Minor Ethnicities of Depereko

**Minor Ethnicities of Depereko or Ethnic Minorities of Depereko** are the group of people who lives in Depereko except for Deperekos. Officially Kivav, Kadio, Khüga, Tubeng, Tseku, Durub, Gashaz, Vagan, and Ikslov are registered as minor ethnicities.

## History

### Slave era

*Main Article: Slavery in Depereko*

All of the remaining minority ethnic groups have their origins in the people who refused to fight against Depereko in the War of Conquest and surrendered. However, despite their capitulation to Depereko, the minorities became enslaved and had to lead miserable life for a while. Even at this time, Deperekos and minorities were thoroughly separated.

### Subject Reform

When slavery was abolished by the Subject Reform, all individual slaves were expelled from their masters' homes. The government did not take any measures against these freed slaves and provided low-wage, low-skilled, high-risk jobs to former state slaves, and many individual slaves also applied for these jobs. Individual slaves migrated to the area where the state slaves had previously gathered, and Deperekos gradually disappeared from this area.

### Attacks against minorities and formation of ghettos

Many Deperekos did not like to see minorities being treated on an equal footing with Deperekos. The Deperekos attacked the minorities for no reason, and the public authorities did not take the side of the minorities. In a minority society, to cope with this problem, the ethnic minority population is concentrated in units of hundreds to thousands of people to form a ghetto for only minorities and to jointly respond to the attack of the Deperekos. Barriers, barbed wire, and checkpoint facilities were installed in each ghetto, and the Deperekoan government interrupted it, saying it would cause a security crisis, but soon changed its position to besiege the ghetto.

### Poverty and low-development

The ghetto strategy protected the minority from the attack of the Deperekos, but as a result, it further weakened the minority's capabilities. The gap between the ghettos of minorities and the areas where Deperekos live has widened, and of course, low-quality jobs for ethnic minorities to work without leaving the ghettos are not conducive to development and innovation at all. In addition, the government treated minorities entering the ghetto as a kind of non-citizens and did not provide any benefits including nationality, welfare, and education. In addition, it was difficult to advance into a Deperekoan society that praised the myth of the conquest of Roikhi Doruo and Depereko, and those in power who reigned in the ghettos were afraid of being deprived of their position by a minority who experienced the Deperekoan society.

### Depereko Civil War

In the Civil War of Depereko, each ghetto decided on its side, with **more than 80% of the minority settlements supporting EHCUZ**. Only about 5% of ethnic minority residences supported the New Imperial Dynasty. The main reason is that, in the BCB, the aristocratic powers of Depereko, who exploited minorities as slaves in the past, were present, and EHCUZ promised more benefits and rights to minorities compared to the BCB. Minority groups organized volunteers to support EHCUZ, and they refused to obey the BCB even after EHCUZ was disbanded, most of them were eventually exterminated.

### Present

In the end, EHCUZ defeated in the civil war, and most of the ghettos did not escape the purge of the BCB. Many elders purged, and a small number of ghettos that had cooperated with the BCB absorbed the heavily damaged residences. Minority groups are suffering from a negative image of cooperating with EHCUZ and suffering from chronic poverty, but they experienced the society of Depereko for a while, and the remnants of EHCUZ are engaged in a civil rights movement in solidarity with ethnic minorities.

## Culture

Exchanges with Deperekos were not active, so unique cultures developed.

### Ethnic minority ghetto

A **ghetto** is a resident community of ethnic minorities spread throughout Depereko. Although it does not interact with the Deperekoan society, each ghetto actively interacts with themselves. Intermarriage and trade between ethnic minorities are quite active. After the Civil War in Depereko, armed public security corps appeared in the residential area and enforced unintentional check-ups. It's to hunt for illegal weapons and wanted people, but most ethnic minorities think this very badly. Because this is a reason why it is difficult to build even a single factory in a ghetto.

### Religion

They believe in the religion traditionally believed by each ethnic group, not Roikhi Doruo. However, in the case of Ikslovs, they believe in a corrupted Catholic faith, and in the mid to late 19th century, because they kidnapped Josef Margaski, a missionary secretly sent by the Holy See in the mid to late 19th century because it did Although Margaski was in a desperate situation, he did missionary work to the Ikslov people. After Margaski's death, although it was corrupted, the religion of Ikslov is still close to Catholicism. In the Khüga community, Devus Krush did missionary work.

### Exchanges with Deperekos

Although it is very small, there is also an exchange with Deperekos. The main aspect is that Deperekos sneak into the ghetto, and most of them are wanted groups or debtors, not very helpful for the development of the ghetto. However, they sometimes bring in the cultural relics of Depereko, and most of them are accepted due to the low fertility rate of minority ethnic groups. However, some Deperekos exploited this to gain illicit benefits, Devus Krush is a representative example.

Of course, this is a minor phenomenon, and there are even jokes circulating that the Deperekos that minorities can see are DAPI personnel and work group leaders. This is because the working group leader monitors and distributes salaries to minorities whenever they earn money, while the security corps besiege the ghettos, and occasionally conducts large-scale searches in the ghettos to crack down on illegal weapons.

### Economic Status

**Very dark**. Most ethnic minorities are in high-risk, low-income jobs at Depereko that Deperekos are not willing to do. Since those who do this kind of work are non-regular workers, it is difficult for them to get promotions or raise their salaries. After the civil war, there was a trend not to give jobs to minorities, which made them even more difficult. As compensation for industrial accidents was stipulated after the BCB, some minority daily workers deliberately died or were injured at the workplace, providing financial help to their families. In the case of water and electricity supplied to ghettos, the leadership often embezzles them, leaving the majority of minorities unable to enjoy the benefits.

### Law and order

Minority groups are following a fairly pre-modern and anti-human rights order because they have been deprived of opportunities to change their consciousness after being reduced to a slave class. There are many ghettos where public executions, incest, and polygamy are rampant, but the government is not responding. As the fertility rate of minorities has fallen to a serious level, things unimaginable in a normal modern society happen in some ghettos such as early marriage. This is also the reason that the minority leadership wants the ghetto to be maintained, and the minorities who leave the ghetto return soon.

### Minorities outside ghettos

Although there are very few, there are also minorities who have chosen to live outside the ghetto after the Subject Reform. Most of them ended their lives in the lower classes of the Deperekoan society, but there are also Muder Gali, a Kadioan who jumped to the middle class through coal investment, and Zuli Kabsha, a Kavavian. Although they are treated as heroes in each tribe to which they belong, unfortunately, minorities that have imitated his courage have not yet emerged.

1. ↑ Deperekoans were never in thousands when they attacked minorities.
2. ↑ Especially in Vonkhamar and Gurakh state.
3. ↑ A native of Russian Poland, he was the only one who volunteered for the Vatican's Depereko missionary program.