Racial shitstorm

No. I wont give you any. Im not racist. But many of my fellow countrymen appear to be.

Why Im writing about such matter so early in the morning? Because today I have an early start and I always consume online news with my morning coffee and porridge. And one article got me to write about racism.

There was a news story about an estonian singer who recently got married to an indian man, they even had wedding pictures next to the article. Indian syle wedding with her dressed in a red saree and all the colours and flowers and whole nine yards.
I dont understand why was that article in estonian news website.
Dont get me wrong, its always lovely to read about people who have found love and spiritual connection. But I consider it a really wrong move to put it up there for all the estonians to read because when I clicked on the comment section, there was a real racist shitstorm brewing.

For those who dont know about Estonia and the locals here, our country is a tiny speck on the earth, its really small and there are about 1,2 million of us here. Yes you read right. 1,2 million. And we dont really have much foreigners here so the people here are racially 99% white. And I dont know why its such an issue in recent months when estonian women marry out of their own country or race. Then those women are automatically labelled as not good (I dont want to contaminate my blog with bad words because those people dont really use that term - not good - they use some other words) and traitors of their country (when they happen to move away to live with their other half). I really dont understand that intolerance and hatred.

You dont even know that person, why do you make their private life your business? Live and let live how ever they see fit. Nobody wants to hear your bitterness against...well..anyone.

Dont get me wrong, Im not trying to badmouth estonians, I am one of them. I love my people but sometimes their narrow-mindedness makes me sad. I understand its some sort of a defense reaction towards everything that doesnt look or act like them in order to preserve their kind, their culture and language.
Not all people here are like that. Far from it but you know how the more extreme ones always shine through even though they are a minority.

And this subject is personal for me because I was married to someone out of my own country and race. And my marriage didnt end because of the cultural or traditional differences as people here would like to say. It ended because of different personal reasons. But thats completely another subject.

And to sum it all up, heres a quote from C. Dickens "Christmas Carol", its about Christmas, but I think it nicely illustrates how I feel about this race issue in general.

".. think of people as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."