I'm persian / let me tell you something

This entire post is quite sad given it's 2011. That said, I think it's important to understand that "white" is a term relative to culture.

In the U.S., the label of "white" was legally reserved for those people who had less than 1 drop of "Negro" blood. It was called, The 1-Drop Rule and echoes of those laws still color many conversations about race.

This lead us to an irony not yet mention within this thread and that is there are "black" people who are "white" or passed as so.

So while people are arguing about whether or not Persians are white, it should give us all pause that some people who are indeed "black", nonetheless have white skin and thus the absurdity of the conversation comes full circle.

Here's an example that just came to mind first: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm820019712/nm0395043, but it shouldn't be too hard to think of more contemporary examples.

The Persian empire was quite big so I think in that time Persians could look like anybody, white, yellow, black, brown.
But it's a good post, and I liked the movie. I had low expectations because every time someone tries to turn a videogame into a movie they failed but this one was pretty good and amusing also.

You forgot:

Alexander III. of Macedonia kicked your butt. In the worst way.

300 was a lie just because persians got smashed apart

Persians are some of the most nicest people I've ever met, humanity is all the same really, and the descendants of Alexander the great's army have some fascinating eyesSource:Prince of Persia sands of Time Reviewhttp://moviereviews.noskram.com/2011/06/prince-of-persia-sands-of-time -review

Aren't persian sort of heavy-tanned / bronze-ish like color
with a hint of red?

surely not "plain white". Otherwise they wouldn't survive the hot climate

You do realize that the majority of the Persian army under Xerxes was comprised of dozens of non-Persian battalions.

By the time the battle at Thermopylae occurred (the location of 300) the Persian army had conquered so many nations that only a small section of it were Persian natives.

Indians, Libyans, Arabians, Sagartians, etc were all present at the time, so the fact that the soldiers you saw in the movie did not match a typical Persian native's complexion is irrelevant.

I personally think that Disney should have used Persians, not Americans, Icelanders, whatever else, with accents... were any Germanic languages even spoken in this era in Persia?