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Re: Work in Lithuania

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Post by supermatt »

lewisj489 wrote: post #27
chomp wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by "minorities"? Do you mean "non-white" people? If so, then sure, but most of eastern Europe is fairly homogeneous in terms of skin color. I take argument, and actually some offense to your comment because there could definitely be maligned groups in the website. Polish people deal with discrimination in many parts of Europe even today, and Lithuania has a history of this (read about the Lithuanizat…

> Skin color doesn't always show the battles that people fight against discrimination every day. But it is the biggest factor. An instant identifier to discriminate against.

so you think people should use a token black person even though that’s not representative of the actual minorities. don’t you think that’s racist in itself?

Re: Work in Lithuania

#42

Post by m0rbz »

scottlocklin wrote: post #7
xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote: post #2

It's weird that this website seems to target people from countries much richer than Lithuania.

Why is that weird? Specialists could form a nucleus around which more jobs form. If I were looking for work I'd rather work in Lithuania than San Francisco.

I guess it depends what makes you happy. Personally even if work/life balance is shit and rent is very expensive, I'm much happier with California weather and proximity to the sea/parks/entertainment, but to each his own. I couldn't live in Vilnius weather, where it rains every other day.

Re: Work in Lithuania

#44

Post by lewisj489 »

supermatt wrote: post #41
lewisj489 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Skin color doesn't always show the battles that people fight against discrimination every day. But it is the biggest factor. An instant identifier to discriminate against.

so you think people should use a token black person even though that’s not representative of the actual minorities. don’t you think that’s racist in itself?

A city which want's to become powerful much have representation for everyone.

Re: Work in Lithuania

#45

Post by choperius »

osrec wrote: post #40
choperius wrote: post #8

I moved to Vilnius from Sweden four months ago and enjoying it a lot so far. A lot of the things from the website are true - low costs (I pay 500e for 2-rooms in city center), very safe city, lots of green. Can get anywhere within 30 min and I walk to work every day. Working in here might be a pay cut but the low costs make up for it. Tech is much more well-compensated here than other industries. My perception is tha…

I'm Indian, and I've been considering a nomadic working lifestyle. Do you see a lot of ethnic minorities there? Is the culture welcoming to other ethnicities?

It's still fairly homogeneous society compared to many other European countries. The language is also very different to other European languages, so it helps to pick up a little bit of Lithuanian to understand more here.

I believe it's slowly changing and you can see some non-Europeans coming for study exchange and to work for international companies, but it's far from what it's like in e.g. Sweden, Netherlands or Germany.

However, Lithuania is quite diverse in the sense that it's a crossroad between Central Europe, Northern Europe and Eastern Europe. Having many influences from Nordics, Russia, Poland and Germany. Many people in Vilnius speak several of the following: Lithuanian, English, Russian and Polish.

All young (below 45) people speak English, older generation (45+) might speak Russian instead of English as second language.

Re: Work in Lithuania

#46

Post by danijelb »

lewisj489 wrote: post #36
vageli wrote: post #21

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> I can't help but notice the absence of minorities on this website Aren't a region's minorities a product of its composition? White people are minorities in Asian countries.

This isn't an Asian country...

It is not an Asian country, but it is a country where both the majority (Lithuanians) and minorities (mostly people from other European countries) visually look the same. You can distinguish them by languages they speak, which is something we cannot infer from photos on the website.

For example, I am a Croatian expat in Czech Republic. The only way Czechs figure out I'm not one of them is when they try to talk to me in Czech. Tell me how to represent that in a photo.

I would also be a minority in US, but no one would consider me as one only because I'm white. And that's called being racist.

Re: Work in Lithuania

#47

Post by marcinzm »

lewisj489 wrote: post #44
supermatt wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so you think people should use a token black person even though that’s not representative of the actual minorities. don’t you think that’s racist in itself?

A city which want's to become powerful much have representation for everyone.

It'd be nice if that was true but its not. A lot of Asia being a perfect example.

Re: Work in Lithuania

#48

Post by danijelb »

lewisj489 wrote: post #44
supermatt wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so you think people should use a token black person even though that’s not representative of the actual minorities. don’t you think that’s racist in itself?

A city which want's to become powerful much have representation for everyone.

One thing that always surprises me is the inability of many Americans to accept that the whole world is not US. We are simply not fighting the political and racial battles that they have. In order to be a citizen in a globalized world, one has to be able to see things from perspectives of different societies, not impose their own perspective on everyone. I agree that the original comment about racial diversity makes sense in US and I would completely agree with it if the site was about US or similar countries where there are significant visually-distinguishable minorities. However, it simply doesn’t make sense in Lithuania. Also in many other EU members

Re: Work in Lithuania

#49

Post by [deleted] »

lewisj489 wrote: post #27
chomp wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by "minorities"? Do you mean "non-white" people? If so, then sure, but most of eastern Europe is fairly homogeneous in terms of skin color. I take argument, and actually some offense to your comment because there could definitely be maligned groups in the website. Polish people deal with discrimination in many parts of Europe even today, and Lithuania has a history of this (read about the Lithuanizat…

> Skin color doesn't always show the battles that people fight against discrimination every day. But it is the biggest factor. An instant identifier to discriminate against.

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Re: Work in Lithuania

#50

Post by lewisj489 »

danijelb wrote: post #48
lewisj489 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A city which want's to become powerful much have representation for everyone.

One thing that always surprises me is the inability of many Americans to accept that the whole world is not US. We are simply not fighting the political and racial battles that they have. In order to be a citizen in a globalized world, one has to be able to see things from perspectives of different societies, not impose their own perspective on everyone. I agree that the original comment about racial diversity makes…

I'm not from the US. I live in France.
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