The Persian race problem?

Persians belong to the Europa race (Europeans call it dark white race) and belong to the southern Mediterranean type. It does not belong to mixed blood, has nothing to do with Semitic race in Arabian Peninsula, uses Persian, and belongs to Indo-European Iranian language family. Believe in Islam, mainly Shiites.

Persians are considered to be descendants of Aryans who migrated from Central Asia to Iran around 2000 BC. Aryans split into two main ethnic groups, namely Persians and Medes, and branches of Persians and Iranians began to appear. They intermarry with Iranian plateau aborigines, such as Elam.

There are some records about Persians in the 9th century BC. In Assyrian literature, they are called "Pasu" and live on the southeast bank of Hermia Lake.

Persians are the main ethnic groups in West Asia, also known as pars people. The population is 204 10000 (1985), accounting for about 53% of the total population of China. Mainly living in the central and eastern provinces of Iran. Another 600,000 people are scattered in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.

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The phenomenon that Persians, Turks and Kurds living in the Middle East are mistaken for Arabs is very common in Europe, America and East Asia, because Arabs are the largest ethnic group in the Middle East, with a population as high as 300 million, more than the sum of other ethnic groups in the Middle East.

Because of oil and war, their exposure in the media of various countries is also very high, so many people who don't know much about geography and nationality will mistakenly think that there are only Arabs in the Middle East. I don't know when Arabs began to represent the whole Middle East.

Many Iranian Persians are disgusted that they are often mistaken for Arabs. They are not disgusted with the ignorance of the people in the Middle East, nor are they hostile to Arabs, but lament that their nation has a history of thousands of years, but now it is not understood by many people, and even mistakenly think that Iran is an Arab country.

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