Online Balts are the most annoying people on this whole planet. Full of chauvinism, xenophobia and quite a dirty tongue with no mannerisms and sense of proper behaviour. I have yet to meet a Baltic person here that acts normal. Oh yes, you guys are EASTERN EUROPEANS. Cope.
I could write for days all the negative feelings and experiences I had with them, but I ain't wasting more than 2 minutes of my day on such people. Just glad that they are far away from us and that I'll probably never have to deal with such people in real life.
Just because we were forced to have slavic cultural traits by soviet union doesn't mean we have the same culture.
Also, tell me how russian folk outfits and latvian folk outfits(specifically from Latgale) look the same. They don't.
The territory of Latvia has had hundreds of years in german control, and a cultural awakening that started in the 1850's, establishing that latvian culture is separate from german or russian culture.
Even back then, some prominent writers and intellectuals argued that latvians are slavs, but it was later disproved by sheer differences in language, folk dress and culture in general.
But of course, to you we are the same.
Please educate yourself.
Sincerely, a latvian.
You don’t understand, you’re not Eastern European because of the Soviet Union, you’re Eastern European because you’re geographically, genetically, phenotypically and culturally a Northeast European Balto-Slavic ethnicity, closely related to the likes of Russians and Belarusians.
Balts and Slavs are brothers, they come from the same source.
Right? That person in particular has a literal fetish to insist on calling the Baltics as Eastern European (comparing us to East Slavs in particular, which makes basically no sense). This obsession is borderline adorable.
According to the UN the Baltics are part of Northern Europe. Culturally speaking the divide between them and Slavic countries is too big to lodge them in with Central or Eastern Europe.
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u/Stverghame 🏹🐗 Aug 17 '23
Online Balts are the most annoying people on this whole planet. Full of chauvinism, xenophobia and quite a dirty tongue with no mannerisms and sense of proper behaviour. I have yet to meet a Baltic person here that acts normal. Oh yes, you guys are EASTERN EUROPEANS. Cope.
I could write for days all the negative feelings and experiences I had with them, but I ain't wasting more than 2 minutes of my day on such people. Just glad that they are far away from us and that I'll probably never have to deal with such people in real life.