Why Are There So Many Iranians In Los Angeles? [Becoming Iranian-American, Pt. 1] | AJ+ 

You should have stayed there.

All the best wishes ur welcome anytime dude 😊😉

beeing guest and actually staying is something different. iranians are proud of their identity. like to call themselves persians or aryans. it's a more nationalist mindset there.

I was there last February and the people are so kind in Iran I never experienced this kindness in other places, and I travel a lot. The people are nice, the food and their culture. The people are not their government, they are just human like us. If I have the chance again I will go again to Iran!

Manlio Martínez Barona oh so when you went there did you see them Stone gay people to death and did you see anti-semitic signs everywhere yes you did

Not always.

You are so right. The fact that you have written your message in all capitals shows how accurate and intelligent your views are. You deserve to be the dean of sophiology at the most prestigious university in the world. Where can I buy your latest book?

@@alisedighi7833 dont waste your time on those who accept their ignorance as their only.truth

Exactly!

Real History India no America meddled with Iranian elections and caused the mess in Iran soo

i 6tir True. In 1953 they could have had a democratically elected government until the British interfered and put in the Puppet Shah.

Latin America too.

the all sign treaties we are not there because we want they could have gone to the other 15 muslims country

i 6tir FACTS

Iran would be a better place WITHOUT ORGANIZED RELIGION

And as an Iranian-American , I appreciate all my Mexican brothers and sisters for their integrity and incredible resilience . Most hard working and driven people #fuerte

@@nimaassadi1444 Most hard working and driven? above others? ummm debatable.

@@nimaassadi1444ok 2 faced Persian

@@nimaassadi1444is your dad a lawyer or doctor? Which does he defraud? Or does he maybe own a subway chain.

mexchewy ya,because of this reason they r bothered. as an Iranian German,I never allow some1 to insult Iran. Iran means the land of aryans.so germany & Iran r from one race.I am also member of Nazies.

Ugh, I was one of those chain smoking idiots. Wasted 8 years of my life there. Interesting experience but I should have quit it sooner...I mean the garment district and smoking too.

How old are you?

Vietnam are underachievers and don't even do anything with Chinese culture they adopted lol

@@Mitchery Old enough to be your master, boy!!!

@@ToiYeuYAHWEH It is a good one

I’m Iranian and Vietnamese culture is so fascinating and cool. I had a friend who taught me to speak a little of the language

Whatever you do it will happen to you same like afghans it is a swear to call you afghan in Iran 🇮🇷 and you would be embarrassed 😩 if someone call you afghan in Iran because people of Iran beat you up if they knew you are from Afghanistan 🇦🇫. Thanks 🙏 God the same thing happened to this bastard motherfuckers.

Thank you my Saudi friend for the kind comment. May our past histories and present politics never taint the respect and humanitarianism for eachother.

Mesopotamian Kurd real Kurds would never say that to their brothers and sisters

hossin maddoh only idiots hate eachother. Not all Iranians hate Afghanis, only the sadistic ones who even hate eachother. We know that Afghan people are our brothers and sisters. Always. Don't let the hate from some people ruin the reality of love. Blessings and greetings to you my brother :) x

No we don’t love Iranian 😷

I would very much try to try some of that yummy stuff.

Thank you

I love this place

i wish i could come up there obe there but I'm in iran

kristin_446 I would also like to visit Iran. So much history but it’s kinda hard for Americans.

Anton Takashima yes theyre nice people. Im afghan btw.

African Americans beg to be accepted.

mplsridah thank you

mplsridah im afghan. I went black but black men arent serious with me. I want to be in a serious relationship. But the black man doesnt want to. What should i do?

mplsridah not by u 😂🤣😅

Ciaron Smith Japanese immigrants are by far the most successful immigrants to the US.

MrThemorningsun I don't think he's saying Jews are Iranian. He's saying many Iranians in LA are of Jewish faith, that being one of the reasons they left Iran to begin with.

@MrThemorningsun lmao are you Israelian jew?

