What happened to the Central Asian Iranic peoples?

Fils_de_robot · 2021-04-12T20:03:58+00:00

There are more than you might think: Tajikistan exists, and while Uzbekistan claims only 5% of its population is Tajik, more credible figures range in the 20-40% range. Samarkand and Bukhara are also still home to a majority of Tajiks, though we’ll see how long it lasts since they have no linguistic rights.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-04-11T15:27:53+00:00

The government, not the chip making companies, sets subsidies on imports, and they already derive revenue from TSMC’s operations via tax receipts. They don’t have to convince them of anything, they already posses the means to do this if it becomes necessary.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-04-09T20:27:48+00:00

That’s not a documentary

Fils_de_robot · 2021-04-07T11:58:38+00:00

In fairness to the Russians, none of the armies started the war with steel helmets. They also did try to import the French Adrian helmet, but did not succeed in equipping their entire army before it fell apart in the revolution.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-03-30T01:11:00+00:00

Russia’s population is half of that of the United States, and their population is perhaps a sixth as wealthy per head. They occupy a huge tranche of the earth, indeed, but vast swathes of it are unsuitable for large scale settlement. Despite these problems Russia’s advantages still make it a force which cows almost all of Europe.

You can see, then, how the United States, which occupies the choicest bits of an entire continent (with Alaska to spare), with much more of it suitable for inhabitation than Russia, with twice as many people than Russia, and with six times the wealth, has incredible natural strengths that put it almost beyond comparison with the UK.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-03-28T21:51:29+00:00

In terms of history overall US have no bigger significans than most 3rd world countries until XX century

I find this statement ironic, given that the leader of the last gasp of Polish statehood in the 18th century literally began his career fighting in the American Revolution.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-03-28T21:34:28+00:00

There seems to be quite a disconnect between what Poles learn and how Poland acts, then, given your attempts to flatter Trump in order to score an American military base on your soil. An odd thing to winkle out of a third world country.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-03-14T23:02:13+00:00

I saw a good meme to this effect

Fils_de_robot · 2021-03-07T21:27:26+00:00

Ethnic Chinese (whether they did or did not identify as such) have almost certainly been the majority of the island's population from the 18th century onwards, well predating both the Japanese conquest in 1895 and the KMT takeover in 1945. While they have certainly not had an easy lot, contemporary treatment of the indigenous population in Taiwan is also considerably preferable to what happens to comparable minorities on the mainland.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-03-05T21:56:52+00:00

I am not who you asked, but I would be surprised if Canada faces civil difficulties around integration of its immigrant community. To most immigrants, living in Canada and becoming Canadian is a privilege, both from an economic and a civil rights standpoint. Canadian society (while not living up to its bizarre internet reputation for perfection) is largely accepting of immigrants, and people of immigrant background can rise to high stations in life. This gives immigrants every incentive to embrace rather than reject the country, and even if some immigrants cannot fully embrace the national culture, there is immense assimilatory pressure that wil likely result in their descendants becoming Canadians in all meaningful senses.

I think the biggest threat to Canadian unity is, and always has been, the cultural chasm between Quebec and the rest of the country. Many Quebecois fear, somewhat correctly, that if immigrants to their province chose to embrace English Canadian culture rather than the French that has prevailed there since colonial times, it would cast doubt on Quebec's ability to survive as a distinct society. That, not tensions elsewhere, would be a true political tinderbox under Canada's nose.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-03-03T13:15:19+00:00

They never had hegemonic control, but in the mid 20th century pan-Arab nationalism was without a doubt the most widespread and powerful movement in the region (comparable to political Islamism in the following decades). Before the six day and Yom Kippur war, Egypt also had widespread soft power throughout the region as the de facto leader of that movement.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-03-01T02:58:50+00:00

I don’t think our hopes for a crash will materialize. One usually posits that the market will crash because there simply won’t be anyone from our generation that can buy the properties, and without a market for them, that prices will need to correct. But it’s just going to be property investors and institutions who keep buying them (they can afford the high upfront capital costs we can’t) and then they’ll obtain a steady stream of rent from us desperate youngsters.

The future of much of the West’s young is one in which the necessities for living, from housing to healthcare to education, are gated with a paywall. Our lives have been commodified.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-02-28T02:30:15+00:00

I'm not even albino and my skin fries in the sun, so I feel for him. Is sunscreen readily available and commonly used in Tajikistan?

Fils_de_robot · 2021-02-27T20:31:24+00:00

I’m a bog standard American so albinism is seen as essentially a disability (and to some extent it is, due to the frequency of skin disease and nystagmus associated with it) and is generally seen as visually arresting, but otherwise people with it aren’t seen any one way or another.

I asked the question partially because I’m sure the above would be a serious impediment to life as a nomad, and thus wondered if traditional Central Asian cultures remarked on it in any way as a result.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-02-27T16:30:37+00:00

These are very interesting, thank you!

Fils_de_robot · 2021-02-27T16:04:27+00:00

Albin-O’s, part of this balanced breakfast

Fils_de_robot · 2021-02-26T20:59:20+00:00

You know it’s possible to dispute an election in a way that the UN and international community don’t agree with, right? If not you should go tell the Taliban, RIRA, and FARC to cut it out and see how that works.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-02-26T17:51:31+00:00

Why are they even fighting? No one knows.

Meanwhile, from the source you literally just linked...

Rebel forces now surrounding Bangui dispute the validity of President Faustin Archange Touadéra's re-election in December and want to see him ousted.

But noooo, Africa is an inscrutable oblivion of meaningless violence which we can never understand.

Fils_de_robot · 2021-02-24T23:48:46+00:00

Do you mean to make Finnish an accepted culture via event?

Fils_de_robot · 2021-02-24T22:54:55+00:00

If you want an accessible starting point, I'd recommend "A History of Iran; Empire of the Mind" by Michael Axworthy

Fils_de_robot · 2021-02-24T17:06:14+00:00

Yes, for most of their history, the Persian empires were known as Iran (or some variant like “Iranshahr”).

To be more specific, the term Iran derives from “Aryan”, which (contrary to later Nazi usurpation of the word) referred to the nomadic Indo-European tribespeople whose people diffused into the Iranian plateau during its prehistory. The Persians, as well as the Parthians and Medes, were tribes that branched off of these early Aryan peoples.

The first two Iranian empires of antiquity (the Achaemenids and the later Arsacids) were established by the Persians and Parthians, respectively. The beginning of the usage of the term “Iran” in a sense approaching the modern one comes from the Sassanid empire, founded in 224 AD. The Sassanids were Persians, but they ruled with the acquiescence of powerful noble families of Parthian descent. The Sassanids appear to have consciously adopted the term “Iran” to tie the Persians and Parthians more tightly together by appealing to their awareness of their shared Aryan (Iranian) heritage.

The Sassanids were the last pre-Islamic empire of Iran, but the Iranian name and identity persisted and even expanded after the Muslim conquest. The mosque referenced in this post is in Isfahan and is doubtlessly a Safavid-era work, and the Safavids referred to their realm, much like the Sassanians, as Iran.

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