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>Nordic

uh

have the maps changed recently

actually spooky, estonia is considered part of the nordics in some definitions

i assume due to their linguistic relation to finland

nvm this one's better

Estonia was inhabited by nordic people forever until germany and russia came along

ok but that's a bullshit argument

^

the past doesn't define the present

US is a native country

if it did then britain would still rightfully control 33% of the world

So then if they classify themselves right now as nordic then what's the argument against it?

Estonia being nordic is a meme, in the same way as all other geographic clubs

honestly my opinion is that there's no point arguing about something that irrelevant

who cares

it doesn't really matter

^^

nordic doesn't mean anything

it's just an advertising label

there are people who say iceland is scandinavia

there's people that say it's north america

my favorite

is people who want Georgia to be European

Who is georgia??

Caucasus Georgia

Though I will say, the whole Nordic push for Estonia is always been a funny inferiority thing in my eye

They share so much shared history now with Lithuania and Latvia

Idk I think it's natural to want to push back against a forced slavic occupation after so many years

Not saying I don't personally love slav culture but if I was threatened with gulag just for flying an estonian flag

Feels right to embrace whatever preferred culture I guess

None of that made sense but it's hard to put it into words

And finland

Which borders estonia

Finland counts because they were Swedish border colonies for centuries

Sweden mixed with lapplander or whatever other tribes were there when Sweden colonized

Then why can't estonia count for the same reason?

Lapp?

I wouldn't count them because I think culturally they have almost nothing in common with Scandanavia

if you want to base it on genetics, idk how much Sweedish blood they have compared to German, Finnish, or Slav but idk if that really matters

it just seems like a marketing thing was my only point

Well what culture would you associate them with?

other poor post-soviet republics

kappa

I only know somewhat about finland.

Estonia is projected to be the top economic power in europe behind luxemburg

Obviously speculation but I certainly wouldn't consider them poor

I'm sorry if I missed this, are you Estonian?

No I'm canadian lol

wouldn't estonia be more Slavic, or am i mistaken

it's an artificial state Dialga

created after WW1

yeah but regionally

that would be a slavic area

there are a lot of sub-slavic groups

I think they like Finno-Uralic

technically

same with North Russia, Finland, etc.

The language is classified as finno-urgic

One of 3 I think, with Finnish and Hungarian

But the soviet occupation left a lot of russians in the area

Most towards the border but a lot of estonians still speak russian

Mostly the older ones

Dude

the number of butthurt Estonians editing wikipedia

to take themselves off these slavic-baltic lists

is actually hillarious

I think if their population and government don't consider themselves slavic then I don't think they are

Imo

they're not strictly speaking slavic

It's just the same kind of thing that goes on in Africa, for countries to try to justify their existence based on historical nonsense