Severe mountaineers. Strongly developed physically. Hospitable and noble. But as soon as they leave the mountains and come to us, they instantly change - they grab knives, get into gangs, in general - they behave completely differently than at home.
Of course, the Russians dislike them after that, to put it mildly:
As in all cases, dissatisfaction comes from a misunderstanding. In this post I will try to talk about the peculiarities of the Caucasian upbringing and mentality. And I will recommend how to behave in order to avoid such incidents.
Since I myself am a Cat, albeit a Scientist, the world of animals is closer to me than the world of people. Therefore, I will occasionally resort to analogies. Not because I consider people to be animals, but simply because it is more convenient for me. No offense, okay?
So, let's start with the basics. City animals are divided into two types - pack animals and individualists. Flocks are dogs and rats, and individualists, of course, are cats. At the same time, dogs, if necessary, easily divide the pack into prides: for example, only their parents will most likely drag puppies out of the fire, at least their parents will be the first ones.
In turn, city cats easily form prides and more complex cooperations. For example, if a woman feeds cats on a certain street, then the cats from this street form a pride cooperative so that the best pieces go to them and their families, and not to crooks from neighboring streets.
This behavior in pack animals is called adaptable internal aggression. Approximately this is how the almost Caucasian community is built - from auls to capitals. There are prides led by alpha males - Caucasian elders. Their task is to protect their pride, but not by brute force, but by negotiating with other alpha males, creating clans and cementing them with blood ties, passing off children from allied prides to each other. The death of an alpha male can lead to the disappearance of an entire dynasty, if it has blood avengers. That is why there is such respect for the elderly in the Caucasus.
In turn, the clans already form the main pack, where in case of danger, each member of the pack will protect his pack and his alpha male. But it is worth the danger of an abyss, the flock breaks up into clans, those into prides and inside the pride again two brother-wrestlers begin to crush each other's sides, under the full approval of the alpha male. This is already internal aggression, and it has a completely different form than external.
When there is a struggle within the pride, then its goal is to find the strongest offspring, to whom the alpha male will hand over the reins of power. In my opinion, it would be more logical to give it to the smartest and instead of visiting the rocking chairs, send your children to play chess. However, smart offspring can only survive in pride cooperation, as in peacetime they will be destroyed by more stupid and stronger offspring of warring clans.
Such internal fights are quite noble. Because Caucasians are not animals after all, and there is a very real chance that when one of the wrestling brothers twists his leg, the other will not finish him off, but will show nobility and thereby earn the approval of his alpha male: wah, what a noble person! Such can be entrusted to our kind!
But we should not forget that pack animals are predatory and they still raise predators. Therefore, when it comes to skirmishes that have nothing to do with the alpha male's assessment of the level of nobility, then anything comes into play - numerical superiority, weapons, dirty tricks, and so on. In war, as they say, as in war.
And the reason for such bloodthirstiness is that alpha males do not tolerate loser children who lose fights to children of hostile clans. And if that same alpha male finds out, and he will definitely find out, he will beat the loser in the fight much harder than he got. And he can threaten to expel him from the pride. Thus, a predator culture is formed in children - to survive in a fight at any cost, otherwise the alpha male will simply kill or kick him out of the pride, which is basically equivalent.
Now, do you understand why such noble Caucasians go to each other's rescue, forgetting feuds, and why they easily form flocks for a numerical victory over the enemy?
Absolutely right! You are not part of their pack, which means you are an enemy or prey. Here we, cats, with dogs have a complete understanding - we firmly know that we are enemies, since the average dog is twice as large and stronger than the average cat. Therefore, when dogs run at us, we climb trees, and do not try to fight back. Although if the dog is alone, and without a pack, then it is not yet known whose one he will take.
In the case of relations between Russians and Caucasians, a complete misunderstanding of the behavior model comes. For example, if a city dog tries to attack a wild jungle cat, then this will be the last day of his life. That is why the reed cat will have a completely different model of behavior - as an enemy, and not as prey. They will surround him and try to attack him in the meanest, canine way, from the back.
