Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
Also, most Russians seem to have a very reasonable view of the situation. Most, including older people are trying to speak Latvian as far as I can tell. It's lucky these people are so pliable....
Look, I‘ll tell you one thing I guess as you don‘t know that in Poland is such a town, which is located not so far from Lithuanian border called Punskas and about 93 per sent of it‘s people are real ethnic Lithuanians. This spring I was there and guess if I saw in this town a sign where would be written in Lithuanian. Or do you think that Polish people are writting Vaistinė (the chemist‘s shop) instead of Apteka even though mass of people living there are Lithuanians? The answer is NO. But these Lithuanians somehow manage to talk fluently both in Lithuanian and Polish languages doesn‘t matter if they are old or young. And there is no ploblems between Lithuanians and Polish because Lithuanians simply respect the fact that official language of Poland is Polish. So, in my mind, it is Russians who, first of all, should start respecting laws and constitution of Latvia, and get used to the idea that Latvian is official language, but not intentionally refuse to speak in Latvian even though they are living there for decades. And if they still do not agree with that, then they just simply can leave this country, but as you see most of them are not thinking about doing it, so we can come to conclusion that it is much better for them to live in Latvia (because welfare there is much better than in beloved Russia). And, if the fact that some of them initially are refusing to speak Latvian, you call discrimination of Russian people, then maybe you should take a dictionary and find out what the word ‘‘discrimination‘‘ means.