Everyone is a citizen, including those who work in firms or for government. This category, however, focuses on the individual, who is usually organized into households or families. Family, neighborhood and community needs are the priority here. This is also the pool from which all the other categories emerge.
Any statement that begins with "Iranians..." is going to be a generalization, and therefore, not true. "Iranians like poetry." "Iranians don't like to wait in lines." "Iranians are devious." And so forth. These statements can't be true, because you will always find some Iranians who don't fit the statement. Some Iranians don't like poetry, some love lines, some are guileless, and so forth. We're all individuals.
Despite this logic, the "Iranians..." conversations won't stop. Do we have these conversations because we actually think we know
all Iranians based on our limited encounters with our family, friends and neighbors? Do we really
want to know what "Iranians" are like? Or do we want to create a model of what they should be like?
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Peter Carlson of
The Washington Post writes about "
Local Man". What is the Persian newspaper equivalent of "Local Man"? What has he been up to?
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Here is a draft
vision statement for "Institutional Frameworks":
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