Persia is the name of a country and a race too. Persia refers to the Aryan citizens of Persia or Iran. Persians is also used as a general category for all Aryans in Iran. Hollywood uses Racism: The mixing up of these two names is the source of many misconceptions and Hollywood cleverly uses this confusion to downplay the heritage of Persians by focusing on the Turkish Azeri part of the population of Iran and presenting it as the real Persians. It also tries to prove that Iranians are mixed with Arabs and Africans and the Aryan race is a myth in Iran. None of the ethnic nationalities in Iran are mixed with Arabs or Africans. Persia had never had any slave trade as Arabs did and the Arab invasion of Persian in the 6 century A.D. is exaggerated to show that Iranians are actually Arabs.
DNA Research: According to DNA research the gene marker for an Arab is Haplogroup Type EU10. None of Iranians that is Persians and Azeris do not have EU10. So Iranians are definitely not Arabs. But there some features related to Azeri appearance that looks Asian and semitic that is used by Hollywood to depict the Persians as Afro-Arabs. Persians do not have these features. One of these features are the Azeris hooked noses that they often show. Persians do not have hooked noses as I will show you. But this fact is clerverly hidden by Hollywood and Persians are completely ignored. Instead Hollywood always employs actors with non-Persian features and presents them to the public as Persians. They also have created a race called Irano-Afghan group. The main feature of this so called race is that it is a hooked nose race. They add Persians, Afghans and Azeris and Turcomens to this race. These are very different ethnic groups and this race can not explain the wide ranging physical appearances of these people. This blog tries to clear that misconception. Irano-Afghan race is actually Turcomen-Azeri race but misnamed as Irano-Afghan group.
Persians and Azeris: Officially Persians ar %50 of the population and Azeris are %25 of the population of Iran with 70 million people. But the reality is Azeris are %40 of Iran. This group controls the government and represent a majority of the population in Tehran. More than %50 of Tehran are Azeris. Persians are %30 of Iran. So clearly Persians are a minority in Iran. This fact clearly deviates from the standard conceptions about Iran.
Hollywood and Racism: Hollywood always mixes up Persians with Iranians assuming that these are the same people. That is not correct. An Iranian can be a Persian but it is not necessarily a Persian. An Iranian could be a non-Persian. Hollywood always uses Iranian as a synonym for a Persian. Iranians could be Azeris or Persians or other minority groups. These techniques of Hollywood on how Persians are portrayed in films is a part of the bigger problem how some people with positions of power are trying to use racism to promote their own agenda in US. Persians have no problems with Azeris. And Persians are not responsible for how Azeris look like. But Persians have to explain why Hollywood is bypassing the Persians and present Azeris as the real Persians. Persians are an extremely Non-Racist people. Persians are exactly the ideals that Hollywood claims to promote. But Hollywood by depicting Azeris as Persians in their films is promoting racism against all Iranians.
Welcome to Oslonor Aryan Blog. My name is Oslonor and I live in California with my Persian wife. I am not Iranian myself but I am interested about Iran's history and culture. If you want to know how I look like, I found this picture on the internet which looks like me very much. So I am using this picutre. This blog is about "Who are the White Aryans in Iran?" We are discussing why Iranians are not accepted as white aryans or simply as white Europeans in US and Europe. One of the reasons is the image that Iranians are depicted in the Hollywood films and mass media in West. We want to define the question of ethnic groups in Iran and clear some misconceptions about Iran. You can click on pictures and you will see a larger picture each time.