Hack-Hook
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Its far more complex than that , for me I knew of my grand parent ethnicity but I knew nothing of their parents Iran has always been cross road of middle east when it come to ethnicities , you go on Iran streets and ask people what they consider when they want to marry someone and I doubt 1 in 10000 you hear ethnicity , you go to a traditional Iranian proposal, if they ask from where the bride or the groom are they want to tell they have an aunt, uncle or cousin in that city , in modern proposals the bride and groom do all the thing and they don't even bother about that , the only time they ask about the family origin is when they want to tell the groom family they must go to which city to do the symbolic proposal ceremony and that's if the parents of the bride don't live in the same city .We could test this right here, by putting the question to the 20-25 active Iranian users of this forum - just how many of these can honestly claim that all their four grand-parents have their roots in one single linguistic community? Aryobarzan already mentioned he is of both Azari Iranian and Persian Iranian lineage. My Iranian family is very mixed as well, with roots in at least three different linguistic groups. 2:0.
Most Iranians cannot be artificially squeezed into a so-called "ethnic" sub-category. This is a fact which enemies attempting to divide Iranians along "ethnic" lines must be slapped with again and again. It is the single most powerful objective argument against hostile separatist and "ethnicist" discourse.
Iranian citizens across all linguistic lines would overwhelmingly back their motherland against any foreign adversary, no matter the identity of said adversary. To the Iranian people Islam and Iran come first, not so-called "ethnicity".
considering in Iran they decide on foreign policy based on ethnicity is at best a foreign concept for us