Cultural Diversity and their Peaceful Coexistence in Iran

Iran is an ancient society which experienced and still is experiencing high level of cultural diversity, so as it is deserved to be entitled as a "diverse society" according to Bhikhu Parekh’s conceptualization of cultural diversity, although Iran represents very important differences with other diverse societies such as Canada, U.S.A, Singapore, India, South Africa etc. This structural difference and different social formation led to different patterns of cross-ethnic relationships, distinct from common ethnic politics and relationships in other diverse Societies. One important feature of Iran,s cultural diversity, contrary to its counterparts is that its cultural and ethnic diversity never led to the hostility and cross-ethnic disputes, in stead the history of Iran withnessed the long history of peaceful coexistence among different Iranian ethnis. This rule is so general that even some non-peaceful ethnic events which happened in contemporary Iran is seen not as cross-ethnic disputes, but events represent ethnic uprising against inequality, non-efficiency and discriminatory policies of governments not because of their communal aspect. This descriptive-historical article which is inspired by framing theory, reviews briefly the contemporary ethnic events of Iran and seeks the fundamental reason of cross-ethnic coexistence including common history and religion of Islam, which play as a mosaic, linking every Iranians to each other.These two elements cuased all Iranians including different ethnics to define their identity soas does not come to clash with their national identity.