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January 10, 2007
Respect to Communities
Thanks God to give me the chance to visit almost every single point of my country .I had this chance to see all of Iran’s borders with our neighbors including all of provinces. And also as a development activist and sometimes as a physician I had the opportunity to live and learn from communities of different ethnic groups in my country.
I’ve never worn the local people cloths without their offer and permission. I’ve never worn their customs in public.
We have to learn to do respect to communities with valuing their customs. I don’t know who told President Ahmadi Nejad to wear the Arab, Kurd, Lor or Turkman customs. Delivering a speech to the local people is not a Halloween party. We are not allowed to wear local people customs and deliver a talk for 1000s of locals. Sometimes local people think we want to do kidding with them when we wear a cloth that is not our usual dress.
I believe President Ahmadi Nejad needs some consultants to let him know more about the communities' sensitivities .
Posted by Syamak Moattari at January 10, 2007 05:19 PM