When a Russian demonstrates the wrong model of behavior, he turns from prey into an enemy. Let me remind you that Caucasians are not animals and for food they do not need to cripple or kill their prey at all. Often this is just instinctive behavior, when the dog senses a weak cat and lazily barks, and the cat runs under the car and waits for the dog to go about his dog business. The dog is too lazy to chase the cat, the cat is too lazy to climb a tree.
The enemy is another time. With the enemy, all means are good. The enemy must be destroyed, preferably in a flock. And let there be representatives of a hostile clan in this flock - it does not matter. In case of danger, they will always come to the rescue and will always come to them. It is already then possible to arrange disassembly. But not now, when the enemy threatens the pack!
How do Russians need to correctly demonstrate the model of the victim's behavior? More on this later, but for now let's touch on such a nuance as Caucasian hospitality.
Imagine a dog pride in which a kitten was slipped into a lactating bitch. He grew up and the pride sees his member in him. Now let's put this pride in the dog pack. Other dogs may try to show aggression, but will be met by defenders who will fight for the kitten as if it were their own.
Approximately the same model works in the case of hospitality. If the Caucasian alpha male cannot give shelter to his guest, then he will question his alpha status or, speaking in the language of the highlanders, he will lose respect.
That is why all the best is given to the guest in order to make him his own. Like a bitch feeding a kitten. But it is worth the kitten to move away from his pride - and he will become a victim.
And in conclusion, a little advice on how to behave in a situation where you are forced to coexist next to a Caucasian. You should immediately understand that you will never become “your own”.
Therefore, while he is alone - do not show any aggression, you still cannot defeat him, it is better to joke ingratiatingly, lend money and laugh at his jokes.
When there are several Caucasians, you are guaranteed to fall into the role of prey - they will be able to squeeze your phone, take your money. But you will not be maimed or killed.
Are you interested in why a Russian cannot beat a Caucasian in a fair fight? Should I write a separate post about this?
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Recently, two interesting stories were shown in Prokopenko's program "Military Secret". In the first they showed about hazing with a "Caucasian face". The spectacle, of course, was pitiful: a few hefty Caucasians terrorized a whole crowd of downtrodden Russians. They mocked them, beat them and filmed these indecencies on photos and videos. And they dejectedly endured all this bodyaga. One of the reasons for such shame was that these Caucasians are all candidates for master of sports in wrestling and boxing, and ours are candidates for schmuck or even masters of suffocation.
In part, we can agree with this. Even for the most part. I remember that our army was also full of Caucasians. I also found the Soviet army. We had Lezgins, Laks, Chechens, Adyghes, Dargins ... There were many Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Armenians, various Central Asians. The part was quite large. But our hazing was age-related, not national. And there was no question of some national group subjugating all the others. And the Russians behaved without nationalism, quite correctly. Like Soviet cement.
Why is it so? But because we were all strong guys, we were engaged in many sports, hard physical labor. It was so easy not to kill us - they would not have given. Personally, I was engaged in freestyle wrestling, at that time I had the first category. I fought Caucasians and often defeated them, despite the fact that some of them were masters of sports. I became a master after the army in the weight up to 90 kg. I studied the history of wrestling in Russia and knew a lot about this topic. I knew that the leading wrestlers of the beginning of the last century were Russians or Ukrainians. Poddubny, Zaikin, Shemyakin, Chufistov, Vakhturov... There were wrestlers of other nationalities. I remember watching a film about the wrestler Weiland-Schultz, who, in my opinion, was from the Balts and lived to be more than a hundred years old. In his youth, he traveled the entire Caucasus and did not know defeat, defeating all the local pahlavans there. And there was this Schultz of average weight, he was just very healthy. Like this. They could, therefore, beat all the vaunted Caucasians. There, in the Caucasus, there were glorious heroes too. For example, Kazbek Gora, Ossetian. Or Kazakh Khadzhi-Mukan. But these were not champions of the first row, but of the second or third. They did not pull against Poddubny.
