Thread: Regarding Russian in the Baltic States

Originally Posted by Romik

For the EU it's ok and going on exactly that way.
You can't say Somalis in Sweden like "Guys, it's unfair, your birth rate is three times more than the natives', keep equality!"

Well, despite the sorry state of public health care in Sweden, it actually manages to maintain one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world.
The Somalis don't use birth control and where they came from has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world.
The should adapt to the new circumstances, instead of continuing like they were still in Somalia. I think they should start wearing more European clothes as well. If they leave Africa because the situation there is bad, then they ought to try to change a bit to be more like the country they have moved to, in order to get a better life.

I'm Russian and I feel the same way to Moscow as normal Englishmen to London when it's flooded by foreign people with different culture.

And the same way latvians feel to Latvia when it was flooded by foreign people in Soviet times making Latvians almost minority in their own country...

Originally Posted by nulle

And the same way latvians feel to Latvia when it was flooded by foreign people in Soviet times making Latvians almost minority in their own country...

Was that comment really necessary? Remember we are here to help each other...
At some level you have to like Russian language or culture, or you wouldn't be at this forum. If I am wrong about that, then maybe a nationalistic Latvian forum would be better. I am not saying this because I think I am a perfect forum member myself. But I think we have had lots of discussions about everything that's been happening between Latvia and Russia/USSR and at some level this is a Russian forum after all, so let's be a bit polite.

Originally Posted by Hanna

Was that comment really necessary? Remember we are here to help each other...
At some level you have to like Russian language or culture, or you wouldn't be at this forum. If I am wrong about that, then maybe a nationalistic Latvian forum would be better. I am not saying this because I think I am a perfect forum member myself. But I think we have had lots of discussions about everything that's been happening between Latvia and Russia/USSR and at some level this is a Russian forum after all, so let's be a bit polite.

That comment was necessary to fight the hypocrisy which arises on here from time to time. You can't actually say "I don't stand for immigrants flooding the country with their culture, except for the immigrants X". Think about it.

It was very unfair not to give the citizenship even to the third generation automatically.

They got the best apartments outside of normal queue (which they were allowed to keep) - while latvians had to live in communal apartments, and also many other privileges (like special shops where you could buy deficit goods that were unavailable to locals) at that time - Was this fair?
And people who are born in independent Latvia (after 1991) to non-citizens can get citizenship if their parents wish so (they just have to fill some forms and that's all - I bet that Russian TV channels that say that Latvia is a fascistic country - does not tell you this.).

and many people left Latvia.

Yes, they run away from occupying red army and fleed to the West.

At some level you have to like Russian language or culture, or you wouldn't be at this forum.

Russian culture is one thing - I'm not against it.
Occupation by foreign army and ethnic cleansing - another...

Hanna - I have visited Latvian nationalist forums.
And many of them (most radical) think that all soviet time migrants should be deported from Latvia.
The same thing that Chechens did to Russians in their own country:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya#Demographics
From 23% to 3% in 20 years.
My views are too moderate for them...

You can't actually say "I don't stand for immigrants flooding the country with their culture, except for the immigrants X". Think about it.

Yes Hanna - it is hypocritical that you do not like Somalis and afghans which your democratically elected government allowed in your country.
But you do not have anything against people that were intentionally sent to Latvia by totallitarian occupying power to weaken and oppress our country.

Originally Posted by nulle

And the same way latvians feel to Latvia when it was flooded by foreign people in Soviet times making Latvians almost minority in their own country...

That were others times, there were strategic things, anyway you had to be occupied if not by Russia then it would be another one. And if you didn't happen to be a minor you would do the same thing.
You weren't annihilated, you had your state, your population grew. Now you are free and disappear ...

Originally Posted by Hanna

Well, despite the sorry state of public health care in Sweden, it actually manages to maintain one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world.
The Somalis don't use birth control and where they came from has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world.

Yeah Sweden is good for them.

The should adapt to the new circumstances, instead of continuing like they were still in Somalia. I think they should start wearing more European clothes as well. If they leave Africa because the situation there is bad, then they ought to try to change a bit to be more like the country they have moved to, in order to get a better life.

This is wishful thinking but they don't break your laws wearing their clothes and carrying on their customs. They are desired but they don't have to adapt as you like.