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[MADem]

107. No one is trying to pin them into an ethnic loyalty.

They do look Persian, though (and there are Persian Armenians, as well as Turkish ones--just for starters), and if you look at a map, you will see why. They do also look a bit Armenian and Turkomen and even Afghan, and the map will explain that, too.

People who come from the same region tend to look alike in very specific ways --it's why so many northern Europeans have fair skin and hair and blue eyes--because they are all related in an ethnic way. In the southwest Asian neck of the woods, I notice a face shape and certain features--cheekbones and set of the eye, oddly enough--that makes me recognize someone from that end of the world.

America is more of a melting pot but that is not the case in other societies, where marrying outside one's group is a rarer thing.

We KNOW that they are a mix of Chechen (father) and Avar (mother). That's been published, there's no speculating about that at this stage. But those ethnicities can "pass" for other ethnicities in the region--that's the only point I was making. They looked Persian to me, and I was hoping, frankly, that they weren't.