IDENTITIES COMPATIBILITY IN IRANIAN CULTURE

The possibility of national identity crises among the people of Iran, boosting ethnic and global identities and as a result the possibiilty of social and political challenges in the near future, have been the concerns of elite and intellectuals.This article as a case study has compared four types of ethnic, national, ummah and global identities among the citizens of Tehran.The result is that, national identity with 94.2% takes the first place and is compatible with ethnic and ummah identities in a way that the increase in any of then does not cause the decrease in the other. Finally, global identity with 69.36% is at the bottom of the list.