What would you identify Parsis as

[Kamal900]

Us Parsis are Zoroastrian. It is unthinkable for us to discriminate against someone based on their 'caste'. Zoroastrianism is much more different from Hinduism (no caste system) and remarkably similar in many aspects to the Abrahamic religions (it was the first monthestic religion after all).
It always surprises me how everyone little people know about Zoroasteianism and how everyone assumes Parsis are Hindu when it couldn't be more different. We are literally descendants of the people "who once ruled the world" haha , and whatever religion you follow most likely has heavy influences from Zoroasters' teachings.

So no, Mehta isnt a 'light caste' Indian because he isn't even Hindu. He has no caste. Also, many 'high caste Indians have very dark skin. Skin color doesn't completely relate to class level.

If you want to see more Parsi phenotype, I just posted my picture in the Anthro forum too. You can see/comment there if you'd like. I can also give you my GEDmatch results if you are interested to learn more.

Yup. I mean, some Parsi that I've seen look very Persian to me, and Freddy Mercury(RIP) was of Parsi ancestry. He looked very Iranian to me, but can pass in the Levant quite well..I mean, after all, we're heavily mixed with the neolithic Iranians from the neolithic to the early Iron age periods.



I mean, judging by google images, they seem to be pretty diverse in phenotypes:
https://www.google.com/search?q=pars...w=1450&bih=789

[Kyp]

I consider them Persians with a bit of Indian admixture. They are not that far from Persian groups genetically as some people believe.

Distance to: Parsi_India
10.84964516 Iran_Bandari
12.12856546 Iran_Khorasan
12.16271762 Iranian_Fars
13.09973282 Tajik_Herat
15.21017751 Iran_Mazandaran
16.37058337 Lur_Iran
16.39987805 Balochi
17.11097017 Iranian
17.31240884 Turkmen_Iran
17.31425136 Kurd_Sorani
17.49767413 Yazidi
17.59565003 Pashtun_Kandahar
17.61613181 Tajik_Kabul
17.62117476 Turkmen
18.96111284 Kurd_Kurmanji
19.05209700 Tajik_Panjshir&Kapisa
19.09889787 Talysh_Azerbaijan
19.37441612 Azerbaijani_Iran
19.67423188 Turkmen_Iraq
20.11319219 Azerbaijani
20.43080273 Kurd_KAZ
20.53862459 Tajik_Balkh
20.63902614 Zaza
20.80163695 Pashtun_Tarkalani
21.27191576 Iraqi_Baghdad

[Randommembr]

Yup. I mean, some Parsi that I've seen look very Persian to me, and Freddy Mercury(RIP) was of Parsi ancestry. He looked very Iranian to me, but can pass in the Levant quite well..I mean, after all, we're heavily mixed with the neolithic Iranians from the neolithic to the early Iron age periods.



I mean, judging by google images, they seem to be pretty diverse in phenotypes:
https://www.google.com/search?q=pars...w=1450&bih=789

Don't trust google images. We are too small of a community for people to actually know who we even are and we try to remain to ourselves. From your link, I've personally attended some of these functions/weddings and the people actually featured in the pictures are literally Hindu men with Parsi women or vice versa or just Hindus. Not to mention they literally have pictures of Hindu actors (Sonam Kapoor, Bachan family) dressed in Parsi attire������.

If you search 'parsi apricity' on google, you'd get a more accurate description. Even that's not fully accurate because some of them are Irani or half Irani (like John Abraham). If youd like, I can show you what Parsis actually look like, but I don't think you'd be interested haha.

[Kamal900]

Don't trust google images. We are too small of a community for people to actually know who we even are and we try to remain to ourselves. From your link, I've personally attended some of these functions/weddings and the people actually featured in the pictures are literally Hindu men with Parsi women or vice versa or just Hindus. Not to mention they literally have pictures of Hindu actors (Sonam Kapoor, Bachan family) dressed in Parsi attire������.

If you search 'parsi apricity' on google, you'd get a more accurate description. Even that's not fully accurate because some of them are Irani or half Irani (like John Abraham). If youd like, I can show you what Parsis actually look like, but I don't think you'd be interested haha.

I see. Actually, I'm pretty interested, rofl.

[princeton90]

Persians with some extra South Asian tendencies.

[Dr_Maul]

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35 percent are completely Gujarati looking
15 percent are extremely Persian looking (for some reason most famous Parsis men fall under this category haha).
Would you agree with this?

Tbh, I’m not sure because I’ve never really met many Parsis. Just judging off of some group photos, they seem to be mostly Persian + Indian looking with various outliers on both ends of that spectrum

[Randommembr]

Well the examples I posted on the first page along with a few apricity threads would be good starting points. If you are more interested, I can give you pics of actual weddings etc(a lot of them on alamy or Google.)

[Randommembr]

I consider them Persians with a bit of Indian admixture. They are not that far from Persian groups genetically as some people believe.

Distance to: Parsi_India
10.84964516 Iran_Bandari
12.12856546 Iran_Khorasan
12.16271762 Iranian_Fars
13.09973282 Tajik_Herat
15.21017751 Iran_Mazandaran
16.37058337 Lur_Iran
16.39987805 Balochi
17.11097017 Iranian
17.31240884 Turkmen_Iran
17.31425136 Kurd_Sorani
17.49767413 Yazidi
17.59565003 Pashtun_Kandahar
17.61613181 Tajik_Kabul
17.62117476 Turkmen
18.96111284 Kurd_Kurmanji
19.05209700 Tajik_Panjshir&Kapisa
19.09889787 Talysh_Azerbaijan
19.37441612 Azerbaijani_Iran
19.67423188 Turkmen_Iraq
20.11319219 Azerbaijani
20.43080273 Kurd_KAZ
20.53862459 Tajik_Balkh
20.63902614 Zaza
20.80163695 Pashtun_Tarkalani
21.27191576 Iraqi_Baghdad

Anyone's who's actually met one of us, or is familiar with our genes, knows about this (phenotype and genotype).Y results are very similar.
Parsis are largely endogamic so it makes sense why our genetics are still so much western shifted.

[XenophobicPrussian]

Brown people.

[Randommembr]

I see. Actually, I'm pretty interested, rofl.

Well the examples I posted on the first page along with a few apricity threads would be good starting points. If you are more interested, I can give you pics of actual weddings etc(a lot of them on alamy or Google but you can't trust google completely)