The Indo-European language tree gave Iran a scientific excuse to disavow Arab kinship
Evidence
In the same manner that Iranian nationalists claimed Aryan identity, they seized the opportunity to draw ethnological connections between Iran and Europe through the Indo-European language tree, which also established “scientific” distance from Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 200
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the ‘Grafting & Growth’ article’s theme of how categories get constructed to serve group boundaries. — connects to: Iranians’ inherited Aryan myth erases India and is inseparable from anti-Arab racism — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 1461
Related
- Iranians’ inherited Aryan myth erases India and is inseparable from anti-Arab racism (similarity 0.85)
- The Iran-Aryan etymological linkage is a recent racial invention. (similarity 0.83)
- Ethnicity, nationality, and religion cannot fully explain anti-Iranian bias (similarity 0.81)
- The Iranian Aryan myth survives despite scientific refutation and political regime change (similarity 0.81)
- Language difference between Persian and Arabic anchors Iranian claims to whiteness (similarity 0.81)
- Iranian internalized racism positions Iranians as Aryan and superior to Arabs, expunging India (similarity 0.80)
- The Aryan-Iran etymology is a recent invented racial fiction (similarity 0.80)