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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So incorrect use of Arab is ok and widely utilized but Persian can't be used? This whole discussion is ridiculous [/quote]

Not if you are Saudi... [/quote].

Which is why I noted incorrect use - it's often used as a blanket term rather than an accurate descriptor.  If Arab is used incorrectly to denote a variety of people from a shared or similar linguistic, geographical, and cultural background why the beef with people choosing to continue using Persian to denote those same shared characteristics?[/quote]

Because Persia DOES NOT EXIST. When a 23 year old tells me they are Persian I roll my eyes. [/quote]

Persia was renamed Iran in 1935.  Same place, just the name changed.  Suppose you were born in Rhodesia and left before it was renamed Zimbabwe.  Can you say you are Rhodesian, or do you have to say you are Zimbabwean?  Same with Burma and Myanmar.  According to your standard Burma no longer exists so no one can say they are Burmese.  They must say they are Myanmarian.  (I think that's how it goes.)  Can someone not say they are Palestinian because there is no official state of Palestine?  And think of the Congo.  It was renamed Zaire for 25 years and then went back to Congo (Democratic Republic of).

And IMO Persia has a much better ring to it than Iran in English, especially when it is pronounced like I ran.[/quote]

1935, eh? So the 20 year olds saying they are Persian were certainly born there.

Palestine is apples to oranges. [/quote]

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