Restricting of the use of the word Aryan to the peoples of Iran and northern India is the result of political correctness. Until political correctness began to corrupt language, Aryan was synonymous with Indo-European, not merely with Indo-Iranian alone. You can find scientific papers that use the word Aryan in its original and more general sense. For a late example, see The Origins of Indo-European Languages by Colin Renfrew (Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, UK), Scientific American 261, October 1989: 106-14. Skin color is a symptom of race, not race itself. Two different races can have roughly the same distribution of skin color. Not all tribes whose members have dark skin belong to the same race. There are several dark-skinned races in Africa alone, and several others exist outside Africa, scattered around the tropics of the world. You can find one of them, for example, on the island of Panay in the Philippines. Although these Negritoes appear very similar to some of the African dark races, they are quite far apart in the statistical space created to map the allele markers that geneticists use. The same is true for light-skinned races. Not all people with fair skin belong to the same race that I do. My ancestors were Irish, Scot, English, French, and German. They are all somewhat closely related to each other, especially the English, French, and Germans. If you want to see the genetic distances quantified, get a copy of The History and Geography of Human Genes, by L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza, and find Tables 2.3.1A and 5.5.1, which appear on pages 75 and 270, respectively, in the Abridged Paperback Edition. Jews (and a few other fair-skinned groups, such as the Turks) stand well apart from the FST cluster formed by the core nationalities of the European white race. There are a few members of that cluster that might be considered fringe members, but the Jews—generally speaking—are too far away to be regarded even as a fringe member of the white race. Persons who were born as racial mixtures of Aryan and Jew, who count themselves as Jews, are really similar to mulattoes or mestizos, except that the non-Aryan portion of their makeup doesnt show as much.
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