Salam All,

Before I start writing I like to mention why I want to write about the cultural differences with in Iran. I was watching a film last week called “Bashu, the little stranger”. I watched this film when I was only twelve years old in Tehran. This film is about a boy who escaped his town in south of Iran and hid in a truck and end of his journey is north of Iran with all the greenery with everything different to his home town.

Bashu, was dark colour skin as many of you know south of Iran places like Bandar Abbas, poeple have much darker skin than other places in Iran and they speak different dialect. In south they mainly speak Arabic and in North they speak Gilaki and Mazandarani. Gilan and Mazandaran are the main two cities in North near the Caspian Sea and they both have beautiful towns and villages.

Ok back to the film, after finding the new place really strange Bashu finds a place to hide which is a place of Gilaki woman with her two young children. What is beautifully done in this film is the language barrier and cultural differences won’t stop Bashu and Gilaki woman, Naii to communicate and they both care for each other. Though Bashu was speaking Arabic in his home town he started to learn Gilaki so he could communicate with his new adopted family. Bashu and Naii cared and loved each other with no limit, Naii looked after Bashu like her own children, in return Bashu became a man of the house and helped with most of the responsibilities.

What I enjoyed personally about this movie was though they both were Iranian but the language and cultural differences were huge. Our Iran is a big country with 30 provinces and many dialect with in the country.

I reccomend to watch this film.