did you know that people from Germany and Iran are from the same race?

Question

they are both from the race "Arian"

Answer 1

Is that why they look alike?

Answer 2

The question belongs to the 19th century rather than the 21st , and is frightening.. Today we talk not of race but of speakers of related languages. There is an Indo-European family of languages to which many present-day languages of the world belong( English, German , French, etc , Old Persian , Sanskrit and its derivatives, etc.) In fact Sanskrit , Latin , and classical Greek are closely related. Within the Indo-European family , there is a sub-family known as the Indo-Iranian. In fact the sacred Zoroastrian text Avesta and the Hindu sacred text Rigveda are so closely related that one cannot properly be understood without reference to the other.
The word Aryan should be restricted to ancient Indic and Iran , because that is how those people described themselves. Also it should be used in a linguistic sense and not racially. That is current scholarship and good sense also.

Answer 3

Technically there are only 3 races in the human species. Our scientists of old were not very brilliant in this regard. These scientific types are: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and *******

So technically you are correct in terms of science, but in the end what does it really matter, and the real question is this: what is gained by attempting to classify a human by using their birthplace, physical appearance, or religion?

Try to think of it in terms of that we are all in the human race, and originally probably had the same parents.

PS: It's "ARYAN"

Answer 4

It is important that we express ourselves carefully about such things. That being said, the term "race" as it applies to any group of people from a specific area is only useful in speaking in anthropological terms. The modern use of the term is practically meaningless due to intermarrying which has so diluted any sense of race that vestiges are difficult to determine.
Barring this, historically, one might quote Tacitus as referring to the purity of the Germans. At that time there was little reason to doubt their northern European origins.
During the Reformation, it was fashionable not to be allied with such Roman origins and in the 18th and 19th centuries, at the rise of Germanic ethnic pride, it was inappropriate to be aligned with Roman decadence. Nevertheless, modern anthropology seems to bear out the origins of the Germanic peoples as northern European. It was the "discovery" of the Aryans in the 19th century that enabled Max Muller and others to postulate the concept of the superior white race. It is unfortunate that despite evidence to the contrary in the late 19th century, these myths continued to prosper, reaching perhaps their zenith before WWII and kept alive by those skinheads today who would continue to separate us according to racial character.

Answer 5

Arian (sic) or Aryan is not a race. Check Wikipedia for accurate information.

Answer 6

They are both from Purssain origin, not race, Each race has developed it's own look, so for the untrained mind it would be difficult to believe the fact that they share the same origin.
Cheers

Answer 7

Are thinking in terms of Hitler and how he said he was German and Arian? We Hitler was Austrian with dark hair and eyes. He also said Arians are have blond hair and blue eyes. Last I looked everyone in my family has dark hair and dark colored eyes. I also seem to recall that we are of German decent my grandmother maiden name was Ditchman.

Now people from Iran are actually Arabic. The has olive skin, dark hair and dark colored eyes. That doesn't seem like Hitlers idea of Arian Nation. I think you are trying to make a play on words and that is all. Arian, Iranian....educate yourself!!!

Answer 8

Arian is germanic and Aryan is sanskrit of persian originhas to do with spirituality or race origins. don't have any thing in common.

Answer 9

Well, my dear, we are all from the same race: human. Germans and Iranians share about as many characteristics as Irish and Polish people do. Two eyes, one nose, two ears, etc. Not sure what the point of your question/answer was dear.

Answer 10

Oh dear, where do you get your wisdom from?
Aryan was an expression of the Nazis for the so-called "master race" that was supposed to be tall, blonde, and blue-eyed.
It was also a name early Iranians used for themselves about 3000 years ago.
Nowadays we use Indo-European and we mean the group of languages (which we sometimes equate with ethnic relationship, though that's very dodgy) both English and Iranian belong to, together with German and most other European languages.

Answer 11

Aryans originated from Iran (Babylon, or Mesopotamia in those days) and spread over to Europe, and to the East (India, Pakistan etc)