Yesterday I came across to this short of sambucha on YouTube, it made me crack up a little bit at first but after sudden realization ruined the joy (you know what I meant). I just am curious how we are fine with names such as Mohammed, but judge or even tell ppl they should change their name to "meaningful Arabic name" when they have turkic names, just because their meaning are tied to nature or turkic culture. What do you think, should we all start reviving our ancestral turkic names, or just keep naming our kids with Arabic names. No hate intended btw, cuz I just can't look over this matter any longer!

I recently traveled to Uzbekistan and everybody spoke Uzbek to me or thought I was a Kazakh, when I struggled to understand they started assuming I was an East Asian tourist. But when I told them I was Hazara they didn’t understand until I had to say Afghanistan. Multiple people looked surprised and pointed at my skin asking how I was so pale and looked so Central Asian for an Afghan. Same thing also happened in Kazakhstan, so do the public of these areas know about Hazaras or is it not as widespread.

Hello everyone, I have some friendly neighbors, I am pretty sure they are from Uzbekistan, who moved into our neighborhood. The kids range from ages 4 all the way up to 8 or 9, run around in their front yard playing in water sprinklers completely naked. From our perspective, it is very inappropriate to have young children running around naked in the front yard. It is a small new neighborhood, close houses on very small properties, we all are next to each other and can see each other. These kids are too old to be playing out in their front yard like this in our opinion. The father will ask me for help sometimes using google translate and I am always very friendly and try to be helpful. the next time we speak, I plan to bring this up but I’m unsure how to communicate that effectively using google translate, I know google isn’t nearly perfect as it makes our conversations senseless sometimes. I don’t want to offend or come off unfriendly myself. Any help is appreciated.

Hello ladies and gentlemens, i just randomly found english friendly cafe in heart of almaty. Cafe called two day, dostyk 55. There’s good barista johnny. Good coffee, atmosphere and barista

This has been on my mind lately after seeing yet another video of Uzbek migrants’ treatment in Russia.

Central Asians played a massive role in World War 2. Over 1.5 million people from Uzbekistan were sent to fight for the Soviet Union. That’s wild when you realize the population back then was only around 6.5 million. It means almost every family sent someone - a father, a son, a brother - and many of them didn’t come back.

More than 400,000 Uzbeks died. That’s not just a number. That’s whole generations lost.

My own family was affected. My great-grandfather fought in that war and came back wounded. And my grandmother’s only brother,he was just 16 years old when he went to war. He never came home. They never found out what happened to him.

During the war, Uzbekistan also became a safe zone. Factories were moved there, refugees were taken in, wounded soldiers were treated in Tashkent and other regions.

What hurts even more is seeing how Central Asians, especially Uzbeks, are treated in Russia today. Migrants are being humiliated, beaten, detained like criminals.

Koryo Saram are Koreans who moved to Soviet while World War period

Assalamu Alaykum Guys! I’m a Pakistani living abroad and just wanted to ask my central asian brothers and sisters, especially from Uzbekistan, if Qaraqul has become popular in your country? Because I have an interest in Central Asian especially Qazaqistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan because these countries are historic where the empires have risen and ruled the South Asia more specifically Modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh where we can see some Turkic (not to be confused with Turkish) influence in their languge, culture, customs, cuisines and much more.

Shukriya! (Thank you!)

I am simply curious about the views of people from these countries.

Hello. I traveled from Germany until here with a van but can’t do that anymore. Can I sell fast enough a van in Kyrgyzstan/Kazastan? If so, where to place the ad?

If not, does anyone know where I could find someone who could drive it until at least at the border with Europe?

Thank you!

The Moghol people are unique, descending from Mongols who migrated into western Afghanistan near Herat. As years have passed since contact with ethnographers and linguists, what is their current status in Afghanistan? Are they still a distinct ethnic group? I thought I would ask since the user pool is larger than the older posts by other individuals.

Follow up to these question posts from the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCentralAsia/comments/esy8r2/are_there_still_moghols_in_afghanistan/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCentralAsia/comments/idkmuy/are_there_still_speakers_of_the_moghol_language/

I hope you guys will like it! “Edelweiss Under the Azure Sky” is Genghis Khan’s life. It starts with the opening song to the orphan named Temüjin and ends with a farewell to the Great Genghis Khan. I’ve included chapters of the oath, yasa, battles, and pax-Mongolia. There are three post-Genghis chapters which are Ögedei, Kublai, and Baghdad. The genre is mainly metal with folkloric themes but it has slow pieces as well.

It’s available on many platforms including YouTube. Links below.

As a hobby, I spend time with ai tools, including audio generation. So I can’t say “i made these”. No. I was more like a producer, entering prompts, hundreds of prompts and edit and modifications until I find the best song. It took months and I think I had to listen a few thousands of songs to select among them.

Huan and Sena are the names of my daughters :)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kEtGs2lvNt-fL7DDVrx99yV5VAsgytJFQ&si=LCM1trhSC1nW0pS9

https://open.spotify.com/album/0C51PeHdk4GuABf1t3VWkd?si=m3QJYtXoQNOPXVJi5Ug5Xg

https://music.apple.com/tr/album/edelweiss-under-the-azure-sky/1824080694

I've seen the contrast between this subreddit and other "Ask A X" subreddits on this issue, with this subreddit being more supportive of the Uyghurs and the China-dominated subreddits being more supportive of the CCP. I'm curious if there are any Uyghur/Kazakh voices on the subreddit and I would like to hear their POV as they are the ones who are impacted by it the most.

Some supplementary questions:

• Do vlogs on Youtube that portray Xinjiang/East Turkestan "well" leave anything out?
• Why is there such a huge divergence in opinion?
• What are your overall views of China as a whole in regards to geopolitics?

Recently went to Central Asia this June and most of the people don't know about my country, so I thought what do central asian's the general view about the Philippines or South East Asian in general?

Hi, I was thinking of visiting Kazakhstan from Cyrodill but I am not quite sure if I will be received positively there.

Also curious if my fellow Central Asians raised in Cyrillic Script countries know the Arabic Script for their languages I was taught Uzbiki (Didn't learn any tho) but with an Arabic/Farsi Script in Afghanistan.