Citizens of 108 countries live in Lithuania

[Baluarte]

According to the data of 2011 Population and Housing Census, citizens of 108 countries lived in Lithuania, 99% of residents had the nationality of the Republic of Lithuania, 94% were born in Lithuania, 205,900 had been living abroad for one year or longer, reports LETA/ELTA, referring to Statistics Lithuania.

According to the data of Census, 2.864 million of Lithuania's residents were born in Lithuania. 51.6% of them were born in the cities, 42.5% were born in the rural area. 179,600 or 5.9% of residents of Lithuania were born abroad. The majority of them were born in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Latvia. 72.4% of (according to the data of 2001 Census 67.6%) Ukrainians living in Lithuania, 70.6% (66.7%) Byelorussians, 36.3% (37.1%) Russians, 9% (9.4%) Polish residents of Lithuania were born in other countries. Lithuanians who were not born in Lithuania made up 1.8% (in 2001 – 1.4%) of all the residents who were born abroad.

The residents of Lithuania live a settled way of life. 93.4% of residents indicated that a year before the census they had lived in the same place, whereas1.8% had lived in the other place in Lithuania, 0.5% had lived abroad, and 4.3% residents did not indicate where they had lived a year before the Census.

The majority of the residents who had lived abroad a year before the Census indicated the United Kingdom as the place of their residence (5,900 or 36.8% of all settled residents of Lithuania who had lived abroad), Ireland was indicated by 1,800 or 11.1%, Norway was indicated by 1,600 or 10.1%, and Germany by 900 or 5.4%.


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Wow, that is some immigration difference with Western Europe.

[ABest]

Is that supposed to be less or more than normal for the North? I've heard that the North is rather multicultural in general nowadays.

[Baluarte]

99% of residents had the nationality of the Republic of Lithuania, 94% were born in Lithuania,

That's far far lower compared to Western Europe.
The Baltic countries don't have the same immigration problem as the Scandinavian ones.

In Tallinn over a period of 2 weeks, I saw 3 black men, all tourists that didn't speak the language.

[Bandzakovsky]

Haha in my city Kosice in poor east slovakia i saw in 2 weeks 4 black men, but they live there, but ca. 30 times i saw in 2 weeks arabs.
In capital Bratislava i saw much more black men or near east muslims. In 2 hours i saw ca. 6 black man 10 muslims and ca. 30 asians.
But the immigration begins only now, because they need workers, for example indian technic specialists or kosovar factory workers. And the gypsies with 90% unemployment are dont qualified to get a job.

[Skomand]

With East-Prussia gone and surrounded by Slavs who they hate, Lithuania is really in a shitty geo-political and economic situation now. In 2004 Germany closed its doors to Eastern immigration. That measure was directed against Poles, but also impacted Lithuanians.

[member]

With East-Prussia gone and surrounded by Slavs who they hate, Lithuania is really in a shitty geo-political and economic situation now. In 2004 Germany closed its doors to Eastern immigration. That measure was directed against Poles, but also impacted Lithuanians.

Do you think Lithuanians would have flooded Germany more so than UK?

[Skomand]

I don't know. There was the Soviet propaganda against Germany of the past which would have had an influence on their choice. But leaving for Britain or Ireland is more of an emigration than travelling to Germany would have been. I think ties with Germany might have been more beneficial.

[lI]

There was the Soviet propaganda against Germany of the past which would have had an influence on their choice.
But leaving for Britain or Ireland is more of an emigration than travelling to Germany would have been. I think ties with Germany might have been more beneficial.

You are probably right about ties with Germany being more beneficial than those with UK, if we're talking about economics.
However, antipathy towards Germans is not a new thing that developed due to Soviet propaganda, it has very old traditions in Lithuania's regions which formerly bordered East Prussia.
Even the most archaic layers of Sudovian (Suvalkiečių/Sudūvių) folklore is full of songs, sayings, proverbs like this one:

Sun, dear mother, come onto us, onto us!
Clouds with black lining, onto Prussians ye go, onto Prussians!
There you will get nice towels...

Here's another Sudovian folk song mentioning flies coming from Prussia drinking vodka:

[Baluarte]

Of course it's not new.
You have to remember the country that was most interested in partitioning Poland-Lithuania was indeed Prussia.

[Skomand]

Of course it's not new.
You have to remember the country that was most interested in partitioning Poland-Lithuania was indeed Prussia.

I don't think the partition of Poland - this is what it is called - affected Lithuanian peasantry negatively. On the contrary, I have seen circulars in which the Prussian authorities ask Lithuanian peasants to report to the Prussian administration directly if they suffer confiscations by Poles. These circulars were in Lithuanian language, something that Lithuanians could not expect from Poles.