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Uzkalnis, Audrius
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
British monarchy makes fairy tales come true
Several billion people are expected to tune in their televisions to watch the royal wedding taking place in the UK today. The daily Lietuvos Rytas explores the reasons for this enthusiasm for the British royal family: "The royal family costs each British citizen around a euro a year and is an institution endowed with profound significance. For it guarantees continuity and adheres strictly to its own unchanging rules. This conveys a sense of eternity such as exists in hardly any other country. It is often said that the British love their past and their traditions, but this is only part of the truth: every nation has its traditions and most people love the past because it seems prettier and safer than the present or the unforeseeable future. But the British manage to combine tradition with modernity and make fairy tales come true."
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More from the press review on the subject » History, » Weltanschauung, » Society, » United Kingdom
Happy Lithuania
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."
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