Talk:Adyghe people

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As I understand adyghe (self designation), circassians (in W. Europe), cherkess (in Russia) is a common name for many ethnicities: Abadzekhs, Besleneys, Bjedughs, Egerikhuays, Temirgoys, Khamyshs, Natukhays (Natkhuagias), Shapsughs, Ubykhs. In imperial Russia it was a common name for all these tribes. Only in soviet Russia appeared Adyghe (in Adygeya) and Cherkess (in Karachay-Cherkessia). It was a practise in 1930-ies in Soviet Union rename ethnicities acording to self designation: Udmurts instead of Votyaki, Komi instead of Zyryane. Do we have same confusion with Adyghe? Is Adyghe example of soviet's created ethnicity? Or it was divide et empera policy? --82.135.217.55 19:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

You forgot the largest group, Kabardins. The word "Cherkes"/"chirkassians" is still in common use in Russia (and possibly Europe). And yes it was more of a "divide and conquer" thing; the Russian designations of "Adygetsi/Адыгейцы" (in Adygea) and "Cherkes" (in Karachay-Cherkessia) have to do with administrative partitioning, not ethnicity. As far as ethnicity, what you wrote in the beginning is correct -- Adyghe = Cherkes, further subdivided into a dozen or so tribes; many of them live in other places in Caucausus/Russian South such as Krasnodar & Stavropol regions, which are part of their historical homeland as much as Adygea, etc. --Let 07:33, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Circassian ethnic cleansing

Hey, I did an article about it. Everyone's welcome to add something to or correct the article, incorporate it into existing ones, and also to protect it from overzealous Russian nationalistic editor(s). Thanks! --HanzoHattori 23:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Foster parents

"Familial ties were not strongly encouraged; parents fostered their children to other adults [...]" -- actually I think only the boys were given away, the idea was to aquire pseudo-familial ties to other families, who could be called upon in case of trouble; family and "foster" family ties were very important and thus "encouraged". I'll correct this as soon as I dig up some references. Let 07:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)