i will have a good persian rug in my apartment. it will remind me of the eastern beauty within the history of my family. don't get me wrong, my family does not come from Persia. they come from Armenia and Tadjikistan, though originally they have been send there in the early 1700's from Russian Empire. they moved back to "modern" Soviet Union in the 1980's, but i could always feel that eastern spice in us. that tea and those rugs, those slang words and those traditions. it doesn't matter which country you're from - east has this beautiful power of unity in itself.