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As a Kurd I think it's incredibly weird how you keep comparing Northern and Southern Kurds as if we are so different from each other. We are still one ethnic group with a shared culture and language. This sounds like you're letting our colonizers win: they're the ones who seperated us and made many of us believe we aren't a united ethnicity. Yes we are diverse and every region is slightly different when it comes to genetics, phenotypes and language but that's how it is in every single country and ethnic group out there.
You seem to frame Northern Kurds as some kind of distant group that you don't want to be associated with,,,why? We are all Kurds, do you think it's that much of a difference?
About the phenotype statements you made. As a Northern Kurd with Southern Kurdish ancestors, I don't agree with the statement that Southern Kurds are the ones with the most distant phenotype (as you compared it with Turkmens, Afghans ec.). Maybe it's because I actually am mixed with Turkic Central Asian, but many people in my region have Central and South Asian features. Do you know why it's a phenomenon (to look like another ethnic group) in all of Kurdistan? BECAUSE WE ARE ALL KURDS! Our location might be a bit complicated, but up until a hundred years ago we lived together and we have the same history. So us looking diverse is because we are diverse, we are a homogenous ethnic group. And that counts for all of us. It's not as deep as you're making it and the way you phrase everything sounds like you as a so called Sorani Kurd think that you are superior to Northern Kurds. We are one ethnic group, but if you don't agree then I don't see why you would even identify as Kurdish. Because any Kurd knows that our unity is our priority and you seem to not like that concept as much.
Like when will us Kurds finally settle with the fact that we can be diverse, and still be one and still be Kurd? Yes, some of us (even my family) might be Kurdified Turkmens. Some have blonde hair and blue eyes because of Indo European genetics, and some may look like they're from the Indus Valley. So what? We are still Kurds. Why can't we share this genetic knowledge and celebrate our genetic diversity and not weaponize it against other Kurds?
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