Racism in Estonia: Should You be Worried?

Recently someone asked me if I had ever faced any racist incident in Estonia, and I thought I would make a video about this topic.
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• 00:00 'Go home !'
• 00:35 Why is this such a difficult topic?
• 02:21 Active vs. Passive Racism
• 02:58 Unfamiliarity with foreign cultures ?
• 04:14 My Story
• 06:38 Should you be worried?
• 07:41 How do you deal with it?
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[@kermo12345]

Im Estonian and I can accept with your example that you were talking about that not even Estonians dont want to sit next to other person inside the public transport. And thats true.

[@kYnTso]

True that, i rather stand then sit next to someone. Probably different for everyone but i could imagine the main cause for this is the situation where the one who is sitting next to the window/wall has to go off before you have. One of the reasons why u sometimes see people sitting on the aisle side.

[@eliotness4029]

no one in the west is interested now in what is happening in Afghanistan until 1979, no one in the west knew or wanted to know about Afghanistan. and when the USSR sent troops there at the request of the Afghan government, all the mass media in the west were filled with news from there. how Soviet soldiers allegedly kill Afghans there. which was not true. and remember last year. An earthquake occurred in Afghanistan. thousands of poor people in a poor province died. and no one in the west wrote about them. and no one helped them. This is Europe two-faced. only Kazakhstan sent aid to victims in Afghanistan. no one in west is interested in what is happening in Africa or Afghanistan or in Asia

[@markindrekkass2345]

On the lighter side: Sunday morning Estonian church service is about to begin as the usher is closing the door he notices a black gentleman in a hurry to make it to the door. Apologetically the usher says to the gentleman this service is for Estonians. The gentleman looks at the usher and says “Noh kes sa kurat Arvad Mina olen!?”

[@MananAnwar]

😁

[@reenaree1953]

A very rude cussing black person and not estonian.

[@markindrekkass2345]

@@reenaree1953 it’s a joke. If you don’t hear that you might want to reestablish your own spiritual points of awareness. Jätad mulje, et oled kibestunud ja mitte eestlane. Mine sauna ja rahune vend….

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@markindrekkass2345 *redistribute I don't see how that's a joke. Why is it funny? Just because the black person speaks Estonian? I thought you were speaking of an actual incident.

[@taavi9376]

On my behalf, You are most welcome here. Narrow minded people live in every country, if the person who insults a foreiner doesnt have a foreiner to hate he will take on a neighbour, a official or supermarket worker etc. they feed on it. In a rural area there is competition in taverns if a neighbouring town guys enter a place they are immediately foreiners and need to be contested. Like in a cowboy movies where new face enters a saloon, music stops and everybodys eyes are on you. Great job You are doing here manan.

[@MananAnwar]

That’s a very deep point and it makes so much sense from my own experience. Hatred is inside and it doesn’t matter who is at the front.

[@taavi9376]

@@MananAnwar Thank You, and sorry for writing Your name without capitol letter, it was a typo Manan.

[@reenaree1953]

Most of the foreigners, especially blacks and indians, we see in Tallinn are unintelligent, have a smell and look like from the year 1970. The mentality you are describing is yes a cowboy mentality and doesn't apply to my maakond.

[@mardus_ee]

@@taavi9376 _Capital letter_ on suur algustäht, _Capital city_ on pealinn. _Capitol_ (o-tähega) on kapitoolium. Selle all peetakse tavaliselt silmas Ühendriikide Kapitooliumi, mis on sealmail seadusandlik kogu. On ka osariikide kapitooliumid ehk _state capitol._ Suurt algustähte kasutatakse viidates asutusele ja väikest siis, kui viidatakse pigem hoonele või kui ühele mitmest kapitooliumist. Määravaks osutub ka artikli kasutus: _a capitol_ võib olla üks mitmest, aga _The Capitol_ on konkreetne asutus. Varasem kommentaar kadus kahjuks ära, nii et kirjutasin uuesti, aga lühemalt.

[@agriskaminskis9352]

Hi! I'm Latvian. Curiosity , what if these immigrants claim some rights on Estonia's historical path, like that kurdish women in Swedish parliament on Sweden's NATO bid? Well, they're surely will. With time and mass. Maybe not next year. Because if they did it tomorrow, even you'd say 'wtf' is going on. Would you fancy South Asian dude becoming Estonia MP or smth.? Finally, what about really testing your 'welcomism"! if you had 10%, 25%, 50% East Asians in your country, would you be fine about it? What about 75%, 90%? Where exactly does this "welcome " stuff ends? maybe never.

[@aSnailCyclopsNamedSteve]

You are definitely on the right track. I work with this issue in Lithuania. If you want to go deeper into this topic, let me know. Many posters are too busy to read comments and I do not need to write for myself.

[@MananAnwar]

Please DM me or email. Let’s connect.

[@aSnailCyclopsNamedSteve]

@@MananAnwar great. Tomorrow i’ll write your listed email on the about page. Night

[@thecrimsondragon9744]

Some people are not gonna like this video but at the end of the day, if a person of colour wants to go to a not-so-well-known country like Estonia, be it for vacation or study or work, then they should have an idea how it might be living there as a foreigner. So hats off to you for keeping it real. 👏🏽

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

This is not a ''person of colour''. He is Pakistani. Hence, he is a Caucasoid from Asia.

[@eleanor_faltis]

My husband is Iranian and we have gotten the same go home comment once in 9 years.

[@russozelinsky]

Sunnis don't like Shite Muslims.

[@branmusic4579]

What ur Ethnicity

[@eliotness4029]

Baltic countries became part of USSR in 1945 Crimea became part of Ukraine in 1954. but everybody knows now that was illegal annexation of Baltic Tiger countries was illegal the same way transfer of Crimea in Ukraine was illegal too you can go in Baltic Tiger countries and ask people. they will explain you.

[@saadpasha5230]

Hey Manan, I would say its very brave of your to bring up this topic here. Living here for 2 years now, I would actually agree that racism exists in Estonia, however to a level which is comparatively less than some Western European countries I have visited. I have faced racism twice here, by the same guy and honestly this made me learn something new about the system here, that "DO CALL THE POLICE AND REPORT".... And it actually has worked because the Police here did arrest the guy, the second time, who was abusive to me and a bunch of other people and I guess that was the best I could've done. Luckily, I was able to sneak out through him the second time and since the Police had the record against him, plus he didn't go anyway but started harassing others around (even Estonians), and was super drunk, so ended up getting arrested in a brutal way as he attacked a police officer while they were just interrogating him!!! Honestly, most of us are shocked and surprised, because this experience is itself quite harsh, especially there's a huge pressure of being a foreigner, where you don't want any trouble and this makes you feel helpless. Otherwise, I think if anyone is abusive in our own countries, we actually won't hesitate in "fixing" them ourselves!

