Some of those videos circulating on Youtube are fake.
Having lived in Latvia almost all my life and visited a lot in Estonia and Lithuania, I still haven't figured out what the "racial" temperature is like. Generally, the ppl here aren't racist, but most of them are racialist, meaning they don't consider themselves superior to blacks, but they still believe mixing with blacks is not a good idea. One of the reasons is because the countries are tiny and there was an ethnic cleansing in the 1940s against the Baltic ppl, so there is still tension and that ghost from the past. The demographic situation is very bleak too, so ppl still feel threatened deep inside even if they don’t show it off.
If you make a comparison within the region, I’d say it’s in the middle. It’s not Sweden or Norway and never will be (even though there is racism even in those countries, as subtle as it is). But it’ll never be like Russia either. The Baltic mentality is not nearly as xenophobic as the Russian or Serbian one. Besides, we have rather strict anti-discrimination laws that are in line with the EU standard. There has been a lot of effort implementing those laws over the past 10 years and this is something that the countries to the east haven’t really done. In Russia, you can be openly racist in public and get away with it, in the Baltic countries you can’t. You’ll be automatically marginalised. There was recently a skinhead who openly said that „Jews and gypsies are not human” who was sentenced to almost 2 years. He’s still in jail just for saying that (he didn’t attack anybody physically or injure life, just said that).
They’ve also done a lot of work with educating the police but there is still racial profiling (I’ve seen it myself). We have watchdogs and the Black history month, and most of the time it’s peaceful but it’s nowhere near the Scandinavian level. Also, you have to differentiate between the locals and the Russian immigrants (we have a lot of ethnic Russians living in our countries) – the Russian boys can be really mean and nasty sometimes. Most of the racial incidents that we’ve had were caused by ethnic Russians. Most Latvians, if they see a BM with a local woman, even if they feel apprehensive about it deep inside, will never dare say or do anything, but the Russians might not care and show aggression.
You can’t really compare it to Germany, because we have very, very few brothers here. We love basketball here and we have some athletes here that everyone appreciates. We have a couple of other folks but very few.
Oh, and speaking of the Estonian women – there are racial differences amongst the Baltic people too. The Latvians and Lithuanians are ethnically Baltic and they’re IndoEuropeans and they’re mostly dark blonde but Estonians are a FinnoUgric tribe and a lot of them are naturally light blonde. So Estonians (along with the Finns) are actually a tad bit lighter than Latvians and Lithuanians.
