Vacationing in late-Soviet Estonia, I sensed—as a child—that Estonians were different from us. I never had this sense about Ukrainians.
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@NinaByzantina@J2Lana well,I dont have feelings that we r differ with kazakhs,the same mentality,it is not about slavic culture -
Slavs *are* different from Kazakhs, but operate w/in the Eurasian/Heartland geo-paradigm. Estonians are w/in Europe.
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we have close mentality with kazakhs,or maybe czech ppl r closer to us ?
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It's about the interplay of various categories--identity, geopolitics, etc. in particular combinations.
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@NinaByzantina Estonians are different, true. They are Finno-Ugric people like we Finns are. Different culture than slavics have.@J2Lana -
:) My initial point re Estonia was that children can sense which cultural divisions are real, and which—artificial. @VeliParkkulaine
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@NinaByzantina That's true. But we do share the same melancholic nature than you slavs have as we all came here from the east :)@J2Lana
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@NinaByzantina but now we can see that Ukr, Est, Lat, Lit - have so much in common - fascism!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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