I don& #39;t know why it& #39;s so hard to accept that there are white, brown, and Black Iranians. All Iranians. Some are racialized as white in America, some are not.

The privilege is in how you& #39;re read.

Nationality =/= race =/= ethnicity

When people say "Iranians are people of color" or "Iranians are white", I& #39;m always curious about which Iranians because both statements are technically correct.

Iran is a nation of Persians, Arabs, Azeris, Lurs, Kurds, Balochs, Bandaris, Turks, and many more ethnic groups. People of a nation don& #39;t all look alike and, therefore, don& #39;t all have the same racial experiences in the U.S. That& #39;s why those race bubbles and these convos are weird

Honestly, I& #39;m mainly looking at fellow Iranians with this thread but people who have interacted with Iranians know that how we are read varies.