Interesting synopsis which reinforces my belief: Iranians dislike America because they have been indoctrinated to think that way. "Culture" is a powerful and pervasive factor that we Americans (actually most Westerners) often fail to appreciate. In a prior life, I was the Director of Engineering at the F-16 program Office. At that time (late 80s) 16 countries operated some version of the F-16. The two cultural extremes I found most interesting were the Japanese who were so "polite" it was hard to determine what they were telling us and the Israelis who were so "direct" that most would consider them rude. The Japanese, by the way, didn't have actual F-16s but were developing an indigenous fighter (FS-X) derived from the F-16, it eventually became their F-2.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Gerry > Archer > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:10 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: [MBZ] Factoid-Iran > > Here is a view of Irans history; especially its relationships with Western > nations. > > http://www.fpri.org/footnotes/1426.200909.bakhash.usiranhistorical.html > > ................................... > > From: "Curt Raymond" <curtlud...@yahoo.com> > You're thinking like an American, our conflict with the Iranians goes back > to the '30s when the Brits first started raping Iran for oil, then on to > where the CIA thought it was a good idea to depose a secular > democratically > elected government and re-instate a madman intent on killing his own > people. > The kids of today have parents you know, and they've talked to them and > learned what "the white devils" did to them. > This is a region known for long memories, they're still squabbling over > who > said what 1000 years ago never mind things people actually did in the last > century. > Unfortunately as far as I'm concerned we've earned our situation with > Iran, > we've treated them poorly for the last 80 years and then expect them to > just > forget all that... > -Curt > > From: "Scott Ritchey" <ritche...@nc.rr.com> > Given the median age of the Iranian population (27 years), it's hard to > believe events over 60 years ago have direct significance to them. Most of > them were born in the current Islamic Republic. If these folks have > heartburn about events during and after WWII, it's only because they have > been trained to believe that way, not any actual personal experience. > Scott > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
