Please refer to my “About” page. It says, “This blog will hopefully be a thoughtful and respectful forum.” You are far from respectful.

If you’re so intelligent in genetics, feel free to enlighten us without the attitude. Otherwise, please leave.

Genetically, there are five races. These are the Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, Amerind, and Australoid.

The Caucasoid Race includes the peoples of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Their characteristics include: skin colour that ranges from pale white to brown; hair texture ranging from straight to wavy; thin lips; and narrow noses.

The Mongoloid Race inhabits East Asia. Like Caucasoids, their skin tone can be anything from very light to dark. Their hair is almost always very straight. One of their main distinguishing features would be the epicanthic fold of the eye which gives their eyes a “slanted” appearance. The Pacific Islanders are also generally Mongoloid, although, depending on what island you are talking about, some can have Australoid, Amerind, and even Caucasoid admixture.

The Negroid Race is native to Sub-Saharan Africa. They have skin colour ranging from brown to black. Their hair is kinky; their lips are thick and their noses are flat and wide. Their jaws jut out noticably(prognathism).

The Amerinds are the native inhabitants of the Americas. They are closely related to Mongoloids, and were once classified as a branch of the Mongoloid Race; but, as you mentioned, they are genetically distinct enough as to be considered separate.

The Australoids dwell in Australia, New Guinea, and neighbouring regions. They share a number of features with the Negroids, including black skin and wide noses. One of the main features distinguishing them from Negroids is their wavy hair texture, which, believe it or not, sometimes comes in blond or reddish shades.

The so-called “Hispanics” can be any race; however, most are Mestizoes, or people of mixed Caucasoid and Amerind ancestry. Those from Brazil and the island regions usually have a good bit of Negroid blood, as well.

East Indians are a mixture of Caucasoid, Australoid, and sometimes Mongoloid ancestry.

Each of the races is divided into smaller “subraces”. In the past, the Caucasoid race was divided into Nordics(the tall, blond, blue-eyed folk of Northern Europe), Alpines(mostly Central and Eastern Europe) and Mediterraneans(which included Southern Europeans, North Africans, Near Easterners, and certain peoples of the British Isles). Genetics tells a somewhat different story.

Genetically, all of the peoples of Europe cluster remarkably close together, including the European “Mediterraneans”. Near Easterners and North Africans form another, separate cluster. The European Jews, despite significant European and even Mongoloid admixture, cluster closely with the Near Eastern/North African group.

What’s interesting about Persians/Iranians is that, despite heavily mixing with their Near Eastern neighbours, have a strong relation to the European group.

This makes since considering history. The Persian civilization was founded by Indo-European, or Aryan speaking people, who are believed to have originated in the area that is now Ukraine, Russia, and the Caucasus Mountain range. The ancient monuments of the Persian civilization show people with European looking features. Ancient Greek records indicate that the Persians of that time were relatively indistinguishable from the Greeks, although the Greeks were tanner due to training out in the sun all the time.

Over the centuries, the Persians conquered and mixed with many peoples, and in turn were conquered by and mixed with other groups(namely, Arabs, Mongols, and Turks), so that Iran today is somewhat of a mixed region.

Approximately 10% of Iran’s population(or about 1/5th of all Persians, since Persians are about 51% of the population) can still “pass” as full blooded Europeans, and a few(mainly in the North) even have blue eyes and blond hair.

So, yes, Persians are not, and never have been, Arabs, although many have varying levels of Semitic/Near Eastern(not necessarily Arabic) ancestry.