Originally posted by
[email protected] 6 2006, 11:58 AM
I dont want to go back on old ground but considering what is going on in the world.
It helps to have some clarity.
http://www.iranchamber.com/people/articles...ple_origins.php (http://www.iranchamber.com/people/articles/aryan_people_origins.php)
From that first link:
There are all numerous reasons that the Aryan race has undergone its evolution from the primitive man to the white man in the Iranian Plateau. These reasons can be categorized as historical, geographical, mythological, anthropological and linguistically.
Against the reasons we will discuss, no valid evidence has been produced to prove that the Aryans migrated from Central Asia or any other place to Iran. What European historians have written in this regard is based on unscientific and unproven hypotheses influenced by anti-Iranian and political ideas.
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The Homo sapiens evolved from its Neanderthal ancestors in a 30,000- year process between 50,000 to 20,000 years ago
Racist/Persian chauvinist pseudohistory and pseudoscience. In fact, Homo Sapiens evolved from Homo erectus, not Homo Neanderthalis, and in Africa, not Iran. Apparently the idea here is to proclaim Iranian superiority as the supposed ancestral home of all "Aryans" everywhere, as if it would matter if it was.
And Iran today is a multinational state, a prison house of nations even.
Persians are a slight majority of the population. Besides Farsi (Persian) other languages/ethnic groups/nationalities in Iran include Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Arab, Turkmeni, and Baluchi. Which are certainly not all "Aryan", or even Indo-European speakers.
The rights of these groups to have schools, publications, and broadcasting in their own languages have been and to some degree still are denied or restricted. The national question within Iran will likely continue to be explosive in the future.