What Arab? Ahmed is Persian.
And yet in the show they keep calling him "the Arab." Did you pay attention at all?
I posted a thread about this. It baffled me too. They stated he was from Bukhara, which is in current Uzbekistan even though its people weren't Uzbecks but mostly Turkish or Persian. They are definitely not Arabs though, yet all the characters on the show kept referring to Ahmed as "the Arab."
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movie_nazi
9 years ago
And yet in the show they keep calling him "the Arab." Did you pay attention at all?
I posted a thread about this. It baffled me too. They stated he was from Bukhara, which is in current Uzbekistan even though its people weren't Uzbecks but mostly Turkish or Persian. They are definitely not Arabs though, yet all the characters on the show kept referring to Ahmed as "the Arab."
Probably because the characters in the show are just as ignorant. I watched the show two years ago and just started the second season so I honestly do not remember he being referred to as The Arab. However I do remember reading about the real life persona of whom the character is based on and know he was most likely Persian. If people only knew that most Persians would be insulted to be referred as Arabs but then again most Western societies are completely ignorant of other cultures.
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LaCountess
9 years ago
In season two, Kaido, his mother, and his allies constantly referred to Ahmed as "the Arab," to the point that I had to go back and watch his flashback again to make sure he says Bukhara and not somewhere farther south.
Not only did they make the only Persian on the show a sick, evil bastard, they didn't even have the decency to refer to him by his real ethnicity. I doubt you could say the Mongols were ignorant. They'd been fighting, conquering and dealing in Persia at that point for decades. It would be pretty odd for them to confuse its people with people they rarely interacted with.
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movie_nazi
9 years ago
Not only did they make the only Persian on the show a sick, evil bastard, they didn't even have the decency to refer to him by his real ethnicity. I doubt you could say the Mongols were ignorant. They'd been fighting, conquering and dealing in Persia at that point for decades. It would be pretty odd for them to confuse its people with people they rarely interacted with.
So you think it is an oversight of the writers rather than the Mongols simply thinking that if he came from the middle-east then he is just an Arab? They call Marco Polo "The Latin" which is a generalized term referring to anyone in the Western Mediterranean if you think about it. A Latin could have been a Spaniard, a Portuguese, or even a Frenchman since all of their languages derive from Latin. I personally think that to the Mongols it was like Persian or Arab, potatoe, potata, tomatoe, tomata. They were like, "Oh you are from the middle east? OK, we will call you the Arab."
"But I am from Persia!"
"Whatever, Arab."
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