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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The Persians who live here call your city Tehrangeles. If the subset exists, that's the likely place on the planet it'd be found.
Or maybe Paris.
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Speaking of this, I was out the other night with a friend of mine (not a close friend, but more than an acquaintance) and I asked him how he likes his new neighborhood (he moved somewhat recently to southern Beverly Hills). He got close to me and said something like "I like it okay, but... [quieter] there's too many Persians. At night it's like little Tehran over there."
I didn't take that opportunity to mention to him that my nieces are half Persian, though I probably should have. This is an acceptable group to be prejudiced against now? I mean, he's made homophobic sorts of statements in front of me before, even knowing that I have gay friends, so maybe he's all around clueless, but I wonder whether he would have felt so comfortable saying that stuff to me if the group had been blacks? I'm always curious what makes people think that these sorts of statements are okay.
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