{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "DID YOU KNOW the country name \u201cIran\u201d is the same word as \u201cAryan\u201d, chosen specifically for that reason in the aftermath of WWI...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/139039429433/", "html": "<p>DID YOU KNOW the country name \u201cIran\u201d is the same word as \u201cAryan\u201d, chosen specifically for that reason in the aftermath of WWI when whiteness was hot, Ataturk all \u201cinstead of Islam, modernity!\u201d and the Japanese still printing cartoons where their upright Prussian-uniformed palefaces triumphed over the yellow slant-eyed Russians?\n</p><p>\nDID YOU KNOW if you call an Iranian expat \u201cIranian\u201d today they won\u2019t correct you but WILL find an excuse to pointedly call themselves \u201cPersian\u201d in the next 40 seconds? </p>"}