From this video for more context https://youtu.be/LR511iAedYU
I’ve always pictured it more as “Tacky luxury, maybe with Mediterranean flair.”
ie: gilt everything, over-decorated, looks expensive for the sake of looking expensive.
A lot of Arab countries on the Mediterranean though none I would call tacky or over-decorated. You are perhaps thinking of the Arabian Gulf instead?
Is… is that not what they are?
Hah. No, they’re not Arab and they don’t speak Arabic. Iran was actually very progressive until the Revolution of 1979.
I like to imagine, as a Canadian, that people from other cultures look at the British as “luxury whites”. Or maybe the French.
Not sure that anyone except americans is really all that obsessed with skin colour. But French often prtrayed as luxury europeans and modern japanese as sci-fi asians.
American perceptions in one image. Persians in the palace, Arabs in the slums.
I work very hard to inspect my own preconceived biases and assumptions, and I find it very uncomfortable when someone just drops one right in front of me that I had never even realized I held… Uncomfortable doesn’t mean bad. But dammit, how am I in a picture I didn’t even know the photographer of existed?
anyone who reads that comment please GO WATCH THE VIDEO OP LINKED.
it’s super good and really approachable even if, like me, you don’t know much about music theory!