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Haraby Potter (lemmy.world)

From this video for more context https://youtu.be/LR511iAedYU

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[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 63 points 3 months ago

Westerner here.

If disturbs me how accurate this is, and how I never realized it till just now.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 46 points 3 months ago

I work very hard to inspect my own preconceived biases and assumptions, and I find it very uncomfortable when someone just drops one right in front of me that I had never even realized I held... Uncomfortable doesn't mean bad. But dammit, how am I in a picture I didn't even know the photographer of existed?

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

American perceptions in one image. Persians in the palace, Arabs in the slums.

[-] SattaRIP 24 points 3 months ago

Also, not all Iranians are Persian. There are multiple cultures, despite nationalist attempts at cultural genocide.

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

I didn't know that, I thought it was like Deutschland where Iranians use a different name for their country than we do in English.

[-] Earflap@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

Nah Persians kinda hate Arabs. Source: I work for a Persian.

[-] anas@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

I’m an Arab and this is my conception too lol

[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Iranians aren't Arabs and don't speak Arabic

[-] Sanguine@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Yeah we know that but does the average American whose only use of the word Persian comes from rugs, coffee, and mahbe some sweets.

[-] Alk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago

Excuse me I'll have you know I played Prince of Persia and its reboot.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Iranians have been fighting arabs since Elam and Sumaria were around.

[-] S491@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Then what about the Arab Iranians in Khuzestan?

[-] sxan@midwest.social 16 points 3 months ago

I knew a girl in college (was pursuing a girl in college) who said she was Persian. When I was confused, she explained that her family came from Iran but, the political climate being what it was in the late 1980's, she found it safer to say she was Persian.

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 months ago

I think the difference here is Persian is ethnicity while iranian is nationality. Don't know about safety but I knew Iranian and he said he was Kurd, mostly because he didn't associate himself with Iran.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe. She specifically told me she told people she was Persian because we (the US) was in an active conflict with Iran at the time, with people getting killed and all that.

[-] carotte 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

anyone who reads that comment please GO WATCH THE VIDEO OP LINKED.

it’s super good and really approachable even if, like me, you don’t know much about music theory!

[-] FundMECFSResearch 8 points 3 months ago

Ironically, while Persian is stereotyped as “luxury arabic” Iranian is stereotyped as “evil arabic”.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I’ve always pictured it more as “Tacky luxury, maybe with Mediterranean flair.”
ie: gilt everything, over-decorated, looks expensive for the sake of looking expensive.

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Iran is not on the Mediterranean

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

A lot of Arab countries on the Mediterranean though none I would call tacky or over-decorated. You are perhaps thinking of the Arabian Gulf instead?

[-] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

i think the original commenter is just reaffirming the idea presented in the meme by sharing their own conceptions of iran. this highlights how westerners generally seem to view the region.

i wouldn’t use the word mediterranean here myself but i see where they’re coming from saying that, especially with regards to cultural perception versus the real, lived culture.

westerners traditionally associate the stylings of like, Parthia or maybe the Sassanids with iran/persia. those cultures are also inextricably linked with a wider western image of the bronze age and greece. i think the more interesting part of note here is that westerners tend to conflate classical cultures as all having a general “vibe” that might be described as mediterranean, and both in the case of modern iran or greece it seems that this lasting cultural image is heavily impressed in the social consciousness

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 months ago

Gilt over-decorated everything with a lot of details is expensive, whole purpose of it is to be expensive.

[-] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Honestly so do I but more like culturally rich rather than literally. Islam would be Hella dim if it wasn't for Persian influences, and I say this as a non Persian.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago
[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

As an Arab to me Persian sounds distinctly different unlike say Aramaic.

[-] Yaky@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

As an Eastern European American, to me, spoken Persian phonetically sounds like Russian (perhaps same sounds and phonemes, but, of course I can't understand it)

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

There’s probably some shared cognates, Persian has one that I know of with English.

[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago
[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

moroccan duduk as in austrian bagpipe.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 3 months ago

Oddly enough this is actually quite a bad comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(bagpipe)

Basically all of Europe (and a fair few places outside of it) has at some point decided that it'd be cool if there was some way to play a woodwind instrument without having to pause for breath. The Scottish ones are just the best known ones, and even then those Great Highland pipes are only one of four types of Scottish bagpipes

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 months ago

Desert level music is nice, real middle eastern music is nice as well. You should know about "light in babylon" they are great and somewhere in between those two.

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