Education reforms introduced since 2018 which aim to increase the use of Latvia's sole official state language – Latvian – cannot be viewed as discrimination against Russian-speakers, the Europea...
    • Mobilityfuture@lemmy.world
      87·
      4 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

    • riodoro1@lemmy.world
      312·
      4 months ago

      Well, they build camps and aim rifles at people they’re “educating” so maybe that’s why?

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
        92·
        4 months ago

        Compare how many Tibetans speak Tibetan with how many natives in US speak their languages (or Welsh, Irish, Scots, Bretonians, Sorbians etc etc etc wherever applicable) before you start to run your western supremacist nonsense.

  • nekandro@lemmy.mlOP
    126·
    4 months ago

    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.