Persepolis

After reading Persepolis, I definitely have a different viewpoint of other cultures I normally would categorize into stereotypes. It brought to light the good that lives inside the bad. Marji was just a girl going through her life the way she wanted and everything was uprooted and turned around for her, she was forced to wear the veil when she didn't want, forced to a school with all girls where she was separated from her friends, and she had to forget what she new about the old regime and relearn the new. The book shows the struggles her family goes through as well, and how they didn't want to abide by the new laws that were set in place for them. For Satrapi to include this factor it gives insight that even adults were forced to change everything they knew against their will or go to jail.
I think in today's society if a culture were to benefit from a "Persepolis-like" view it would be North Korea. All we think of when we hear North Korea is bombs and dictatorship. But we don't know what actually goes on inside of the country.