Which ones are more Aryan?

[Decius]

The question is: Which modern ethnic group is more similar/closer to original Aryans (Indo-Iranians)? The poll options are based on that.

Okay well I voted all the euro countries on the poll and Iran

[Pahli]

The question is: Which modern ethnic group is more similar/closer to original Aryans (Indo-Iranians)? The poll options are based on that.

By genetics it would be North- and Eastern Europeans

[Vyasa]

Jawaharlal Nehru


Rajiv Gandhi (second from left)

[Chev Chelios]

By genetics it would be North- and Eastern Europeans

Well, you can vote for multiple options. And if poll options are not good => None/Other (discuss)

[Pahli]

Well, you can vote for multiple options. And if poll options are not good => None/Other (discuss)

I already voted for Tajiks, IMO the most Aryan of all their descendants

[Vyasa]

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and Rahul Sharma (Santoor artists) - both Indian Brahmins and pure Aryans imo

[Óttar]

Iranic (Persianate peoples and one Caucasian mountain tribe) and Indian people are Aryans because they are the ones who have self-identified as Arya historically. I might even make the argument that Aryans who adopt Semitic ideologies like Islam have relinquished their Aryatva.

[Mortimer]

Anyway the most Aryan people are some (not most) Indian Brahmins. They aren't the most Aryan by genetics probably even though most are R1a but they have the noble appearance and maintained the original high Aryan culture. When I think Aryan, I think of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Shivkumar Sharma, etc..

i dont know what is aryan, are all caucasoids aryan? what about semites, hamites and berbers? also europeans are mixture of indo-european invaders hunther gatherers and neolithic farmers, those people have been genetically as much different from eatch other as east asians and europeans, to me that means they were different races if they are that much genetically distinct also hunter gatherers didnt carried light skin genes and were dark pigmented, also there is hominid admixture in most humans. there is no pure racial aryan and how can latvians and iranians at the same time be as much equally aryan iranians look much more like arabs then as latvians. either one of them is aryan or not.

[Pahli]

i dont know what is aryan, are all caucasoids aryan? what about semites, hamites and berbers? also europeans are mixture of indo-european invaders hunther gatherers and neolithic farmers, those people have been genetically as much different from eatch other as east asians and europeans, to me that means they were different races if they are that much genetically distinct also hunter gatherers didnt carried light skin genes and were dark pigmented, also there is hominid admixture in most humans. there is no pure racial aryan and how can latvians and iranians at the same time be as much equally aryan iranians look much more like arabs then as latvians. either one of them is aryan or not.

Here's a logical answer: Iranians are descendants of those Aryans, but are they "more" Aryan than the others? No. Are Latvians Aryan? No, but they resemble them much more physically and genetically than any modern Indo-Iranian group does. Read what I posted earlier instead of getting confused. East Iranians in Tajikistan are defo. the most Aryan IMO followed by Pashtuns and some high caste Brahmins in North India.

[Chev Chelios]

Iranic (Persianate peoples and one Caucasian mountain tribe) and Indian people are Aryans because they are the ones who have self-identified as Arya historically. I might even make the argument that Aryans who adopt Semitic ideologies like Islam have relinquished their Aryatva.

1. Hinduism and Zoroastrianism are corrupted versions of Proto-Indo-Iranian religion. They are not very special or a sign of Aryanness.

2. Aryan:

The Proto-Indo-Iranian term is hypothesized to have proto-Indo-European origins,[18][19] while according to Szemerényi it is probably a Near-Eastern loanword from the Ugaritic ary, kinsmen.[26]

It has been postulated the Proto-Indo-European root word is *haerós with the meanings "members of one's own (ethnic) group, peer, freeman" as well as the Indo-Iranian meaning of Aryan. Derived from it were words like

the Hittite prefix arā- meaning member of one's own group, peer, companion and friend;
Old Irish aire, meaning "freeman" and "noble"
Gaulish personal names with Ario-
Avestan airya- meaning Aryan, Iranian in the larger sense
Old Indic ari- meaning attached to, faithful, devoted person and kinsman
Old Indic aryá- meaning kind, favourable, attached to and devoted
Old Indic árya- meaning Aryan, faithful to the Vedic religion.
The word *haerós itself is believed to have come from the root *haer- meaning "put together". The original meaning in Proto-Indo-European had a clear emphasis on the "in-group status" as distinguished from that of outsiders, particularly those captured and incoporated into the group as slaves. While in Anatolia, the base word has come to emphasize personal relationship, in Indo-Iranian the word has taken a more ethnic meaning.[27]

A review of numerous other ideas, and the various problems with each is given by Oswald Szemerényi.[19]

3. Don't you think Slavic paganism and mythology are more similar to the original Aryans? Indic and Iranic cultures are a mix of Aryans + South Asian stuff and Aryans + Middle Eastern stuff.

4. Aryan Kid