bother. iran will be in a mess by the time you decide to go there

smartguy911
01-16-2008, 01:44 AM
Iranians are not arab, nor do they speak arabic.. They are persians and descendants of Europe.. This is yet another case of ignorant Americans knowing nothing about the rest of the world..

Look at the tons of pictures of Iranians in Iran on this page-

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=351718

Scroll down the page to the 2nd half of the page.. Iranians look much more like Italians than they do arabs.. It's not even close.. Again, Iranians are persians, not arabs nor do they speak arabic..

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Iranians are mixed race. You will find people with blonde hair, blue eyes and you will find people who look like Iraqi's, Indians etc. I say this from experience :)

JanusFIN
01-16-2008, 04:00 AM
Like your President speak today, same as before attacking Irak, we need human shields all around Iran...

I hope we not go in to that again, but your president, like zionist in Israel, it look like we need you again... as Human Shields. Around hospitals, schools...

johngr
01-16-2008, 05:37 AM
I would love to visit but I don't think I'd want to live there. The language barrier seems like it would be difficult to overcome. I'll stick to Germanic languages. Persian seems like it would be very difficult to master.

InLoveWithRon
01-16-2008, 06:31 AM
Iranians are mixed race. You will find people with blonde hair, blue eyes and you will find people who look like Iraqi's, Indians etc. I say this from experience :)

I can speak from experience too.. I lived just a few blocks from a large Iranian neighborhood in Montreal for a long time.. And the truth is, less than 10% of them are dark like Iraqi's and Indians.. Because less than 10% of Iranians are arabic.. That's a much lower percentage than african americans in America.. Just to give an example of the numbers..

90% of Iranians are persians, they are direct descendants of europe, not India.. Persians are light skinned, and your right, some do have blonde hair and blue eyes.. .. Heck, I just put up about 50 pictures of Iranian people in Iran.. They are very exotic and beautiful people.. Just stunning.. Look for yourself in the following thread-

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=91218&page=2


http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd123/pro--sports/iran37.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd123/pro--sports/iran8.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd123/pro--sports/iran19.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd123/pro--sports/iran17.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd123/pro--sports/iran6.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd123/pro--sports/iran31.jpg




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inibo
01-16-2008, 06:46 AM
Don't believe the lies


Shocked? I certainly was when I first started surfing the web for photos of Iran. I was shocked by the mountains. Shocked by the snow. Shocked by the busy ski shops. Shocked by the "cool dudes" throwing snowballs in their trendy clothes. Shocked by the American-looking yellow school bus in the upper right photo there. Shocked by something in every photo I saw.

But most of all I was shocked by my shock. I was shocked by the fact that a reasonably well-educated, well-informed man like me, who reads at least a dozen alternative news sites like this one daily, should have so many misconceptions in my head about Iran – without my even being aware they were there. Like the notion that Iran is one big, brain-baking desert. Or that Iran is hostile to Christians and women.

I say that I was unaware these misconceptions existed in my head. But now that I am aware of them, I know as a psychologist how they got there. They got there through the skillful use of the "dark arts" of psychology by the White House, on the one hand, and the American mass media, on the other – with the all too able assistance of some of my sleazy psychologist colleagues serving as high-paid "advisers."

One of those dark psychological arts that led to my brainwashing is that of classical conditioning – which is familiar to us all in the form of commercial advertising. The most notorious example is the Marlboro Man campaign: where a cancer-causing product was sold to millions of insecure American boys and men (including myself as a teenager in the ’50’s) by pairing the powerful stimulus image of a ruggedly handsome man on horseback with the originally neutral image of a white little thing in his mouth, identified in the ad as a Marlboro cigarette. With enough repeated pairings, smoking those white little things became "manly" in itself (even though Marlboros had "sissy" filters and Camels did not).

What makes classical conditioning so scary is that it works on everyone – regardless of how smart or knowledgeable we are. (Luckily) I’m the (still) living proof. Even as a youth back in the 1950’s, I knew that the Marlboro Man campaign was hokum. I was a Camel "man" through-and-through. (Like the guys who won World War II.) And nothing Madison Avenue could do could make me change my brand. Till one day I realized that for some "strange" reason (called classical conditioning), Marlboro was the only brand I had been buying for quite some time.

Flash forward 50 years to this past spring. And here I am again. Even though I "knew better" than to believe all the propaganda I was seeing and hearing on the tube about Iran, synaptic links were still being forged in the "feeling" center (or limbic system) of my brain between the neutral word, "Iran," on the one hand, and strong, fear-inducing words and images (like those around "9/11"), on the other.

To be sure, I knew enough about Iran, even before I came across that first "shocking" photo of Tehran nearly buried in snow, not to go completely off the deep end and buy the White House hype about Iran being an "evil" nation. But all those times I was hearing about "Iran" while seeing ghastly images of Iraq on TV did condition me to assume that the land and climate and people of Iraq and Iran were the same. And the worst part was I did not even know that that classically conditioned assumption had been put into my brain.

The same may be said with respect to my classically conditioned assumption about Iranian women’s "oppression." Only here the talk about "Iran" was paired with images of Afghan women in burqas – as in Bill Maher’s "burqa fashion show" skit (which you can watch here). To my "rational brain" (my neocortex), the humor seemed crude. And I thought I was unaffected by it. Till I came across the photo of the woman standing outside the ski shop, and was stunned. Simply stunned. And not just because she was a stunning woman either. What stunned me the most was that her stunning face was unveiled for me to see. And as I combed the web for other photos of Iranian women, I learned that most Iranian women, as well as the Iranian clergy, find wearing the burqa an Afghan extreme. The dark art of classical conditioning had brainwashed me again.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/weden2.html


http://isilion.blogsome.com/2008/01/13/stop-it-before-it-starts/

http://www.photoactivistsforpeace.org/videos.html

http://www.photoactivistsforpeace.org/gallery/main.php