Talk:Tehrangeles

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I thought it was odd to read about some "little persia" designation when every fellow LA Persian that I know calls it Tehrangeles. With the NY Times article this morning I have taken the effort to further beef-up the article knowing that I finally have something tangible to back up what I already knew was correct (however, in light of all the challenges going on over any article refering to any Persian people or sub-set, I wanted to have some ground to stand on). -- Bobak 15:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

"Little Persia" refers to the area along Westwood Blvd. between Wilshire and Pico or SM Blvd. Tehrangeles is a name given to all of Los Angeles' Persian community, including for example the Valley, OC, and Persians living elsewhere in the LA basin outside of Westwood. These articles should not be merged. Arspickles17 06:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Percentage of Persians in Beverly Hills

I was happy to see the 20% number from NPR. I once did a project at Beverly Hills HS and I was stunned at the percentage of students that were Persian. It seemed higher than 20%, of course many of the non-Persians in BH may simply send kids to private schools or be empty nesters. Too bad BHHS doesn't list their ethnic breakdown (which would be complicated because many Persians, like myself, check "white" when given the choice of no "other" or "Persian"). --Bobak 23:52, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

The top photograph on this page seems irrelevant and weirdly framed for an article on an ethnic enclave. If anyone has a picture of some Persian shops or something in the area it would probably be more apt Arspickles17 09:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)Arspickles17

[edit] Iran v. Persia

As Babak has correctly stated, "Persian" refers to the dominant ethnic group of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Also, "Tehrangeles" refers to the large concentration of ethnic Persians in Los Angeles, a throwback to Tehran, the current cultural center of the ethnic Persian population of the Middle East. However, even if Tehran is a city composed mostly of Persians, it is still a part of the political (and not ethnic) entity of Iran. Accordingly, when we discuss Tehran, we discuss it as a political (and not ethnic) entity, and thus we refer to the country it resides in as Iran(not "Persia") since we are speaking politically.

Similarly, we do not refer to Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan as "Mazar-i-Sharif, Hazara-stan" or Kandahar, Afghanistan as "Kandahar, Pushtun-land". This is mixing ethnicity and political nomenclature, and is incorrect.

Arspickles17 06:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)