My first experience with Estonian electronic card was four years ago when I came to study in Tallinn. I had to only see this thing to start to perceive Estonians as more developed society in terms of using technology in their everyday life than Latvians. The free wi-fi access in central park, caffes, the ID ticket, e-government and there are more to add, but I think I stop here, because the neighbors Latvians doesn’t have anything of that. The logical “why?” question arises.
I was inspired by blogger Alehins post “What is Latvia good at?” in Diena.lv. He writes about the importance of government investing in science, as the bright minds are the ones that can save “the small young countries with no lengthy sovereignty traditions”. I very much agree with it and I don’t like to see how young, smart, promising people move to other countries to work in cafeterias or to do other simple jobs. It is essential for Latvia to keep them here and let them generate ideas with which we can compete or survive.
In the most of the cases people don’t get married without having strong commitment against each other, most likely they are in love and they think at some point that they will spend together the whole life. Commitment from Latvians to Latvia is missing. Take a look at the Latvian society and you will see that probably people love their country but not their state. I agree that blaming government in all your personal problems is wrong, but it’s not like we wouldn’t have reason to be angry at “someone already cosily filling a chair at a top official desk”.
The Latvian rise of patriotism was seen during World Hockey Championship. Latvian hockey team surprised everyone, even bookmakers who said that we won’t get better place than 9th. As a matter of fact we left Championship being in the place 7. Our Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis sent a greeting card to our hockey team after the historical game, when Latvia won Sweden for the first time ever (http://www.iihf.com/channels/iihf-world-championship-oc09/home/news/news-singleview-world-championship-2009/article/latvia-shakes-sweden.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=2277&cHash=4cf469c530). He wrote: ”This spring has definitely been historical, Latvia’s victory over the world’s elite hockey team is not only success of our hockey team and their coaches, but it’s also an remarkable event that unites our society in the time, when Latvia are experiencing difficulties”.
Patriotism is wanted and it can save the country if transformed in correct way. The blogger I mentioned before suggests to turn the patriotism from feelings to the real works. Putting Latvian flags on your car might look stylish, but it is the time when it would be more useful to pay taxes, indeed, it is the great way to reveal the patriotic feelings.
I was inspired by blogger Alehins post “What is Latvia good at?” in Diena.lv. He writes about the importance of government investing in science, as the bright minds are the ones that can save “the small young countries with no lengthy sovereignty traditions”. I very much agree with it and I don’t like to see how young, smart, promising people move to other countries to work in cafeterias or to do other simple jobs. It is essential for Latvia to keep them here and let them generate ideas with which we can compete or survive.
In the most of the cases people don’t get married without having strong commitment against each other, most likely they are in love and they think at some point that they will spend together the whole life. Commitment from Latvians to Latvia is missing. Take a look at the Latvian society and you will see that probably people love their country but not their state. I agree that blaming government in all your personal problems is wrong, but it’s not like we wouldn’t have reason to be angry at “someone already cosily filling a chair at a top official desk”.
The Latvian rise of patriotism was seen during World Hockey Championship. Latvian hockey team surprised everyone, even bookmakers who said that we won’t get better place than 9th. As a matter of fact we left Championship being in the place 7. Our Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis sent a greeting card to our hockey team after the historical game, when Latvia won Sweden for the first time ever (http://www.iihf.com/channels/iihf-world-championship-oc09/home/news/news-singleview-world-championship-2009/article/latvia-shakes-sweden.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=2277&cHash=4cf469c530). He wrote: ”This spring has definitely been historical, Latvia’s victory over the world’s elite hockey team is not only success of our hockey team and their coaches, but it’s also an remarkable event that unites our society in the time, when Latvia are experiencing difficulties”.
Patriotism is wanted and it can save the country if transformed in correct way. The blogger I mentioned before suggests to turn the patriotism from feelings to the real works. Putting Latvian flags on your car might look stylish, but it is the time when it would be more useful to pay taxes, indeed, it is the great way to reveal the patriotic feelings.
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