Can Iranians pass as Europeans?

[Johnston]

most look more like the pale sort of indians

Does the subject of this article ring any bells in relation to what you just wrote?

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/Headlin...n-Brown-Sahibs



Or, like this:

[_______]

^ not really! i was thinking more of the beautiful, slightly european looking bollywood type!

[Johnston]

^ not really! i was thinking more of the beautiful, slightly european looking bollywood type!

I imagine Romany, or Gypsies, would be included. Hah.

[Curtis24]

awhile back Dienekes made morphs of Iranian villagers, and they looked almost Indian. Clearly not European.

[billErobreren]

Man I love your threads. they're never boring. I'm glad something European still survives in these people, not sure why but I've always been drawn to them. some do look Europeanesque maybe those might fit in Southeastern Europe. kudos on the selection. have you got any more

[Östsvensk]

Certainly not where I live. Recently, an Iranian family moved into my parents neighbourhood, and my mother calls them all "swarthy" (which is what they are).

[Bridie]

^ The man here has an eye shape (regardless of colour) that I've noticed is quite common among Indians and Eastern Europeans alike.

[d3cimat3d]

A better question would be where this man would pass; I think this is how the main European component on them looked like: A dinarized nordid:



I say Ukraine or Russia, although he wouldn't be that common there.

He looks mainly Dinaric or Armenoid with some Nordid.

He reminds me of this Armenian soldier from Karabakh (on the right):

Can Iranians pass as Europeans?

Depends if they inherited the 10% or so north European phenotypic genes they carry. Otherwise they look mostly West Asian + minor Arab and South Asian.

But I can say their main European component looked like Moldovans, Ukrainians, South Russians, or something like that.

Their main European component is Baltic-like IMO. On Polako's Eurogenes project one Kazakh member has 22% Baltic:

KZ1
East European: 6.7%
East Asian: 29.2%
South European: 13.3%
North Asian: 28.1%
Baltic: 22.4%

But on Dodecad, most Indo-Iranian speakers end up having more "west European" than "east European" probably because the Andronovo people were a archaic form of north-Europids before their divergence into Europe after the Ice age, or something like that.

[Sikeliot]

Man I love your threads. they're never boring. I'm glad something European still survives in these people, not sure why but I've always been drawn to them. some do look Europeanesque maybe those might fit in Southeastern Europe. kudos on the selection. have you got any more

Here are some more.. some I attached as attachments and others are posted.

[Ibericus]

No, they don't pass for europeans, unless we are talking of gypsies, which are not of european origin either.