why r most Americans so illiterate?they dont know Persia strictly means Iran(due to aryan race)?

Question

and the Arabic pronanciatin of iraq is /eragh/ or /aragh/which has nothing to do with iran? why r these americans are so confused?when u tell them your persian they look at you confused and crazy!how could they be so dense?is it beause they are living in the other side of the world?http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/aryan_people_origins.php

Answer 1

as you can see it obviously in their answers its because americans are intrested in "only 'themselves,these answers made this fact clear that americans not only are ignorant but also egoist and egocentric and so sorry but far from civilization too.you need to respect others in order to recieve respect!

Answer 2

First I would like to say illiterate means unable to read LOL. Now to get started. Do you know most Americans, or are you talking about a handful or so that you have discussed this with? We are a rather large and populated country. Your statement is ignorant based on your "most Americans" theory and to be quite honest with you, most people such as the ones you are talking about probably don't give a damn. I for one am aware that Persia and Iran are the same, and that means nothing to me, I could careless as to what you are, as long as you're a decent person. I personally love your carpets though.

Answer 3

Dear..its not only them who dont have any knowledge about Iran ...and do u know almost everyone around the world think Iranians are Arab! and some even think Iran=Iraq… while there is a huge gap between Persians n Arabs !,,,and when u tell them NO....We are Persian!...they are like so surprised....there might be so many resons that cause this…like TV,news..wrong propaganda and many more …

And u Americans!.....who r u to even care or not care?! ...the only reason this guy is asking this..most probably caz he is living in US....dont try to hard to pretend u dont have interest on this....for ur info!.. we dont even care if u care or not!!!...

and ya!..this guy is right!..How the hell would u expect a non-native speaker not to have a mistake??!!!....and if I have mistakes here..i am not ashamed!…its not my language!!...I just had to learn it to communicate and study!..thtaz all!

Answer 4

Do you find it's just the American people? Are Europeans any better really?
Why don't you just say Iran? It may be more clear to the listener what you mean and you would then be a more effective speaker.

Or give an example; Persia, like the rug or like in Aladdin.
Iran; like the Shaw of, or hostages

Once your listener has a reference, I'm sure they will not be as confused as to your origin.

Answer 5

It could be asked why most (or at least ONE) person(s) interested in Persia get their subjects confused. Literacy is the ability to read...the issues you have are with World History and Geography. And anyone who's not going on Jeopardy! really doesn't care that Iran was once called Persia many years ago...especially in a hemisphere where country names change constantly.

Answer 6

I hate it 2 when Persians/Iranians are considered Arab .... b-cause, Arab countries (ex: Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Eygpt, Syria )are all of ARAB race but Persians r of the Arian race. Iran was influenced by Arabs only when Islam entered Iran but just b-cause theyre muslims dosent mean they r Arabs!? I always say Persian or Persia rather than Iran ( although both are beautiful) b-cause when u say Iran they mess u up w/t Arabs and all those Political stuff... but Persia reminds me of Ancient Persia and History!

Answer 7

I'm not certain that not knowing that Persia strictly means Iran makes one illiterate. I think illiteracy has more to do with not knowing about punctuation, capitalization, spelling. Even p-r-o-n-u-n-c-i-a-t-i-o-n isn't as much an indicator of illiteracy as poor spelling.

Maybe "most" Americans just couldn't really care less about this crap?

Oh, thank you so much Hector sir.

Answer 8

Persia has been Iran for quite a long time. Younger people might never have heard of Persia.

Answer 9

sweetheart, look up the definition of "illiterate". What you describe would be IGNORANCE, not illiteracy. And ignorance isn't a moral flaw, it's simply a lack of knowledge about something. EDUCATE people if you encounter ignorance, but you can't expect people to know everything!

Now, what YOU have written and all its errors, now THAT would be considered illiterate.

Answer 10

I think you'll find that most English people don't know that either. Seems to me you have a bee in your bonnet about America. If you want to get pissed off with USA talk about their level of toxic emittions rather than their lack of geographic knowledge.

Answer 11

dont worry!they dont know anything!they need some more education!its obvious what persian means!iranian!