Caucasian Pride- This article is on Eurasian meaning of Caucasian and how the peoples of Caucasus Region show their ethnic roots through Caucasian pride. Back ground- In Eurasia in the Russian Federation and in former Soviet states there is the term used called Caucasian, it refers to people from the Near East region of Asia known as the Caucasus Mountains or as it said in Russian-Kavkaz. The peoples of this region have a long and rich cultural history dating back thousands of years.The Russian Empire during Czarist times expanded the empire to stop and push back the Turkish empire and the Persian empire thus taking Christian, Muslim and Jewish regions by force in a very long series of wars to expand its borders.During the later part of Czarist times there was two major cultural movements that occured one being the love for all things French as way of showing but another came from those fighting in the wars meeting those people and with Cossacks intermarrying with local women bring the Caucasian culture into the Russian culture. This is seen in everything from clothing, hats, foods, weapons, customs and language. There are many different types of Caucasians and none of them have any genetic origins in the peoples of Europe based upon the many studies by the National Geographic genome project.
Terminology: The term Caucasian when used by a Russian person means an Asian from the Caucasus, typically a person with light brown skin and dark hair. It is used sometimes in derogatory manner to mean they a backward uncultured person like an American Hillbilly. It has also been used to say the person was a not true Russian. Caucasian pride movement developed during the Czarist times, but was suppressed during the Soviet times. After the collapse of the Soviet era, and states became countries the reemergence of cultural pride returned to area. Caucasian pride is seen today in many of the regions and states in wearing of ethnic clothing, cultural celebrations, speaking in ethnic languages and in the rise of ethnic restaurants. [1] [2] [3] [4]
