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[Trooper_IHB]

Huh ?

 

[reason_IHB]

uh oh

 

[EvaLSeraphim_IHB]

<p>I think he's trying to say that Iranians branding themselves as Persian to get rid of the (old?) stigma is silly. After the Revolution, many Americans did not like Iranians because the hostage situation (but I think you knew that).</p>

<p>{I'm not taking a position on this, just trying to translate.}</p>

 

[reason_IHB]

<p>I swore some Iranians preferred to be call Persians. ....No? ....they said they don't want to be associated with Arabs?....Sorry in advance if I got this wrong. Please enlighten me.</p>

 

[JoonB_IHB]

I consider myself Persian or Iranian- depends on my mood, really. Persian is more about culture. But technically, the country was "Persia" until about 1930, when the first Shah of Iran decided to change the name of the country.

 

[Irvine Soul Brother_IHB]

I always thought that self-applying the term "Persian" was about showing an association with the roots of Persia and rejecting the current political ideology. Joon?

 

[profette_IHB]

The Persian Empire was established by tribes that migrated into present-day Iran from Central Europe. Their language is in the Indo-European family and it bears no resemblance to Arabic except for some borrowed words. The Arab conquest of the 7^th century introduced Islam, but the Persian identity, language and culture remained intact after the Arabs were driven out three centuries later.



"Iran" means land of the Aryans. The name always has been used by its inhabitants to describe the country, a multiethnic state populated mainly by Caucasian tribes, of which the Persians are the plurality group. The name Persia stuck for so long because the ancient Persian empire was founded in the Pars Province by King Cyrus the Great, author of the earliest known declaration of human rights (see illustration below). Reza Shah formally changed the name to Iran in the 1930s so that it would reflect a multiethnic pan-national society.



<img alt="" src="http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jan/cyrus-cylinder.jpg" />

 

[ventouxbob_IHB]

Thank you- Profette for the explanation. I could have looked it up but i was being bit of a smart alex. Seeing how the countrys name has changed for only 70 years that makes a lot of sense. Lots of maps got redrawn in the last 100 years. but thats Just Politics not Cultures.



Bob.

 

[Major Schadenfreude_IHB]

<p>"King Cyrus the Great, author of the earliest known declaration of human rights (see illustration below). "</p>

<p>Yo Cyrus! Try writing on paper next time instead of a corn cob!</p>

<p>(Just kidding).</p>