Iran’s ‘Generation Normal’
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#2The point about revolutions setting you back are fantastic.
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#3'Normal' was fairly biased, as it mostly refers to an average western individual.
Nothing wrong with it, but why not avoid the negative aspects of it? Why not fostering your own culture?
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#4There is a facebook page called My Stealthy Freedom that is for Iranian women to send in pictures of themselves without the mandatory hijab. Please go there and read some of the women's stories. https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom/
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#5The point about revolutions setting you back are fantastic.
Well, depends on who "you" refers to. That revolution wasn't entirely for the own good of the Iranian people [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat...
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#6>Remember, she tells me, most Iranians’ priority is economic wellbeing. Political freedom is the concern of a minority.
The great tragedy of modern society.
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#7>Remember, she tells me, most Iranians’ priority is economic wellbeing. Political freedom is the concern of a minority. The great tragedy of modern society.
You can't eat freedom.
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#8Foreign reporters visiting Iran are usually in an echo chamber.
They visit Tehran and a few other big cities. Live in best parts of those towns and hang out with people who are educated and pro western and quite exposed to other cultures.
Iranian middle class (and specially the younger generation which are the majority) are pro western, quite progressive and modern.
But they don't represent the whole population of Iran.
Unfortunately this echo chamber sometimes even blinds ourselves as well.
Source: Iranian living in Tehran.
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#9'Normal' was fairly biased, as it mostly refers to an average western individual. Nothing wrong with it, but why not avoid the negative aspects of it? Why not fostering your own culture?
Their culture failed them by bringing islamists in power, might as well discard it.
P. S. Mine failed me either so I know what I'm talking about.
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#10Foreign reporters visiting Iran are usually in an echo chamber. They visit Tehran and a few other big cities. Live in best parts of those towns and hang out with people who are educated and pro western and quite exposed to other cultures. Iranian middle class (and specially the younger generation which are the majority) are pro western, quite progressive and modern. But they don't represent the whole population of Ir…
How would you contrast this 'echo chamber' perspective with a more realistic one? Is there a strong conservative movement among the young which is underrepresented in this article?