Russian and Soviet sports are famous for their famous names. There were people of different nationalities. Russian wrestler of the Senators, Ukrainian Kuksenko. This is before the war. After the war, the Estonian Kotkas, the Ukrainian Mazur, the Russians Parfyonov, Ivanitsky, Roshchin, Kolchinsky, Karelin, the Byelorussian Medved, the Ossetian Andiev... These are just strands. and how many names there were in lighter weights. For example, the Olympic champion, in my opinion, the Jew Gurevich served as a prototype for the famous statue "Let's beat swords into plowshares", standing in front of the UN building in the USA. Wrestling in Soviet times was shown on TV a lot. Famous wrestlers were written about in the press.
And now? Now shish with butter. Even at the Olympics, neither boxing nor wrestling is really shown. Nowhere. These kinds of sports that bring up courage for television people, as it were, do not exist. Balls and balls are chasing everywhere. Here we are chasing! In the above program they showed some kind of frail. He turned out to be Russian, naturally, a native of modern Russia. Well, how can this not be smothered by a powerful and arrogant highlander. Yes, he will kill 10 such ones! Just give them slack. Slave-owners, abreks in the past, all sorts of Kazbichi...
We need to revive interest in courageous sports among the Russian people. And then in the national teams now there are solid Caucasians, even in freestyle, even in the classics or in judo. Even in weightlifting. This is wrong. How many of these Caucasians - and how many Russians? A man should be strong, and not run after some Klinsky. Caucasians have a cult of strength, they are great. But after all, even in our country, quite recently, strength was held in high esteem. Because without power, all our bright dreams will be unfulfilled.
By the way, in the second story they showed an episode from the Chechen war. And there the Russian guys were heroic. They defeated a superior group of militants and behaved courageously and boldly. This means that the Russian spirit has not been lost at all. It turned out to be only wrapped in a weak bodily shell, not conducive to allowing this spirit to manifest itself as it should.
And, believe me, strong Russians will not bend and go naked before violence. This is absolutely undeniable.
And our guys will be strong - and Russia will be strong!
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It is difficult to object and do not want to. And yet, I think that strength of mind can be brought up not only in sports. Ignorance in life often wins even without physical strength, even MARX wrote about its special danger. Remember the Soviet "I stood here"? Well, what should a cultured person do with it ... Climbing out of turn impudently. In the army, for the tricks of "dashing" soldiers, their "fathers" - officers should be punished with whips. Undertook to lead, work, answer. Professionals are imprisoned for such mistakes, in civilian life. And in the army there is some kind of fuss of irresponsibility.
In civilian life, the police should not be contacted by the mother either? I had to lead a large production team and a driving school, where men, but I did not allow hazing, pedagogical methods, it was possible. Makarenko also taught others. I know about the problem, I was on retraining at the Academy, twenty-five "partisans" were in the barracks ... But our commander slept with us. And nothing. I do not believe that the soldiers are guilty, for the life of me. Today hazing is natural, Mercury rules the show in the Army. Soldiers with machine guns should sleep. Jocks then only understand the essence. There was hardly hazing on the front line.
1. Those born in the mountains cannot bear the plains psychologically.
2. We look up to high peaks and flying birds.
3. We do not trust anyone, we check everyone for character.
4. We constantly think about relatives.
5. The feeling of revenge in the blood is genetic. Personally, my grandfather Gulmagomed told me before his death (at the age of 95) which teip cannot be trusted. I think that I will say the same, unfortunately to my children.
