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Post by Subuatai on Dec 4, 2008 16:37:49 GMT -5
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Post by Subuatai on Dec 4, 2008 17:58:28 GMT -5
... no comment?  |
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Post by Subuatai on Dec 4, 2008 18:30:59 GMT -5
My grandfather is Kalmyk Mongol from the Caucasus region, my grandmother is Slavic from Russia but with Tatar ancestry. My father was born in Dzungaria, our ancestral homelands in East Turkistan. My mother is Tsahar Mongol and her grandmother is ethnic Manchu. The migrations began during WW2 after the deportations of Kalmyks due to some Kalmyk Mongol guerillas who fought against the U.S.S.R. for the Nazis. My family was never part of that however, but Stalin of course, was paranoid. Most of us died however, but the rest were dispersed all over Russia, some found ways to return home to Dzungaria, but in time the state of Kalmykia was re-instated and the dispersed Kalmyks in Russia were allowed to return. Mongols and Turks are close, but still distant cousins. Both Altaic. I speak English now, and some Kalmyk and some Halh Mongol  However, I'm aware of central-asian cultures whether Mongol or Turk  |
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Post by straylight on Dec 4, 2008 19:12:08 GMT -5
nice. i've been thinking of kazakhstan as some sort of "official" eurasian country in a way. seems like everyone there has the look.
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Post by Subuatai on Dec 4, 2008 19:16:34 GMT -5
Yup, they are the most classic example of mixed heritage Though, they have some problems of their own, if it wasn't for Soviet occupation and colonisation of their country they wouldn't have adopted racialism and the identity crisis it brings with it. Steppe nomads should remember who they are in the end, as people who don't give a flying F about race. Now let's go to the south-west too, Hazara Mongols in Afghanistan! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpVIjxTZIZ8 |
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Post by Phil on Dec 5, 2008 8:44:17 GMT -5
We gotta do a meet up there one day. I'm sure it#d be loads of fun and no body would look outa place.
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Post by Subuatai on Dec 5, 2008 8:49:58 GMT -5
Yup, saddle a horse and live in a ger/yurt for a while, experience the freedom of living in an ocean of grass, stretching from horizon to horizon under the eternal blue sky The people you meet, how you look does not matter, but who you are as an individual. This very aspect of our culture however, is slowly being lost due to foreign influences... but, if our people play our cards right, hopefully we'll always have a real Eurasia |
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quiapo
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Post by quiapo on Dec 5, 2008 18:22:18 GMT -5
They look so EA, it wouldn't be hard for a lot of us to blend in over there, nice looking too, just like us.
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Post by Subuatai on Dec 5, 2008 23:35:06 GMT -5
You'll fit in very easy Just language/culture may be different, but anyone can learn |
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Post by Subuatai on Dec 6, 2008 0:37:04 GMT -5
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Post by Shock on Dec 13, 2008 12:38:17 GMT -5
Yup, saddle a horse and live in a ger/yurt for a while, experience the freedom of living in an ocean of grass, stretching from horizon to horizon under the eternal blue sky Oh dear, i've always dreamed that kind of life since my childhood  |
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Post by Altan on Dec 16, 2008 19:07:46 GMT -5
^Looks like some Plov. Those Pilaf/Pilov/Plov Chefs in Uzbekistan are unbelievable.
Maybe we should call Eurasia/Avrasya.
I was always wondering about those three buildings and what each purpose they served.
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Post by rob on Dec 30, 2008 22:43:10 GMT -5
We gotta do a meet up there one day. I'm sure it#d be loads of fun and no body would look outa place. Come one, come all. I've been holed up in Almaty+Astana KZ ...... and 70% of the people here look just like us! If you speak a smidgen of Russian, you'd almost certainly want to call this home ... at least while you're single |
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Post by swinger on Dec 30, 2008 22:52:07 GMT -5
you'd almost certainly want to call this home ... at least while you're single Yeah, sure...try and lure us with the promise of hot Almaty singles. I, for one, am not buying it. The promise:  The reality:  |
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Post by rob on Dec 30, 2008 23:02:25 GMT -5
The reality:  |
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