Shauhin Davari

um, you know, I think reality television largely has portrayed Persian men, the shot on sunset, like that type of lifestyle.

That's certainly an element.

And, um, I kind of always wanted to go on there and show the, the other parts of Persian people.

Cause we don't get a whole lot of representation out there.

And, um,

Yeah, man, I love a national park.

I love wrestling it.

This shit is super fun for me.

And I really enjoyed the social game of Survivor.

There were important things out there that I was mindful of that I maybe wouldn't have been if I wasn't the first Persian man to play the game.

I wanted to make sure that I also didn't come across as angry or easily rageful.

why would you think that because that's just the way like persians and that's how we express ourselves and stuff is that why you yeah i think that throughout my life i have experienced people thinking that i am mad or angry or being like why are you so um aggressive is a word that i've heard yourself

When I'm just being passionate and myself and talking to people and exactly.

And you're like, wait a second, hold on.

It's someone else said it with the same tone, same facial expression, same everything.

But they didn't have the beard, perfect eyebrows and the curly black hair.

I don't think that you would say I was aggressive.

I think you would say, oh, wow, that's that's a lot of passion.

And one of the reasons that I was very cheerful with that stuff out there is because I understand how the edit bay works.

I've watched a season of a reality television or two.