[@reenaree1953]

Foreigners who are unintelligent, low quality, smell and have arrogance in them are not welcomed in Estonia. You are free to go home.

[@mardus_ee]

If there's a racist attack, then calling the police is the right thing to do. Having a recording and witnesses to corroborate the incident is important. Your description of how he has 'super drunk', made me laugh :)

[@reenaree1953]

You can fight racism in your own country. Estonian police doesn't come if somebody complains that other person called them nigga or black etc.

[@Ints12345]

It's more of a xenophobia than racism. Looking different just makes it easier to identify foreigners.

[@MananAnwar]

It’s a big part of it.

[@agriskaminskis9352]

Are you suggesting that any Estonian should feel ok if Estonia would have 100% indians or africans in Estonian Hospitals, Police or Government? "Skin color" should not matter afterwall, right? No people with Estonian ancestry and 100% africans , for example. And if Estonians suddenly said that they are not happy to be 0.5% of country's population, they would be racist, xenophobes. I'm Latvian and I also notice that our border is not working perfectly. Stupid European immigrations laws. Unjust laws! And any vagabond from any part of the world may now claim my country as her country. Wtf!

[@eliotness4029]

Baltic countries became part of USSR in 1945 Crimea became part of Ukraine in 1954. but everybody knows now that was illegal annexation of Baltic Tiger countries was illegal the same way transfer of Crimea in Ukraine was illegal too you can go in Baltic Tiger countries and ask people. they will explain you.

[@pflernak]

2:45 This was in the newspapers a while back. In addition to unfamiliarity with a foreigners culture and fears of what they might do it was brought up that if a foreigner damages the property and leaves its basically impossible to track them down for damages. 3:00 On that note the last major demographic change was during the Soviet occupation when Russians went from 10% of the population to up to 40% as a result of things like half the new apartments being reserved for Russians and the like. Basically staking claim through colonization. So no fond memories with immigration and no colonial quilt to over correct for like in Western Europe. 3:24 I remember going to Paris as a tourist 17 years ago. Yeah, culture shock. Were still in Europe, right? Cant find it but there was an old video about a black guy saying he finally found another black man in Estonia - then it pans to a black mannequin. 3:44 Let me put it this way. There are many Russians here who havent learned the language in 30+ years. If you learn the language you are in a significant way better than them. Our language is one of the few things that has survived the foreign rulers of the past 700 years. 5:07 Wait? Is this the same lady? kzbin.info/www/bejne/movMcoepg8RorMU

[@endkatana3530]

From 10% of the population to up to 40% the numbers are wrong. It never was 10% before occupation even when Petseri was Estonian territory .

[@mardus_ee]

@@endkatana3530 So you're saying, that the Russian population was smaller percentage-wise? Before WWII, the number of all minorities in Estonia was 12%. That number consisted of Russians, Baltic Germans, and Estonian Swedes. See: Statistics Estonia, "Millised rahvused elavad Eestis." The number of Russians according to the 1934 census was 8,2% of the entire Estonian population, this with the territories of Petseri/Pechory and Jaanilinn/Ivangorod and some of the surrounding areas that are now under Russia. (Eesti Entsüklopeedia, "Rahvuskoosseis Eestis")

[@pflernak]

@@mardus_ee Apparently youtube doesnt like when I post links or something. If you google "Valdade rahvastik. 1. III 1934 rahvaloenduse andmed. Vihk I" Youll find (in the digital archive of Tartu University) scans of the census results broken down by county. End of tab4 on page 26 has a summary.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@endkatana3530 It wasn't? What is your source for this information? I'm genuinely interested. Slavic Russians had been in the area for centuries, and Estonia was part of Tsarist Russia. Would make perfect sense if roughly one tenth of the population were ethnic Russians.

[@endkatana3530]

@@incumbentvinyl9291 Estonia was under special rule in Tsarist Russia Balti erikord or Остзейский особый порядок so the Russification was not that huge. et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eesti_venelased It shows that they were not more than 10% pre ww2 even with Petserimaa included.

[@r.h.7633]

I like your channel, it's a "no BS channel". Thanks for covering this topic, it still needs to be reminded from time to time. You're home mate, Estland is also for you.

[@MananAnwar]

Thank you, always good to have regular viewers like you.

[@reenaree1953]

Estonia is for estonians just like all other countries are for their nation. Sweden and Finland are also waking up and seeing that their immigrants and foreigners are actually a burden, not help to the country.

[@Sinivaal]

@reenaree1953 Illegal immigrants keep in mind not legal like he

[@Sinivaal]

*him

[@longsnapper5381]

Hey Manan, lots of great advice here. i have a question for you on a totally different tack. I am about to become a grandfather for the first time(I'm 64). Do you know of any affectionate names that Estonians use for grandparents? I know, of course, the formal name for father is "Isa" and "Vanaisa" is, officially, grandfather but I'm looking for the "pet" names that Estonians use. My son and I have committed to visiting our ancestral homeland soon and, through our family interactions here, understand how Estonians relate to each other. We're going to look you up when we come and I'm going to bring you a bottle of Mother's Milk, also known as "bourbon".

[@MananAnwar]

Thanks for reaching out and for such an appreciative comment. I’ll have to ask this to my Estonian friends. You can add me on IG. And I look forward to meeting you in person.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

As an Estonian, if I may butt in... I always just called my grandfathers vanaisa. Or Juho, which was one's first name. And the other one always went as härra(mister or gentleman) Aab as that's how my mother, his daughter always called him(and apparently everyone else did as well). But that's just me and I'm just a sample size of one. Also, congrats on the (grand-) fatherhood and all the best.

[@longsnapper5381]

@@Megalomaniakaal Thank you!

[@hasdagger1916]

Estonian here. We mostly just use Vanaisa or some also Papa if the person is really old. There arent really many others because vanaisa fits well

[@KrK-EST]

To everyone: Yeah do not mix rasisms on exess immigation anger. Also do not try to say if anyone in Estonia says "neeger" is rasist as it is the correct polite word as black translated and using that is actually a slur way to call a dark skin person (as "must" means black but also dirty and bad).

