Happy Persian New Year!
- Thread starter Analog
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I celebrated this with my Persian friends last night. There was some confusion on the date though.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iranian
I love dictionaries:
If I put one white guy in China can we no longer call it Chinese New Year because not everybody in China is Chinese?
I never said a non-persian living in Iran isn't called an Iranian. Analog and I are saying it's Persian New Year, not Iranian New Year.
M-W doesn't have a definition for this particular holiday, but per the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_new_year
Lunar New Year is a generic term for any such holiday, while Chinese New Year refers to the lunar new year celebration of China, which was my point.
Is this what you're referring to? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz
"the traditional Iranian new year holiday"
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persia is, historically, a small part of iran (around shiraz, where the capital of the persian empire, persepolis, was located). internally, the country has known itself as iran (or, land of the aryans, which describes the ethnicity of most people living there) for a long, long time.
iirc, new year based on the spring equinox is traditional in central asia.
in england new year was traditionally celebrated on march 25 (lady day), which is pretty darn close to the equinox. afaik, school terms are still set up around the historical quarter year days (lady day, midsummer's day, michaelmas, and christmas)
iirc, new year based on the spring equinox is traditional in central asia.
in england new year was traditionally celebrated on march 25 (lady day), which is pretty darn close to the equinox. afaik, school terms are still set up around the historical quarter year days (lady day, midsummer's day, michaelmas, and christmas)
I was under the impression that Iran is a modern day country and Nowruz was an ancient Persian holiday.
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I don't think it's Persian new year. I think it's just Parsi new year. I assume the Iranians now use whatever calendar the Arabs do.
Everyone from Iran calls themselves Persian. There is really no distinction.
The only people who probably won't call themselves Persian are the Jews.
The only people who probably won't call themselves Persian are the Jews.
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