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BUCHAREST PREPARES FOR THE NATO SUMMIT
Courrier International
March 20 2008
France
Many thousands of Lithuanians have left their home country to seek
work in Great Britain or Ireland. Andrius Uzkalnis writes that
these emigrants should neither be ridiculed in their host countries
nor condemned as traitors in their home country. "Everyone should
live where he feels happiest, where he is most successful, has most
space and the greenest garden. I know of no nation that has died out
because of emigration. Ireland itself experienced an unprecedented
wave of emigration during the years of famine. The emigration of the
Lithuanians is nothing in comparison. The Armenians have not died out
despite their terrible past and the loss of half their country, even
though today more Armenians live abroad than in their home country.
Their language and writing have survived. The more happy Lithuanians
there are, regardless of where they live, the happier Lithuania
will be."
Courrier International
March 20 2008
France
Many thousands of Lithuanians have left their home country to seek
work in Great Britain or Ireland. Andrius Uzkalnis writes that
these emigrants should neither be ridiculed in their host countries
nor condemned as traitors in their home country. "Everyone should
live where he feels happiest, where he is most successful, has most
space and the greenest garden. I know of no nation that has died out
because of emigration. Ireland itself experienced an unprecedented
wave of emigration during the years of famine. The emigration of the
Lithuanians is nothing in comparison. The Armenians have not died out
despite their terrible past and the loss of half their country, even
though today more Armenians live abroad than in their home country.
Their language and writing have survived. The more happy Lithuanians
there are, regardless of where they live, the happier Lithuania
will be."