They're Eurasian.

Seen the movie Borat? That movie was the funniest movie I've ever seen.

Well as for Kazakhstanis, I think they look more Russian than East Asian.

Not just Kazhastan, you can find a lot of E Asian looking people in Uzbekistan, Kyrgstan, Turkmenistan too

There are many Koreans in Uzbekistan, who are from North Korea (Koryosaram). So maybe that person was really Korean?

Really? How do the N Koreans end up in Uzbekistan? I had no idea that there is a big Korean populatin in Uzbekistan. Maybe that's why my cousin's church decided to do a missionary trip there?

Stalin deported many ethnic North Koreans during the Soviet Era. That's why there are many Koreans in Central Asia (post Soviet states). And they speak a dialect you can't understand. It's a mix of the Hamgyong dialect (which is hard enough to understand for Koreans from Seoul) and Russian. Many Koryosaram now only speak Russia.

You are aware that the Kazakhs in Borat weren't actually Kazakh, right? The movie was filmed in Romania.

Kazakhs are not "Eurasians". Central Asians are mainly descended from Turkic, Mongol and Iranian nomads.

They share a border with Russia to the North. There must have been some mixing in the past. I don't believe Kazakhs are homogeneous. I have seen pictures and some definitely look Eurasian.

Yeah I know that. But still Kazakhstan was once part of the Soviet Union, and probably during that time there was alot of intermixing with Russians and regular Kazakhs, which pretty much leads me to believe that most Kazakhs look Russian.

You can tell by their names.

1) Those with Slavic names are usually descendants of Russians and Ukrainians who moved there 200 years ago.

2) Those with Islamic or Turkish names are native Kazaks. In the north they might be mixed with Russians, but in the south where the nomadic tradition is stronger, they tend to maintain more purer Asian features. In the deep south near Uzbekistan border, they mixed with Uzbeks and have some Middle Eastern features (ie bigger nose, heavier mustache).

3) There are also communties of Koreans, Uygurs and Hui (Chinese Muslims). The Uygurs and Hui fled there 150 years ago because the Ching Dynasty was ethnically cleansing the northwestern parts of Muslim rebellions. Those Hui in Kazakstan can still speak Mandarin to this day.

Kazakhstan's president:

^word Central Asians are central asia and don't realy care for anything east asian

Holy sh_t !!! ^^

He looks freaky!!

The pres kind of looks like a Japanese guy.

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Wrong! My cousin and his friends went on a mission trip, not to Kazakhstan, but to Uzbekistan five years ago. There are a lot of East Asian looking people living in Central Asia who do feel like they have a heavy genetic or ancetral connection to China, Korea and other parts of Asia.

As a matter of fact, I learned from my cousin that there is a big Korean community in Uzbekistan.

i'm not going to justify that with an answer

all i got to say is me -> family in Kazakhstan, friends in Central Asia, Central asia History forum moderator

your turn

Thats true Koreans are always trying to affiliate themselves with Mongolians and Turks. But the thing is on Asiafinest the Mongol users on here dont want nothing to do with Koreans, and even show evidence that they are not releated to Koreans, but Koreans keep on trying to find some kind of relation.

Really? - I guess that's the reason why a growing no. of Mongols are learning Korean and want to work there.

Holy sh_t !!! ^^

He looks freaky!!

The pres kind of looks like a Japanese guy.

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Wrong! My cousin and his friends went on a mission trip, not to Kazakhstan, but to Uzbekistan five years ago. There are a lot of East Asian looking people living in Central Asia who do feel like they have a heavy genetic or ancetral connection to China, Korea and other parts of Asia.

As a matter of fact, I learned from my cousin that there is a big Korean community in Uzbekistan.

The Japanese I've seen look more Southeast Asian (small frames).

Yayoi linked to Yangtze area

DNA tests reveal similarities to early wet-rice farmers

Some of the first wet-rice farmers in Japan might have migrated from the lower basin of China's Yangtze River more than 2,000 years ago, Japanese and Chinese researchers said Thursday.
This was suggested by DNA tests conducted by the researchers that showed genetic similarities between human remains from the Yayoi Period found in southwestern Japan and the early Han Dynasty found in China's central Jiangsu Province, Satoshi Yamaguchi told reporters.
People who introduced irrigation techniques to the Japanese archipelago in the Yayoi Period (250 B.C.-300) were believed to have come to Japan either from the Korean Peninsula across the Tsushima Strait, or from northern China across the Yellow Sea.
The latest findings, however, bolster another theory suggesting the origin of the Yayoi people was an area south of the Yangtze, which is believed to be the birthplace of irrigated rice cultivation.
Yamaguchi, a researcher at Japan's National Science Museum, said the researchers compared Yayoi remains found in Yamaguchi and Fukuoka prefectures with those from early Han (202 B.C.-8) in Jiangsu in a three-year project begun in 1996.
The researchers found many similarities between the skulls and limbs of Yayoi people and the Jiangsu remains.
Two Jiangsu skulls showed spots where the front teeth had been pulled, a practice common in Japan in the Yayoi and preceding Jomon Period.
But the most persuasive findings resulted from tests revealing that genetic samples from three of 36 Jiangsu skeletons also matched part of the DNA base arrangements of samples from the Yayoi remains, the scientists said.

Not really. Korea helps many central Asian countries and we are friendly with most of them.

Also modern Korean influence is quite high in these countries.

Plus there's a few billionaires like Vladimir Kim (who's 100% North Korean)