Semitic or Uralic. Which one do you feel close to?

**Rumata** · 04-24-2018, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by Danielion

And despite differences in history, Russians and Finns get along fine.

It might be true for many Russians but I personally don't feel close to Finns. I imagine their mentality as very different to mine. Somehow I feel closer to Germanics. But Saudis are a totally different level to me of course.

**~~Kamal900~~** · 04-24-2018, 06:53 PM

Semitic obviously. I have no experience with Uralic peoples at all.

**~~AK-47~~** · 04-24-2018, 06:55 PM

Neither.
I speak English.
I suppose being Jewish, we can start the confusing linguistics and ethnicity.
I just don't feel like it.

Definition of Semitic
1 : of, relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic

**Dandelion** · 04-24-2018, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Rumata

It might be true for many Russians but I personally don't feel close to Finns. I imagine their mentality as very different to mine. Somehow I feel closer to Germanics. But Saudis are a totally different level to me of course.

Saudis are as alien as you can get, unless we're talking about some peoples in the deep Kongo and even then about equally foreign I guess.

**Rumata** · 04-24-2018, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by Danielion

Saudis are as alien as you can get, unless we're talking about some peoples in the deep Kongo and even then about equally foreign I guess.

Yes, this bunch is extremely foreign to me too. Another major Semitic people - Jews. Russian Jews are harder to generalise and on average I don't feel close to them either. One of them (now Belgian citizen) used to post here but now he's banned.

**~~Root~~** · 04-24-2018, 10:28 PM

I'd easily fit among a crowd of Uralids than I'd be accepted in a Semitic community whether I like it or not..

**~~Crimean~~** · 04-24-2018, 10:34 PM

Uralic admix is not rare in Southern Russia, and I have a piece of it (though it's not seen by everyone). So, i vote Uralic, because Semitic are completely alien species for me.

**Decius** · 04-24-2018, 10:42 PM

Neither

**Catarinense1998** · 04-24-2018, 10:46 PM

Arabs has strong Med influence, so no brain choice here.

**Peterski** · 04-25-2018, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by Danielion

Uralic. Only Semitic speakers who are European are Maltese.

European Jews are Semitic and they preserved Hebrew as their language of religion and study:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Hebrew

I voted Semitic because Poland was the country where Jews found refuge for many centuries.

I feel close to Hungarians but I don't consider them to be very Uralic except for their language.