Linguistic Nationalism in Iran

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Linguistic Nationalism in Iran

• Persian Supremacy
• and the
• Subordination of Ethnic Minorities under the
  Pahlavi Regime
• By Heide Motaghi Iravani

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Sample of Persian Poetry a Ghazal by Rumi
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Timeline of Iranian History

• Safavid Dynasty 1501-1779
• Qajar Dynasty 1779-1925
• Pahlavi Dynasty 1925-1979
• Islamic Republic of Iran 1979-present

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The White Revolution and Language Modernization
in Iran

• Education reform
• Purification of Persian Language

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Persian Supremacy Today and the Status of the
Persian Language

• In Iran ethnocentrism and discriminatory
  behavior against ethno-linguistic minorities?
  jokes, snobbism
• The diaspora Man Parsi hastam, irani neestam
  I am Persian, Im not Iranian? the Iranian self
  denial

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