6. Constant anxiety for the fate of female relatives).
7. We eat almost everything very spicy and, moreover, the meat of strong, frisky animals (halal, alhamdullilah) ....
8. We despise any manifestation of weakness of the spirit, laziness.
9. Since childhood, we learn to sharpen sharp objects.
10. We respond instantly to our shed blood.
11. We have always lacked everything, so we have the instincts of winners and conquerors.
12. The desire to be better than a friend, neighbor, brother, that is, the constant rivalry of everyone with everyone.
13. Being in the wild, when you feel constantly in danger.
14. The use of clean mountain water, literally from the bowels of the earth (the taste cannot be conveyed).
15. Wherever we live, all the same, in the heart there, we are strongly attached to our relief.
16. Even dead, we try to get to our land.
17. We feel like hosts everywhere, because we ourselves are very hospitable.
18. We are strong because we worship only the Almighty.
19. If somewhere you saw a small, nondescript, with a hump nose, even an unsympathetic Caucasian, anyway, be careful, he is proud.
20. In a family, a man is almost always the leader, because if the opposite is true, then the man embarks on a sinful path, which is observed in a non-patriarchal society.
21. In the Caucasus, men dance sharply, as if with a skeleton and bones.
22. Careful selection creates married couples, which favorably affects the gene pool.
23. AND DO NOT THINK THAT CAUCASIANS ARE EVIL, A TRUE HIGHLANDER AND DO NOT OFFEND A FLY, we just carefully monitor the behavior of people with their manner of communication, treatment, which we often do not like.
24. Caucasians always need to be in the spotlight on an unconscious level, therefore, in the society of Caucasians, respected people are urgently needed so that we do not interrupt each other.
25. We are so hot on the head that some of us do not wear a hat in a frost of 40 degrees in principle (it makes it difficult to think).
26. Often we do not notice our shortcomings, it's time to admit it, AFTER ALL THE POWER, AS THE POWER OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, IS BASED IN PEACE.
27. Why scare people - we are Humans born in unbearable conditions of the Caucasus, and not Caucasian shepherd dogs. Uvallahi alam, Astafirullah!!!
28. Most do not believe that justice will prevail, which is why everyone is fighting for a place in the sun, because vicious circles like whirlpools drag everyone in a row, and the poor remain outside the realities of life. ALL THIS IS WRONG!
29. Inevitable events are taking place in the Caucasus, the younger generation with purified thoughts have raised a rebellion against the established centuries-old traditions. Who will win: "traditions" or "truth", that is the question.
30. In the Caucasus, too, there are all the negative traits of the nature of Mankind, sometimes reaching irreparable complexes.
31. All responsibility lies on the sons, so we work, yes, we work.
32. Everyone is jealous of each other, they are ready to push everyone into a precipice, before that everything has changed.
32. Many nations have quarreled, it is already impossible to get along.
33. We behave defiantly, but one thing we must understand is that they respect not only strength, but also the strength of reason and intellect.
34. There are not enough highly educated people in the Caucasus. Practically a lot is bought and sold, which is why sometimes it’s scary to go to clinics, I’m not sure about the qualifications of doctors. Those doctors who graduated in other regions are quite professional.
35. Often I think that we are some kind of special, yes, yes, I came up with, it’s like we are special ......
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It was in the early 2000s. I worked then in a Ural village as a teacher of Russian language and literature.
I lived in the apartment of a local geography teacher, who had retired long ago, and besides, he was disabled. He was a talkative, interesting man - from such a special rural intelligentsia, whose representatives are now not in sight. Once we were talking in the kitchen, and I asked him:
Listen, Nikolai Vitalievich! I noticed that in the 9th and 10th grades of our school there are quite a lot of guys with surnames like Mamedov and Aliev ... Where are they from - in the Ural outback?
Khe-khe, - the former teacher chuckled, - the sins of the youth of local girls.
In what sense? I ask, already guessing something.
And in this one! It was in perestroika times. Once a team of young guys from Azerbaijan came to our collective farm to build a pigsty. Why exactly them? Why from Azerbaijan? Couldn't ours have been built? I don't know about it. Yes, but they stayed in our village for a whole summer. And the boys are hot! Day - work. What to do in the evenings? They began to take care of the local girls. This and that, festivities by the moonlight, passionate declarations of love, hot Caucasian blood ... In short, many then Manki and Lyubki could not resist the Mameds and Nazyrs! ..
