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Comment to Giustino's writeup "the missionary position" and comments to it, just in case it again fails to appear after I've deleted my original comment.

@Giustino:

I guess The ERR interview, where you describe Estonians to other people who might not know much about us, was odd, yet only so much fits into one article (or a blurb).

Your current writeup is very good and I then realized that your attitude was very Estonian (someone has concurred, also).

Indeed, there are some things in Estonia that can be changed and then some in this country that can't be changed (overnight).

The petty things might change over time; the more pressing stuff may require citizen action. (See the Raha lastele campaign, wherein parents are protesting against the Centrist-ruled Tallinn earmarking more money to its own propaganda-tv thing than the kindergartens, and then also ignoring numerous roads needy of repair and other high-priority stuff.)

I do agree with some of what Piimapukk wrote regarding age, where the oft-youthful need to change the world is replaced with things closer to the heart.

• The Tallinn-Tartu highway tames itself, with speed cameras and reconstructions (there will be less of those around Estonia this year because of cuts).
• "Missionary position" = "The White Man's Burden"... (?)
I remember a very uptight personality who was Swedish and who in late 2007 instead of concentrating on work thought himself to be so much holier-than-thou that he could imply in his lectures to a nice group of fifteen local people about how the way of life here in Estonia was wrong. With this and many other antics I believe he lost all trust of the class.

Fixed a glaring mistake in the original comment, with minor other rewordings and updates.