Because many of the supporters of the Shah's regime had relatives studying in the U.S. As a result of the first influx of Iranian immigrants, they sought asylum in that manner. Others made their pleas based on political and religious persecution issues. Others still, entered the country on student visas and managed to obtain permanent status later.
Assimilation is difficult for any migrating group, but the Iranians faced severe obstacles in the form of fierce discrimination and outright hatred by many Americans. With Americans being so ethnocentric it is extremely difficult for anyone to come from a different culture and fit in with the majority in the United States. With the prevailing sentiment towards Iranians after the Iranian Hostage Crisis, it was more than difficult, it was virtually impossible. Further, these Iranian immigrants tended to be well educated and earned good incomes, which made them more likely to seek high-status, high-income employment, which differed from the historical route of the traditional non-white immigrant. As a result, it can reasonably be argued that this situation fits within Karl Marx's Conflict Perspective, because conflict perspective focuses on the conflicts that are inherent whenever two groups are in pursuit of the same set of finite resources.
While the majority of these Iranian immigrants were Muslim, this group also consisted of Jews, Bahais, Zoroastrianists, and minority Islamic sects (Gillis, 2011). Thus, holding religious beliefs which greatly conflict with the Christian beliefs of the majority of Americans. One need only view the persecution of and discrimination of Jews in the United States to gain empathy with the plight of the Iranian immigrant. Not only did they come from a different culture but, they held religious beliefs which were not popular or mainstream in the United States.
Perhaps Nassir Ghaemi best described the differences in beliefs and cultures between Iranians and Americans when he wrote "Americans are pragmatic; Iranians are not; Americans are Calvinistic; Iranians are not; Americans worship the future, Iranians the past; Americans value forthrightness, Iranians complexity; Americans are postmodern; Iranians are not; and, Americans have imbibed science, Iranians literature" (Ghaemi, 2009).
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