Wouldn't you? I met someone in New York thirty years ago who said no one had heard of Iran but they were impressed when she said she was Persian. Nowadays I suspect everyone in the US has heard of Iran but not in a good way.
>Louis Proyect wrote: >> many other Iranians, particularly those with ties to the Shah, the felt >> that their class interests were being threatened and emigrated to Israel >> or to the United States, where many settled in Los Angeles, along with >> tens of thousands of non-Jewish Iranians. > >for some reason, they call themselves "Persians." >-- >Jim Devine > >
