Are the Kardashians Persian? A geography lesson

Armenian or Persian? Let the map decide

There is a controversy raging in Los Angeles. A controversy that concerns a cruel slight against LA LA lands most famous family. The allegation suggests that the Komely Kardashian Klan are ‘Persian’.

In LA, the former Iranian community often refers to it’s self as Persian. which is understandable, in a world where Iran or I-ran, as it is charmingly referred to in the United States, is associated with barking mad rhetoric, world class super villainy and a crazed brand of pseudo religious conservatism that sends chills down the collective spines of cocktail loving freedom fans everywhere.

Unfortunately the word Persian has now become a pejorative term in Los Angeles, a byword for brash and outspoken vulgarity and garish taste. No surprise then that the Kardashian Klan refer themselves as Armenian. Of course this is quite different or is it?

Persia was originally an empire that extended from India in the East, to Turkey and Egypt in the west. The Empire was gradually eroded and ceased to exist in 1935.

So paradoxically the Kardashian’s are not Persian if they so choose, because Persia no longer officially exists. But if it did—they would be. Still, who cares? MoM loves those girls, as the fine upstanding examples of American womanhood that they are. Still confused? That’s OK, it is Murder on Mulholland.