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mostaleoht<p>Not all <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Russians" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russians</span></a> are... <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russian</span></a>. For two simple reasons, both related to <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>colonialism</span></a>:</p><p>1) Many people could identify as very different folks, but are pressed, or used to, identify as russians. This is true even for 100% non-russian people (think <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tver</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Karela" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Karela</span></a> as an extreme example), but many (most?) people in post-USSR also have mixed ancestry. Yet were always societally pressured to identify as Russians.</p><p>2) ...</p>
mostaleoht<p>2. Only <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tat</span></a> is called <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CrimeanTatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CrimeanTatar</span></a>, while <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Nogai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nogai</span></a> and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Urum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Urum</span></a> is shown as separate languages, and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Yal%C4%B1boylu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yalıboylu</span></a> is called &quot;Crimean Turkish&quot;. This is a bold move that I kinda like (usually they are gathered under an umbrella term of Crimean <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tatar</span></a> identity), and it&#39;s unusual.<br />3. Similarly nicely, central <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Karelian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Karelian</span></a> in relation to <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Livvik" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Livvik</span></a> and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Lude" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lude</span></a> (although <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tver</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Karela" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Karela</span></a> are marked as simple Karelian)<br />4. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Polesian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Polesian</span></a> is shown as a separate <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>language</span></a>, which is cool! (It&#39;s a transitional BY-UA <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dialect" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dialect</span></a>)</p>
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