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WORLD'S LEARNING, CULTURE AND CIVILIZATIONS By Maximillien de Lafayette

AMERICANS VERSUS FOREIGNERS.

TIPS FOR DEALING AND SOCIALIZING WITH ARABS, MUSLIMS AND FOREIGNERS.

 

They have no respect for American codes of ethics and social/moral values. They consider the American society as “a decadent and immoral cell”. Thus, fully trusting American businessmen is not highly recommended. Yet, 87% of men who go regularly to strip joints in Washington, D.C. and particularly in the Georgetown’s North West area and on Wisconsin Avenue (Maryland Bethesda’s area) are Iranians. So much for Islamic ethical standards!! Iranians are very fond of American technology and gadgets. Their children’s rooms are filled with American gadgets, toys and juvenile tools. The Iranian middle class loves “Wall Mart” stores. The Iranian high society is very picky and usually buys the very best and the most expensive items, and believe it or not, la crème de la crème of the Iranian society loves to do business with American Jews. Iranian women of the upper middle class and the high society are extremely elegant, love to shop at expensive department stores and are unconcerned with what their men think about Jews and Americans. They love to buy Israeli products. They buy the most expensive dresses, gowns, shoes and feminine apparels, usually designed by Jewish or Israeli designers and couturiers. It is a fact that wealthy Iranian women adore the fine jewelry and world-class diamonds sold by Jews in Antwerp, London and New York. If they can afford expensive gowns and dresses, they buy it in a heart beat. If they cannot afford it, they stand in front of the boutique display window, take a pen and a stack of papers and copy the model. They rush home to ask Myriam or Nour their dressmakers to copy the dress. The majority of Iranian women I met in large American and European cities was resourceful and tricky, but generous to a fault.  Back home, they act and live according to social prerequisites and rules imposed by a society made for and by men. Abroad, and particularly in Paris, Rome, London, Washington, D.C., New York and Los Angeles, they explore all the possibilities life has to offer. I literarily mean all possibilities. The upper class is fun, bright, highly educated, classy and shrewd. The middle class refuses to live as a middle class. The lower class in Iran is pure misery. Abroad, it becomes very creative and daring. Iranian women love dresses and gowns designed by Jewish extravagant designers. Per contra, Iranian men don’t. Soraya, the former empress of Iran (Ex-wife of the Shah who divorced her to marry Farah Diba) was considered to be as one of the most beautiful and most elegant women in the world.

 

 

 

Soraya’s imperial wardrobe was designed by Jewish and Christian couturiers at Christian Dior and Balmain in Paris, France. From the beginning of time, Iranian women were known to be extravagantly elegant. Their love for fashion started some 5,000 years ago with Anou Sherwan Kisrah, founder of ancient Iran. From that moment in history, through the epochs of Darius the great, the Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Hebrews and passing by the era of the Ottoman empire, the lavish days of Sultan Abdel Hamid and crossing the Tuscany, and reaching in the late 18th century the doors of Armenia, Anatolia, Georgia, Latvia, Russia and eastern Europe, Iran was the center of international fashion for women, royalties, rulers, monarch, kings and queens. Their red and green silk which was the envy of the world was woven and manufactured by Armenian, Persian and Jewish artisans and dressmakers.

 

DEALING AND SOCIALIZING WITH ARABS

Although many Arabs are as fanatic as the Iranians, they remain quite different from the Persians. Nevertheless, they have many things in common, such as exemplary generosity, a great appetite for life, love and passion for buying the best and finest things in life, driving flashy dashy cars, jewelry, golden Dupont cigarettes lighters, gold and diamonds. They love women,  music and group dancing. They are very protective of their women and the honor and the reputation of their families is “sacred and holy”. An Arab businessman will not hesitate long before he gives you a compelling answer to any question you may ask. Particularly in business matters. Usually, his answer is given on the spot. While dealing with an Arab, expect a typical Arab emotional attitude. And if you are a Jew dealing with an Arab or a Muslim, discount  90% of what an Arab or a Muslim  promises you  to deliver or honor.  If an Arab is dealing with another Arab, emotion fades away to be replaced by an exercise of who is going to outsmart or cheat  the other. 

 

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