Comrades, I’m stuck working on some university bullshit and thus I am bored. So, let’s shoot the shit. I am an Iranian computer engineering graduate student (have a bsc degree in CompSci) and I have noticed that my country Iran is completely… opaque, so to speak, to even leftist of various denominations from the outside. So, let’s talk comrade to comrade. Ask me shit about the daily soulcrushing grind of life in Iran…
You know… It’s funny how Farsi is widely known across Central Asia, but under different names, like, idk, Dari
Tell me, what do you think of people who speak Dari and such?
They are Iranian people who got separate due to imperialism; they are literally Iranian and the efforts to rename their language like Dari are basically historical revisionism projects. I remember an anecdote from an old Afghan lady who said “They came to our schools and changed Farsi to Dari on the book covers one day”. Sadly I cannot source this because I was it on Discord and it’s almost impossible to find now…
What’s the average person in Iran like? I feel like we hear a lot about your government in the west but never hear anything about the Iranian people themselves.
I mean, imagine the average normie, Probably has some weird political line, spends the day on Instagram, probably thinking about money (economy is rough here man) and just going day to day trying to survive. “average” of any population is more or less the same.
Makes sense. I figure we are all the same in most places around the world. I do watch a lot of food tour youtubers and I always like when one is in Iran. The hospitality of the people seems out of this world and I can’t image my own country doing stuff like randomly inviting people over for diner lol.