@@betrousaltaweel there isn't even that many Japanese people in the USA why are you lying lmao

美しい死yas there are well over a million Japanese Americans and they have been in the US since the 1800s

That’s so odd lol did you go?

haha funny yea, they love icecream thats true.

LOL. Great remark :P

We're actually very different from you. We're better than you :D

EXTRA^^^

Isaac Bakan Persians literally invented ice cream

Syed Abdul Wasay it’s a part of their secret plan NWO

The us didn’t install the shah(king)Iran already had a monarchy that had been around for centuries but the us began influencing the shah and Iranian politics.

The Shah was way better then what Iranians have now

@The Dude You had more freedom. And that is what matters. And you do have foreign soldiers on your soil now. You have Hezbollah and Iraqi militias suppressing dissent right now as we speak.

@@thepessimistictitan2655 That's false. It's better now.

Kuwaitis are the coolest arabs ! Plus I love how kuwaitis government work

Thank you!! 美しい死yas

Most Arabs hate gulf states anyways. Us non gulf Arabs like Iran more

Then say persian gulf

Persian gulf

Iranian Military man? When did he return to Iran? If it is on early 80s, it was not a good time for a US Trained soldier. I am afraid, he did not survive the revolution. If he did, at least he would have tried to contact you and your daughter.

What was his name, probably he died by the government or war

Thanks.❤❤❤

Wow, I'm so sorry that happened to you. I'm American (California) and I began talking to an Iranian guy a while back, and I fell in love! We've been together now for 2-years and I thank God for the fact that we looked past where we were from and looked at each other instead.

​@@doubledoc7807hello may I ask is there an problem if a person has lived in Iran for 7 years and now wish to live in US. Are there any visa problems??

@@pepper2240 I was uncertain that I could answer this question truthfully until today, monday, after I spoke to our integration lawyer.. I'm sad to say that there are many "new" or renewed restrictions on Iranian nationals and citizens wishing to enter the USA - legally. However, if you claim asylum citizenship from Iran, you will be granted immediate citizenship. (I know the irony in that, but that is how the US statute is written, according to my immigration lawyer.) Best of luck, truly.)

WALEED ALHARBI huge respect for all those progress made by prince Mohammad Bin Salman.our sisters in Saudi arabia deserve more

thanks alot

no, vee don't hav accent. I espik vit no accent. but tank you very much my frend.

AlexHector Turn your caps off old man. Second off, leave us Persians alone. Peace be upon you.

Ok toddler.

Horn of Africa is the anus of the World

Thanks ❤️

Persians are really smart.

Elzbieta Niziolek do you have information of him, or picture...

Unfortnately I don t have any photo. I don t remember also his second name. He was azylum seeker. I met him in Vienna in Austria n 1989. Then in autumn 1989 he went to USA. I lost contact with him.

And I’m looking for my dog KeKe from winter 1979, have you seen her? Cause I need her, and I want her

you need a poor iranian boyfriend do you ?

Try Facebook

Shitty governments are the reason.

As an Iranian, I salute you my friend! We need more people like you in Saudi Arabia and the middle east!

Why Saudi Arabia is killing Yemeni people? 8 years killing like drinking water actually you are the problem in Middle East and Zionism regime, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM

pare ko !

Thank you

Mesopotamian Kurd why so mean?

Mesopotamian Kurd Dude what is your problem

Ana Irani min Amrika w Ana B7eb Falastin 🖤🇵🇸

RamoSFTT where are you living?in the west bank or outside palestine?

Why?

Happy Nowruz my dear Kurdish Brother. No one is closer to us than our Kurdish brothers. Persian, Kurdish and Azari are the same.

