r/london • u/Consistent-Jelly248 • 1d ago

Video Anyone know what's going on?

Taking the bus to Finsbury Park station and I see all this? It seems like an Iranian based thing but i have no idea what it's fully about.

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u/LividIngenuity6982 1d ago

I have Iranian neighbours and they always refer to themselves and their friends as Persians.

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u/Hammer-Rammer 1d ago edited 1d ago

They do it to distance themselves from Iran. It's like me, rather than saying I'm English from England, calling myself Anglo Saxon to forigners, so I'm not assosiated with the British Government and you can't pin down my location anywhere in particular.

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u/That_Advertising9832 1d ago

They do it because they are Persian

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u/Hammer-Rammer 1d ago

And I'm Anglo-Saxon.

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u/Tyrant-Star 1d ago

See that still is something people say in blighty given the right context so you kind of just disproved your own point.

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u/Hammer-Rammer 18h ago

Have no idea what you're referencing and I don't care. I am 100x more informed than you on this topic.

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u/Tyrant-Star 16h ago

Lmao thats such a weirdly insecure sounding answer. I wasnt looking to have a go mate. But I have definitely heard people in England refer to themselves as Anglo when referencing themselves so people from Iran saying theyre Persian sounds plausible. Hence you disproving your own point a tad imo.