r/AskCentralAsia

Hi i'm from Easturkstan（or so called Xinjiang）, I have notice that some of my friends(mostly kazakhs) who choose to move to Kazakhstan are facing some kind of discrimination. For example like "Oralman" or "do you eat pork there" etc.

So my question is, why would this happened? I mean people who shown disprespect to them are mostly kazakhs too. Why this dicrimination between same race but different regions happen. Is it because of financial, social or other reason?

And i have also notice that, there are discrimination in South Korea, towards Koryo-saram and Korean who from Yanbian. Does this type of actions have similarity or other how.(I don't konw if there is a subreddit for this question, i would love to ask them "korean" too )

Or is he a good leader?

Oirats only tried to civilize your ancestors and actually help, but you people still see them as historical antagonist. Asian people cannot follow an Islam, it's so weird to see that kind of bizarre shits

Hello from Brasil!

First of all sorry if the question may sound insensitive or I phrased it wrong

I have a lot of interest about central asia history, but it's fucking difficult to kepp track of who is who because people seem to change and move all time, and I highly suspect English sources aren't all that reliable on the internet. one of the things is that the soviets "created" a bunch of countries and arbitrarily decided who is who. Is this true? the borders were somewhat accurate or totally made up? how people define themselves before that?

thank you all and best wishes!

I'm looking to visit Uzbekistan (Samarkand and Bukhara) this year. I live in Canada but am originally from Balkh, Afghanistan and speak both fluent Dari and Iranian Persian. Will I be able to get around in these cities, or will it be difficult?

Its just not the reality on the ground. Strong copium some people are snifing.

Original Iranics before mixing with BMAC looked like Vikings. No Pamiri or Yaghnobi looks like that. The whitest Pamiri or Yaghnobi can at best pass as some very brown Turkish/Kurdish looking Balkan or Romani.

it has to be Pashtuns who are pushing this propaganda of "Eastern Iranics'" = saar we biz white just like you saar, Wir Sprachen Deutsch.

Water wars in Central Asia are unavoidable. The way that people are reproducing and using up the water, soon there will be the new desert.

People often talk about the Indo‑European migrations into Central Asia, especially the Andronovo culture, which is considered one of the ancestors of later Indo‑Iranian groups.

My question is: does any Indo‑European cultural heritage still survive in Central Asia today?

In the north, Slavic culture would be the obvious modern Indo‑European presence. But beyond that — are there traditional, Indo‑European cultural elements that remain among Central Asian peoples today?

Этому учат в школе что все мы жертвы? И на Русский язык срут. Так можно же разделить понятие Русского языка и Российского государства.

Do you want to get married? When do you want to get married? I don't want to get married. Getting married is weird.

I want to get a DNA kit test but heard that western brands like ancestry do not work well for Asian heritage.

I'm just curious how this word evolved in Central Asian Turkic languages. I'll explain the evolution of "Khan" in the Mongolic languages.

As many of u know, the internationally known title "Khan" was actually "Khagan" in Middle Mongolian. Yes, Genghis Khan himself used the "Khagan" version.

So, what happened is, over centuries, the word "Khagan" evolved into "Khaan" by dropping the "g" sound in the middle, merging the vowels into a long "aa".

So basically, Khagan -> Kha'an -> Khaan in Mongolian.

I'd like to read about how it went in Turkic languages.

The Hazara people in Afghanistan are descendants of Mongols who invaded the region in the 1200's. They have both genetic and some linguistic connection to the Mongolian people. Despite residing in our lands, they attempted multiple times to topple our governments, worked for foreign actors such as the Iranian regime in the destabilization of Afghanistan, and caused societal disorder.

1. They rebelled against the Afghan king Abdur Rahman around the late 1880s, which was suppressed.

2. They served as the Shia mujahideen against the Afghan socialist regimes on behalf of Iran where they occupied regions of the capital of Afghanistan for years, during which time they took part in harming civilians.

3. Unrelated to Afghanistan, but Hazara militants have been reported on multiple occasions to be serving the Iranian regime in Syria and Iraq.

Had the Mongol Empire (who are direct ancestors of the modern Mongolian people) not invaded the region and left Hazaras behind, these issues that we had faced wouldn't have occurred.

So I have come to the conclusion that the Hazara people clearly do not view themselves belonging in the country and that the Mongolian government should relocate them in their ancestral homeland through an agreement with the Islamic Emirate currently in charge or at the very least pay reparations for the damage done by Hazaras.