Happy Newroz too🔥, we are one family 🇹🇯🇮🇷

hama jabary im from kermanshah.... And i love Kurdistan

Alireza Cheshmak Thank you, we love Kermansha(Kermashan) too which is a part of East Kurdistan-Iran ❤

Roozbeh Soleimani Azeri are Turkic, even Pashtuns or Tajiks are closer than Azeris

James Varela ya,they r brainwashed

Someone who was advising Khomeini must have told him attack American on American soil and they go pigwild. I remember during the hostage crisis the constant moaning of when Carter was going to take military action? and when Saddam finally sent in the Iraqi army people all over America were cheering , even college students formed Saddam Hussein fan clubs, nobody ever bothered to tell them Iraq was a Soviet client state like Cuba. I also remember my grandmother watching it all and sighing it was all like after the attack on Pear Harbor in 1941. 40 yrs have shown President Carter was right to pursue a diplomatic solution.

Yes, you see that in muslim countries against gays.

Michael Carranza while legislation in some countries may be anti gay, that does not mean everyone in that culture or that culture itself is necessarily anti gay. I am referring to all cultures when I say that

Nope, it's both, islamic government, and islamic cultures who are against gays. gays are killed by the government, and in small rural muslim villages, they stone them.

Michael Carranza Europe and the US used to be homophobic too a few decades ago, so what? Things do not change overnight.

@@josecarranza7555 and christians, and minorities, and the rich.

thanks for your nice comment about us! :D❤

@@basirj8578 no Khomeini ruined the peace in the middle east. He started proxy wars in the middle east which have ruined countries.

THAT ONE GUY oh interesting that now u hate it when people start calling u arabs

Salma Almeahlky oh I meant it as an Arab I'm not Iranian

Carrot Cake Me too

Somalia no real government. You rich boy.

@@farhia711 you are not even Somali idiot stop lying. We love Iran 🇮🇷

@@Bountylicious shut up. They are shia rafidahs , plus look at them , they have no respect for the Deen . I know because I met them , they have no respect for Islam .

@@slayer_general4243 You sound like a toxic drunk

@mOhaMmEd 96 Khasab

You cringed

me too bro

True melting pot ? What are you trying to say?

younes rahimi Persian is an ethnicity

tf u talking about💀

I agree with everything you said until ur last statement, its so ignorant and illogical my friend.

I am Vietnamese and I LOVE Iranian people!!! Very beautiful culture, food and people. I am Vietnam IRAN + VIETNAM = TWO VERY ANCIENT PEOPLES AND CULTURES!! ;-)

ToiYeuYAHWEH I also like Vietnamese people, especially the women 👌👌

Thank you, all friends of Vietnam. I was in Moldavia last year. Very nice experience. Please help us fight against the chinese Nazis who want to steal our land. Thank you.

TRavellers visiting Iran nowadays say the same : such generous, kind people .Especially since they're on the US list of countries to be bludgioned into subservience by the Dollar economies of the west.

Go back in your country Alex

Carlos Aguilar wow, never expected such comment

hossin maddoh why do Iranians hate Afghans?

Is Los Angeles your property? How exactly are you Native. And why are Iranians any more welcome than Nigerian, Vietnamese, Indian or Ukrainian?

Iranians don't hate afghans. It's just the antipathy towards the refugees from Afghanistan who are criminal. In fact Iranians and Afghans are brothers. At least the persian speaking majority.

Steven Lee Not the same at. Mexicans are more diverse genetically with different ancestral roots. Where as Central Americans are mainly of Native American decent and culture.

most iranians in america are jewish

@@footballfan5462 my friend's wife is actually Mizrahi from Iran. Unfortunately her family had to leave the country during Ayatollah Khomeini.

@@thgentleman9210 what part

Love back from Iran ❤️

Well why didn't you stay home. Y'all ain't so accepted of Americans in y'all homeland. We know what the Mexican cartel do.

Fix that cartel BS in your homeland. They be murdering American citizen's.

There’s intolerance, racism and homophobia along with religious hatred everywhere, even in Mexico.

Scott Bixler .....actually we have plenty of rich Iranians living VERY comfortable lives in Malibu.... Soooo yeeeah you can take your' foot out of your mouth now

What ethnicity are you?

