White neighbors coded their anti-Iranian animus through euphemism and aesthetics

Evidence

Neighbors whose white identities went uncontested, in a creative bit of euphemistic backbiting, used the term “Canadian” in place of “Iranian” or “Persian” to gossip about the ostentatious and tacky neighbors now living among them. … Leveraging ethnoracially infused yet richly flexible terms like “charm,” “tasteful,” and “understated” to describe their own homes, these coded words were charged to mean “unlike those of Iranians” in their Beverly Hills context. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 297

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘Canadian’ euphemism and ‘charm/tasteful’ aesthetic code parallel the moral-panic dress signaling in the immodesty article — decorum language doing racializing work.
• ADDENDUM: Relates to the tree/grafting or immodesty articles only loosely; strongest link is as an example of coded, racioeuphemistic housing discourse.