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Increased use of Latvian in education does not infringe ethnic Russians' rights, rules European court

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Increased use of Mandarin, however, obviously infringes of Chinese minority rights.
Edit: just to be clear, many Chinese dialects have a lower lexical similarity than European languages. The standardization of Mandarin in education has had impacts on these dialects as well.
- Now let's compare changes in poverty, population, and growth statistics for Russians in Latvia, versus Uyghurs in China. Oh, oh no...
If that happened in China or Russia, headlines would be: "cultural genocide"
- Correct.
  In Latvia the reason they are even having this discussion is because when USSR were occupiers they suppressed the local language (Latvian) with a brutal police regime, concentration camps, and the forced migration of ethnic Russians.
  So yes - exactly. Moscovite Russia/ USSR started a cultural genocide in Latvia. This is just the fallout
- 100%
- Well, they build camps and aim rifles at people they’re “educating” so maybe that’s why?
  
  Compare how many Tibetans speak Tibetan with how many natives in US speak their languages (or Welsh, Irish, Scots, Bretonians, Sorbians etc etc etc wherever applicable) before you start to run your western supremacist nonsense.

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