(November 17, 2014 at 12:30 pm)Brian37 Wrote: You look at how close countries like Iran and Afghanistan came to being westernized in the 60s to what we see now, it is no given that this trend will continue.
Only at the surface and only amongst the ruling classes of the time.
The Shah didn't give one shit to educate his people or to create an open society.
I don't know as much about Afghanistan other than the fact that Hippies used to ravel there to smoke some dope, but here's a series of pictures that are pretty telling in more than one sense. The ordinary people on the streets look just the same as they do now.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/...0s/100544/