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Abstract
In parallel with their fellow countrymen and women in the USA and France, Iranians resident in Germany, and in particular the group of intellectuals whom we are discussing here, have founded various cultural associations. They meet each other regularly at scientific‐cultural events. The following description is the result of participation at these meetings and of numerous discussions and interviews held with the individuals involved between 1994 and the end of 1997.
It has emerged that a matrix of culturally determined awareness, emotions and patterns of interrelations is at work. An ‘Iranianness’ that is conveyed in literature, music and art appears to correspond with what the individuals concerned perceive as being part of the essence of their being. They have not found what is so essential to them ‐ a new homeland, and they know that they will not find it.
The findings support the need to further the ethnicity debate. Culture‐based communal sensitivity with ethnic connotations does indeed exist.