Reply #70: Erhhm "You seem to project your own life experience as universal, which is a dangerous thing to do." [View All]

[LooseWilly]

I'm sure you are familiar with the words of this "wise" man...

Hmm... "Just look at yourself in the mirror. You are not half-breed anything." I just went and did that, and I saw a freak. I saw someone who looks exactly like the images of Persian nobility on the earthenware in the London Anthropological Museum, but with a dozen self-inflicted earrings.
(And by the way kwassa, "Persian" is the term Iranians use around Americans when they are trying to establish themselves as "different" from those evil Iranians who took American hostages... it is

A) a dodge used in the hopes that "ignorant white folk" won't view us as jihadists... or

B) A means to try to reassure "white folk" that the Iranian in question is one of the "good ones", you know, the ones that were happy to have the Americans propping up a dictator in order to exploit the oil resources without wasting any money on overall national development).

In case you aren't aware... ear piercing, not to mention my tattooing, are bad form for a Muslim. In that sense... I'm pretty much a half breed.

And, explain to me again, how the unsupported assertion of a WASP is not "the decision of a WASP".
I do suspect that Stephen Colbert might get a kick out of a picture of you with an "Iranian Friend" though... ohh, sorry, you still think they prefer to be called "Persian"... despite the fact that the word, in farsi, is "irani".

(In the interest of fairness though, I'll ask my cousin in Iran which she prefers. Just in case there is a difference of opinion between "Tehrangeles", and Tehran. I'll be sure to let you know... so that you can mention it when your telling your "Tehrangelino" friends that they're just as white as you are... Or do you use the term "Indo-Aryan" when you're talking with them?)

(Persian is actually, if I'm not mistaken, taken from a Greek bastardization of 'farsi'... which, incidentally, I'm not capitalizing because there is no capitalization in the Arabic script... 'farsi', rather than leading to 'Farsians' (which would've been kind of cool, I think, as a fan of farse)... became 'Persians'. I'm sure you can do some reading on the subject, if you're ever interested.)