Lourié Svetlana V. «Multibloods»: A Feature of the Formation Ethnic Identity «Tyagubya» — Descendants from Inter–Ethnic Marriages of Russian Koreans. Petersburg sociology today, 2020, No. 13-14, pp. 61-85

Abstract

There are some common features of self-identifi cation of descendants from interethnic marriages. However, each nation has its own characteristics for the «mestizo». We will compare the descendants from mixed marriages of representatives of a number of peoples. We have used publications of some Russian authors, as well as our own analysis of stories of descendants from mixed marriages of Russian Koreans — «tyagubya». A characteristic feature of tyagubya is that they rarely identify themselves unambiguously as Russians or Koreans, and also rarely have a cosmopolitan self-identifi cation. Rather, two types of self-identifi cation of half-Koreans should be distinguished, which can be defi ned as positive and negative. Tyagubya either categorically does not refer to themselves as either Koreans or Russians, or they refer to both at once, calling themselves «multibloods», absorbing and refracting in a special way two very different cultures.