RE: What the hell happened too these people.
March 17, 2015 at 10:29 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2015 at 10:36 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 16, 2015 at 11:29 pm)Chuck Wrote: 1. The top picture pretty much represented only a small westernized elite in Tehran from 1960-1970s.
This is inaccurate, in my experience. Libertine views were also widespread in the outlying larger cities like Shiraz, Kermanshah, Ahwaz, and Tabriz. It is true that rural populations were certainly more religiously conservative, but Western cultural influences, including libertine social values, were apparent in urban areas across the country, not just the capital, and it was not only a "small westernized elite."
(March 17, 2015 at 5:42 am)abaris Wrote: These people still exist. If you follow the reports from Iran, there's a strong youth culture meeting in private households.
Also, as always in these regions, you have to make a distinction between rural and urban regions. Rural is usually more religious than urban. In fact, you can find an example of that at your own doorstep.
This comports with what I hear from the expatriate Persian community here in Texas, and in SoCal.
Iran is a very young country demographically, and I think it will be not too long before we start seeing changes. The unrest in 2009 was the harbinger; the young folk there will not wait forever.
