Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, It seems spring is more close to us here in Sweden. Today the weather is so nice, little bit foggy but warm enough and less wind.
Last two days I was completely involved in a big discussion at virtual Iranian community. What was that about? good question. There is all about Media's perspective about Iran. Last few years Media all around the world broadcasted many programs about Iran and Iranian. the problem that usually make Iranian angry is none of them are fare. It is what most Iranian how live abroad has clamed. Is it true?
hmmm, To some extent I agree with my fellows but not that much. As I mentioned before, Iran is a very big country, has a great population and is a very multi -cultural country. So I can understand that a tourist, reporter or politician can not cover all Iranian culture, Ethnics, Cliamte, life styles , etc. However, some reports and documents just cover the worse part of everything in Iran which make people so much angry and dissappointed.
On Sunday evening, one of swedish chanel (SVT2) broadcasted a documentry about Iran. It is made by a deaf group of swedish teenagers about situation of deaf people in Iran. It has 6 episode and T.V has shown just two of them. However, Iranian in sweden became too much angry because they think it is not the real Iran and Iranian life style. They beilieve these young tourists are teasing our culture , food, traditions and they are so rude and unrespectful.
Yes! the problem for my fellows are always this: It is Not real Iran! We had a storm about Argo a few months ago and people had clamed the same: It is not real Iran and Iranian!
So I think we need to explain more, what is a real Iran? can be a small part of Iran a represntative of whole country and culture? absolutely not!
In my opinion no one can cover whole the culture and People in any country especially big multicultural cuntries! ( Even we ,Iranian, can not claim that we know all about neither or country or different culture. We can not claim any of us is a representative of an Iranian culture (which is not one thing) Iranian life style and the all classes of Society.)
In my opinion no one can cover whole the culture and People in any country especially big multicultural cuntries! ( Even we ,Iranian, can not claim that we know all about neither or country or different culture. We can not claim any of us is a representative of an Iranian culture (which is not one thing) Iranian life style and the all classes of Society.)
Anyway, Im goning to write about this documentry and all debates more in future.
Cheers
Marmar
So true, I couldn't have said it better my self.
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DeleteSome of us have an image of Iran in our head and whenever someone make a movie or a documentary about Iran, we compare it to that image. The problem is, that image is not really close to reality.
ReplyDeletethe problem which I will write about it more is, most of documentries just cover one thing which is usually the poverty, old buildings etc. so It is not fake or false, but is not all the thing
Deleteon the other hand we have another view of our country , we want to show to the world how our conuntry is modern and how is beautiful, we like to show that although we have poor people , many people are reach , I mean we would like to show just the good thing . It is not also fake or false but it is not all the truth