I have read a few articles on the movie 300. Despite what most Iranians have said, I think the movie was very beneficial for the Iranian community. The main purpose of it was to rub away the meaningless and shallow pride that Iranians take in their past Persian identity.
According to history, Persians were one of the many tribes in Iranian plateau who inter-mingled with other races and tribes such as moguls, Turks, Jews, Afghans, Greeks, Arabs, and etc in later generations. Even the Persian Empire was so vast and it included many different ethnicities in its administration. Therefore, there is no reason to call one a Persian because anyone of us who does that might be more of any other tribal background than Persian in particular. However, we can all call ourselves Iranians because we were all born in a geographic zone called Iran and we all share Iranian heritage.
The movie 300 will make Iranians stop calling themselves Persians for heaven’s sake and instead of clinging to something vague in the past, we Iranians can find something meaningful in our present and future. Who cares if we had tyrants in the past? But we should care not to appoint a tyrant as our ruler for the present and future generations. Instead of taking pride in our PhDs and Doctorates and calling ourselves with titles such as Doctor and Engineer all the time and thinking that Persians are the best, we should try to be humble and nice to people in our daily lives. Maybe this way, people would have more respect for where we have originally come from.
Unfortunately, I have seen this stupid attitude in the Iranian community in the past. Iranians don’t respect others who have no degrees, properties, or etc. they always compete with each other over materialistic values and they care more about acquiring a BMW than about donating 20 bucks a month to organizations such as UNICEF. The reason why the United States has gone ahead in the world is not because of the number of its PhDs, doctors, or engineers but it is because of its cultural values of hard-working, simplicity, humbleness, and humanity.
Another point that I would like to mention is that even the United States is not a perfect society, nevertheless, it always attempts in that direction. I personally feel sorry for the African Americans because portraying white-skinned adversary Persians as blacks show how despised the blacks are in America, as well as the homosexuals as the tyrant king Xerxes was portrayed as a gay!
According to history, Persians were one of the many tribes in Iranian plateau who inter-mingled with other races and tribes such as moguls, Turks, Jews, Afghans, Greeks, Arabs, and etc in later generations. Even the Persian Empire was so vast and it included many different ethnicities in its administration. Therefore, there is no reason to call one a Persian because anyone of us who does that might be more of any other tribal background than Persian in particular. However, we can all call ourselves Iranians because we were all born in a geographic zone called Iran and we all share Iranian heritage.
The movie 300 will make Iranians stop calling themselves Persians for heaven’s sake and instead of clinging to something vague in the past, we Iranians can find something meaningful in our present and future. Who cares if we had tyrants in the past? But we should care not to appoint a tyrant as our ruler for the present and future generations. Instead of taking pride in our PhDs and Doctorates and calling ourselves with titles such as Doctor and Engineer all the time and thinking that Persians are the best, we should try to be humble and nice to people in our daily lives. Maybe this way, people would have more respect for where we have originally come from.
Unfortunately, I have seen this stupid attitude in the Iranian community in the past. Iranians don’t respect others who have no degrees, properties, or etc. they always compete with each other over materialistic values and they care more about acquiring a BMW than about donating 20 bucks a month to organizations such as UNICEF. The reason why the United States has gone ahead in the world is not because of the number of its PhDs, doctors, or engineers but it is because of its cultural values of hard-working, simplicity, humbleness, and humanity.
Another point that I would like to mention is that even the United States is not a perfect society, nevertheless, it always attempts in that direction. I personally feel sorry for the African Americans because portraying white-skinned adversary Persians as blacks show how despised the blacks are in America, as well as the homosexuals as the tyrant king Xerxes was portrayed as a gay!



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