Why the fuck are countries like this even a thing? You know what I'm talking about
>Mongolia >Central Asian Republics >East Timor
I mean, countries like Liechtenstein at least make some sense since there's an idea of identity and true history.
But, on the opposite end of the spectrum, do any of the people of Mongolia or Tajikistan really give a shit? I mean, someone must've at one point, but that's when all of the Bloc states were leaving so they probably figured that they could too.
ITT: Why do these insignificant, sparsely populated countries exist
Mongolia has to recover what the Soviet Union destroyed. It is also where nomads can roam without a reserve, outer Mongolians cannot as they are too close to the Chinese cities.
Xavier Ortiz
>What the Soviet Union destroyed
I mean, the USSR basically fucked everyone. But why Mongolia in particular? I know little of them to begin with sans the interregnum period of the Empire.
Thomas Diaz
Outer Mongolia is Mongolia the country. Inner Mongolia is the part under Chinese rule.
Colton Thomas
Buddhism had massive influence in Mongolia up until the People's Republic. For a brief period of autonomy from Chinese and Russian affairs in the 1910s, the (nominal) Khan of Mongolia was the Bogd Gegeen, a Buddhist reincarnation (like the Dalai Lama) who is one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism. Reports estimate that 13% of the Mongol population were Buddhist monks, and there were over 3,000 Buddhist temples operating in Mongolia. Even into the 1930s, the Buddhist hierarchy's annual income was nearly 5/6ths of the Mongolian government's.
Even under the 1920s, Communist Mongolia was fairly accepting of Buddhism. The Bogd Khan remained titular head of state until his death in 1924, and several lamas and noblemen were employed in high-ranking ministries. However, with the rise of Moscow-backed Khorloogiin Choibalsan in the 1920s and 30s, their tone shifted drastically. Choibalsan followed Stalin's party line on religious matters, which saw the purging of Mongolian nationalists from the government and a massive crackdown on Buddhist temples. Nearly every monk was either purged or forced to apostatize. Only Gandan monastery (the one in the photo) was permitted to stay open in the entire country, and as basically a glorified museum.
After the end of the People's Republic in 1990, the number of Buddhist monks and monasteries slowly started rising again. Now, there are somewhere around 200 monasteries operating again in Mongolia.
Mongolia exists cause Mongolians wanted their own land and unlike many other cultures actually had the balls to fight for it. Not sure if ur aware but Mongolians had a very large impact on the world (consider reading a history book). Also there are more Mongolians then just those exclusively living in Mongolia, pic related.
Mongolia's current existence is largely due to Soviet Russia and what was then the Republic of China agreeing that they don't want to share an extensive border.
Mongols have long ceased to be militarily significant.
Carson Baker
Mongolians are super racist, especially against Chinks.
how the fuck does Liechtenstein make more sense than Iran or Mongolia?
Brayden Reyes
I feel like every asian country is super racist to China, and generally hates Japan
Caleb Evans
>Cause most of the problems in Asian history to the point that Tsarist Russia and Qing China gangbanged the steppes to end it forever. >"We're not the problem, you are!"
Wyatt Ward
Mongolia is a buffer state between Russia and China.
Step up your geopolitical analysis Veeky Forums.
Alexander Turner
Brainlet OP
Jace Bell
Satan is right. Two millennia of raiding, bloody conquest, and general horseniggery don't generally make you many friends.
Uhh maybe if chinky didn’t harass and deride them they wouldn’t have reason to chimp out? After all this reddit board loves colonial nigger uprisings right?
One thing semi-related to what he talked about. A hundred years ago, there was just the traditional script, and low literacy. The first Mongolian period (~1910-20) they tried adopting the Latin script, but then as a client state of the Soviets, they adopted Cyrillic.
Since the post-Soviet period, all schools have had some traditional Mongolian classes to try to regain that part of their heritage. People still don't know it very well, but it's improving.
Traditional Mongolian is also kinda difficult, because it's the Mongolian language of several hundred years ago. Coupled with that, Mongolian is kinda like Italian, in that there are several quite different dialects. Cyrillic is used to write Khalkha Mongolian, the predominant dialect in Outer Mongolia. Inner Mongolia in China uses Traditional to write, but speak Chahar. Then there's a few minor dialects, half the time considered separate languages, like Ordos in China, and Buryat in Russia, and a bunch of tiny dialects which are dying out.
The Mongolian overseas community also use Latin when in places like America or Western Europe, which is basically just transliterated from Cyrillic, and is pretty well understood, although not really standardised.
But yeah, Traditional Mongolian is getting a bit of a revival, and holds a lot of prestige, so it'll probably be fairly successful, unlike a lot of revivals where people don't really care.
Joshua Watson
Example of Traditional Mongolian. It was derived from Syriac or Aramaic or something, rotated 90 degrees and written top to bottom, so if you know Arabic script, it's apparently relatively familiar from the side.
