Russian People

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Would you consider Russian people to be Asian?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 2.8%

  • No

    Votes: 35 97.2%
  • Total voters
    36
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Condraz23

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Hey everyone.

I've been thinking about this after my Russian friend one day busted out with "I'm an Asian for life, Asian pride baby!".

Culturally, Russia has more in common with Europe. Even the Russian language and religion is of Indo-European origin. Russian tribes shared an extremely recent common ancestry with Germanic tribes. Many Russian people have blonde hair and blue eyes, but in countries such as Japan and India, this is somewhat more uncommon. Two thirds of its land is situated in Asia. Nevertheless, it seems absurd to state that two thirds of Russians are Asian and one third is European.

Russians have also mixed with many Asian people during the past. Modern Russian people exhibit a combination of ethnic characteristics, although the European characteristics remain dominant.

Compare the different physical characteristics exhibited by Russians and other Asians. Note the similarities and differences...

Typical Russian people...

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Typical Asian people...

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The Asian people pictured above are ethnically Korean.

The differences are definitely there. Blonde hair is relatively uncommon in Asia, while it is very abundant in Russia. Russian people are also slightly more pale than their Asian cousins. This is a result of natural selection, because pale skin usually fares much better in a cold climate. Russian people also have a wide variety of eye colors, whilst the eye color of most Asians is usually confined to brown. Nevertheless, both people have high cheekbones and pale skin, as well as a number of other morphological similarities.

Would you consider Russian people to be Asian?
 
Dude, after Putin, none of those people are "typical".

Try this:

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I would say Russians are more European because most of "Asian" Russia is relatively uninhabited.

Asian, when describing a people, I guess, has come to mean Mongoloid-peoples, whereas most Russian people are clearly Caucasoid.
 
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, TYPICAL LOOKS LIKE YOU.

In Soviet Russia, pseudo intelligent posts SPAM YOU.
 
Err this is a bit of a pointless thread. like many others today, but then again there have been some interesting ones.

Slightly off topic but out of interest why the flood of threads today??
 
Ive gotta say no, its sorta obvious they dont look asian, and they probably have little to no asian lineage, just a country area in asia...
 
Russia is in the Eurovision song contest.
 
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Ive gotta say no, its sorta obvious they dont look asian, and they probably have little to no asian lineage, just a country area in asia...
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Well, think of it like this - If it is a "country area in Asia" then wouldn't being born in that country make you Asian?
 
Russia is a European country. The Russian empire was confined to just the European part of it's land prior to the colonial (ish) times. The fur trade drove them east. Therefore, Eastern Russians are Europeans that went east. Besides, it wouldn't make any sense if they were Asians that came west. During the "scramble for Africa," were the UK, France and them African or European?

Russia is just as white, western, whatever as Poland, Sweden, France or Bulgaria.
 
I always thought being Asian meant where are you from, not what you look like. As long as it's from Asia, it's Asian.
 
I don't consider Russian people to be asian. They just never seemed to fit that group.
 
Perfect Balance
I always thought being Asian meant where are you from, not what you look like. As long as it's from Asia, it's Asian.
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It is, the problem is part of Russia is in Europe, and part is in Asia, so what do you class Russians in general. Persoanlly, I'd class them in general as Europeans, but if theres a Russian who's born on the Asian side of Russia and that's pointed out then I'd happily conceed that he's Asian.
 
Perfect Balance
I always thought being Asian meant where are you from, not what you look like. As long as it's from Asia, it's Asian.
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:indiff: Depends who is drawing the map.
You could argue Asia is part of Russia if you wanted.:sly:

More logical to distinguish on ethnic/ cultural characteristics than political/ geographic boundaries.
 
I was yelled at in my Sociology class for considering Russia a part of Europe and a part of Asia, because apparently everything I've learned in my K-12 years is wrong. I've always considered a fairly large part of Russia, up to the Ural Mountains, as a part of Eastern Europe, the rest clearly a part of Asia. Granted, when you've got a country that pretty much spans the entirety of one hemisphere, you're going to go over some lines at some point.

So, Putin and the like over in Moscow? Yeah, they're European. The ones is Yakutsk? Yeah, they're Asian...

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Side Note: Is there anyone from Russia on GTP that could clear some things up for us?

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Side Note #2: Can anyone here speak Russian? I've only met two people who could, that is, those who weren't Russian to begin with... It seems like a difficult language to master, given that it isn't related to the Germanic/Latin roots that dominate the majority of the West.

Side Note #2.5: I always thought it was cool how much English, German and Dutch are related, and on the same token, Spanish, Italian and French to each other as well.
 
In truth Asian people were made a long time ago, we don't really adapt noticeably any more, so if the dont look it/have genes theyre not IMO
 

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