First-generation Iranian parents teach their children that Iranians are Aryan whites

Evidence

And my mom said such a typical Iranian parent thing. She goes, “Donya joonam [dear], tell them we are the original white people! We are Aryans, you know, Iran comes from the word Aryan.” I knew the kids bullying me would laugh if I said, “I’m white you guys … ,” so I just kept quiet after that. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 167

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the perceived collapse of whiteness when performed by non-normative bodies; parallels narratives of ‘passing’ in racial passing literature. — connects to: The first generation inherited Aryan whiteness from Iranian state socialization — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 379; First-generation parents urge their children to claim Aryan whiteness against school bullying — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 74

Related

• First-generation parents urge their children to claim Aryan whiteness against school bullying (similarity 0.90)
• The first generation inherited Aryan whiteness from Iranian state socialization (similarity 0.90)
• Iranian family racial talk repeatedly centers the Aryan myth and Persian exceptionalism (similarity 0.85)
• The Iran-Aryan etymological linkage is a recent racial invention. (similarity 0.83)
• Schools are the first institution to tell Iranian youth they are not really white (similarity 0.83)
• South Asian claimants used Iranian ‘Aryan’ origin to argue their whiteness (similarity 0.83)
• Parents erase Iranian identity to explain away children’s imperfect Persian (similarity 0.81)
• Second-generation children interpret parents’ nationalist pride claims as identity repair against stigma (similarity 0.81)
• Some Iranians arrive believing in an inherited racial whiteness (similarity 0.80)
• Across intermarried and non-intermarried families only elders construct whiteness (similarity 0.80)
• Social experience, not family ideology, determines second-generation Iranian racial identification (similarity 0.80)
• Iranian Americans arrived with legal whiteness and Aryan nationalist ideologies (similarity 0.80)
• Earlier immigrants argued their own whiteness by distancing from Iranians (similarity 0.80)
• Language difference between Persian and Arabic anchors Iranian claims to whiteness (similarity 0.79)
• White adults’ families pressed Iranian American children on geopolitics despite knowing their ties. (similarity 0.79)