Are Iranian-Armenians Iranian? What is Armenian Assimilation?

[Persopolis]

Re: Are Iranian-Armenians Iranian? What is Armenian Assimilation?

See post 77: This thread is about family relationships / DNA / Assimilation: Title = "Are Iranian-Armenians Iranian? What is Armenian Assimilation?" The Only Topical Comments & Responses are at Posts 1 & 15-18.

It happens all of the time: Mahaya Petrossian actually moved to London and found an Iranian guy there ... I wish her happiness.

LONDON, October 24 (IranMania) - The well-known Armenian actress of Iranian origin, Mahaya Petrossian converted to Shia Islam last week. According to the Sunday issue of the Persian morning daily of Tosse'e quoting Khurshid website, she converted to Islam following her marriage to a Muslim young man. Speaking to Khurshid reporter, she confirmed the report and said that she had been in doubt for a long time whether to remain a Christian or convert to Islam. "However, what happened in my personal life, namely my marriage to a Muslim man, put an end to my doubt and I eventually became a Muslim," added the actress.

[lampron]

Re: Are Iranian-Armenians Iranian? What is Armenian Assimilation?

estrang Parsic chen.....Iran is a very multi-ethnic groups with centuries of intermixing which makes up Iranians. True Persian are now down to 45%. Throw in Arab factor with religion then you can get an Idea.

We Armenian in Iran have never been in that mix and have always managed to maintain our own unique ancient roots from our way of life. It has been objective number one, ask any Paskahay who has been an adult in Iran.

We look different as well against our Persian friends and the Iranians can tell right away from looks (most of the time) that we are Armenians. We also speak Farsi with a strong Armenian accent.

The region of north west Iran used to be Armenia more than 1,000 years ago.
In classical times (say before Christianity), there was probably nothing to stop Persians and Armenians mixing in that region

[Zartonq]

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"2,000 [fn 1] years ago the world’s total population was about 300 million – today it’s about 7 billion. In other words, during the time Persians and Armenians started intermarrying the world’s population was 2,333 times smaller. If you consider the population of Armenia today (about 3 million) and you reduce it to the time-periods in history when Persians and Armenians started intermarrying, you see that Armenians were a small group. Using my rough numbers one can extrapolate that all of Armenia would have had something like 1,285 people 2,000 years ago – at most it was just a little village. For the sake of Argument let’s overestimate and pretend Armenia had 20,000 people 2,000 years ago. Nevertheless, do you know how quickly intermarriage for centuries with Persians (a much more populous group) would have become part of the Armenian genetic family tree? Very quickly. Now consider that this intermarriage went on for centuries; that Armenia was a part of Persia; that the Armenian Kings came from Persian ancestry; and in the oldest pictures of Armenians more than 2,000 years old, Armenians look like Iranians. There’s only one conclusion one can draw. "

The absurdity is simply overwhelming.

[Qami]

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Do somebody know if the user Persepolis is still active?

[Federate]

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No, he got banned temporarily for misbehaviour and when he was unbanned, he never came back.

[Qami]

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Does somebody has his mail? beacuse he has written some interesting things i would like to ask him...

[Zartonq]

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He must have overdosed on his own bs.

[Qami]

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Inch e nshanakum BS Shivini jan ?

[Federate]

Re: Are Iranian-Armenians Iranian? What is Armenian Assimilation?

Inch e nshanakum BS Shivini jan ?

Kovu kak

[Qami]

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Ay qez ban