Just pointing out that Yoshie is not a Westerner, she's a Japanese expat.
--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Doug Henwood >
> I dunno, the talk about "Persian angels" and
> "princes"
> still leads me back to Western
> exoticization/fetishization of the "Orient" a la the
> old pop songs "Rebecca from Mecca," etc. where there
> was an equal fascination with all things Arabian
> and/or Persian, with blemishes on reality blissfully
> overlooked. Persian culture is fascinating. But we
> could also hope to tease out the inner socialists of
> folks in places like Latin America, or, hell, the
> US,
> too. Not just obsessively with Iran.
>
> -B.
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