Rick Steves: Surprisingly Cool
March 20, 2009 7:41 AM   Subscribe

Rick Steves has seen a lot of the world, and has some pretty eye-opening opinions. He recently filmed a tv special in Iran at the request of a friend in the United Nations to help "build understanding between Iran and the U.S." and is now on tour talking to groups about what he saw there. Also, Rick admits to enjoying the pot!

"When I came home after the most learning 12 days of travel I've ever had in my life, I realized this is a proud nation of 70 million people. They are loving parents, motivated by fear for their kids' future and the culture they want to raise their kids in. I had people walk across the street to tell me they don't want their kids to be raised like Britney Spears. They are afraid Western culture will take over their society and their kids will be sex toys, drug addicts and crass materialists. That scares the heck out of less educated, fundamentalist, small-town Iranians, which is the political core of the Islamic Revolution and guys like Ahmadinejad."
posted by odayoday (1 comment total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: There was a Rick Steves post just a couple months ago. -- cortex



 
Rick's Iran was already covered.
posted by Brodiggitty at 7:44 AM on March 20, 2009


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