Welcome to the Diversity Podcast, where we dive into the identity and diversity of our society and explore how our upbringing, environment, and our ethnic backgrounds combined with how particular historical events impacted our ancestors' and grandparents' lives and how it further influenced our behaviors and our own identities. We will dive together into various topics, from arranged marriages to genocide, so stay tuned.
In this episode of the Diversity Podcast, we speak in the native Oirad-Kalmyk language about how Oirad-Kalmyk women defied societal norms with their strength, bravery, and independence, often demonstrating that their customs and their strong spirit held more power than the khan himself.
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Published 09/12/24
What do you know about the Buryats? Did you know that the Buryat people are native to Siberia and that shamanism is still very much alive in Buryatia, unlike in Kalmykia? Are you aware of the repressions faced by the Buryats in the 1930s?
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Published 07/29/24