Author: Serd » Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:56 am
HeminKurdistani wrote:Plz show a little respect to Kurdish people. Persians never say Kurds are a branch of persians, because Kurds are not. Culturally and historically there has been deep differences and big distances between the two. This is true for Balouchis too. Persians dont consider Balouchis as Persians either. On the other hand Persians consider many other northwest Iranian speaking peoples as ethnic Persians, though from a linguistic point of view they speak different languages. the reason is because historically and culturally they are very close to one another.
This is also true about Kurmanjs and Zazas. If we even accept that their languages are separate then still they have closer languages, [both are northwst Iranic], and most important, historically and culturally they are the same.
Respect is mutual. I don’t see any respect towards my identity here. Anyway, there is nothing that I did wrong. I am just telling you what some of my Persian friends told me. They specifically used the word “tribe”. Well, you are talking the same way to us. So I don’t really think anybody owes you any apologize.
What history and what culture you are talking about? We also have the same history with Armenians and other Anatolian ethnic groups, including Turks, for thousands of years. And yes, we borrowed many cultural aspects of Anatolian, Aryan and Middle Eastern people. Our food is, by and large, the same: Gyro, sis kebab, kofte, dolma, lahmacun… The cloths you guys wear in Iran and Iraq is no way close to us. I have never seen people in my hometown wearing those cloths. Just name five things that are common only between you and us, excluding Persians, Turks, and Arabs. Five is very minuscule for people living side by side for two millenniums.
Nation states are founded on one language. In one nation state, other languages are also spoken, but they are given no respect and treated like trash. So don’t sell us your same history/culture crab. We are not sheep flocks or children that you can direct. The bottom line is that: we are going to decide our future and shape our identity, not others.