@chai2,
Thank you for being frank.
You asked me some questions that in my opinion it would be better to know more about each other.
Firstly I am an Iranian. My culture is different in many aspects.
On the contrary, it is my question that why you people call somebody as old as your fathers and maybe more, by the first name? I've seen it lots of times!
I am 28 years old. I have never called an old man or woman by the first name. Not even once in the whole my life. It's quite disrespectful. I had a brother (not the son of my father, that's different), he was asked by an space agency in Houston to work, I don't know whether it was NASA or something else, he didn't go, he simply said my father was against it. Nowadays things are changing but still a lot of people are loyal to their culture and religion. I had a teacher, he told us in the presence of women don't eat or drink until they start eating or drinking.
I have had a lot of friends who have traveled to western countries and returned. I asked some of them why did you return? Maybe you could have a better life in there in terms of wealth, They told me strange things.
Please don't start another unending debate what they said but:
If there is one thing that I am sure it is this: (with do respect to you all American people)
Lots lots of you, are very ignorant of the outside world.
Me, personally I have seen some funny lies in your media.
(Again I am not a politician boy, I just wanna enjoy my youth time and keep away from damned politics and enjoy reading your ideas about different things and of course enjoy writing in English)
You said why I see an ordinary creature like ants wonderful.
Let me advice you in another manner:
If you don't see them wonderful, put aside things in your life that have resulted in such a blindness.)