I was digging through my stuff and came across this photo of myself and my cousins at a World Festival of some kind, probably in Schenectady NY, and it looks like my small but proud nation had a booth. Notice our matching ethnic costumes, which my mother made! Estonians have many different regional costumes, but ours are from the Setu culture in southeastern Estonia, where my grandfather was born, in a town called Petseri (or Pechory -- now part of Russia, alas) Many people in this region are of this culture, a subset of Estonians who have their own dialect and many of whom are Orthodox Christian (we are not).
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slightly off-topic. my mom is into genealogy stuff. found out a number of things.
1. we came from africa a long ass time ago.
2. we have the same DNA as czar nicolas II, former ruler of russia prior to the Bolshevik revolution.
this is really awesome and cool. however, he was a huge fan of rasputin who, lets face it, was a fucking lunatic.
i'm enamoured with your setu roots!
a small bout proud people? how small were they? OH!
You should visit Homeland sometime.
Your mom made those costumes?? I'm in awe. Your family, as always, is lovely.
I have an urge to watch the video again. Must obey urge.
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