Aleks grew up in Latvia, while the Soviet Union was crumbling, then moved to America in the 1990s. He was never quite sure how he was, until he had an epiphany voting in the most popular European election…
I started this weblog with one purpose in mind: self-discovery. Started on March 5, 2003, this weblog intended to inform the world about Latvia. But deep down, I longed to reconnect with the motherland. I longed for the new national identity because the fake American identity was merely a mask to cover up who I really was. I embraced it because I had no alternative.
Until now.
As I watched the whole continent voting for their favorite song and as I heard over and over again, “Thank you, Europe”, I thought of this old new national identity for me.
I am a European as I have always shared the core European values that most often are not shared by Americans.
Read the whole thing – it’s a great reflection of the identity crises many in the former Soviet Union feel today.
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In the final sentence of the blurb, “identity” is misspelled.
Nicely spotted, thankyou. I’ve updated the spelling.
Aleks does a great job with his blog. I wish there could be a similar blog in German since there was immigration from the Baltics to Germany during the 90s. But the English writing blogosphere is far ahead of the German one.
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