>visit an Iranian friend's house >make conversation with his mum >remark on a beautiful painting hanging on the wall >"you like it? you should take it with you" >tell her that I wasn't looking to keep it >"no, don't worry, we have lots of paintings - I really want you to have it" >insist that I don't want it >this back-and-forth goes on for another minute until she relents
>a few weeks later, he and I attend his cousin's wedding >I accidentally step on some MILF's toe >apologize >"no, don't be silly - my foot is too big" >insist that it was my fault >"can't be - I've always had large feet" >yet another back-and-forth
Its called taroof. I understand that its strange to outsiders i find it a bit silly too.
Samuel Brown
Welcome to Taarof
Austin Sullivan
My family tends to do this too, though we aren't Iranian
Ethan Martin
It is always the european flags who enlighten us on any muslim things.
Adrian Morris
Taroof, la, just your standard taroof
Samuel Peterson
FRANKFURT
Adrian Moore
It's not Muslim and it's similar to how many Chinese act, I have experienced this myself but from Chinese family of my friends. I didn't realise Iranians had a similar thing or that there were names for both of them.
Cooper Watson
welcome to Taroof
Josiah Turner
Redpill me on taroof. What does it even mean as a word?
Michael Davis
it's just taroof m8
Henry Smith
Exactly how many Iranians to we have in this board??
John Morris
It's arabic for the process of meeting someone
Luke Murphy
>Likewise, a shopkeeper may initially refuse to quote a price for an item, suggesting that it is worthless ("ghaabel nadaareh"). T'aarof obliges the customer to insist on paying, possibly several times (three times), before a shopkeeper finally quotes a price and real negotiation can begin.
Wow thats really dumb
Jeremiah Fisher
see
Connor Harris
This is a pretty Irish autist thing to do as well.
Cameron Cox
>one example of taarof could be described as posing false invitations and promising future services or deeds to primarily strangers or distant relatives and expecting them not to take the offer and keep declining it.
fucking lol this makes zero sense to me
just don't make the offer in the first place kek
i understand the presentation/etiquette side of it but shit just made me laugh
Lincoln Rogers
I can see why capitalism didn't take off in the Middle East now 2bh
Connor Campbell
What the fuck is wrong with these people
Daniel Torres
I get Iranians trying to haggle with me at my store sometimes. Like nigga, it's a chain, we don't haggle.
Xavier Hill
>tfw hijab fetish
hold me lads
Joshua Gray
i don't see it as being a big problem or anything
it just seems like a funny way to complicate shit needlessly lol
although:
>It is possible to ask someone not to t'aarof ("t'aarof nakonid"), but that raises new difficulties, since the request itself might be a devious type of taarof
>mfw caught in a devious web of taarof
Jace Campbell
Weird af, we don't have a similiar thing here, it's always the customer trying to lower the prices
Carson Clark
you're just supposed to convey the impression, dumdum
Blake James
There is no way it can happened here. Maybe in the flea market or something but in chain stores?
Owen Thompson
Like pretend I'm pulling value and bargains out my ass?
Charles Gutierrez
There is a similiar thing, you get offered a gift, you act flattered and decline it, he starts telling you what a good person you are and you should take it, yadda yadda, in the end he says something like "i swear by god, you'll take it" and then you're forced to take it or you force him to fast 3 days for lying about a swear (rude)
Gabriel Clark
fucking why, specially when you live in a different country and dealing a local, and you being the foreigner.
Jonathan Allen
>don't see it as a problem >hey, have fun escaping a new layer of the same aggressively illogical shit
it's not illogical, really. It's for social cohesion, just a component in a larger social system. It's just the derivatives have evolved into things that aren't so useful.
Christian Collins
typical asian behaviour very sneaky if you can look behind it
Jason Robinson
Swissman made me giggle today
Jordan Nguyen
These carpets? No, is worthless. Here, you have for you free. It's yours. You deserve.
Cameron Evans
So this custom is illogical; it doesn't serve society but instead hinders progress by diverting precious human resources into protocol and social overhead.
Just because you can explain a phenomenon in logical terms doesn't mean it's justifiable.
Now, eliminate this custom or FUCKING NUKES
Jackson Gonzalez
>So this custom is illogical; it doesn't serve society but instead hinders progress by diverting precious human resources into protocol and social overhead.
Why are Germans so utterly autistic in every capacity? >Beep boop #TRIBAL_CUSTOM reduces productivity by 3.47%, Terminate Y/N?
Chase Cruz
>german autism
Asher Brooks
What would happen if you accepted the painting?
Benjamin Phillips
What happens if you just take the painting?
If I say to an Iranian man that is wife is beautiful, will he tell me I should take her too?
Chase Collins
Resistance is futile YOU WILL BE OPTIMIZED
Noah Butler
At least we have muslims
Joshua Williams
Truly the french and the germans are on top of things.
Liam Clark
t. Anna-Lena
Samuel Davis
That fucking thread is old m8.
Ayden Wright
Its not a muslim thing
Jace White
kek, the best part of Beyond Earth (the expansion anyway) is the Germanish faction being lead by ruthless technocrat
Henry Williams
seriously, this shit bugs me the most, like tell the price so I can buy and fuck off back to my home
Jayden Johnson
Honestly, with how socially retarded I can be, I'm certain I'd take it seriously at least once. For a small thing like a book, for example.
