The Curious Case of Dean Winchester

Day 1,071, 04:43 • Published in Belarus Poland • by vingaer

Hello guys,

I happened to notice that some of you have problems with distinguishing between two English words: Niger and the other, nasty one, written with two G letters.



Are you sure ;d?

Translation of my forum post (org. in Polish) -- 'Long live Belarus aka Bieloniger o/'

Now a small analyze and a vocab lesson:

Niger is a country of west-central Africa. Population 13kk, capital called Niamey, ex-French colony. Exports mainly peanuts and livestock. There is also Nigeria, the most populous African country, ex-British colony. This one we don't mention!

The other word you are nagging me about, -GG-, is used as a disparaging term for a Black person. Now, this word is considered to be highly offensive. Anyone using it is discriminating people of colour.

A native or inhabitant of Niger is called Nigerien. The adjective describing something related to Niger ot its inhabitants is also 'Nigerien'.

Now we get to the complicated part.

As you all know by now, Niger is an African country. Thing is, there are people supporting adding the African countries as against the common superstitions, they would actually make a great market for the game investors AND a great playground for the rest of us, the common players. We chose an unusual way to support adding those countries -- a role playing. Even though eNiger is still a 404, grey location on the map, we dress up as Nigerien government, congress and army and we have fun looking for Gabonian agents.

Since Africa got skipped in the new countries' race, we decided to make our new home in eBelarus, calling it Bieloniger or Belaniger. Again, there's a subtle yet meaningful difference between the -G- and -GG- parts.

Also, please notice, we do not use the -GG- word. Actually, there are many French people (France = a country, well, inhabited by many people of colour) among us. Do you really think they would allow calling themselves in such way the authors of the pic above are suggesting? I doubt it. Moreover, we don't call you the Belonigeriens. We call that only ourselves. You are Belarussians, rite? God knows how many citizens of real life Belarus plays eRepublik through the severe censorship established by the current leadership, but we wish you guys good luck irl.

So, to sum up, no one in here is calling you nasty. You just happen to live with a role-playing community. Judging from the elections' results, we are not the only group inhabiting eBelarus and having a political representation. I saw a really wide spectrum of avatars among the newly chosen congress members -- Polish, Romanian, Serbian, some Slavic Union etc. included 😉.

Unfortunately, our originally created political party is now a property of Arschmann, so we didn't have one to run from. The Poles have kindly borrowed us some places on their list.

Since our political agenda is to make eBelarus a habitable place (we mean you no harm as we intend to live in here as well), I suggest you should look for enemies, especially the ones calling you nasty names, elsewhere 🙂.

Also, thank you for the votes! I actually know only about two voters I had, no idea about the remaining 11 -- but hey, I was leading for such a long time you guys made me blush. Thanks for the support!