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Turanism has been characterized by pseudoscientific theories. According to these theories, "Turanians" include Bulgarians, Estonians, Mongols, Finns, Turks, and even Japanese people and Koreans, who are alleged to share Ural-Altaic origins. Although it has been universally discredited by mainstream scholars, Turanism still has many adherents in certain Turkic-speaking countries. Referred to as Pseudo-Turkologists, these scholars stamp all Eurasian nomads and all of the major civilizations which existed throughout human history as being of Turkic or Turanian origin. In such countries, Turanism has served as a form of national therapy, helping its proponents to cope with the failures of the past.