Local Knowledge of Meta-Ethnicities

[Hadouken]

if you went to my homeplace or east turkey in general and asked people if they feel iranic and feel kinship with other iranics many would be like "uuuhm ...O_o dunno . never thought much about it" . I think many of course know they speak an iranic language but that pretty much is where it ends. the "muh iranic race" kind of thinking is more typical for anthroforums and it is people east of us that emphasise it more . we are one of the most diverse meta ethnicities also (germanics would be the opposite)

[Rethel]

Idk from what you are laughing?
Are you really so much henpecked mentaly castrated
sissy, who's life dream is to be an inseminator of some
feministic dominatrix - like majority of TAtards?

The fact, that you are an ignorant, pantywaiste and uprooted
cultural orfan, doesn;t mean, that everything is, like it seems
to your ignorant mind. Quite opposite... World did not began
with your birth, neither humankind works as your castrated
delusions suggested... But, whatever... your life, not mine.

[Mingle]

if you went to my homeplace or east turkey in general and asked people if they feel iranic and feel kinship with other iranics many would be like "uuuhm ...O_o dunno . never thought much about it" . I think many of course know they speak an iranic language but that pretty much is where it ends. the "muh iranic race" kind of thinking is more typical for anthroforums and it is people east of us that emphasise it more . we are one of the most diverse meta ethnicities also (germanics would be the opposite)

Pashtuns are the same, except we don't even know we speak an Iranic language lol. It seems to be the case with all Iranic ethnic groups. Turks are different though even though they are more diverse, but I guess that is because their languages split off more recently and the endonym Turk was used by many Turkic ethnicities whereas nobody self-identifies as Iranic except Ossetes and people from Iran.

[SvartVarg]

Most Americans of Celtic heritage don't know what a Celt is, but I think Celts back in Europe are pretty aware of what a Celt is due to how different their languages are from neighboring English.

A number of Americans know little of their claimed meta-ethnicities - language, culture, etc. I've found unless they're 1st, 2nd sometimes, generations they really don't know. Doesn't mean they won't try to claim it. Regarding the Celtic, interestingly there was an article in the news a few months ago about how a Welsh woman was told to stop speaking that "foreign gibberish" in Wales. She was speaking Welsh, a Celtic language.

[Mortimer]

I grew up with meta-ethnicities rather then races. I considered slavs, germanics etc. distinct. I had some wrong ideas though about meta-ethnicities for example i conflated them sometimes with races because i consdiered all asians as one meta-ethnicity, i didnt know about sinid and japanese etc. I considered turks to be arabs, i didnt know about turanid. I dont know why, but from home and school we heared often about meta-ethnicities like slavs and germanics and latinos. I considered those people inherently different, i didnt heard often the term "white".

[Zroota]

Us Assyrians are very individualists and think of ourselves as isolates. We never dealt with a meta-ethnicity. However, we do use the term "Syriac" to also denote western Assyrians (who speak a different Aramaic language) and Maronites (who mostly speak Arabic). "Assyrian" just seems to cover eastern Assyrians, who are from northeastern Iraq, western Iran and southeastern Turkey.

[lameduck]

if you went to my homeplace or east turkey in general and asked people if they feel iranic and feel kinship with other iranics many would be like "uuuhm ...O_o dunno . never thought much about it" . I think many of course know they speak an iranic language but that pretty much is where it ends. the "muh iranic race" kind of thinking is more typical for anthroforums and it is people east of us that emphasise it more . we are one of the most diverse meta ethnicities also (germanics would be the opposite)

most pashtuns in real life dont even know they are iranic , though they are obviously aware of differences with neighbouring indics like lighter skinned , more european looking (in layman term) and all that.