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Who were the Aryans?
The Aryans were historically an ancient people from central Asiaaround the Caspian Sea, and they had a profound influence on theformation of ancient India and Persia/Iran- in …fact, the Iranianname for their own country means "land of the Aryans", and goesback over two thousand years. Because the real Aryans lived in atime before writing was commonplace, we don't know a lot abouttheir early history, except that thousands of years ago a group ofthem invaded India; later a second group invaded Persia (modernIran). The Vedas , ancient Hindu holy texts, were written inthe language of the Aryans, which is now commonly called "VedicSanskrit". However, the problem is that in the late 1800s, certain racistcrackpots in France (Arthur de Gobineau) and England (HoustonStewart Chamberlain) began conflating our limited knowledge of theAryans with Darwinian concepts, and mushed in some occult mumbojumbo. They came up with the kernel of the idea of a "master race"-that certain people from Europe were ultimately descended from theAryans, and that these Europeans were inherently better than allother people. It's all nonsense based on inaccurate reading ofhistory. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi stooges latched onto these "theories" andused them as a basis of their ridiculous racist ideology, claimingthat Germanic peoples (Germans, Scandinavians, even some French andEnglish) were "Aryan" and thus better than other peoples. They alsodecided that Jews and other Semitic peoples were inferior andparasitic, so it was ok for "Aryans" to enslave or kill them.There's no scientific or historical basis behind any of it, andit's utter nonsense. Sadly, a lot of people still believe in itanyway. (MORE)