India may be renamed as Bharat in special session of Parliament on September 18.

[Baka's Weird Case]

I was about to say something like this.

Persians never really called themselves Persians...from my understanding. The Greeks called them that and it spread as a result. So out of convenience to outsiders they said it. But internally, they always said Iran and Iranians.

Take back your original name(s). I think it's a good thing. Should happen in Africa more. They still got lakes and such named after English Kings and Queens.

I heard the opposite.

Just like with India, there were several groups of different backgrounds in the area. The modern borders of Iran are were Iranians are from.

There was ancient group called Persians(or something similar)but there were a bunch of others who either migrated to other areas or are just a minority. That’s why so many neighboring countries have similar languages. My coworker from Afghanistan speaks Dari but can speak Farsi but his family is historically from Turkmenistan

persia was from persis, which was a province of the achaemenid empire when it had its conflict with the ancient greek city states. persis was where persepolis was which was their capitol for a while. the greeks didn't know a lot about the internal dynamics of the achaemenid empire so they said persian when referring to all of the achamenid empire and the civilizations that existed there in the centuries after.

also, the exact same thing happened in reverse. the achaemenids thought ionia or "yunan" was the center of the greek civilization and used it to refer to greeks. thats why greece in farsi, arabic, and turkish is yunan or yunanistan

 

[Wildin]

Persians never really called themselves Persians...from my understanding. The Greeks called them that and it spread as a result. So out of convenience to outsiders they said it. But internally, they always said Iran and Iranians.

This.

I saw that movie crash with cat in school that was Iranian. He thought they were going to run with the whole plot --Brown man, middle eastern accent/terrorist...

When that lady said "we're not Arab, we're Persians!" He made that face that people of culture know, like if your black at a party and there's another black person at the party and they start c00ning, doing the worm or singing backstreet boys, just shucking and jiving for white folks. I have a boy who's Mexican but he looks like canelo, fair skinned, red hair, people can't tell he's Mexican and he doesn't speak any Spanish, he hides his Mexican, but will pull it out to....whatever mexicans call c00ning. "Yo quiero Taco Bell!!!" "Sup homes!" "Sup foo!" (In the whitest accent possible) even calls other mexicans wetbacks and border jumpers and shyt. White women love this guy though. He's like a Tio Ruckus, without all the anger (until he drinks) about mexicans, he hates them, he hates himself, and he has admitted that.

 

[JQ Legend]

Breh. You know what I'm saying.

But fine. If you want to be pedantic, Ardhi-Kwanza Union.

Negged for being pedantic enough to make me have to google what pedantic means

 

[TheJet]

So they spending tax payer dollars on this "special session". They could have just sent a Survey Monkey lank

 

[3rdWorld]

This.

I saw that movie crash with cat in school that was Iranian. He thought they were going to run with the whole plot --Brown man, middle eastern accent/terrorist...

When that lady said "we're not Arab, we're Persians!" He made that face that people of culture know, like if your black at a party and there's another black person at the party and they start c00ning, doing the worm or singing backstreet boys, just shucking and jiving for white folks. I have a boy who's Mexican but he looks like canelo, fair skinned, red hair, people can't tell he's Mexican and he doesn't speak any Spanish, he hides his Mexican, but will pull it out to....whatever mexicans call c00ning. "Yo quiero Taco Bell!!!" "Sup homes!" "Sup foo!" (In the whitest accent possible) even calls other mexicans wetbacks and border jumpers and shyt. White women love this guy though. He's like a Tio Ruckus, without all the anger (until he drinks) about mexicans, he hates them, he hates himself, and he has admitted that.

Its how some Italiano's in NY were known to smash Black and Hispanic women..They'd pretend to be Rican if they were tanned enough. They'd cut their hair till it was short enough to kill the straightness and style it and later slide in..

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

This.

I saw that movie crash with cat in school that was Iranian. He thought they were going to run with the whole plot --Brown man, middle eastern accent/terrorist...

When that lady said "we're not Arab, we're Persians!" He made that face that people of culture know, like if your black at a party and there's another black person at the party and they start c00ning, doing the worm or singing backstreet boys, just shucking and jiving for white folks. I have a boy who's Mexican but he looks like canelo, fair skinned, red hair, people can't tell he's Mexican and he doesn't speak any Spanish, he hides his Mexican, but will pull it out to....whatever mexicans call c00ning. "Yo quiero Taco Bell!!!" "Sup homes!" "Sup foo!" (In the whitest accent possible) even calls other mexicans wetbacks and border jumpers and shyt. White women love this guy though. He's like a Tio Ruckus, without all the anger (until he drinks) about mexicans, he hates them, he hates himself, and he has admitted that.

What sort of affinity/support should Arabs and Persians offer each other?

Should a Muslim Bengali be buddy buddy with a Moroccan Berber because the West reduces their ancient identities to “brown potential terrorists”?

 

[mykey]

Breh. You know what I'm saying.

But fine. If you want to be pedantic, Ardhi-Kwanza Union.

This is Swahili meaning "first earth" I don't know why westerners equate Africa with Swahili a lot.

It's an important language, but the most populous Lingua Franca in Africa is Hausa found mostly in Niger, Nigeria and throughout west Africa.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

This is Swahili meaning "first earth" I don't know why westerners equate Africa with Swahili a lot.

It's an important language, but the most populous Lingua Franca in Africa is Hausa found mostly in Niger, Nigeria and throughout west Africa.

And many people would balk at Hausification, especially in Nigeria, due to ongoing Hausification of Nigeria’s Middle Belt region!

Africa, like Asia, will never have an indigenous lingua franca.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

This is Swahili meaning "first earth" I don't know why westerners equate Africa with Swahili a lot.

It's an important language, but the most populous Lingua Franca in Africa is Hausa found mostly in Niger, Nigeria and throughout west Africa.

First earth, first land, Land of the First .... I picked the words that would give me AU and were definitely from an African language.

Well if you don't want Swahili being considered the lingua franca of Africa, you guys should handle your PR better.

You know no one is speaking Hausa. Or Yoruba or Igbo. For no other reason than they don't have as much popularity as Swahili.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

They should call it the Harlem Union

Listen. If @Nkrumah Was Right balked at Alkebulan Union because it sounds Arabic. I doubt the Harlem Union is passing committee either. It sounds colonizer.

 

[Child_Of_God]

Bharat sounds like a Mortal Kombat character.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

What sort of affinity/support should Arabs and Persians offer each other?

Should a Muslim Bengali be buddy buddy with a Moroccan Berber because the West reduces their ancient identities to “brown potential terrorists”?

there is a concept in islam of the “umma” which is a common national identity based on islamic identity. so if they are religious they are supposed to prioritize their common religious identity over a national or ethnic identity.

in practice this generally doesn’t happen in the modern era and if they are not religious they would have no reason to care at all

 

[Eternal Tecate]

That Moti is a hard-core Hindu..

This is the impetus

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Listen. If @Nkrumah Was Right balked at Alkebulan Union because it sounds Arabic. I doubt the Harlem Union is passing committee either. It sounds colonizer.

Harlem or Haarlem is a district in Amsterdam!