Tolerant Lithuania no place for skinheads

6 Responses to Tolerant Lithuania no place for skinheads

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   berty Reply

   March 17, 2011 at 02:52

   I think they might struggle to keep “Lithuania for Lithuanians”. Lithuania will be deserted by 2043 at this rate of emigration.
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   Vic Reply

   March 17, 2011 at 22:23

   I agree, these countries have a low birth-rate, and a strong emigration flux. If they keep the pace, they’ll be forced to hire more foreigners to full fill their own pensions in the future. On the other hand: their immigrants are the “out-comers” in United Kingdom, France, etc. should they suffer the same policy and be expelled from other countries? The problem is not easy, more over if we try to define who is “Lithuanian” a who is not. For centuries these lands have been populated and re-populated continuously for German, Polish, Russian, Belorussian, Swedish, Finnish people, and who knows who else. If we’d made a DNA test in many persons in Baltic countries, most likely we’d end up without authentic “citizens”. Take a foreign person in Lithuania, dress him like Lithuanian, tell him to behave like that and you’ll never find a difference. Same color of skin, eyes, hair, facial features. The xenophobic problems in Europe are mostly a problem of cultures.
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   Nick Uselis Reply

   March 18, 2011 at 00:02

   I think they are the symptom of poor economic times, along with a government that seems to be unable to improve the quality of life. You notice you are not seeing this sort of thing to this degree in Estonia.
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   Dan Reply

   March 18, 2011 at 19:27

   Well, as one of over 100 americans of Lithuanian descent who decided to move to Lithuania in the last year (with many more expected soon), I think that we’ll be able to offset the amount of mostly-Russian descent people that leave for the UK and Ireland.

   Vic, you might be interested to know that Lithuanians actually have several unique haplotypes passed down only maternally. As linguistically-isolated as Lithuanians are, we also happen to be genetic outliers in Europe.

   Really, when you see a lot of businesses opened up by Turks, Chinese,and others, who simply violate tax laws and disappear to their home country (almost anonymously, and with no way to find them, when it is impossible to do the same as a native, it’s disturbing.

   As a white person, I would never go to live in ZImbabwe, despite that their law says I can, and would be protected. I guess it would seem foolish to explain to people from other countries that they “might not fit in,” and expect them to understand.
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   Whoo Reply

   March 21, 2011 at 23:43

   “… The problem is not easy, more over if we try to define who is “Lithuanian” a who is not. ..”
   Very good point. Those skinheads were shouting not in English, but in local language, and in local language that word has rather broad meaning, and not a single meaning (can’t tell how it’s in english, i’m ignorant local). And one of the meanings is something like a “person who is loyal to Lithuanian state”. I say this because in foreign media i see only abuse, and any mentioning of something patriotic in lithuanian language always causes new wave of abuse in english language. Well, those skinheads didn’t have exactly patriotic meaning (as do not their comrades abroad) – they simply imitate the fashion that comes from the west. Good or bad – all fashions come from the west. Not from the east. If westerners decide to sweep out their yard – sooner or later it will come to my country. I don’t escape from responsibility, and i don’t support lithuanian skinheads and their ideas. I simply pointing to westerners. Skinhead subculture didn’t born in LT, but it looks attractive and some people accept it. Quite possible, that they “and their supporters know nothing about Lithuanian history”. Or, say, know “something”. What’s the difference? In essence, it has nothing to do with national minorities. It has to do with education.
   As for idea that “Lithuania will be deserted by 2043 at this rate of emigration”… emigration is not good, but it is not a tragedy and it is happening not the first time, probably nor the last.
   Much ado about nothing, in essence.
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   Arturas R. Reply

   October 3, 2011 at 16:03

   “Tolerant Lithuania no place for skinheads” — go f*** yourself with this homodictatorship crap! Lithuania is a decent and honourable Country. Righteous Lithuania is no place for tolerant cunts!