Uyghur culture

Originally posted by uyghur-aryan uyghurs are more caucasoid than uzbek,kazak or kirghiz. Uyghurs have nothing to do with Mongols in origin. only mixed each other later periods.

Why are Uighur women very pretty?

Indeed, this tread always tends to be diverted. Time after time, political discussions were raised either by Chinese or Turkic friends.

For Chinese friends: We Uyghurs are not crying out here to say how miserable our life. So don't act like an innocent party and try to back bite without solid proof. You can never win, as the justice is in our side.

For Uyghur and Turkic friends: It is not our custom to get other people's sympathy. So please stop blaming. We can only solve our problem by our own effort, with real action, and we will.

As for the original topic, I'd like to draw your attention to a very important cultural contribution of Uyghur people, which isn't very well known.

Mordern printing is considered to be invented by Guttenberg? in the 14th? century. And Chinese claim that they have records to show their ancestors invented it first in the history, while failing to show any objective proof. Dr. Yasin Hushur from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences did research work for a ong time on the printing letter wood sticks in Ancient Uyghur script. These objects were taken to the German museum by Lecock? from Dunhuang caves, and belong to early 9th century?. I've forgotten all these details, after the personal talk with Dr. Hushur. Anyway, this was first mordern printing objects to date. Dr. Hushur also told us that he was so much surprised to find how smart our ancestors that they made many special works to make printing very effective, rather than just the combinations of the letters. I'd be great if some other guys here can share some of their knowledge in this aspect.
   

i dont hate chinese as xitujue said.

Edited by uyghur-aryan - 03-Sep-2006 at 10:38

Originally posted by xi_tujue For Uyghur and Turkic friends: It is not our custom to get other people's sympathy. So please stop blaming. We can only solve our problem by our own effort, with real action, and we will.   what other people? I think the other turkic countries well don't owe the uigurs but still something.

Azeris are ethnically quite different from Turkmens. Do Azeris have any of the 9 Oghuz tribes (or let's say 24, with subdivisions)? Could you please name a few?

Originally posted by Savdogar Originally posted by uyghur-aryan uyghurs are more caucasoid than uzbek,kazak or kirghiz. Uyghurs have nothing to do with Mongols in origin. only mixed each other later periods.     juda ham aqlli ekansizmi?Balki eng buyuk madaniyat sohibidursiz?     where did you get this staff?Uyghurs are more caucaoid than Uzbeks????? maybe you saw some kazakh who calls himself as uzbek.   You are from China, your lagman is chineese. why you are not accepting this.?   there are plenty of uyghurs in Uzbekistan. Thanks to uzbeks your mongoloid face and eyes became a bit beautiful.   PLEASE DO NOT DELETE MY POSTS. WHY YOU ARE DELETING MY POSTS? WHAT WRONG IF I SAY MONGOLS DESTROYED EVERYWHERE?THAT IS FACT!!!

Originally posted by Forgotten Originally posted by cliveersknell I just visited Xinjiang last May, and went to Karamai, Turfan, Urumqi, and Khashgar. Elegant place, very pretty women (Uighurs primarily). I visited an oil refinery in Karamai, and saw many Uighur engineers and technicians working there. When I landed in Urumqi from Xian, there were numerous Uighur ground crew technicians and a new maintenance center set up by Lufthansa . There are many germans and austrians in Xinjiang, Volkswagen has a big dual tech training center with money from the Hans Seidel foundation based in Bremen. Many Uighurs are undergoing training in: a. pneumatics b. electromechanics c. precision tooling d. computer programming to name a few from a long long list. Many Uighurs are studying German and there is plan for a Goethe Institut to open in Urumqi. I was extremely impressed by what I saw, everyone is on the move and xtremely busy, no time for politics or loose talk. In big cities like Urumqi , there is a growing language which combines Mandarin and Uighur, quite interesting. Many freeways are under construction linking big cities with smaller towns like Khashgar. Even in Khashgar , people are on the move . Many Uighurs live much better than their Han brothers. Most of the upper class in Xinjiang are Uighur businessmen who made a killing in the trade with Kazakhstan, Kirghiztan , Tajikstan etc. There are many poor among the Uighurs in smaller towns , but also among Han migrants. The picture I saw was quite different than what I expected. r's Clive    uyghurs are not the brothers of hans and they will never be , i just wants to remind you that you went to eastern turkistan the lands of the uyghurs turks , the terrorist chiense government are building the cities from the sources of the uyghurs land not from thier own money !    american chinese ?

Originally posted by Feramez What bullsh*t this is!! I have visited here for 3weeks 2yrs. ago and now am living here for 2yrs. you see none of this here. Uygurs and Han are not brothers, not even friends. It's true many Uygurs are training in these fields you mentioned but come here and see what happens to them after they graduate. Most will not go on to work in these fields. These companies want to hire only Chinese and they are very open about it. Maybe not even 1% of the employees for oil companies are Uygurs, the Han are stealin oil from this land and wont even let the Uygurs make money off it. Another thing you were right about was the beautiful women. Other than that you're talking bullsh*t.

I think we should come back to the topic.

What really upsets me and many of my friends is not the oil or the other things that have been taken from this region. It doen't matter if we live in poverty. What we are loosing is our culture and dignity, which is really hard to accept. The notion of power and money as the decider of everything from the Chinese culture is slowly spreading among the Uyghur people.

   
    

Originally posted by gok_toruk Azeris are ethnically quite different from Turkmens. Do Azeris have any of the 9 Oghuz tribes (or let's say 24, with subdivisions)? Could you please name a few?