Politics_Observer wrote:@Tainari88
I was watching your Iranian video and it talks about how Iran is Persians and not Arab. It also talked about how Farsi is spoken in Iran. Farsi is also spoken in Afghanistan too (also called Dari) along with Pashto. You also see Iranians in Afghanistan and white people too who are native Afghans.
Politics Observer, I get tired of the ignorance about Puerto Rico in the USA. Imagine about other nations like Iran? I think the ignorance is running rampant in the USA and in many towns and cities in the USA, and the American ethnocentrism is about arrogance, and it is BAD in general in the USA about other peoples, other nations and other cultures. All nations have their good and bad aspects, and their cultural and social shortcomings. No human society is perfect. It never is. Fear of other ways of running nations or societies is not going to help your cause if you are trying to be greedy and imperialistic. I hate imperialism with a deep passion. It is destroying Puerto Rico right now. It is destroying many nations. That shit has to STOP!!
Iran was an empire. They lost the Persian empire to Alexander the Great. Every empire in human history eventually loses its colonies and its expansive territories. Why? Overweening ambition, greed, and lusting for control of the world. It is damn ridiculous that humans don't learn the lessons of history. You get much farther in life negotiating as equals with respect and caring and being intelligent and being upfront and balanced in asking for what you want than using violence, terror and pressure based on arrogance and fear. It happens all the time.
I even have people from the USA who check in to Airbnb and are surprised that I am in Mexico and am a USA citizen....they think I have to kiss American ass and be an American my whole life and so on....no, I don't. I am Latin American FIRST. Puerto Rico is Latin American, and the USA can deny that reality to kingdom come but the reality is you stop a Mexican and ask them to sing a Puerto Rican song that is famous in the Spanish speaking world in Spanish and they will know instantly a lot of them. Americans? You stop some American ignorant in the streets of Chicago, NYC, Charleston, and many other American cities and none of the non Latin people will ever know a Puerto Rican song or anything culturally shared at all....none.
We are not supposed to be part of Anglophone realities. We are part of the Latin American nations. I got classified differently than the USA citizens in Mexico seeking Mexican residency. They can spout all the rhetoric they want to in the USA about how sophisticated they are Politics Observer but they are not!
How can you even begin to repair the damage between nations with conflicting interests if you don't even know the difference between Arabic vs Farsi, or the history between nations?
Imagine if Iran had interfered in the USA and then been controlling, dictating, propping up dictators favoring Iran over the native USA population and punishing, killing, creating and fomenting wars and etc to favor themselves? Would you like them?
Start seeing human histories with more objectivity. The American reality is only 6% of the world's human experience. 94% of humanity doesn't live in the USA. Accept that and stop with the attitude is what Americans should work on.....if they did? Maybe you would have some real progress on negotiating decent international treaties and diplomatic and fair trade relationships. Instead of having the Ugly American syndrome everywhere.