Gharbzadegi
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title:
Gharbzadegi
text:
Gharbzadegi is a pejorative Persian term translated among other ways as 'Westernized', 'West-struck-ness', 'Westoxification'. The term implies both that Iran is "intoxicated" (zadegi) with the West, but also a victim of the West's "toxins" or disease. The "intoxication or infatuation... impairs rational judgment" so that Iran is prevented from perceiving the danger of the object of its infatuation -- the toxins of the West -- "moral laxity, social injustice, secularism, devaluation of religion,
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description:
Iranian political view of Western culture as toxic
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharbzadegi
date created:
2007-10-23T22:26:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T11:17:35Z
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