[@KrK-EST]

If you speak Estonian and have other skin colors, noone cares. Aka it is not a rass thing. So people stop saying it is a rass thing, it does not exist here, it only is defence thing of country of any foreners if too many here so people start defending and it mighy be understood wrong by foreners. If people understand our past u understand why it is so. NB I allways say you and under that i actually mean everyone not you specifically (Estonian thing as when abperson describes a general situation they explain for an example "nagu sul oleks..." and "sul" is short for "sinul" aka your but in this context translation is "like you would have" but with you is meant anyone

[@stefandiangelo8812]

There's another side of being mid asian wars and boogyman of terrorism makes alot of people fairly cautious and can cause some of that type reactions. Its quite a bit better now then it was years ago so seeing tourists and students everywhere is breaking that fear of unknown and reactions to it.

[@connordevine9872]

I look at it like this, Estonia is the homeland of the Estonian people. People may choose to live there which is fine as long as they respect the indigenous people who have their own history. You can call any place home but it is not your homeland and it is not your history. You are there to earn a living. Some people will be responsive and friendly whilst others will not, you made the choice to move there. You can try to integrate that would be great but also remember that you are an outsider with no connection to that land. I see a lot of people are groups throwing the word racist around as a symbol of victim hood and trying shame others so much so that it has become annoying. I have seen so many people clinging to the race card it has become laughable. I just see it as an act of entitlement and a desire to be offended. I remember seeing 2 guys bump into each on the street one was African and the other Irish Neither paying attention as they were both engrossed in their phones, the Irish guy immediately said sorry (which is a cultural thing every Irish person would say sorry regardless of who was responsible)the African lost his mind screaming that the Irish guy had done that deliberately and that the Irish guy was a racist piece of sh##. The Irish guy started laughing and so did others around including myself. What was said next was interesting. Said African in his wonderful African accent proclaimed " Irish now and we were racist white Colonial Trash and we are going to take over". The laughing stopped, people just looked at this guy with utter contempt then walked away. Some Irish people are very touchy about the word Colonialists based on our history and don't like a foreigner bringing it up.

[@MananAnwar]

Yep race card is used. Definitely overused and that’s why I explained that why we need to be so careful talking about it. Also one important point I keep on mentioning. Majority of the foreigners aren’t there in the country for asylum. Or a weight on social system. These are highly skilled people (both students and professionals) who are there because Estonia NEEDS these people. This point is completely swept under the carpet. If Estonia didn’t need people. You would see only tourists. Both denying racism and playing the race card are bad. Reality is nuanced. It needs thinking.

[@agriskaminskis9352]

@@MananAnwar What do you know about what Estonia needs? Or Europe in general. You just care about your ass being in this place. Hypocricy, justification, globalist trash argumentation etc. Just a dude of South Asian origin enjoying his window of opportunity.

[@agriskaminskis9352]

Hi! I like your take in the first paragraph. As you said there are plenty of people that care about heritage, ancestry, tradition and they unite around it, ready to protect it - Europeans with some fire and passion. And, yes our passion will be tested as this whole mass immigration and disregard of national culture should lead to conflicts and instability. Eventually. Exciting times!

[@connordevine9872]

@Manan Anwar yes I agree that we need people who are highly skilled and educated, and we need those who are willing to work but what we do not need is ignorant people who think that they are above the indigenous people who they come in contact with, it is not about so called asylum seekers who play the system, of which there are many. It is about the ignorance of the few who claim recognition for the simple fact of their choices. You came to a country because it was financially to your benefit probably better than where you came from and then criticise the indigenous people for not welcoming you with open arms. I personally have welcomed foreign people of many colours to my country and shown them around. Its funny that most if not all European people will declare that they are from their country of origin and they know and accept their ethnicity, where other people are in denial. I love truth and I am sick of pretenders who know little of the history of the people who they claim by literally arriving in a country claim that they now are simply by being there part of their ethnicity. Sorry but no you are an immigrant and always will be.

[@connordevine9872]

@Agris Kaminskis agreed, I put in the rest as an example of what goes on. I am tired of the bs and lack of respect to different ethnicities in Europe.I was stupid at the beginning to believe that the EU would respect peoples nationalities and ethnicities. Now I believe that the EU needs to either returned to its original agreement ie economic union or dismantled. It no longer has respect for people's identity and has become an totalitarian organisation. Either you bow down to the EU policies or you are right wing lunatic who should be prosecuted !! I do believe that the EU has changed to a fascist organisation. Either you are with them or they will try to destroy you.

[@djalonzi]

I am a Kenyan who is seeking to come work in Estonia. Should I be worried?

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

Yes.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

I think it's always healthy to have a certain degree of carefulness, but this is a rule of law nation so in that sense no, I don't think you have to be entirely worried. But as the video highlighted racism and xenophobia certainly can and does exist here too. It is not however as if everyone here is racist and xenophobic. Certainly I'd say the later of the two is probably the more common one though. But again, rule of law and all that, there are laws that protect minorities and they would certainly cover you too. Rather the thing to really be worried about is that we annually take in fairly few new people since we are such a small country so getting citizenship would probably be fairly hard, however you only need a work visa and not actually citizenship for coming to live and work here.

[@Sinivaal]

@incumbentvinyl9291 what is your problem

[@user-pe2xh6rc9q]

if a person is looking at you differently. Its normal beacause there arent many foregneirs in Estonia i have never seen a black or Arab person in my town

[@MananAnwar]

Yes correct.

[@rafaeldav4864]

thank you for all that info, btw pakistan music is one of my favorites in the world, greetings

[@aimelorvi8873]

The most racist videos I saw on KZbin are from USA. Even traveling in Europe I have wondered how racist other nations can be. Back when we was in USSR I saw on our singing festival "Laulupidu" a group of 10 Estonian Maritime School students, every one of them had different skin color. I just wondered how creative mother nature can be. We don't see other skin colors so often.

[@MananAnwar]

I didn’t see many different colors when I came to Estonia 9 years ago. So much has changed.

[@Raiaramis24]

Pretty sure there is not so much active racism, only few very right wing persons. And about soviet time - i had a classmate from another race. She had father from Africa and i believe she did not had a easy life, but for us she was just a Helen, one of us, very nice person. And third thing...even if I am not agressive towards other races and people from them, I still getting myself almost doing a joke, which is defenetly either racist or has a bad word in it. And it is never meant agressive or towards anybody, but if i can not hold back and some one listens to it - he or she can be insulted. We havent learned about racism and how bad it is - practickly most people dont understand it. They get defensive and say that we have been also slaves most of our history and so on. But it is not the same thing as we dont sue germans or swedes or russians about it. And there was no skincolor issue.

[@MananAnwar]

Thank you for commenting. Appreciate you here.

