Quote Originally Posted by bad manners
And where is English considered the 'white trash' language? Not here I think. Maybe France - and good luck to them, by the way
Precisely. In Latvia, Russian is considered so. It is almost like Yiddish in Nazi Germany.
You do have some unsettlingly hyperbolic tendencies, bm. Thirty percent of the population of Latvia is ethnically Russian; indeed, in Riga itself, there are more Russians than there are Latvians. With this in view, I'm not sure that the 'Yiddish in Nazi Germany' parallel stands up.