I don't feel Iranic anymore

[Hadouken]

wtf are you talking

which members said such things to you ? I have not seen any kurdish members at least saying such stuff to you to give you any reason for these thoughts and this thread

and you are very iranic . iranic means having ancestry from androvono central asia indoiranian people which you do . what you have not understood in the past is that an "iranic" race or ethnicity does not exist and that iranic people are diverse and have their own admixtures etc. .

[Herr Abubu]

Man, shut the fuck up.

[Herr Abubu]

Man, shut the fuck up. This shit is embarrassing to read. You aren't "Iranic" because you don't speak the language and have nothing to do with these people culturally. You're yet another American kid who thinks he has some interesting identity because he hyphenates his ancestry to Afghan-American or something like that. You're just a rootless American like Sikeliot who thinks an ethnicity is something like a purse.

[Herr Abubu]

Man, shut the fuck up. This shit is embarrassing to read. You aren't "Iranic" because you don't speak the language and have nothing to do with these people culturally. You're yet another American kid who projects his American mentality onto the question of identity and treats it like something equivalent to a purse or some other shit.

[Peterski]

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).

Don't worry, you can be part of Slavic people.

[Peterski]

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.

Fuck Mediterranian people. You can be a honorary Slav.

[Herr Abubu]

Man, shut the fuck up. This shit is embarrassing to read. You aren't "Iranic" because you don't speak the language and have nothing to do with these people culturally, not because of this genotard bs. You're yet another American kid who projects his American mentality onto the question of identity and treats it like something equivalent to a purse or some other shit.

[Dandelion]

You should embrace the Helleno-Buddhist past of Afghanistan.

[jatt]

one of the reason why i am not taking DNA test.. what if instead of Jatt i turned out some iranic and shit... End of the day we are what we are born as. Noone care about genetics in real life.

[Pahli]

Of course we're not like the early Indo-Iranians, but if all IE groups were genetically similar to their ancestors there would be a majority of white people now in the world

Also it doesn't matter anyway, IMO being Iranian is more about culture, linguistics and such.