I just want to share with you (perhaps 3-4 readers) out there my views about racism in Estonia. I recently got awfully furious with an article in an Estonian newspaper Postimees in which a black journalist claimed Estonia is one of the most racist countries there is.
Let me just tell you my own experiences with people from other races - I hate them, literally. But you can't call me a racist, because I hate all people . . . if hate is too strong a word for you, let's say I don't like people (any people, no matter the race). Whenever I've been around people from other races, I always feel much more relaxed and intrigued by them. I don't discriminate others simply because they are a slightly different color than me. If I happen to see a person of a different race than my own, I am naturally intrigued - I don't see them everyday . . . The same applies to tribes in the middle of Africa, who have seen maybe a handful of white people in their lifetime. Of course they treat white people in another manner than their own people.
Another thing I don't understand - we call a white person "white" . . . What's wrong with calling a person, whose skin color is black "black" ??? Ok, never mind that. Let's continue.
Estonia has been under the soviet regime for 50 years and only for 17 years we have been independent . . . Obviously some of us have never even seen a dark-skinned person. And for that reason we naturally treat them with interest and curiosity . . . sometimes the curiosity turns to hatred (very few occasions), sometimes friendship (also very few occasions) and others just ignore them . . . But Estonians ignore everyone . . . And we hate everybody - Some Estonians hate Russians, some hate all foreigners, some hate people of different race and most of all Estonians hate other Estonians . . .
I'll post another later on - gotta go to class at the moment
Let me just tell you my own experiences with people from other races - I hate them, literally. But you can't call me a racist, because I hate all people . . . if hate is too strong a word for you, let's say I don't like people (any people, no matter the race). Whenever I've been around people from other races, I always feel much more relaxed and intrigued by them. I don't discriminate others simply because they are a slightly different color than me. If I happen to see a person of a different race than my own, I am naturally intrigued - I don't see them everyday . . . The same applies to tribes in the middle of Africa, who have seen maybe a handful of white people in their lifetime. Of course they treat white people in another manner than their own people.
Another thing I don't understand - we call a white person "white" . . . What's wrong with calling a person, whose skin color is black "black" ??? Ok, never mind that. Let's continue.
Estonia has been under the soviet regime for 50 years and only for 17 years we have been independent . . . Obviously some of us have never even seen a dark-skinned person. And for that reason we naturally treat them with interest and curiosity . . . sometimes the curiosity turns to hatred (very few occasions), sometimes friendship (also very few occasions) and others just ignore them . . . But Estonians ignore everyone . . . And we hate everybody - Some Estonians hate Russians, some hate all foreigners, some hate people of different race and most of all Estonians hate other Estonians . . .
I'll post another later on - gotta go to class at the moment
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