Guide to battling stereotypes of Lithuania abroad

[Skomand]

http://vilnews.com/2013-08-guide-to-...thuania-abroad

Guide to battling stereotypes of Lithuania abroad

[Hercus Monte]

http://vilnews.com/2013-08-guide-to-...thuania-abroad

Guide to battling stereotypes of Lithuania abroad

our main national characteristic :we're not Russians or poles.

[Skomand]

Sounds bizarre, there was a time at the beginning of the 19th century when Germans called themselves Lithuanians.

[Hercus Monte]

Sounds bizarre, there was a time at the beginning of the 19th century when Germans called themselves Lithuanians.

a lot has changed, we're different people now... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_bQ1XTdU5I - in case you speak our beautiful tongue and/or Russian)

[larali]

What the fuck is Lithuania?

[Graham]

What the fuck is Lithuania?

[larali]

I know what is is, silly. I was making a point-- "abroad" does not give much of a shit about Lithuania much less harbor stereotypes.

[Hercus Monte]

I know what is is, silly. I was making a point-- "abroad" does not give much of a shit about Lithuania much less harbor stereotypes.

our main problem with this is that we used to be a big and important country and now we're not, this is why the lack of actual stereotypes is a little sad for us.

[Graham]

I know what is is, silly. I was making a point-- "abroad" does not give much of a shit about Lithuania much less harbor stereotypes.

ok, a thought you were just being American. Sorry.

[Skomand]

200 years ago : Lithuania is further west



Two contemporary books on Lithuania:

Otto Glagau: Littauen und die Littauer.[9] Tilsit 1869
http://books.google.de/books?id=Jgcq...page&q&f=false

Albert Zweck: Litauen. Eine Landes- und Volkskunde. Stuttgart 1898 [10]
http://archive.org/details/litaueneineland00zwecgoog

And a Royal Lithuanian Government: