> What, exactly are "authentically iranian" values. I'm not talking about the
> "right to wear a bikini." I mean, how can one assert the existence of these
> (presumably) trans-historic values that solely determined by one's
> ethnicity?
>
> If I were, for instance, half Iranian, would I have one half Iranian values
> and one half decadent, western ones? What if I was one-half bourgeois? Then
> would I only have half of my nose operated on? Please enlighten me.
To my knowledge no one has unironically questioned the authenticity of liberal Iranians, or claimed that all Iranians believe the same things, or that Iranian values have a transhistoric existence (if any). These are all opinions imputed to other people.