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For this project, I connected with an old fmily friend who was visiting home from college. Her name is Nilly and we met at Starbucks. She's an Iranian-American, and we've known each for several years.
I opened the interview with several basic ethnographic questions. She is 21 years old. She was born in Tehran and her family moved to the US when she was two years old, fleeing the Ayatollah's regime. She speaks Farsi and English. She currently lives in Boston, where she goes to school.
How many members of your family were born in another country?
Most of them were born in Iran, actually. Only my two younger brothers were born in the United States.
Have you ever visited Iran?
NA: I have not. Our family was persecuted by the regime, so my parents are afraid of what might happen to them if they return. We talk a lot to our family that still lives there, and while I think we all want to meet sometime, we would rather meet in Europe than go back to Iran, not until the regime is changed. Personally, I wanted to visit when my school is finished, but currently it is not possible for Americans to go to Iran.
SV: Can you tell me what a typical day is like there?
NA: Sure, I talk to my cousins there a lot. It's different for them. In one sense, they go to school and their parents go to work, and that's pretty normal. But of course they have to wear the abaya, and there are a lot of rules about things they can't do. Especially for the females. But there is a secret police that everybody is afraid of -- you can't express opinions the same way as here. You have to be very careful about who you talk to and what you say to them. Usually only close family is trusted.
SV: How do they spend their free time there?
NA: People in Iran don't go to nightclubs the same way that we do here. A lot of public places are only for men, so the women usually socialize in private homes. You get together with your friends and your family, you eat, and in a private home you can wear whatever you want so it's a more natural setting, everybody is more at ease because the same social rules that apply in public don't apply in private. So of course...
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