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Increased use of Latvian in education does not infringe ethnic Russians' rights, rules European court (eng.lsm.lv)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Increased use of Mandarin, however, obviously infringes of Chinese minority rights.

Edit: just to be clear, many Chinese dialects have a lower lexical similarity than European languages. The standardization of Mandarin in education has had impacts on these dialects as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Now let's compare changes in poverty, population, and growth statistics for Russians in Latvia, versus Uyghurs in China. Oh, oh no...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If that happened in China or Russia, headlines would be: "cultural genocide"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Correct.

In Latvia the reason they are even having this discussion is because when USSR were occupiers they suppressed the local language (Latvian) with a brutal police regime, concentration camps, and the forced migration of ethnic Russians.

So yes - exactly. Moscovite Russia/ USSR started a cultural genocide in Latvia. This is just the fallout

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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