What is it that makes Iranians Persian -- not Arabs?

Question

What is it that makes Iranians Persian -- not Arabs?

Answer 1

If you must split hairs, persians are descendants of one tribe of people and arabs are descendants of another. Persians are located in and around the area of central Asia, so it's safe to say that they are of European extraction. Arabs are located in the desert land on the edge of the Med Sea and Africa and are descendants of those people there.

Both cultures are practitioners of islam, although there are variations of it.

Suffice to say that a persian person and an arab person are neither racially or culturally the same thing.

Answer 2

Arabs speak Arabic; that's what the word means.

Persians speak Farsi. (I believe some Iranians are Arabs.)

Answer 3

I'm going to take a really wild guess here, and say that it's probably because they are descended from the race of people once called Persians (Iran being what once was called Persia), and Arabs being something totally different.

It's basically for the same reason that Asian-Americans aren't African-Americans.

Answer 4

Honey please check and post this in the society and culture!

Answer 5

Blame Alexander for dying young.

Answer 6

um because they have there own history and there own civilization, the only thing the Persions and Arabs share is Islam. also there are not part of the arab socciety

Answer 7

I hate to say that dirty word that anthropologist keep locked in the closet.  They are different races-- Arabs are Semitic, while Iranians are Caucasian.  By race, that is to say that they can trace their heritage back through different pathways to the same source.  Because they came to the same place by different paths the have had to deal with different environments to adjust to resulting in different physical features.

Answer 8

http://www.socyberty.com/Ethnicity/Persi...