Pejman:
Hi Dude, your information is SO WRONG. No wonder you are not persian nor iranian :)
Your blog is hilarious lol
First of all a lot of azeri's are mixed with persians, they are mixed and not "pure" this or that. Second of all your percentages are all wrong and descriptions, azeri's actually have light hair sometimes and coloured eyes just like some persians.
Really you have no clue what you are talking about, not that I'm trying to be rude though.
The word Iran is best described via in Farsi, the way it's written in farsi and pronounced, you should know that it does not mean "Aryan", it's eeyran which is different. Many countries are made up of many different peoples, ayran/eeyran is the coming together of tribes, there is NO country that has "pure" race or peoples, that is a myth.
take care.
Oslonor:
Yes. There are some Azeris who are mixed with Persians in Tehran. But those are considered Azeris and not Persians as they look similar to Azeris. But for the rest of Iran that is not the case. Persians and Kurds and Baloch and Turkoman are not mixed with Azeris and they are different ethnic groups in Iran. Azeris mainly live in Tehran and Azerbaijan in North West Iran. To see how Persians and Azeris look like please visit Persians and Hollywood
Comment 1:
I actually know Mr. Tehran. He is a good friend of mine from college at George Mason University in VA. His is bi-racial. His father is Iranian. I know because I have met his parents. He speaks fluent Farsi and his accent is because like many other Iraninas including myself, he was brought up in the states. Shahram and Ali are also disappointed with your choice of words. I don't know where your from, but here in Northern VA/Washington DC we don't have hate for one another. We are one country united for peace not destruction like you and Mr. Bush suggest.
Comment 2:
Hi Dude, your information is SO WRONG. No wonder you are not persian nor iranian :)
Your blog is hilarious lol
First of all a lot of azeri's are mixed with persians, they are mixed and not "pure" this or that. Second of all your percentages are all wrong and descriptions, azeri's actually have light hair sometimes and coloured eyes just like some persians.
Really you have no clue what you are talking about, not that I'm trying to be rude though.
The word Iran is best described via in Farsi, the way it's written in farsi and pronounced, you should know that it does not mean "Aryan", it's eeyran which is different. Many countries are made up of many different peoples, ayran/eeyran is the coming together of tribes, there is NO country that has "pure" race or peoples, that is a myth.
take care.
Oslonor:
Yes. There are some Azeris who are mixed with Persians in Tehran. But those are considered Azeris and not Persians as they look similar to Azeris. But for the rest of Iran that is not the case. Persians and Kurds and Baloch and Turkoman are not mixed with Azeris and they are different ethnic groups in Iran. Azeris mainly live in Tehran and Azerbaijan in North West Iran. To see how Persians and Azeris look like please visit Persians and Hollywood
Comment 1:
I actually know Mr. Tehran. He is a good friend of mine from college at George Mason University in VA. His is bi-racial. His father is Iranian. I know because I have met his parents. He speaks fluent Farsi and his accent is because like many other Iraninas including myself, he was brought up in the states. Shahram and Ali are also disappointed with your choice of words. I don't know where your from, but here in Northern VA/Washington DC we don't have hate for one another. We are one country united for peace not destruction like you and Mr. Bush suggest.
Comment 2:
t is a new fashion for African-Americans to call themselves "Multi-Racial". Usually they say that they are partly white. To say they are partly "Iranian" is something very new.
4:04 PM
The Persians in Iran constitute 22% of the population of Iran, at the same time the Azeri Turks are 52% of the population of Iran. Furthermore, the persians in Iran are a mixture of Arabs, and Africans, and claim of that persians are Aryans, is a fabrication of peopole who feel inferior abut their afro-arab heritage.
6:50 PM
What is the problem with iranians about to be white or not? Why do you insist to be a white people even though it is not true, of course there are a few white iranians with blond hair, but this doenst mean that you are really a white people. Dutchman were in Brazil Northeast and you can find people looking like a nordic , but it doens mean that brazilans from that region are white just because there is some fews with blue eyes. I think the prejudice is not in hollywood, but in yourself. Look to you like really you are.
hugs...
9:25 PM
[The following is in response to the previous anonymous poster]
It amazes me to see the previous poster stating that Iranians want to be labeled as White. They don't!
How can you compare what's been stated about the Persians to the White Dutch-Brazilians?
Comparisons like this make me cringe!
By now you should know that the Persians have lived in Iran for thousands of years -- prior to any Europeans venturing out of their homelands to setup colonies.
(Iran, up to the 18th century, was something of a fairyland to the Europeans.)
Do you understand what that implies?
Let me spell it out for you. Iran's Persian population (currently under 17 million) is indigenous, and has been for thousands of years.
We are not talking about isolated groups of White offsprings in some far out land being colonized by the Dutch or any other Europeans for that matter!
In other words, Persians are the only minority in Iran that can claim their Indo-European link; none of the other minorities (Assyrians, Azeris, etc.) can do that.
Do yourself a favor, and once again take a close look at the photos of Shermine Sharivar (Miss Germany 2005), and Rudi Bakhtiar (CNN anchor).
Do they look Arab, or African to you?
Look at the Persian men in the photos. Do you see Afro, Arab, or Azeri features in them?
Fact of the matter is that they are all White, non-European, Aryan Persians.
I think part of the reason for your prejudice is due to the current political climate in the Middle-East, and partly, due to the fact that you (like millions of others) continue to erroneously equate all Iranian to Persians.
Thank God reality does not depend on your beliefs, or else entire races would vanish in a blink of an eye.
Cheers, and Hugs...(the Persian way!)
-- Ed