No offense people but this thread has turned into one big unproductive shouting match so I'm just going to walk all the way around some of these topics but I'll comment shortly on the significant topics.
I'm not going to get too much into the insanity of race relations but to claim that the people of the Persian empire were purely "white" or European in any sense is just plainly uneducated. I don't blame anyone here for being ill informed as it's not your fault. As I mentioned earlier, the history of the Persian empire and the Persians has repeatedly been swept under the rug in western schools. A lot of historical artifacts and drawings are still stuck in Iran this day today. I have seen many and there are paintings with entire armies of "brown men" with long curly black beards... Nuff said on that.
Just recently last year a group of people from a Persian history organization campaigned against the lack of funding on Persian history and libraries who had deliberately excluded Persian History from their shelves while they proudly boasted hundreds of books on the Greek Empire and several other empires. They also campaigned against publishers who would print history books without even a single mention of the Persian empire.
The world is not as forward thinking as you might think when western historians deliberately manipulate world events in order to perceive European superiority ... I'm not saying things like this doesn't also happen elsewhere in Far East Asia but I'm mentioning Europe now as this seems to be a practice which happens far too often on this side of the world, what's happening today is no different than when the catholic church banned books all over Europe back in the day. It's simply easier to control people when you keep them in the dark and brainwash them with methods taken right out of the Nazi handbook.
Fact is that a lot of Europe's advances were made off of piggybacking on Middle Eastern breakthroughs in the fields of science, specially physics and mathematics. When Europeans were living the simple life in Mud houses the Persians were carving an entire river through the desert, When religious nutjobs went rampant all over Europe the Arabs were making world changing discoveries in maths. I've studied mathematics on an advanced level and it's a historical fact that many of the world changing breakthroughs in these fields were discovered by Arabs and Persians. I'm not saying that Europeans didn't also contribute greatly to these fields but these significant historical figures came later on when Europe had lifted itself to the level that the middle east had been at for ages.
It's easy to manipulate the course of history when debating on the Internet. I'm not a nationalist and I couldn't care less about who's whiter or who's smarter. But we all know that if it wasn't for science we would not be debating online right now, instead we would all be living in mud houses and we would all be hunting our dinner tonight with bows and arrows. we can all understand science and any of you guys can pick up a science history book and immediately notice the over representation of middle easterners.
How come africa is poor and Europe is wealthy? (Don't go talking about colonies now). .
Are you really that uneducated? Oil, Gold, Diamonds, gun-running... These are the reasons why Africa is still poor. Foreign nations and corporations both western and eastern still exploit Africa this day today. Just an example.. who do you think imported 100.000 brand new machetes into Rwanda right before the civil war began in 1994?... The Brtish. In other words they meddle with the affairs of another country.
How come the arab states are so full of violence and hate? No prosperity there either.
Mainly because of Israel and the constant foreign meddling into their own countries affairs. I don't know why you would claim that there's no prosperity in the middle east? There's lots of prosperity in the massive cities all over... but of course you can't see that because you think that it's all just one big dry desert. Am I right?
I prefer the word English, but that doesnt stop people calling me British :D
Your somehow under the illusion that I'm Pro Islamic Republic and that I would be offended by what you're saying? Yes you're right, our country has been occupied by Nazi Mullahs, Yes you're right. The current president of the occupation does deny WWII and yes you're right Public hangings and the imprisonments of thousands of political prisoners in Evin prison is a reality. And yes.. Television and Internet is censored but that can be circumvented with a satellite dish and proxy server... What's you're point with all of this?
If you're somehow trying say that we turned our own country into what it is today then you're seriously a sad case. I think you should read up on your very own British history where you'll find some very useful information about the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.
Now you might wonder.. what does a foreign coup d'état have to do with England? Back in 1951 we had everything, no Islam, prosperity, freedom, democracy, a real president. You name it we had it. In 1953 the CIA along with the British government staged an overthrow of the democratically-elected Iranian government and our prime minister in a covert operation against us... a foreign government. Now what was our "crime"? Our president had nationalized the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), so our country could benefit more from the sale of its vast national petroleum resources... Basically Oil.
In a nutshell your country messed up my democratic country with a democratically elected parliament and president and turned it into an Islamic hellhole all because you greedy people wanted an unfair share of OUR cake. All our parliament did was to stand up against an injustice. The actions of YOUR British government is the DIRECT cause of why my country is what it is today. This is an undeniable fact and it has been acknowledged by your own government.
You brought it up! So here's the truth. You burned down my house and now I'm living in your house haha! And yes I have a British passport which allows me to live in your damn country. I also have a Swedish passport just incase. Do you think I wanted to live in your country? I didn't and I never intended on coming to Europe. You can thank your government for destroying and forcing me to move out of my own country. I still live back home for months at a time and I only go to Europe to study as it's not exactly a picnic to live in western Europe.
I think you should brush up on your history and learn more about what atrocities Britain have done to my homeland.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
All jokes aside.. I didn't want to discuss any of this in this thread, all I wanted was to hear some polish opinions but I can't ignore a British guy who's taunting the misery of my homeland when his government was the sole cause of it. I'd be very ashamed if I did that.