Got pregnant?
And then! Ten pieces, no less. They gave birth in the regional center - all in one month! Yes, only those Azerbaijanis had mercy on the girls, and then left for their Caucasus back.
And you didn't get married?
No. However, all children have Azerbaijani surnames. The fathers insisted on it.
But at the same time they left the girls and children?
Hm. And why do Caucasians love Russian women? I say thoughtfully.
But I know the answer to this question, - Nikolai Vitalyevich smiles. - In Soviet times, I traveled quite a lot around the country with the kids. I have been to Georgia once. Of course, Georgians are not Azerbaijanis, but Russian girls are loved as much as all Caucasians. I noticed that the Georgian men strictly followed their girls, and did not even let them talk to the Russian guys. Even just walking up to a girl on the street to get to know her, a Georgian completely unfamiliar to her will immediately run up to you and almost get into a fight. But the Georgians themselves! .. Khe-khe ... They never passed by Russian girls! They really liked them! Here is such a double philosophy they have: they say, do not touch our girls, but give us your own to bed.
So why do they love ours?
But I once asked a Georgian about this, with whom we stopped for the night. I explain the situation: so, they say, and so. Why are you sticking to our women? And he looked around, saw that his wife was not around and said: “Because our women are cold. And yours - wow hot! They drink all the juice from us in bed. But we are happy about it!”.
Is it a compliment or not?
How to say, how to say ... In principle, from their point of view - these means that our women are whores. Sorry for being direct.
It turns out like this.
It turns out like this...
The historical fate of many peoples of the Caucasus is replete with dramatic and tragic events. War, struggle for independence, centuries-old enmity, blood feud, deportation - hundreds of thousands of people had to experience such misfortunes. But there is one nation that suffered, probably more than others. These are the Ubykhs, they were forced to leave their native lands and almost completely disappeared as a separate ethnic group.
What happened?
From 1817 to 1864, the Russian Empire waged almost unceasing hostilities in the Caucasus. Once free highlanders were forced to swear allegiance to the king with the help of army units. And only one nation refused to accept Russian citizenship, although it admitted its defeat. These are Ubykhs, about whose military prowess other Caucasians made up legends.
After the lost war, independent and proud people left their ancestral lands to the winners, and they themselves emigrated to the Ottoman Empire, settling mainly in the province of Anatolia. Gradually they were assimilated, almost forgetting their native language and culture. And in Russia such a nationality does not officially exist.
What are they?
The Ubykhs are one of the indigenous peoples of the Caucasus. The long neighborhood with the Circassians, Abkhazians and Abaza affected their way of life, traditions and culture, although the representatives of this ethnic group had a unique language. He was the undisputed champion in the number of sounds, there were 84 consonants alone in it.
The last speaker of the Ubykh language who was able to distinguish such phonetic diversity was Tevfik Esench, a resident of the Turkish village of Hadzhiosman, who died in 1992. Modern descendants of immigrants from the Caucasus who moved to Anatolia have forgotten their native speech.
The historical region of Ubykhia is located on the Black Sea coast, between the Khosta and Shakhe rivers. Now this territory is located in the Krasnodar Territory. Since ancient times, the inhabitants of fertile lands have been engaged in gardening, winemaking, animal husbandry and trade. They had well established economic and cultural ties with Turkey.
The Russian historian Adolf Berger (1828-1886) noted that it is very problematic to accurately determine the total number of Ubykhs. However, he pointed out that from 1858 to 1865, 74,567 people emigrated to the Ottoman Empire. Only about 80 families remained on the territory of Russia, mainly living in the area of the village of Golovinka in the Krasnodar Territory.
Descendants of the Alans?
