ON THE "WHY" QUESTION

I arrived in U.S. in 1977 at the height of the Cold War tensions. At University of Michigan where I learned English as a second language, I met a lot of American students who after hearing my name, with the accompanying heavy accent, would usually ask me, “Where are you from?” To my surprise, most could not place Iran in their minds...



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