[@jevgeniardassov]

I think most of us grown up on Racist jokes, it was common in Soviet Union, the Jew jokes or the black-skinned persons or the Chukchas and Chuvashis or similar, I don’t know why they were so plentiful. But have heard similar jokes in other countries by different nations. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@kullikressa7868]

@@jevgeniardassov well, Soviet Union was pretty racist. Even a great part of official propaganda reeked of "white man's burden" narrative.

[@julierentonn]

I came across your video while searching the topic of racism in Estonia. I’m a person of color (Mexican), living in Texas. I’ve had interactions with students from Estonia who take part in an exchange program to sell books in the U.S. All students have been very kind and have never made me feel uncomfortable and I wondered if this was the norm for everyone in Estonia. Thank you for sharing your experience, and side note: your video is amazingly shot and edited 👏🏽👏🏽

[@MananAnwar]

Thank you, if you ever visit Estonia, I'd be happy to show you around.

[@julierentonn]

@@MananAnwar 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@julierentonn]

@@MananAnwar , this is irrelevant to this video, but is there an email where one can contact you about collaborations or projects of any sort? Or would instagram or any other of your platforms be okay to use to message directly? Thanks in advance!

[@henryvalickis2094]

Imo generaly a strong majority of estonians (mostly those born before 91) are definetly racist behind closed doors by american standarts. For example most estonians/russians use the n-word very frequently. The major reason for this is that historicaly thare realy have not been many people of african descent in Estonia and here the word does not have the same asociation with slavery as it does in the americas and is conciderd a mostly neutral word unless used in a intentionaly imflammatory way. On another note estonians are generaly very tame reserved and polite thus very very few people would ever use it in public especially infront of a black person.

[@rivoruff]

Racism is in peoples heads. Its a personal thing and saying for example "Estonians" is not accurate because me I am not racist. I would talk with foreigner than with the random Estonian.

[@iamnama999]

while i do agree for standing up for yourself and all, every country is different. all the laws are different and it's very different from someone who is a native or has lived there a long time. in estonia, if i were to be there for maybe two years and someone would be racist to me, i'd just shrug it off, but after 3-5 years goes by it's just not acceptable anymore and i'd get pissed. you've been in the country for almost 1/3rd of the time eesti has been completely free, so i definitely feel like you're in the right for standing up for yourself at this point on.

[@MananAnwar]

Thank you and glad to have you here

[@Stefans2332]

About your incident... I think you should not let yourself be influenced by others. If somebody thinks it is not your home, it is not your problem, but their problem. Greetings from Latvia!

[@MananAnwar]

Greetings back from Estonia !

[@nescafeblend43]

i want to live in estonia when i grow up so i'm going to research everything about it. ur video is helpful ty very much

[@Joeaar]

It's not about race or racism, it's about differences. A person who is different from others also gets more attention regardless of what makes him different from others. This is the case in every corner of the world and should be easy to understand. It is easiest to remain invisible among similar people. If you have chosen another environment and cultural space, attention is inevitable. A person's opinion of foreigners is more influenced by their behavior than race and other distinctions. Above all, how understanding and considerate a person he is. In your case too, the conflict arose because you did not consider your behavior towards other people or the usual behavior of Estonians in public space. It is petty to hide behind the argument of racism and xenophobia. I can confirm that Estonians are not racists. However, they do not tolerate injustice or inconsiderate behavior. A guest is established in Estonia when he not only comes with demands, but informs what he can offer.

[@user-eg3yq5hr3y]

Okay

[@pinhead458]

A go home slur might not be as strong as it sounds. Estonians home has been so uncertain, war riddled occupied and raped and slaved trhough all the seasons. Even we havent settled in yet as no certanity for us is a reality.

[@MananAnwar]

Could be.

[@NotSpartaGT]

I like you channel keep it up. I am happy that some one give they view of our country and I fully support that. I still like to meet you on real life to talk you country and my own country and some randome chat as well. Reasson why I fully can't respond is that I am doing a server. This a game called "Garry's mod" and i making a multiplayer server of my own that pep can play no need any pay to win. For I fully hate that soo much out who host they own server making fully pay to win. I never mind how much i need spend to host them i just doing :D hehe. Have a Good night for when i did type time was 19:00. Have a good work day and have a good life on our country. and have a good fun as well don't forgot.

[@yashchaudhary5478]

what a co-incidence , 2 days ago I was talking to friend of mine outside ulemiste keskus in english , and two drunk guys was coming on bicycle towards me and they just said why are you in estonia , go back and then they flew away with their bikes

[@russozelinsky]

Gypsies are not welcome anywhere.

[@mardus_ee]

"Why are you here" is sometimes a genuine question, if you meet someone new in Estonia, and he or she is curious to know about you, and what attracted you to this country. But this applies only when the person is not inebriated.

[@yashchaudhary6146]

Bro how are you living in this zone? 😂 I read whole comment section, non of the Estonian commenters have shown support to this guy Manan. This shows how cold people are these. I am making a brutal judgement out of this comment section.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

@@mardus_ee More importantly it only applies if they stick around to hear the answer.

[@pifeeder9027]

If you remove negative comments why should I bother arguing?

[@MananAnwar]

I don’t remove comments unless that are explicitly racist and I can see there is no point arguing with them. You can have a look below and see how many comments are here disagreeing with me and I have replied to them.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Because if you do so in a productive manner through exercising _civil discourse_ then it can be a net positive but if you discard that and comment entirely unproductively in a negative manner then it only produces a net negative and thus holds little to no value.

[@JV-zt7lw]

When you are loud in public then some people can get disturbed and agressive and not because of rassism but because in our history publicly loud people have made many bad things.

[@MananAnwar]

Can you tell more detail? I am interested.

[@3210vca]

It's the animal in us. A lioness who wanders into the territory of another pride will be tormented by the rival lionesses the whole night to death . It's the same with the Hyenas, the African Wild Dogs, Meerkats and most particularly all primates like Chimpanzees who are man's nearest relative. Should we be behaving like Hyenas then? Definitely no. But one should always be cognizant of the socio-cultural realities of their adopted home country. You cited a very concrete and real example. The "stares" which is very natural. I'm so surprised to find myself doing it also but am the first to lecture friends to respect, even appreciate foreigners and not to stare at "foreign" looking people. It's very Utopian to expect a total absence of racism in any country. This may be just a small consolation but what I noticed though in my frequent travels. The more exclusive and racist a group , community, society, or country is, the purer their gene pools become. And the uglier they get. You just wonder what they're so insecure about.

[@nasiryaseen3307]

Manan, you went to Estonia for study or work in the beginning? what the average salary for full time in IT industry?

