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Re:The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginni... by dragandj on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:55AM (#27472088)
Although Persians are on the edge of the Roman Empire, so I don't think this is related to this discussion too much, it depends on what you consider "white". When I google "iranians" and go to images, I see people that, if I must classify them into a "race", I can most closely classify them as white(ish).

Here's an interesting (USA) article that illustrates this issue: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-census-middle-east-no...

Are people from Teheran, for example, "white, black, Asian, American Indian, or Native Hawaiian" (copy-pasted the choices from the article)? In my opinion, American obsession with race is silly.

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Re:The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginni... by Mediterraneo10 on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:17AM (#27472277)
Yes, definitely the "were they white or not?" discussion is silly. I just wanted to emphasize that whatever Iranians look like, you can't assume they represent a look that moved down from the steppe just because they speak an Indo-European language.
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