Scott Bixler sorry to hear that. I am not sure where you live, but the US is very different in each region and between cities and rural. The experience of non-whites in NYC and LA will be different than in a smaller city or rural area that is predominately white, though honestly, if you are a visible minority in an enclave in the US, you can also experience racism from those who aren't white. That said, most of human history we existed in small tribes with those most like ourselves and had to be careful around other tribes, sometimes there would be conflict or murders between them. I think this has hardcoded us to by default to be untrusting and fearful of those we think aren't enough like us. I think solving this to have perfect racial harmony is complex but reducing income inequality, providing top education country-wide (in the US, the best education is for the wealthiest and some lucky poorer students who are overachievers and very smart), and finding ways to reduce the amount of hate and fear spread via right media and social media would do a lot to help (the last is tough because the racists and fear spreaders will claim censorship, but letting them spread their hate and disinformation freely has warped a lot of people's minds very quickly). I think the racial situation in Canada is better overall, though they have a historical issue with the native population, overall I think there is far less tension (though not 100% perfect of course).

I am Vietnamese and I LOVE Iranian people!!! Very beautiful culture, food and people. I am Vietnam IRAN + VIETNAM = TWO VERY ANCIENT PEOPLES AND CULTURES!! ;-)

Judy there are Iranian communities, stores and restaurants also in Germany. I don't know where in Germany you live, but you have large Iranian communities in Hamburg and Berlin, and some other cities as well. You could maybe find your favorite Persian food there as well, Hamburg, Berlin or elsewhere. Search for it and you will see!

@@ToiYeuYAHWEH i like to know more about vietnam culture

Roobi, my dear Persian brother. Thank you for your interest in Vietnamese culture. We are one of the oldest people in the world, like that of your beautiful Persian people. And like you, we are very independent-minded people who have to constantly struggle to maintain our freedom and independence. Others have tried to occupy our land and destroy our identity but they have all failed because our Viet culture is much stronger, older and more human than chinese or Western ones. No matter how much bigger and mightier our enemies may be, we Viets will always prevail against them. I hope that help, my Persian brother. I wish to enjoy a delicious lamb Polo dish with you along with a refreshing glass of dooug. Shalaam. :-D

Iranians and Viets get along perfectly because we come from very ancient lands inhabited by very kind peoples with rich history. I wish Iran will be free from Islamic dictatorship and Vietnam to be free from communist dictatorship. And we must unite against china and their ambitious greed to rule the world. Thank you, Persian brothers and sisters. -- Much love and respect from Vietnam.

Thank you, we know we are. We are very humble about it too.

Personally Iranians look like light skinned Indians to me. And most Mexicans think that too here in Los Angeles.

@@ifyourespondyourmad.2409 yep they look like Indians who live near colder parts.😂

@@ifyourespondyourmad.2409 most of us dont look anything like Indians actually. Most Indians are heavily mixed with dravidians, Iranians arent.

@@persianguy1524 well I mean the guy that made this video does look like he could be indian.

maaz amjad like Arabs, Muslims never done those things

Except during the raiding and pillaging of Europe in the Middle Ages.

In proportion, America has taken in more Muslim immigrants than any of your saintly Scandinavian countries who are banning Halal slaughter, head coverings, circumcisions, minarets in order to drive out and discourage Muslim immigrants from settling in these blonde haired and blue eyed paradises. So what's up with that genius?

Lol, Scandinavian xenophobia and racism is *far* worse than anything you'll encounter in the US, UK, France or Spain (not that any of these nations are saintly). Go read up Jante Law.

So Finnish people don't exist to you?

king Awiye of Somalia Kheyli mamnoon Brother¡

Respect from iran 😊

Noobvs ProTV german-English in America. I identify as American. People can't define you, you define you.

Noobvs ProTV from what I learned is that Tajik was a word implemented by the Russians to seperate them from the Persians. I read that Tajiks are just Persians

Noobvs ProTV people In Afghanistan speak Farsi Too