Sharqzadegi

Chester says We can all be free When we all get a job To buy the things we don't need No times for friends or for families Culture's just as word for a non-you-and-me

[|Sharqzadegi]

=//Gharbzadegi (Robert Wyatt)// =

// **Gharbzadegi** // ( [|Persian] : غربزدگی ‎‎) is a pejorative [|Persian]  term variously translated as "Westoxification," "West-struck-ness" [|[1]]  "Westitis", "Euromania", or "Occidentosis". [|[2]]  It is used to refer to the loss of [|Iranian]  cultural identity through the adoption and imitation of [|Western]  models and Western criteria in education, the arts, and culture; through the transformation of Iran into a passive market for Western goods and a pawn in Western geopolitics. [// [|citation needed] //] The phrase was first coined by [|Ahmad Fardid], a professor of philosophy at the [|University of Tehran] , in the 1940s. it gained common usage following the clandestine publication in 1962 of the book //A Plague from the West// by [|Jalal Al-e Ahmad]. Fardid's definition of the term as referring to the hegemony of [|Greek philosophy], differed from its later usage as popularised by Al-e Ahmad. [|[3]]

Eastoxification [ [|edit] ]
"Gharbzadegi" has now been superseded by a new term commonly used in reference to China's growing presence of Iran. Called [|Sharqzadegi] the new term is classed as fear of [|China] 's dominance.

Robert Wyatt

It's so easy to decide on a name

It's a name caller's game

It's so easy to look down from above

Helicopter vision

Get the picture when you're outside the frame

Retrospective my eye

Call it art and you can say what you like

It's a name caller's game

Your perspective describes where I stand

Out of line, out of mind

Calling myopia 'focus', of course,

Makes it easier still

Gharbzadegi means nothing to me

Westernitis to you

...We get so out of touch

Words take the place of meaning