While reading Persepolis all I can think is how different their culture is from ours. They have to hide from thought police and people who will arrest you for things like wearing pants or not covering yourself properly. And in the book it said that if you are a young girl and you get arrested and they are going to execute you they have someone marry you then rape you then kill you, so your aren't a virgin when they kill you because that's illegal in Iran. And they don't ever drink alcohol. That's so incredibly foreign to me. In the U.S. alcohol is no big deal. You can buy it at the grocery store. And in parts of Europe they don't have a drinking age. From their perspective seeing an American drink a glass of wine with their dinner would be like an American being presented with a needle of heroin before dinner. If I had to I could probably deal with the oppressiveness and the no booze thing but what I couldn't deal with is the lack of music. Music is one of my favorite things in the world and if it were suddenly illegal, I would just DIE!! Another thing I would be unable to deal with is religion class. I don't like religion because it doesn't make sense to me and it encourages people to stop learning. I could not deal with it. I would argue with the teacher and probably get expelled.
I am a big fan of Star Trek, and a lot of the aliens that they run into are very different than humans. Now I am learning about other cultures on our own planet and I wonder how we will ever get along with, let alone communicate with, other life forms.
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