Works Cited

Works Cited

Ghaffarian, S. (1987). Iranians in the twin cities. Journal

of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, 7, 117-

123.

In the journal entry written by Ghaffarian, he discussed a study conducted on a group of Iranian women that migrated to Los Angeles. There were hypothesis regarding the age, education, and the duration of time it would take for a woman to acculturate into the western views of America that were much more liberal than the religious and traditional views of these women's culture.

Hanassab, Shideh. (1991). Acculturation and Young Iranian

Women; Attitudes Toward Sex Roles and Intimate

Relationships. Journal of Multicultural Counseling &

Development. Vol. 19, Issue 1

Hanassab found that in the study of acculturation to American culture, the more acculturated a woman was, the more liberal their attitudes became towards sex roles and intimate relationships. The longer a woman was away from Iran, the higher the level of acculturation was that had taken place because of the longer exposure and influence of the Western culture.

Sefa Dei, G. (1998).Language, Education and Development:

Case Studies from the

Southern Contexts. Commission on Sustainable Development.

Language plays a crucial role in maintaining the person's original ways of living and culture. When a person's language is taken away or forced onto them, they lose their identity. With collective and individual identities developing, many non-Persian citizens of Iran can not read and write in their own language or mother tongue. Many Iranian citizens are "linguistic orphans and speakers of an orphan tongue."