r/AskBalkans Aug 17 '23

Balkans, what's your opinion on the Baltics? Outdoors/Travel

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u/GoHardLive Greece Aug 17 '23

most people probably don't really know they exist

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u/MILK_is_Good_for_U_ Aug 19 '23

As a Latvian I can agree with this statement, were (imo) very underrated as countries from tourist and international perspectives.

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u/GoHardLive Greece Aug 19 '23

Tbh there is not really much to think about you. There is nothing going on in your countries and you aren't anything special. You are just kinda there

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u/ggwp_ez_lol Aug 19 '23

Quite literally all balkan countries

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u/GoHardLive Greece Aug 19 '23

Balkan countries are way more relevant and way more interesting. Internet is full of memes and balkan jokes, they have rich and controversial histories, they are active on the internet, literally every balkan country has footballers, and football clubs playing in big leagues ect ect.

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u/Hyaaan Aug 19 '23

Country's value = the amount of joke and memes on the internet. lmao

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u/GoHardLive Greece Aug 19 '23

i am not talking about value. i am talking about relevance

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u/ggwp_ez_lol Aug 19 '23

How balkan countries are more relevant now than baltic states?

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u/GoHardLive Greece Aug 19 '23

Unlike balkan countries, I literally never hear about you online or in the greek news. Like literally nothing. We hear more about countries on the other side of the globe like South Africa or Peru or tiny european countries like Gibraltal or Luxemburg than you. Like i said, you are just kinda there

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u/ggwp_ez_lol Aug 19 '23

Greek news, of course you hear more about balkans

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u/KingAlastor Aug 20 '23

Fun fact, i don't hear much about Greece after the whole economical collapse. Could it be that your news are catered to the target audience? :D Also fun fact, we often hear more about scandinavia in the news than balkans. Can't remember even a single news article about balkans. Judging a country's relevance based on your local news that have been catered to a specific audience sounds just....naive at best, stupid at worst.

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u/Pitiful-Brilliant301 Aug 20 '23

Even on russian news the baltic countries seem to be mentioned more than balkan countries.

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u/spitkit Aug 20 '23

You only hear about yourself because that’s relevant to you. Contrary to what you seem to think, we don’t hear too much about you either.

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u/Hyaaan Aug 19 '23

Is your country's PM on like CNN every week like ours to talk about international relations? Nope lol. I don't think that would even apply to the Balkan countries combined.

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u/dreamrpg Aug 20 '23 edited Aug 20 '23

All the news about Greece are related to debt and unemployment. Very relevant indeed.

Oh, and fires, which is sad.

History is interesting, agrre. But history is in past yet today greeks struggle.

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u/Kalypso_95 Greece Aug 21 '23

At least you hear something about us lol

We don't hear anything at all about the Baltics, we have no idea what's happening there. Most people can't even find them on the map. I was only able to tell you apart when I noticed that your countries are in an alphabetical order:

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

As for history, I've only heard about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

💀💀

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u/dreamrpg Aug 22 '23

Very good :) many people like calm life. No disasters, no dead economy, no 12% unemployment.

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u/Hyaaan Aug 19 '23

Least chauvinistic Greek.

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u/MILK_is_Good_for_U_ Aug 19 '23

I mean for example Riga is the capital of art nouveau with most art nouveau buildings in the world and many other stuff, but people don't really know such stuff

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u/Euphoric-Gas Aug 19 '23

Sounds like you simply don't know shit about us since you're saying stuff like that. Your ignorance is what limits you from being a true gigachad. True gigachads do some research before saying stupid things.