Originally Posted by
Guti
I don't know if you know it, but I am from Tbilisi.
In Tbilisi, Azeris were the lowest of the lowest. Uneducated people who didn’t speak properly Georgian or Russian and who sold tomatoes on the markets. Georgians called them 'Tatari'. Georgians use/used 'Tatari' like a dirty word, similar to 'Gypsy', 'Nigger' or something.
We Ezdi Kurds call the Azeri 'Ajam' as a swear word.
If somebody from my people would marry an Azeri that person would become ashamed big time and would be deleted from our community.
Overall, Georgians (from Tbilisi) held Ezdi Kurds in a higher regard than the Russians or Armenians let alone the Azeri. The most respectable 'wori w zakone' were the Ezdi Kurds. For a small population like us the Ezdi Kurds in the USSR countries we have relatively speaking the most higher educated people and even highly respected 'wori w zakone', after the Russians of course.