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Why do people think Iranians are a separate race??

posted 13 years ago by MilesAhead
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Iranians are related to Europeans gentically and linguistically. And most are Caucasians. This magical notion that the arbitrarily drawn borders of Europe serve as solid racial boundries is total nonsense.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Mohammad_Khat ami.jpg/220px-Mohammad_Khatami.jpg

Tell me this guy couldn't eassly pass for European..

Walking through the cow pasture of life you are bound to step in some truth

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[–] MilesAhead 13 years ago

Very well said.

Walking through the cow pasture of life you are bound to step in some truth

[–] peybak 13 years ago

What would that accomplish? Being genetically close to Europeans? Care to expand on your ideas?

[–] LiveTogetherDialAPhone 13 years ago

Race is a nonsense concept in the first place. Sure, there are a lot of distinctive physical features that vary from region to region, but there's not enough consistency within the traditionally-defined "races" and too much overlap between them. It's not like there's a line somewhere across Central Asia which says "this is where white people live and this is where Asians live". Most Kazakhs don't look like Han Chinese or Slavic Russians, but somewhere in between - This isn't a recent development, either. There have been people who look like modern Kazakhs living in that region for thousands of years.

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[–] space-lowercase 13 years ago

...Well, maybe if you wouldn't force women to wear a blanket all day every day...
no but really, I think the problem IS because people are so focused on modern day Iran, and Iran's POLICIES, instead of focussing on their people...from 1400ish years ago.

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[–] jannahm1991 13 years ago

So true. I'm like half middle eastern, but I'm so white most people just think I'm purely European(except for the handful who see my name and automatically ask). Really my only distingusing features are my eyes and my dark hair.

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[–] Persian_Goddess 13 years ago

I'm Iranian and like 70 percent of the members of my family(uncle, cousin...) are blond/blue! totally look like Scandinavians! I'm don't lol

[–] submitor 13 years ago

I've only met Iranians who dye their hair blonde, get nose jobs and act like white people. There's thousands of them in LA.

[–] manofsteel4455 12 years ago

You youngsters really dont know anything.Just because people look Caucasian doesn't mean that they are Caucasian.

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