[@MananAnwar]

Quite high salaries. Came for studies.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

It's the same here in Finland, like Estonians we like to keep to ourselves, so it's rare for people to start heckling you unless you're doing something that's definitely not acceptable, or if they're simply intoxicated. We hate when people get loud as well. I can recall countless times seeing immigrants enthusiastically half yelling on the phone, and it can be heard a mile away. You'll get looks if you do that and it's a sure way not to feel welcome. Hand waving and gesturing while talking and such is also quite frowned upon. Generally people don't view immigration favourably, but if you're here to work and don't commit crimes, you will not be considered a parasitic leech abusing the system.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

8:35 - What makes you think that you have the same rights as a native? I find this to be an absolutely absurd thing to say. I do not know the specifics of laws of the country, but you can't get an Estonian passport without speaking the only official language of the country, Estonian. This includes people who speak Russian as their mother tongue and have lived in Estonia all their lives. Also, it's very possible that you can not hold certain political positions, and rightly so. Most probably you can not become the President of Estonia if you're born in another country and you're an immigrant. Why would an immigrant assume, and why should they have the same rights in the country they move to as the natives?

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Manan likely meant same civil rights. Not the same privileges. Those are two different things.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@Megalomaniakaal An immigrant can and should assume basic human rights. They most certainly shouldn't enter the country and expect, or even demand, the same rights as the natives.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

@@incumbentvinyl9291 As I said, rights and privileges are different things.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@Megalomaniakaal Watch the video again and listen. I even provided a timestamp. If you have a problem with the wording, you're directing your concerns towards the wrong person.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

@@incumbentvinyl9291 As I said in the first reply, he likely meant civil rights, those don't just apply to the natives.

[@kaimarlaiva2891]

Go home? But you are home, this is your home now. Tere tulemast koju 😊

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

3:14 - Where did that come from? I've heard of one single individual in my entire lifetime. I checked online, and Ethiopians are at least not in the top 33, and number below 2800, probably much less.

[@Jo-kg3gz]

It all comes down to Cultural shocks.

[@MananAnwar]

It’s a big part I agree.

[@zcrib3]

Estonia used to take in third world style aid in the 90s. So having people try to immigrate is something completely foreign for old people.

[@MananAnwar]

Estonia used to be a developing country not so long ago. It is amazing to see how far they have come in just one generation.

[@Kevin_from_Dunder_Mifflin]

Estonia is a good country, but it's hard to live here permanently as a foreigner, and amount of recent posts in the Tallinn expat group where frustrated people ask why it's hard to find friends here only proves that..

[@jevgeniardassov]

I think the problem is that most Estonians work too hard and have zero free time so they are not good friends, speaking from personal experience here😅. Most fun groups I have been to consist at least in half of foreigners or expats. That is my theory anyways. ✌️

[@MrVaidas82]

Thats why it is good:) When there is a lot of imigrants country becomes like theyr home from which they run (sweden, belgium and so on). They think let's live like at home but with benefts:) Nope it dosen't work that way.

[@pflernak]

As an Estonian I can confirm its hard to make friends here

[@mardus_ee]

​@@jevgeniardassov It's hard for Estonians to make friends with other Estonians. It takes a long time to develop a friendship.

[@EEX97623]

My partner is Estonian and says most friendships start at school or university, sometimes via the workplace though this is usually down to the lesser degrees of seperation in generations and peer groups with everyone knowing someone who knows someone etc. Adding new friends like its Facebook is not going to happen. It isn't totally closed however. Also I've met her family and friends with 100% genuine kindness and warmth. Colleagues of a friend who runs a business have been very friendly and helpful.

[@mattiashiiumaal7851]

Manan - Sa oled väga tark ja maailma asjadest arusaav inimene. Oled igati teretulnud Eestis.

[@traskiii]

Half slav half ethnic Estonian, and I just want to let you know that the only ones who won’t accept you are the weirdos. True Estonians love all💙🖤🤍

[@MananAnwar]

Glad to have you here, please stay and comment more !

[@traskiii]

@@MananAnwar gladly my friend!

[@toivomandel6004]

IM Estonian living in Saaremaa, I have seen some hatered towards different religion and culture, . Bad thing is that nor Cristians nor Moslems wont assimilate with our culutre. My GOD is oly true , everthing else is manmade nonsese., Manan you are right we are hold to himself, I dunt know even why. We just rised as , I have2 kids none of them is racial biased, In the end we all the same , forgive me IM drunk. JUst got a new apprtement

[@MARTINWELSH-bz8pd]

Not true, if you are familiar to things like energy and body language, that register louder than someone opening their mouths....Then you hear the thing about you can't prove it, usually from people who are not qualified....It is what it is, you can't force someone to like you, just accept, in that way you can develop the best ways of protecting yourself...

[@angelthelastsaint9394]

I'm Irish and Black. I look primarily white my wife is a W Indian black woman we currently live in Eastern Europe we originally from the Caribbean I wish a **** would that would be the last thing they say with all of their teeth intact because unlike y'all friendly **** if you approach me or my family I'm a **** you up on sight. Now we've been traveling for the past 5 years and for all of that time no one has ever done stupidness like this towards us but I think the reason for that is, I'm former military 6 foot 5 & 240 pounds, **** around and find out.

[@eliotness4029]

Baltic countries became part of USSR in 1945 Crimea became part of Ukraine in 1954. but everybody knows now that was illegal annexation of Baltic Tiger countries was illegal the same way transfer of Crimea in Ukraine was illegal too you can go in Baltic Tiger countries and ask people. they will explain you.

[@KristjanLovesCars]

Im estonian and first of all estonians dont even like each other, because most of us are unhappy, only real racist people i can say that are in estonia are mostly old people, however, most young people and even middle aged people dont care at all, we actually like seeing foreign people, its interesting, so yeah, we always try to help if needed, and young people speak fluent english, myself included, so convo isnt a problem, i think older people are just scared of foreigners in general because of how the human world was like 40 years ago

[@MalrockMCE2Y]

It's always hard and embaracing to hear about such incidents. And i do not count to be "politically correct" - no, it has nothing to do with that. I think a lot of people, have forgotten, how much of our people sufferend and were helped by people around the world, when large numbers of refugees escaped soviet terror in WW2. It pains me to hear, how now, there is, although numerically small, buildup of attitudes of "we do not need to help outsiders, they are bad for our land and nation" - for one, our country is not that small, there is plenty of space to house multitudes of more people. If we can help them and get their help in return - why should we reject them? The only time when, and maybe it is wrong - but it is at my core values, i take issue withy anyone, and mind you, this applies to everyone in my eyes, is when people have no respect for history, culture and core rights of natives. As Manan has found out, we, as people are quite broad minded, and do not judge you by religion, customs, culture or past - but we also expect the same courtecy returned to us, so, if someone starts to judge us (in negative way) by any of that, it will usually end in negative confrontation (at worce) or wall of isolation (beeing ignored) - at best. Anyways, i have quite a number of friends from many places in the world, including Pakistan, and i find them all just fine people, race, relgion or other "attributes" are irrelevant in the face of the big capital letter Human - a creature who can ignore the need to put things into boxes of definitions and value the small tings, so the true value can be discovered in the big things ;) Thank You for the effort to explain this small nation to others from your view!

