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do not try to beat historyfag with a silly meme
Ironically, 2,500 years before the term ‘Aryan’ became popular among racists and nationalists, the Persian king Darius introduced himself as an Aryan, of Aryan lineage. Indeed the word IRAN" is translated to "ARYAN."
The use of ‘Aryan’ underwent its first extension of meaning in Germany in 1808. philosopher Friedrich Schlegel declared that the ancestors of the Germans were the ancient Persian ‘Aryans’, proclaiming that ‘…our Germanic ancestors, while they were still in Asia, were known foremost under the name “Aryans”. More importantly, concepts of the ‘Aryan’ were increasingly charged with specific character traits that were considered racially inherent and linked to the notion of racial superiority.
By the turn of the century, the term ‘Aryan’ had become popular among the racial and racist vocabulary of scholars, publicists and political activists as a synonym for ‘master race’ or ‘highest race’. Moreover, anti-Semites used the term as a synonym for ‘non-Jewish’. Eventually, the term became widely used as a synonym for ‘Nordic’ or ‘Germanic race’.