To: freedom44
Zoroastrians, and Parsis in particular, are a fascinating people. Many of them are not particularly religious... and they tend to be smart as all get-out. This makes them ideal marriage partners for people of other cultures... contributing to the decline problem.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
To: Criminal Number 18F
Heh... Somehow I figured you'd know a bit about these guys. My study of them has been more 'esoteric'....
To: Criminal Number 18F
Parsees -- like Freddie MErcury of Queen (or to give him his real name Fourokh Bulsara, escaped from Persia fleeing slammie persecution and landed on the west coast of india. now the Indians on the WEst had had skirmishes with the Persians for millenia, so though they were welcomed as escapees from the barbaric slammie, the Rajah made themj promise to only marry among themselves. So over 14 centuries they did that and bred themselves out of existance.
The Jews were also given refuge in Kerala in AD 70 but no such promises were made!
44 posted on
12/24/2003 1:30:43 AM PST by
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