[@kristjanpeil]

Yeah when you were taking the train in Tallinn then chances are that lady wasn't estonian herself :(

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Perhaps, but it would be an incredibly odd thing to say if they were a foreigner. Even more so than for a native to do so.

[@keyser5555]

Most of the negativity towards foreigners is a fault of those 300k russians, who were left here after soviet era and who actively refuse to integrate. They wont work, wont learn the language and are responsible for major part of crimes. So rising amount of foreigners might easily piss somebody off. But its not hate towards different race, its more like fear of the unknown. Estonia has been whitest country on earth for a long time, locals simply don't know what to expect. Best way to fight against racism- be a polite hardworking person and show that different looking people are nothing to be afraid of.

[@MananAnwar]

I don’t agree at all. By this definition Estonian people have no responsibility at all to be accommodating towards foreigners which are there because Estonia needs them. And this fact is completely ignored when talking about foreigners. Also putting all the 300k Russians under the bus is absolutely not correct. I know so many Russian speaking people who speak fluent Estonian and they are no less Estonians to me than any local. Estonia is not handing out charity to foreigners when they come here. They are here because Estonia needs people. It is the responsibility of the foreigners to learn the language and make an effort to integrate. but Estonian people also have to make an effort to open up towards other ethnicities. They have to realise that they cannot get all the benefits of the global economy and no put anything on the line.

[@endkatana3530]

@@MananAnwar There are a lot of half Russian Estonians that have integrated into "Estonian" society but they are minority. I agree that Estonia desperately foreigners. I believe that the situation will get better over time because the young people of Estonia (post Soviet) really don't have anything against different skin colors or ethnicities. Most people who are racist have grown up in Soviet times.

[@keyser5555]

@@MananAnwar Sure, not all 300k russians are bad. Most are decent folk, but there are percentagewise enough bad apples to ruin the whole batch. And current war in ukraine hasn't helped russian image too much either. Oh and word of advice- never ever tell estonians that they need foreigners even if it might be so. True estonian rather dies alone in a ditch rather than admit he needs someone's help. It is what it is

[@reenaree1953]

Estonia don't need foreigners, this is the lie big companies tell. Companies which are unnecessary and pollutive. Humanity is going towards more nature caring and coming to awareness that these companies are unnecessary and harmful to environment.

[@reenaree1953]

Yes exactly, we don't need those polluting companies which bring in foreigners. Me lähme just looduse hoidmise teed ja me ei vaja nii palju.

[@reijovosu349]

im not normally commenting, but you sound like true Estonian:D head jaanipäeva

[@MananAnwar]

Head jaanipäev

[@yashchaudhary6146]

I have a job offer from Estonia and now this video has given my mind enough reasons why social animals should not move to Estonia😂. Its not Rascism. But people there don't like each other, so I can image a depressing lifestyle in cold weather. I have not seen a single youtube video that shows something happening in this country. Boring and dull. I have a doubt, Do people help each other in needs?

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

People like to keep to themselves. They enjoy a quiet life. That's definitely how I like it too. If you're a wild extrovert in your daily life, you'll not be accepted outside of the nightlife, in a general sense.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Certainly, though most probably wouldn't ask a stranger for help, unless in an immediate need. Usually can just call a friend and wait a moment.

[@CarCrasher730]

I guess I am racist but damn I do feel bad.

[@MananAnwar]

😂😂😂

[@Megalomaniakaal]

I think it's a gradient and globally everyone's on it. We all have some preconceived notions whether we realize it or not. Not everyone is maliciously racist tho.

[@fpschina2492]

Estonia POWA

[@eliotness4029]

no one in the west is interested now in what is happening in Afghanistan until 1979, no one in the west knew or wanted to know about Afghanistan. and when the USSR sent troops there at the request of the Afghan government, all the mass media in the west were filled with news from there. how Soviet soldiers allegedly kill Afghans there. which was not true. and remember last year. An earthquake occurred in Afghanistan. thousands of poor people in a poor province died. and no one in the west wrote about them. and no one helped them. This is Europe two-faced. only Kazakhstan sent aid to victims in Afghanistan. no one in west is interested in what is happening in Africa or Afghanistan or in Asia

[@ebetross1416]

"Go home" dont have anything to do with racism. That same person would say exact same thing to you when you looked like average Estonian and she found out that you are actually not local b/c she didn't like foreign people in here, any race. That is very small country and since EU forced so many immigrants on us, many Estonians don't like that. Nothing to do with race, just people want to keep our country the way it has been, not some multi cultural cocktail where Estonian culture will slowly vanish. Think you are very nice person and don't think many people would mind you living here, but calling everything racism like trend in the US or somehwere is not the Estonian way and this is exactly one of those little things why Estonians don't want too many foreign people, they bring a lot of those little things with them and before you know, those are not little things no more. Yes they might bring some good as well and might even be better people than some locals, but it is a gamble and when you lose you don't have this same Estonia no more. Maybe it will be better, who knows, but following what's going on around the world, I would say no. And why gamble when you got working thing going and while focus improving it, that Estonians have done for ages and not for some foreigners to come, see, use and leave ruins behind before taking off to next adventure.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

''since EU forced so many immigrants on us'' Are you serious? What is it, a few hundred people living in barracks from communist times in remote areas? Give me a fucking break. Estonia has taken in the absolute minimum number of immigrants, rightly so. The number is very small as it's proportionate to the population of the country.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Yeah, it could have been xenophobia more widely rather than racism, but unless you are omniscient there is no way to be entirely sure if it was more the one over the other. Either ways it was still wrong tho.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@Megalomaniakaal Why do you feel that it's wrong by default?

[@Megalomaniakaal]

@@incumbentvinyl9291 Because it baselessly assumed his home wasn't here without knowing anything about him.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@Megalomaniakaal Baselessly? We know for a fact that he isn't a native Estonian. This is obviously not up for debate.

