@Andrew Popa 2.0 Sorry if it hurt you personally, was not my goal to disparage romanians.

We have Turks, Tatars, Hungarians, Germans, Russians, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Albanians, Gypsies, Bosnians, Armenians

Jews too

I know for a fact that Portugal got a shitload of Romanian doctors and educated personnel through imigration...we sent them all into construction work because they didnt speak Portuguese...now their kids do <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

@Uksio

@Uksio you didn't hurt me personally, lol, I just found your views quite strange

de ce letona este atât de neimpresivă!

I would love to learn latvian too, but it turned out to be so different from lithuanian

@Uksio a minor point, Latvians and Estonians are not actuall Slavs.

well ... at least not the majority

@tereško balts are not Slavs yes

estonians are not balts 😛

Estonians are Finno-Uralic

also, fun fact "balts" in latvian means "white" (or in arcaec contexts: "good" or "decent")

@tereško Estonians are relatives of Finns. Latvians, Lithuanians and Prussians are balts.
I am a lithuanian slav myself, because I am ethnically russian.

Like the Finns and the Hungarians

baltas in lithuanian

balts zirgo galvs

Remember by Prussian we mean the Baltic Prussians aka the "Pruthenians"

When we were kids, someone told us that "zirgo galvs" is a gave insult in latvian

@Uksio I have a co-worker who grew up quite Russia-patriotic. So much so that he decided that after high-school he wanted to emigrate. He told us that it took hime about two days in Moscow to realise "fuck, I am not russian, I really need to get back home"

@SideTracker I am judging by language group - prussian language belongs in the baltic trio

Finns, Hungarians and the Baltic Peoples came from Central Asia

Moscow is also not Russia btw

I know 😄

In the same way as London became not English

Moscow is like a separate country within Russia, where mostly russians live, but it is full of all ethnicities and ghettos of all sorts

Who inhabits Moscow now

something something something Metropolis are always Cosmopolitan...

@Andrew Popa 2.0 actually, based on genetic markers, the closest population to latvians an lithuenians is .. well .. in India

it's a puzzle

A lot of kyrgyz, tatar, uzbek, tajik, kazakh, chinese, mongol minorities

A lot of people came to work there during the USSR I imagine

And they live in specific blocks in Moscow in some places

Those are not the no-go-zones though

You can hang out with them

true

Unless you're the US because you just absorb the foreigners in like some sort of all culture devouring blob
Thats why NY is still THOROUGHLY american despite being THEE quintessential Cosmopolitan Metropolis

if you avoid the skinheads, that is

The worst ghetto no-go-zones in Moscow are not ethnic

Here we have a sort of older area of town where more Turkish people live