Do Persians (Iranians) And Europeans Belong To The Same Race???

Question

I have seen many iranians say that they share the same ethnicity as Europeans (aryans). Is this true??? They point out to similar DNA.

Answer 1

Europeans are Mixed breed. Like in UK, Celts, romans, Saxons, etc...

Persia is formed by Iranians " Islamic Republic of Iran "

( Aryans) Assyrians, Tajiks, Fraziwan, Hazara, Arab people.

Mexico is also a multi ethnic nation like Persia or USA.

So, You don't speak for us and tell us who we are. We know who we are. And we are so proud of being Mexicanos.

A nation within a nation. We love our both nations and our cultural diversity.

Answer 2

I am reminded of a joke I heard a while back.

A teacher had her students fill out a questionnaire. Race was one of the questions included. When she got them back and read them, she said "I am glad to know that at least one person here is a member of the human race."

Answer 3

"Here we go again" (picture musical notes and the popular song from Broadway).

Race is no longer a valid scientific term. Physical Anthropologists in Europe in the 17th century decided to divide humans into three groupings, Caucasoid, ******* and Mongoloid. This became accepted science and rightly so considering that these same people didn't know much about genetics, especially human genetics.

Therefore if someone insists on saying that Black people or Negroes are a separate race from white people they are repeating the best 17th century science of that time.

They are incorrect but the position was popular and accepted 17th century science.

Now, however, some of us know better. What I like to call smart people, have mapped the human genome. There is but one race of humans alive on the planet as we speak; it is us…the human race.

Yes much to the chagrin of many fundies and a certain political party, black people and Jesse Helms are members of the same race. If old Jesse is still alive or gone to meet no maker, I neither know nor care, the temperature around his grave, if he has passed into nothingness, is rising as we speak since when a dead person spins rapidly in his grave the resulting friction from the rapid movement creates heat energy and this heat energy is released into the surrounding milieu.

There is really no excuse for modern people not to know this simple new fact. The news has been in every newspaper and magazine in the world not dealing with rock n role, beauty tips and translations of various scriptures within the “new testament”, by Billy Graham.

There are obviously ethnic characteristics which can be used to identify peoples originally from various geographical parts of the planet within the last 100,000 years or so but these differences, in spite of the best intentions of 17th century scientists, do not a “race” denote!

Your question is insufficient for a reasonable answer. Your assumption that more than one race exists on the planet is erroneous and therefore any conclusion drawn from the postulation will necessarily be erroneous.

Answer 4

if your american you probably don't even know what race you's are from

Answer 5

yeah

Answer 6

Iran is the ancient name of Persia, and it is derived from the root "Arya" or Aryan, the Indo-European branch of peoples who settled in that land.

Aryan tends to refer to peoples who shared a common languages group i.e share the same root language.

Aryan (or Indo-European) doesn’t refer to a racial or ethnic grouping (Pity Hitler didn’t know that.) but to this language group e.g. Latin, Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit (early Indian), French, German, Latvian, English, Spanish, Russian etc all are descended from this original language family. As an example the word for king is similar in several ancient languages: Rex in Latin, Raja in Sanskrit, Ri in Old Irish and so on.

So the only thing we can say with absolute surety is that many of our languages have a common origin.

There is still argument over whether the first European colonisers after the last ice age were from a group called that originated from around the Caucasus Mountains (hence the term ‘Caucasians’), Black Sea and eastern Turkey [Anatolia] or from central Asia and the Middle East – the Indo-Europeans or Aryans. But it’s likely of course that these two groups had different degrees of influence in different regions. particularly given the waves of migration and colonisation that have taken places over many thousands of years.

The Aryans had originated in what is now southern Russia across to central Asia and also colonised what is today Pakistan and northern India and then Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. The Sumerians and Babylonians are examples of Aryan civilisations.

However the Anatolians – who created some of the world’s first cities – also migrated (by conquest) eastwards to establish a major presence  (the Hittites and Assyrians etc) in the early Middle East and would have culturally cross-influenced with the Aryan tribes there and intermarried.

Historically the earliest central Asian/European civilisations were in Anatolia and Mesopotamia then the focus shifted to the Mediterranean with the Phoenicians and Egyptians, then to the Greeks, then to the Romans and so on. (India and china also developed cities and farming at the same time of course.)

Europe had of course been inhabited before the last ice age by Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers who moved into Europe around 40,000 years ago. However it’s likely that these tribes all had to retreat during ice-ages allowing other tribes to re-colonise at later times.

It’s worth remembering that skin colour is simply adaptation to the climate. In Scandinavia people’s skin became lighter, closer to the Mediterranean it remained darker. Go far enough back we all have the same roots, probably somewhere in central Asia. Long, long before that Africa.

NB: The Slavs arrived in eastern Europe much, much later, around 6th century AD. Again from central Asia.

Answer 7

There are no races, only ethnicities, which are not based on genetic differences.  There is too much mixture for it to mean anything.  However, the average Iranian does have more than most people have in common with the average European.  The languages of the Iranians and most European languages are closely enough related to have diverged only a few thousand years ago, as this list will show:

Persian - Latin:

dandan - dens (tooth)

pa - pus (foot)

zanu - genu (knee)

mordan - mori (die)

istadan - stare (stand)

dadan - dare (give)

now - novum (new)

nam - nomen (name)

Answer 8

Yes.  They all were part of the Indo-European branch, which is why they all have related languages.  There are a few exceptions, however.  Basque people are of a completely different branch, as are the Finnish and northern Russians.

Answer 9

Perisna or iraninas are orgianlly aryans as are germans. as far as I know in Europe only germans are aryans?

Also, some parts of India have aryans also.

Answer 10

Same family, yes. Don't have a go at me for using the word Aryan, but they have Aryan ancestry all the way through the middle East and into Pakistan. You even get some naturally blond, blue eyed Pakistanis and Afghans.

http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/data/...

Also, the human species spread out from the middle East into Europe originally, so we share ancestry that way too.

Edit. I just like to say .. A fair amount of biologists and anthropologists still maintain race is a valid concept. Some of our ethnic groups have been genetically more or less isolated for over 2000 generations from each other, and established by small founder groups. This is easily enough to give them some significant genetic drift from the parent group, in fact it's is enough to create a new species  (observed in non humans). There is no good reason to expect the gene distribution in such widely separated groups to be identical, and it isn't. The genetic differences of your average Icelander and average Aborigine are not skin deep.

Answer 11

Yes.

Answer 12

We all belong to the same race and if you cant accept this you should stay away from the Anthropology section.

Answer 13

Yes, Persians are considered Aryan & several have told me Iran means (birth place of the Aryans).  In response to Mexicano, Mexico is the most racist country in the Western Hemisphere.  They even call Americans of Latino ancestry "gringos" & they discriminate against the native Americans there.  MY SON IS LATINO, but he is an American & not a Mexicano.