[@jevgeniardassov]

For the last year Racism in Estonia is mostly towards Russians, even those who were born in Estonia and worst is that Estonian government half times supports it. I wonder who is to blame in this case for failed 30 years of integration. 🤔 Me myself, having travelled a lot and being born not in Estonia have zero problems with someone being different race or colour, as long as you are a good person you get a thumbs up from me. My older son is a friend with Palestinian kid and I fully support it, feel really bad for the whole Palestine actually. At the end of the day, if You are a decent, hard-working honest person you are welcomed everywhere by normal folks, governments and idiots are a different breed anyways, no need to account for them. ✌️

[@pflernak]

Let me ask you this. How do you feel about the Israeli settlements built in Palestine? The attempt to stake claim through colonization? How do that kids parents feel about the Israelies living there? Because the Soviet Union did a similar thing here. 35 000 might not sound like a large number but that was about 3% of the pre WW2 population that got forcefully deported. Thus freed living spaces and new living spaces built were mostly given to workers recruited from Russia. Before WW2 Russians made up about 10% (5% if we dont include the territories on the other shore of the Narva river thats no longer part of Estonia) of the population. During the Soviet era that number peaked at about 40%. That demographic change was intentional.

[@kYnTso]

The beef between estonians and russians (including the ones born in Estonia) comes down to the history, especially the post WWII ocupation years, deportation etc. Wasnt that long time ago and people from those times are still around so never forgiven and forgotten. Obviously gets reminded every year during the numerous memorial days and well a sertain fear is still there that pretty much keeps the hatred alive. In general it doesnt even matter if you are russian russian or a estonian-born russian,. What it usually comes down to is if you speak estonian or not. If you born here and dont speak then obviously ur sending out a rather negative message and in my personal experience russians who speak estonian do seem to have a different mindset (often seen as less arrogant) then the ones who dont. Anyway are you seriously questioning why anybody would be negative towards russians the past year or so?

[@jevgeniardassov]

@@pflernak “who lives in the past, does not have a future” one wise man said. Palestine is being butchered right now, you are telling me about long gone past, that is the difference. What do you expect me or anyone to do about that? In Estonia those russians are no longer present, modern russians speak estonian freely. So why having a passport, paying all the taxes, having children that were born here and are citizens still considered russians by the government and by people like you actually as well. How are you planning to integrate anyone with this attitude? That is exactly the problem with deeply offended people who can’t look around the corner…

[@jevgeniardassov]

@@kYnTso russian is an ethnicity. There is more than 300 million ethnic russians over the world, over half of them have nothing to do with this war nor can do anything about it. Like i tell to my estonian colleagues and friends if You are so much disgusted and outraged? Why are you not over there with a gun? Couch fighting is a not efficient in terms of war. Many people have their own oppinion about this conflict, I have my own and I am not judging others, because it is pointless and the Bible says so.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Don't mix up Racism and Xenophobia, one is a form of the other but they aren't strictly speaking the exact same thing. There is probably a fair bit of xenophobia towards Russian speakers in here especially right now though, yes.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

5:03 - How is this ''active racism''? That was their opinion after they didn't appreciate your behaviour. Personally I'd look to learn from the experience. Also, as you elaborated later, perhaps it was your behaviour, not your ethnicity that was the factor. They wanted to insult you, so they used the most obvious line. This is often used by people who want to be offensive, it doesn't even mean that they are necessarily even racist individuals, they just know that it triggers people. I strongly disagree that this was ''active racism''. It's not like you were sitting there reading a paper, and someone explicitly walked up to you to tell you to leave the country because you're not a native.

[@pineaplehead]

telling a foreignerr "to go home" is racist , you wouldn't say that to a white person now would u. Stop being so biased omds , we're u there? how do uno that he's in the wrong ??? stop making assumptions

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

​@@pineaplehead How is that a valid comparison? Why does it matter what race it is? If a Caucasoid goes to Sub Saharan Africa, then perhaps someone will tell them ''to go home''. That's quite unlikely though, because the natives would probably try to benefit financially from the person. Perhaps they would after being told off, which again brings us to a point where it's not about race, but about insulting someone. Would that count as racism in your mind, or is it racist only for select races? *were you The situation was explained, that's how I know. This is a public forum and I'm expressing my opinion. Why is that an issue for you? *you know Are you sure you're old enough to be here? The age limit to having your own personal account is thirteen.

[@pineaplehead]

⁠@@incumbentvinyl9291is this an english essay, i don't need to type with perfect grammar, it's a youtube comment section . if that's a thing you need to point out, that's a u problem. Yes for the situation you just described thats still racism . PAHAHAHA it's a public forum so i also have the right to comment on how ridiculous you sound in the comment section, i'd be a lil embarrassed if i was u xoxoxox

[@metslane9911]

Nothing personel, we tell all the time for russians that they should go to home.

[@MananAnwar]

Have you ever said that in person

[@metslane9911]

@@MananAnwar Jepp.

[@reenaree1953]

Kõik nad võivad koju minna. Me ei pea tahtma neid oma kodumaale.

[@metslane9911]

@@MananAnwar one time at class room when russians talk with each other loudly and teacher talk very important topic. Other time dima or ivan ask some smoke. I did not have any smoke and he got angry. After that i tell him that time is to go home. And so on. We know that they do not move anyway even when our goverment and russian goverment pay them. Like everyday person who do not bother me i do not care let be happy like you. And defintly you do not start fighting with windmills like very easy is get some burns from estonian politics.

[@metslane9911]

@@reenaree1953 miks nii tige? Ehk avavad mõned söögi kohad eesti toidu- kultuur vajab naduge vaheldust.

[@sweatydave14]

And in Estonia I find out as a black person most Estonians say that "The N word is racist it just used to describe foreigners that are black" personally I think Estonia is racist sometimes

[@siimtulev1759]

Bruh, nigger is normal word for blacks.

[@reenaree1953]

You are free to go home.

[@sweatydave14]

@@reenaree1953 No sh** same thing the Estonians said

[@keyser5555]

Neeger is official dictionary term for a person of black skin color. So not a racist. We could use the term black, but it also means dirty in estonian, so you wouldn't probably be fine with that either.

[@endkatana3530]

@@keyser5555 It is complicated word. What you mean by dirty?

[@Joonaskaa]

Im happy you are here

[@JevNature]

Now imagine that you are a person who did not emigrate, but who was born in this country and you have to deal with this all your life. And despite the fact that you were born in Estonia, you are not given citizenship and are given a passport on which it says - Alien Passport. Welcome to the life of the Russian-speaking population.

