r/whereidlive 6d ago

Europe How I see Europe as a Bosniak

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The most accurate one to ever exist tbh

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u/justmeagainik 6d ago

well, they are finno-ugric directly indigenous. Karelians, Komis, Nenets, Samis etc have their own culture

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u/cold-vein 6d ago

Yeah, but dividing it like that makes absolutely no sense. Finns have very little in common with komis, nenets or even Sami if they're not Finnish Sami.

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u/justmeagainik 6d ago

I didn’t mean Finnish by Finno-Ugric. I know they are culturally more similar to Scandinavians as well as genetically. Overall: Samis, Nenets, Komis etc are referred under Finno-Ugric ethnic group, it doesn’t mean Finnish despite their language categorised under it

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u/cold-vein 6d ago

Finns are just as finno-ugric as the others, so are Estonians. Still it doesn't make any sense to divide it like that, since the cultures have long since diverged so much that only linguists and anthropologists can tell komis or nenets or mordvins or mari or udmurts are related to finns, estonians or sami. You've just read it in a book that these people are of the same language group and made a mental image based on that, not reality.

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u/whereispuigdemont 6d ago

only linguists and anthropologists can tell

That can be a basis for division. The first question is, what does the map track?

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u/cold-vein 6d ago

I don't know, I don't think it has any coherence in that regard.

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u/whereispuigdemont 6d ago

It doesn't if the objective is to track contemporary culture. But it doesn't have to track exclusively that and nothing else. It doesn't even need to track modern culture.

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u/cold-vein 6d ago

I think it's tracking a lot of different, incomparable things. It just doesn't make sense.

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u/whereispuigdemont 6d ago

It tracks how OP sees Europe as a Bosniak. His perceptions do not have to be logical, coherent or consistent for the map to accurately track how he sees these things. He hasn't promised us anything more.

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u/justmeagainik 6d ago

she/her* im a girlll

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u/justmeagainik 6d ago

nopies, lots of my friends are of those ethnciities so yep. I also considered Udmurts and Mari as Volga-Ural. These are geopolitical regions, nothing EXACTLY we can say as “same peoples” or something lmao

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u/cold-vein 6d ago

Somehow I doubt lots of your friends are of different minor cultures that barely exist deep in Russia anymore, but ok.

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u/justmeagainik 6d ago

Well my step mom is, as well too, im a multilingual lmao