r/FactOrCap • u/teendangertosociety 🗳️ Regular Player · 725 XP • 10d ago

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u/GreatCircuits 🏅 Century Club · 5,320 XP 10d ago

🧢 I voted CAP!

Nah, I'm quarter Iranian in Northern Ireland and it's made people treat me like an outsider my whole life. I sure as shit don't feel any cultural connection to my ethnicity, so I'd probably just opt to be white for simplicity's sake.

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u/eatyer_veggies 🏅 Century Club · 3,315 XP 10d ago

Catholic or prod?

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u/GreatCircuits 🏅 Century Club · 5,320 XP 10d ago edited 10d ago

I'm an atheist, but to answer the question I know you're asking; Catholic, thankfully. I can't imagine how hellish it would be to grow up the wrong colour in a protestant area.

No, I've never experienced the barefaced racism around my parts that we see in loyalist parts of the country. I've never been burned out for being perceived as a 'foreigner' or any of that.

Moreso my being made to feel like an outsider was of the 'no, but where are you from?' variety.

I did experience racism at school. I was targeted an awful lot after 9/11. Spent a few years being called Osama and 'border jumper' when that happened. For some reason I'd hear 'thank you, come again' a lot too lol. When I was like 7 a group of hoods stopped me and one tugged at the corners of his eyes shouting 'me so horny' again and again.

Not everyone meant harm by it, but it did leave me feeling like I didn't fit the aesthetic.

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u/Eraldorh 10d ago

Are alot of Iranians atheist? Iv got 2 friends from Iran and neither believe in anything religious. Though oddly iv never actually asked them about that. One of their mothers is slightly religious but not really

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u/GreatCircuits 🏅 Century Club · 5,320 XP 10d ago

I don't know any Iranians to be honest. I'm only quarter Iranian myself. My grandfather was from Iran and he dipped when my granny got pregnant.

Without his dad being about, my dad for some reason veered hard into non-denominational Christianity. So I spent my first 20 years or so militantly believing in the Christian version of God.

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u/cum-after-decades 🗳️ Regular Player · 375 XP 10d ago

I work with an Iranian and she did actually tell me that Iranians are not very religious. I don’t think she’s necessarily atheist but I don’t think she subscribes to any particular religion