We have the same kind of bullshit here, but only related to who pays when eating at a restaurant. It's basically a race when the waiter brings the tab , who can give give him money first.
Kayden Hernandez
Why did Pakistan seperate from India to be a pseudo-Iranian theocratic failed state?
Your national anthem is in Farsi, and although almost your entire population speak Indian languages at home, your national language is Iranianised Hindi.
Michael Collins
Is taarof a sophisticated form of banter?
Justin Rodriguez
Dunno
Nathan Cruz
looks like my old kindie teacher she had a metal metre ruler and hit our hands with it. fucking bitch
Grayson Clark
Bit of a similar story:
>rich Czech guy moves to Bongistan >has kids >hires a babysitter >arrives, wants to pay >babysitter says: "oh, no, I couldn't possibly" >Czech guy says "ok" >Czech guy later finds out babysitter is butthurt because he didn't pay her
Parker Ramirez
>she had a metal metre ruler and hit our hands with it.
Tyler Collins
Hahahah
Jonathan Rivera
...
Jonathan Kelly
It's called a yardstick, nigger
Thomas Martinez
...
Ryder Nelson
What happens if I just take the carpet without paying after he says to take it free?
Kevin Jenkins
I can't be comfortable in human relationships until the other party says kurwa
Isaiah Mitchell
He would be confused and later on he would get angry. But he would pretend that it doesnt bother him. Or he would just be chill about it
Adrian Gray
Give me all your money kurwa *shoves a weapon in your face*
Ayden Walker
not my fault my parents were religious tards. it put me off the whole organised relogion thing really. at least I wasn't in the other catholic school, where the guys got fiddled by the priest
Carson Carter
Hnnnnggg muh dick always
Hudson Young
noticias buenass
Christopher Sanchez
KURWA
now let's fugg, kurwa
Jayden Robinson
>at least I wasn't in the other catholic school, where the guys got fiddled by the priest
Mason Diaz
We get it, now it's a German thing
Robert Robinson
>at least I wasn't in the other catholic school, where the guys got fiddled by the priest You're saying that like it was a good thing
Jose Campbell
well. I might be rolling in dough right now if I went there. because I could have been in a class action about the sexual abuse victims. it was a big deal on the news a little while back.
think "six figures big" deal money
Jeremiah Davis
I learned something new and it was fucking retarded.
Jaxon Nguyen
The only mudskins left are the ones that know their place. Good.
But not good enough.
Colton Parker
iran is a whiter country than canada desu
Zachary Anderson
>t. Nashvad
Benjamin Wilson
>I accidentally step on some MILF's toe You should have grabbed her by the pussy, then she would have been all like "you like it? you should take it"
Thomas Peterson
seriously though, you live in an amorphous settler colony which capitalism has made totally indistinguishable from 100 other plastic hellholes. What is the great traditions of the white canadians you're trying to venerate? kraft dinner? it makes no sense to me
Colton Cruz
>it's a shit-tier post >check flag
jej
Noah Bennett
Islam is a qt region desu A shame everyone that follow it is a cunt
Daniel Russell
>meanwhile his family fled a Theocratic pedophile worshipping shithole like whipped curs wew, funny how some desert dwelling camel fuckers ended your entire civilization eh?
John Adams
you sound tense friend
you should seek guidance from the teachings of islam
Ian Young
>muh warlord made a successor >muh warlord DIDN'T make a succesor Even you guys can't agree on that trash.
Jason Garcia
It's just an etiquette, m8. You never heard of it?
Michael Kelly
but seriously, you pretend to be some violent reactionary, but also claim that liberal capitalist europe is the logical end point in history. It makes no sense and all of you guys do it. my guess is you were some kind of libertarian 8 months ago and haven't quite internalized the new logic yet.
Joseph Adams
this so much! man, I'm so glad that not all of Sup Forums has fallen for muh redpill Fuck stormfags and fuck Sup Forums
(Real) Muslims are awesome
Fuck off, you should be happy to live in one of the most free and diverse countries in the world
John Martinez
kek same after the 2nd-3rd offer i would have been like "yeah sure" and taken the painting
this is how this kind of discussion usually ends here ? i think everyone has those "i want to give you something but you refuse out of politeness" moments, but after 2-3 refusals of course you say "yeah ok i'll take it" because what's the point otherwise ...
Ryan Gray
Not even sure who you are arguing with now Khomeini, you just pulled a whole argument from somewhere.
Xavier Green
>all these muslims posting with european flags
Ayden Clark
t. Liang Chang You know what horrible stuff your government is doing with the Muslims in East China?
Logan Hall
>being an Achmed
Oliver Flores
Because Iranians are objectively the nicest people in the world
Very kind of you Sadly many of your countrymen are showing their true opinion nowadays, they all hate us Muslims
Nolan Jones
It's not about being Muslim, I think it's more about Iranian culture which makes them more inclined to be nice to strangers. Pakistanis are generally arseholes and they're Muslim.
Nicholas Scott
You're only saying that because you're butthurt brexit fag
Jackson White
>gets complimented >turns around and attacks the Brit