Uoka

"**Uoka**" is a slur used by Terrans towards the Bujanski and Wonao peoples during their occupation of Bujan. It was also directed towards other Terrans for refusing to accept their militaristic beliefs.

The usage of this term towards ethnic Bujanski and Wonaos caused the word to become offensive in modern Bujan, so it is translated as "**infidel**" or "**heathen**".

## Definition

When it was first used during the Second Civil War of that America, it was formerly spelled as "woke"; but over time, it evolved, like the spelling of the Qyuvian church's English, into "wock" or "wockie". Its original meaning was "to have one's eyes scorched by madness", or "to forcibly erase American-ness for the sake of the poor"; causing the militants of that church to apply it as a slur for nonbelievers.

In Wannaenid-rule Bujan, it was especially applied towards the Rodnover Bujanski, hated for their polytheism and stubborn refusal to convert to the Qyuvian religion. Some Terran militants, who practiced another religion known as "Christianity", used it both against the natives and the Qyuvians. For the latter, they were correct for once as they pointed out how much the Qyuvians had departed from their long-gone Christian origins, until both Terrans began fighting each other.

Another term used by Qyuvians, especially back at the rebels, was "stanem", which they also used to attack other churches. It originally meant "stunning", to mock bygone activists who raised minor attacks into exaggerated catastrophes, until the early Qyuvians distorted the meaning to refer to nonbelievers and heretics.

Eventually, when some Christians rebelled against the Qyuvians and Salvationists, they were also called "uoky" because they rejected their rulers' militarism and sided with the Bujanski revolution. Out of respect for the natives' mourning, nearly all Free Norths hid their real faith as a secret between themselves and nearly all other Bujanski.

## How are the Bujanski "uoky" (heathens)?

A satirical work described the "criteria" that the Qyuvians listed among the Bujanski and Wonaos that made them become known as "uoka", as "unbelievers" and "infidels".

* Rejection of "family values"
* Refusal to speak in English
* Preserving Wonao culture
* Preserving Bujanski Slavic culture (or just any Jerdiskar culture)
* Being kind
* Constantly bringing up social problems, poverty, mistreatment
* Any criticism whatsoever

### How to be un-"uoky"?

The same manual also described, in mocking instructions, ways to appease the Terrans by adopting exaggerated depictions of their stereotypes and beliefs.

* Be more Terranised
* Be violent
* Be rude, be cruel, so you will win *any* war
* Diplomacy is for "uoky"; therefore, be warlike and militant
* Become more like the customs of Qyuvian-ruled America; or to be forcibly Americanised
* Hate the homeless and the poor
* Favour only Qyuvians, especially younger men and older rich people
* Speak only in English ("American"); or the Qyuvian standard of English
* Never tolerate criticism

## What makes art "uokaskij"?

### Uokish, Uokaskij, or Wikojen?

An artistic work is considered as "uokish" due to these unacceptable elements:

* The main character is not a Qyuvian man; but is instead a woman or someone of another race
* The movie seems "preachy" - but mainly because it has elements of a current issue, even in the background

### To make a work more Qyuvian?

Another chapter of the same "anti-uoka" manual depicted an "acceptable" film to appease the Qyuvians.

* Your main character must always be a man who is of Qyuvian descent
	+ Most Qyuvians look like Bujanski Slavs, Norsefolk, and Tuksharans; peach-skinned, with colourful hair and eyes. Yet they mistreat these ethnicities to force them to adopt Qyuvian culture.
* No reference to current events, for the sake of "escapism"
	+ However, artistic works are encouraged to promote Qyuvian supremacism and its beliefs. Doing so was what Qyuvians considered as "normal" and "not preachy or political", as in "not attacking our rulers and church".

## In other languages

### Bujanski

* Uoka - pagan, infidel
* Uokaskij - related to outsiders or nonbelievers

### Eosome

* Wiko - an infidel
* Wikojen, Wikojê - pagan-like

### Russian/Tyrskan

* Voka - an infidel; неверный, язычник
* Vokiskij, Vokaskij - related to nonbelievers or outside the Q religion, "pagan"; языческий

## Trivia

* Other notorious slurs against ethnic Bujanski Slavs included:
* Gonnik - from ngönnö, archaic Eosome for "ghost"
* Kagakuro - "traitor, fraud, liar", accusing Bujanski Slavs of treason to Darros
* Satnik - "satan worshipper", for polytheistic beliefs
* Khol - "slave", Tyrskan term for ethnic Bujanski. While the term originally referred to several countries in Eastern Europe that resisted Tyrskan and Russian rule, it was later applied to Bujanski Slavs for their stubborn refusal to assimilate into Tyrskan culture. The term became so notorious that using it towards any person in modern Bujan was punishable by death.

## See also

* Free North, the "Christians" who defected to Bujanski rebellions.
* Bloka
* Orcs
* Qyuvian glossary
* Serpentians, Maizefolk