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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if you're Persian, for instance?[/quote]

Persia does not exist. How can you be Persian? [/quote]

It did exist and carries enough historic importance that it is still used today as a descriptor [/quote]

Prussia existed, too, but people don't say they are Prussian. Or Ottoman. Or Soviet. Cmon. Say Iranian. Persian is not a place any longer. 
How long ago did it exist? Seriously. [/quote]

Well, my family is originally from a country that doesn't exist anymore, and if asked about our heritage, we refer to the country.  People referred to themselves as Polish even when Poland didn't exist as a country.  Ditto for Lithuania.

Also, Persian is both a descriptor of a group of people and a language.  Persian people are an Iranian people who speak Persian or a related dialect.  There are about 90 million Persians, and they live in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, and elsewhere.   [/quote]

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