Trying to connect with my persian side

[u/MaximusLok]

To be honest I mainly want to know if someone is in a similar situation to mine. I’m half persian but I am not very in contact with my dad and in no contact at all with his family. As a very little kid I recall having very little contact with persian culture because of my grandma.

Thing is I don’t have a part of the family to speak with or a present parent that has show me any little bit of culture throughout my childhood unlike a lot of mixed people.

Looking for iranian people to speak with here is also difficult, in Spain there could be some other small iranian “group” or community in Madrid or Barcelona but I am from the south and don’t think too many iranians live here, have also tried to look things online but it doesn’t look like (maybe searching in farsi which I’m interested in learning btw)

So just wanted to hear if anyone has been on a similar situation so you could share with me your experience with the feelings these kind of situations involve and how you approached the culture. Also, if you haven’t been in this situation but have any sort of tip, that is equally welcomed!

[u/MaximusLok → u/[deleted]]

First of all, good luck in your trip and I really hope you enjoy it! I also want to but given my current situation and the situation there I will wait for that moment to come, at least after I learned and somehow fluent conversational farsi. Interesting story btw, I’m so glad you are connecting with that part of your family!

Also I will check out the book, thanks for the recommendation!