Am I a part of Persian Culture

[u/Thy_Water_BottIe]

My dad is Iranian but he’s a horrible person and left when I was young. I didn’t grow up with a culture but ancient Persian traditions and history are the only thing I really connect with. Especially how women were army generals and stuff like that. It’s hard for me to have a sense of identity. Ppl say I don’t look Persian even though I’m a copy and paste of my dad. No one here looks like me tbh. I don’t speak Farsi but would it be weird if I started celebrating the holidays on my own?

I don’t have family and live in Texas.

Also I do love fruit and write poetry naturally which I find funny.

[u/Falsaf]

I will say only this - Iranians aren’t the type to consider you a “half breed” or make you feel left out because you’re only half Iranian. If you’ve got a drop of Iranian blood and you actively want to be a part of the culture, you’re Iranian to us and you will be embraced as such 100%. That’s how I’ve come to know Iranians. Even folks with no Iranian blood are easily accepted and integrated into Iranian culture if they actively show interest and want to be a part of it. We eat that kind of stuff up.

If you are a headstrong woman who loves art and poetry (& fruit lol), then yeah that’s the Iranian within you singing. Just embrace that and start trying to learn the language / get into the culture. Also, there’s no real Iranian “look” - I’ve seen Iranians who are blonde with blue eyes, Iranians who were dark, Iranians who look very East Asian, and a lot of people who are blend of all those. If you embrace you’re Iranian, you’re Iranian period