>>16066654>Too bad your people act like edgy teenagers well into their thirtiesAbout of 1/4 of population here is russian speaking. Mainly those who arrived during Soviet Union, and descendants of those. Also there are small amount of those "starovers" (old belivers of orthodox church) which arrived in 19 th century, because they was persecuted in Russian Empire. But Latvia, albeit in Russian Empire, was locally ruled by german/swedish/polish nobilty which did not gave much fucks about which religion people use. So, I have seen that "attitude" quite often. There are 3 main reasons for it:
1) For people their roots and identity are important, and those who are far away from home, tend to be more "patriotic". Like, germans in Argentina. I guess, italians in USA too.
2) Russia have ~140m population, and they have capacity to create content to entartain population abroad. Simiarly as for indians there are Bollywood films to watch, for russians and ukrainians there are enough TV channels to watch, youtubers and tiktokers. They are less willing to integrate in local culture.
3) Post imperialism. Kinda "we wuz kangz". Can be observed among turkic people (Ottoman empire), even lithuanians and poles (poland-lithuanian commonwealth). For russians was Soviet Union, for ukrainians was some other smaller empires.