[@sobhansarthak6000]

What? Why? I thought the country had significant russian population.

[@SluttChops]

You could always move to Russia if it's that horrible 🤷‍♂

[@Megalomaniakaal]

You mean the gray passport? That was definitely meant to be a temporary thing with the idea being that those who wanted to could choose Russian citizenship and move to Russia without any or at least no particularly big showstoppers. And that the rest would choose to apply for Estonian citizenship. Which would obviously come with a language exam for a specific proficiency level(I forget off the top of my head which level exactly it was though, sorry) etc. It was Russia that actually wanted the gray passport and asked for it during the negotiations over how to share the retirement funding burden over those that retired during the soviet era if I recall correct. Had it not been for that Estonia would likely have gone with the same solution as Lithuania to be fair. Which would have simply resulted in many deportations after a while for all those who didn't choose to apply for citizenship.

[@albusanguis]

A racist Estonian here. Honestly i dont think anyone in estonia will act too badly towards immigrant unless you act in a way that calls for it. Most racist estonians will have no issues with foreign people if they are law abideing citizen( atheist is a big plus for me at least). Estonian hatred toward diffrent races stems from storys of religious zealots in finland killing and rapeing common people. And then getting some super stupid punishment like 3 years or something. Huvitavad videod Manan, tore näha viisakaid inimesi, kes üritavad eestis elada. kõike parimat. :)

[@Oliverr544]

Nationalism is not racism, If some street garbage immigrant dont like the way the things go around here they definately get few lights punched out

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

''Estonian hatred toward diffrent races stems from storys of religious zealots in finland killing and rapeing common people'' Could you tell me more about this? I've never heard of it before. I'd like to find out what it's about.

[@albusanguis]

​@@incumbentvinyl9291 from my experience most estonians have friends and family living in finland where there are a lot of people migrating. if you live there its once every 2-3 weeks local news has something similar to: example 1: immigrant beheaded his ex girlfriends head in jysk this tuesday since she moved on and immigrant was deeply religios. example 2: in the middle of the downtown in finnish 2nd biggest city a immigrant was yelling religious zealotry shit and had a knife went around slashing people 14 dead includeing a fewmonth old baby in a stroller with her mom. example 3: in a place where mostly only immigrants lived a body of a young women was found rolled in a carpet behind a dumpster. place is notoriously full of 5 man muhhameds who harass underage girls in 4-8 man gangs. these show up in local newspapers every 2-3 weeks but arent covered by media(only like indepent and small papers) as they are always hushed soon after publishing.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@albusanguis Oh, you're talking about Islamic fundamentalists. I haven't heard of any of these. I can guarantee there was no incident where some crazed ''zealot'' murdered 14 people with a knife. I'm not sure why you're making things up. Incorrect. We have free press in Finland. This isn't Sweden, the authorities do not cover up for crimes committed by immigrants. There is no such thing here that an immigrant does a crime, it's published, and then suddenly it disappears. I can not phantom why you're resorting to lies, when there are countless actual crimes committed by immigrants that you could use as examples. I'd also like to specify that a lot of these scum are not of a different race.

[@Kikels]

​@@albusanguis This country is vacuuming kebabs in record numbers year after year now...

[@Or_321]

It's shocking that the outright racist remark I've gotten in Estonia came from a man. His drunken state wasn't an excuse

[@InconceivableIndeed]

A *dark* day for Estonia.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

That was hilarious! Haha!

[@Megalomaniakaal]

you have no idea just how little that narrows it down

[@xwiirastusx]

Manan, while I sympathise with you in many ways, realising how lonely and isoleted you must feel in a strange land, I also think that in many of your videos you engage in sensationalism, trying to make yourself appear "interesting". It is a sure-fire way to gain traction, but I doubt the longevity of it. If you are so bothered by the negative comments, then do like so many before you have done - just delete your KZbin account. I am all for diversity and internatiolalism in Estonia and I sincerely feel bad for you for all the negative feedback you have got, but I also refuse the notion of collective guilt. No country in the World owes you a living. I have tremendeous respect for your person and your courage, but please take these words to your heart, they may serve you well.

[@MananAnwar]

Thank you for your comment. I have more than a 100 videos on my channel about my life in Estonia. Including a 40 day vlog about my everyday life. And an 8 part series about life in Estonia for foreigners that covers everything from language, climate and culture. My goal is to share my life in Estonia from my POV. This is my space where I can share it openly and I am open to being corrected. But please don’t make a judgment on who I am based on the videos that you have seen. You’re a regular commenter and I appreciate your feedback. If you can be more specific in your comment as to what I am trying to ‘sensationalize’ or make ‘interesting’. That will help me more than just a blanket comment. P.S I’m more than happy to talk and meet in person and if you agree then a podcast as well.

[@xwiirastusx]

@@MananAnwar I would never presume to make judgments as to your personality based on your videos. But then again - what other reference points are there? None. My argument is that in your latest installments you tend to emphesise more and more to the negative, and that garners more clicks as we all know. In the end you are a youtuber, I am not. By the virtue of publishing you automatically become an object of scrutiny, one would have realised it by now. I am quite willing to meet with you in person and participate in a podcast, just as long as you won't edit my part yo hell and back.

[@MananAnwar]

My email address is in the channel description. You can also message me on Facebook or IG and I will share further details there.

[@Megalomaniakaal]

What are you on about? In the beginning he specified that he is answering a question he has been asked before.

[@xwiirastusx]

@@Megalomaniakaal who the fuck asked you anything?

[@lemps1233]

Boy of Pakistan, You live in a country where the native nation living here is fighting its last fight. If the beautiful sound of the Estonian language disappears, don't get up and live either.

[@yashchaudhary6146]

@lemps1233 And you are living on the sets of Oppenheimer 2. 💅 lmao putin.😅

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Huh?

[@stensaukkonen4809]

go home bruhh you are in your home

[@katarinas6012]

Sure, everyone in Estonia is racist. Except, if a european goes into other countries, he faces no racism at all? Why don't you move to Japan? Or China? If you think estonia is so bad, just leave.

[@MananAnwar]

Na man, racist people are everywhere. Pakistan, India, China, Japan. At least in Estonia (Europe) we can talk about it openly.

[@radir1657]

​@@MananAnwarman if you are an indoeuropean you are thr racist not uralic people whom your kind terrorised for centuries

[@Megalomaniakaal]

@@MananAnwar Word.

[@radir1657]

Are you from an indoeuroepan speaking country?

[@MananAnwar]

Pakistan