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Originally posted by Spanky
2) As far as the Dari joining Iran (and Kabul joining Iran), like I said before, that is what I would expect but I have never heard of a "greater persia" movement. There are calls for a united pashtunistan "to be rid of their Persian and Punjabi overlords" but never anything about persians. So I am not sure what would happen to the Persian portion of Afghanistan.
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You may find it interesting sometime to get a couple of maps to compare - one of those who are linguistically Persian and those who are religiously Shi'a. If you compare the two and think about what is important to the people occupying these greatly overlapping lands, I think you'll discover the reason you don't hear much about greater Persia.
Culturally, I'd identify people in the area less by language (among the elites, certainly, virtually everyone is multi-lingual) and more by religion or even by their national epic poetry - the ever moving line between those who read the Shahnama and those who read the Mahabharata having more to do with national consciousness than their sub-ethnic group per se.
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