Ramśek

The Ramśek is a Kiravian social archetype of working- or lower-middle class "ethnic Coscivian" men living in the traditional residential areas of major industrial and post-industrial cities in Great Kirav. It is similar to the Urcean archetype of the "neighborhood guy". The term comes from the Kiravic word ram ("city block"), with the derivational suffix -śek, which is roughly analogous to the English -er / -ite / -nik.

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Couple a' ramśekya in Primóra.

The ramśek is distinguished from upper- and upper-middle class Coscivian urbanites and residents of "Mainline Coscivian" ethno-social groups, who nowadays tend to live in more upscale mixed-use areas of the major cities or in older affluent neighbourhoods, such as Perlitren on Valēka's Tandhurin Island. Instead, ramśekya generally belong to Coscivian ethnosocial groups that migrated during the Great Crossing, or to lower-status subgroups such as Hoppers and Highlanders that began moving to the cities during industrialisation. Urban working-class Celtic-Kiravians are usually not considered ramśekya, even though many embody similar stereotypes. Non-Coscivian immigrants and urban Urom in cities like Escarda are similarly excluded.

Classic characteristics associated with the ramśek are wearing a wifebeater, being either a monolingual speaker of an ethnic vernacular language or speaking the regional language or Kiravic with a heavy local urban accent, day drinking, and being a hardcore homer for the local professional sports franchise.

In Valēka, ramśek are found in the New Cantons (Canova, Kerśodan, Aspihar, and Xarbasar) and on Sardēmur Island.