Most of the ethnographers who studied the Ubykhs wrote about their outward resemblance to the Circassians. However, a significant difference in languages allowed some researchers to suggest that the Ubykhs may be the heirs of the legendary Alans, preserved in the Caucasus. This conclusion was made by the famous Russian ethnographer Leonty Lyulier (1805-1862). Yes, and many Byzantine authors wrote that the descendants of this ancient people live next door to the Abkhazians. Moreover, one of the Ubykh clans is called Alan.
In the scientific literature, the high growth and strong physique of the Ubykhs, their expressive facial features are noted. It is no coincidence that the representatives of this people were considered the most beautiful inhabitants of the Sultan's harems of the Ottoman Empire.
It is known that the Ubykhs worshiped their pagan gods before accepting Islam. The female principle in the religious cult of this people was personified by Bytkha. According to national legends, the material heritage of the Ubykhs included two statues of this goddess: a large one and a small one. They were made of pure gold. These people hid the big Bytkha in a mountain cave before their departure to Turkey, and took the small one with them. Now the whereabouts of both artifacts is unknown. Meanwhile, the statue of the goddess, according to legend, used to decorate the top of one of the local mountains.
War with the Russian Empire
As General Mikhail Loris-Melikov (1824-1888) wrote, the inhabitants of the Caucasus respected the Ubykhs for their military prowess, courage and perseverance. It was even believed that courage can be learned if you live among the representatives of this people. They constituted a kind of guard, a fighting elite in any army that united different Caucasian ethnic groups.
The Ubykhs categorically did not accept the very possibility of capitulation to superior enemy forces. They sought to unite neighboring peoples in order to oppose the Russian Empire together. And in June 1861, the last Ubykh prince, Hadji Kerantukh Berzek, even made a desperate attempt to create a state that would include Adygs, Abkhazians and Abadzekhs. A people's majlis (meeting) was convened not far from Sochi, but the idea of consolidating all the Circassian tribes could not be realized. Many people are tired of the long war and have decided to accept the inevitable defeat.
It is noteworthy that the emissaries of the Ottoman Empire actively pushed the Ubykhs to armed resistance to the Russian troops, promising military support to their brothers in faith.
Military honor, as the Ubykhs understood it, did not allow them to surrender to the mercy of the victors. The Russian generals became so imbued with hostile feelings towards opponents who resisted any persuasion that they began a campaign to denigrate the image of the fighters for independence. The leadership of the empire was informed that the Ubykhs were not engaged in any peaceful crafts, they only robbed their neighbors and traded in slaves, supplying "human goods" to the Ottoman Empire. Say, these are not farmers and cattle breeders, but entirely bandits.
In the reports of that time, Russian officials deliberately underestimated the number of this people, which was estimated at only 3 thousand people. The Ubykhs were presented as unprincipled people, bribed by traders acting in the interests of the Turks.
As a result, the leadership of the empire delivered an ultimatum to the whole people: an oath of allegiance to the sovereign or deportation from their ancestral lands. The Ubykhs preferred the latter. And in May 1864, in the Circassian village of Kbaade (Krasnaya Polyana), a victorious parade of Russian troops took place, marking the end of the protracted Caucasian war.
Modern Ubykhs
Not all settlers easily endured the move to the Ottoman Empire. Many fell ill and died on the way or shortly after arrival. Still, these people left their homes, gardens, vineyards, workshops in their homeland.
Soon the Ubykhs began to forget their native language, switching to Turkish. According to available data, immigrants from the Caucasus almost completely assimilated in a foreign land. It is quite difficult to determine how many of them now live in Turkey.
According to the All-Russian population census of 2010, 33 citizens of our country consider themselves Ubykhs. Of these, 16 people live in Kabardino-Balkaria, 12 more - in the Krasnodar Territory, two - in Adygea, the rest of the representatives of this people settled in other regions of Russia.
And although the ethnos is officially recognized as disappeared, a public organization "Ubykh-Berzek" was created in Kabardino-Balkaria several years ago, which aims to revive national traditions.
