Emakeele päev - Day of Mother Tongue
In Estonia there was the day of mother tongue, emakeele päev, today.
However, after what I noticed in information and news on events associated with this day, I found that they have named it a bit wrongly because everything was related to popularising Estonian and only Estonian language. Even for young people in Narva there were games in Estonian and information about Estonian literature, writers and poets. I don't say that there is anything wrong with that, I only claim that name of day is wrong. For majority of Narva people Estonian is not a mother tongue. Their mother tongue is Russian, and the Day of Mother Tongue should not then forget minorities in the country. So, currently it looks to me like Estonian Language Day.
In general, I have noticed that living in other country has made me to notice more things about nationalities and perhaps to become more tolerant.
I guess if I was in Latvia and there was day of mother tongue where only Latvian language would be promoted, I would not notice anything wrong with that because it is my mother tongue. Sometimes it's difficult to remember that there is also other point of view.
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