This paper takes a broad and novel approach to analysing the Iranian Jewish community of Iran, both as a distinct group and as a constituent part of Iran’s wider population sharing its national culture. The goal was to find a new way of addressing the topic, avoiding many ambiguities, and bringing all discourse back to its starting point: Iranian identity. If we identify Persian roots as the fo...

OBJECTIVES There is evidence to suggest that immigrant groups from low- or medium-human development index countries show a significant adoption of obesogenic behaviors and experience weight gain following migration to Australia. The objective of this study is to understand the changes that Iranian immigrants experience in relation to the determinants of obesity after migration to Victoria, Aust...

In the last two decades, against backdrop of multiple anti-Japanese protests in China, rise Chinese nationalism has been much debated. By taking 2010 and 2012 Sino–Japanese crises over Diaoyu/Senkaku islands as a case study, article applies discourse analysis to media articles interviews ascertain government’s propaganda toolbox shaping nationalist discourse, well substantiate defining features...

The legitimacy of the mother tongue subject in a changing political landscape: An analysis Swedish parliamentary debate twenty-tens. This paper highlights and discusses arguments favor of, or against Mother Tongue Instruction (MTI) between 2010 2020. New to this decade is entrance yet another nationalist populist party with abolishment MTI on its agenda. Building critical discourse analytical f...

during the era of bush administration and post-september 11th anti-terrorism discourse, the movie 300 was one of the best exemplar of a close relationship between hollywood pop culture products and the neo-conservatives’ political discourse of nationalism. from my point of view, 300 is not an example of outstanding artistic films, but a film that more than any other film contains an iranophobic...

Scientists are well aware of the major social, economic and cultural challenges brought about by population decline. However, we can often underestimate more extreme interpretations both causes consequences decline in popular discourse. In this commentary, I explore some these toxic narratives, speculate how they may be linked to what appears a prevailing populist/ethno-nationalist view grounde...

The policies and ideologies of countries are reflected in the propagated media that country, newspapers no exception. Covid-19 has affected lives people all around world. present study investigated ideological differences reporting news related to light Van Dijk’s square framework. To do so, a representative sample 56 articles was chosen over period one year (from January 2020 end 2021) from Ir...