Why Estonia's schools are abandoning teaching in Russian | Focus on Europe
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We should add that it wasn't just ethnic Russians that were moved in. The Soviets would move undesrables, dissidents and poor people from one satellite to another, leaving them cturally isolated with no option but to switch to Russian.
Resentment was fostered via tools such as transfer of property, and schooling, such that the native population and the immigrants always had conflict, and the Russian soviets could resolve conflicts and civilize the total population.
Russian ethnics outnumber native ethnics in many Russian regions that did not leave the union. -
Estonia's large Russian-speaking minority used to be taught in Russian. The government has responded to Russia's invasion with a reform to end this. Now, lessons will only be taught in Estonian.
I believe that Latvia did this a year ago; not sure about Lithuania.
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Estonia's large Russian-speaking minority used to be taught in Russian. The government has responded to Russia's invasion with a reform to end this. Now, lessons will only be taught in Estonian.
In my crystal ball... I see... Orthodox Christian Schools popping up everywhere.
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Society is punished by remaining divided.
I understand your frustration. I don’t think anyone believes that the children deserve this; only that it’s the least harmful way to solve a problem that the Russians created. There’s a big difference between the two.
If there were a better, faster, less disruptive option, we would be in favor of that.
There are better, slower ways.
Introducing this gradually (i.e. all children since a certain birth year), having extra language classes for the older children that need it. It's not a uniquely Estonian problem, all places with migrants deal with children of linguistic minorities.They're children, the ones under 6 will adapt to a different language quite quickly and at 18 there were already no Russian language colleges, so even at its slowest it would only take 12 years.
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With a substantial native Russian speaking minority in Estonia and other baltic countries this is IMHO a very bad idea and will only result in resentment and kids struggling in school due to language issues.
Latvia did it a year ago, and the blowback has been less than expected.
I saw a Documentary on it that interviewed Russian ethnic Latvians, and they seemed to accept it, as long as there were no social restrictions. There were of course Russian nationalists who objected, mainly the older generation. -
Great idea. Surely punishing your country's children for the decisions of a foreign government will end the war.
Estonian is hard, but it is rude to call it a punishment to learn.
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Estonia's large Russian-speaking minority used to be taught in Russian. The government has responded to Russia's invasion with a reform to end this. Now, lessons will only be taught in Estonian.
As a person who started to learn Russian few years ago, it's sad to see, but ultimately it's a good choice for Estonian people or any other nation which is at risk of Russian expansionism .
Vladimir Putin is the worst thing that happened to Russia, Russian culture and Russian language.
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Estonian is hard, but it is rude to call it a punishment to learn.
I am not an expert, but while I think Baltic languages are largely incomprehensible to Slavic speakers (I am Polish), a grammar wouldn't be that hard to learn, because both Baltic and Slavic languages developed from single Proto-Balto-Slavic language, and they still have some things in common. I wouldn't be surprised if Estonian was technically easier to learn for a Russian person than English, if you started from scratch.
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Estonian is hard, but it is rude to call it a punishment to learn.
In case you for some reason see my previous comment. Ignore it, Estonian is not a Baltic language, lol. I fucked up.
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Estonia's large Russian-speaking minority used to be taught in Russian. The government has responded to Russia's invasion with a reform to end this. Now, lessons will only be taught in Estonian.
Because fuck Russia.
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In case you for some reason see my previous comment. Ignore it, Estonian is not a Baltic language, lol. I fucked up.
Estonian is 100% a baltic language, but not a Slavic language.
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Estonian is 100% a baltic language, but not a Slavic language.
Latvian and Lithuanian are also not Slavic.Estonian is actually a Finno-Ugric language. That's why I removed my comment.
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Latvia did it a year ago, and the blowback has been less than expected.
I saw a Documentary on it that interviewed Russian ethnic Latvians, and they seemed to accept it, as long as there were no social restrictions. There were of course Russian nationalists who objected, mainly the older generation.So they accepted it except for the ones that didn't?
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As a person who started to learn Russian few years ago, it's sad to see, but ultimately it's a good choice for Estonian people or any other nation which is at risk of Russian expansionism .
Vladimir Putin is the worst thing that happened to Russia, Russian culture and Russian language.
Undoubtedly Putin is an evil, horrible dictator. But the worst? I'm not so sure about that. They had Stalin, that's at least a close contender.
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So they accepted it except for the ones that didn't?
Yes. That is how things work with large groups of people. One could even describe Leadership as the negotiation between groups of differing opinions. Good luck getting 10 people to agree on lunch.
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Estonian is actually a Finno-Ugric language. That's why I removed my comment.
Finnish and Estonian share a root - and I would call both languages Baltic. Latcian and Lithuanian share and equally ancient and separate root - but are still Baltic.
Hungarian not Baltic, but Finni-Ugrech.
You have a point, bit don't carellessly deny them their Baltic definition.
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Yes. That is how things work with large groups of people. One could even describe Leadership as the negotiation between groups of differing opinions. Good luck getting 10 people to agree on lunch.
So they didn't accept it
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So they didn't accept it
Which "they" do you mean? What percentage of the pop was it?
Do you have a stake? Or are you just being pedantic?
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