Study of the Attention to the Components of Ethnic and National Identity among the Azeri and Kurdish Students in Tehran Universities

Iran is home to different ethnic groups. Young student representing ethnic diversity find university a suitable place to manifest their ethnic characteristics. Many students from different origin find university and its experiences as an arena for presenting their attitudes. Due to the extensive range of issues and ethnic distribution of students across the country, this study tries to analyze the attention of ethnic Kurdish and Azeri students of universities in Tehran to their regional and national identity. The results shows that these students believe in national and religious identity along with regional and ethnic characteristics. Although Azaries highlighted ethnic tendencies more than Kords, both reflects the same type of tendency in other matters.