I don't feel Iranic anymore

[Myanthropologies]

I don't have anything to do with the proto-Iranics, they were white and I'm not. I don't have anything to do with Kurds or Persians either, genetically, apparently. They seem to have dibs on being "real iranics" in modern day.

When I grew up and before I took a DNA test, I used to feel very ethnically close to Persians and sort of ethnically close to Kurds. After taking a DNA test, I feel like a fake Iranic or knock off Iranic. Well, it wasn't just taking my dna test that makes me feel that way, it's what has been said to me on anthropology forums over the last year. Kurds and Persians on anthropology forums like to distance me from them, group me with Punjabis and even Gujaratis sometimes, and claim that they are closer to Southern Europeans than to me, or are an extension of mediterranian people. Or they will say they are west eurasian and that I'm not. It's kind of weird, because Persians and Kurds in person try to relate to me a lot and definitely consider me the same race as them and consider pashtuns similar to them in looks, but the ones on anthropology forums don't want anything to do with me, and I bet they don't want anything to do with me even more so now after viewing my ancestry results.

I try to tell myself that DNA doesn't matter, but it's hard to tell myself that sometimes even if I know it's very true, because everyone likes to put people in boxes and categories based on these numbers and think that they can just change a person's thought process and identity by one forum post.

The only South-Central Asian "Iranic" people that west iranics on forum boards seem to care about are Pamiri Tajiks, because of their association with Scythians, yet they even try to distance me from Pamiris. Pashtuns are just tossed aside as some pedophilic iranicized punjabis, and it further makes me feel like a fake iranic. It even makes me feel less close to the Persians and Kurds I know in person (ethnically).

[catgeorge]

What?

[wvwvw]

[Demon Revival]

It's because you're a twink with dyed hair and gay western mannerisms. If you were to be a bearded taliban with a turban who follows trival laws all the Persians and Kurds would revere you like a god.

[Myanthropologies]

What?

Don't talk to autistic people like that, it's rude.

[Myanthropologies]

It's because you're a twink with dyed hair and gay western mannerisms. If you were to be a bearded taliban with a turban who follows trival laws all the Persians and Kurds would revere you like a god.

What are you even talking about?

[TheForeigner]

Well average non-MENA people consider all these groups as Middle Eastern, if that helps. They don't know there is a difference between Persians and Afghanis.

[de Burgh II]

Genetically speaking, you would be an Eastern extension of the plethora Of Iranic tribes inhabiting Central and West Asia.

Nevertheless, the key is not to get overly attached to such ethnicities. Meaning that, we don't control whatever ethnicity a person is born into.

Which is why it should be imperative to not let one's emotions get too involved in what happens on the internet. At the end of the day, they are merely the opinions of others; they only have "meaning" when we let it get to us on a personal level.

[Myanthropologies]

Genetically speaking, you would be an Eastern extension of the plethora Of Iranic tribes inhabiting Central and West Asia.

Nevertheless, the key is not to get overly attached to such ethnicities. Meaning that, we don't control whatever ethnicity a person is born into.

Which is why it should be imperative to not let one's emotions get too involved in what happens on the internet. At the end of the day, they are merely the opinions of others; they only have "meaning" when we let it get to us on a personal level.

Of course I agree with that, I just wish other people thought like that, too.

[Voskos]

me neither, ever since I scored some slavic on them calcs.