{"id":1047,"date":"2006-06-07T14:52:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2006-06-07T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T21:52:39","slug":"dutch-envoy-flees-estonian-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/dutch-envoy-flees-estonian-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch envoy flees Estonian abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/5057142.stm\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>The Dutch ambassador to Estonia, Hans Glaubitz, is leaving the country, complaining of persistent racist and homophobic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Glaubitz said he and his partner, a black Cuban man, were regularly insulted when they went out.<\/p>\n<p>An Estonian foreign ministry spokesman said the men had been well received at an official level, but expressed &#8220;regret&#8221; over any public abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Glaubitz is to be posted to Canada to become consul-general in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>He told Dutch newspapers: &#8220;It is not very nice to be regularly abused by drunken skinheads as a &#8216;nigger&#8217; and to be continuously gawped at as if you have just stepped out of a UFO.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the Netherlands has a reputation as one of the most liberal countries in Europe, having legalised same-sex marriage in 2000, Estonia has &#8220;not really gone through the enlightenment revolution&#8221;, according to Rainer Kattel, professor of political science from Tallinn University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Estonia does have latent racism, but it is not violent like in other countries. If you are openly gay and of a different race people will make mean comments to you,&#8221; he said. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been to the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/cfarivar\/19411485\/\">Dutch Embassy in Tallinn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: The Dutch ambassador to Estonia, Hans Glaubitz, is leaving the country, complaining of persistent racist and homophobic abuse. Mr Glaubitz said he and his partner, a black Cuban man, were regularly insulted when they went out. An Estonian foreign ministry spokesman said the men had been well received at an official level, but expressed &#8220;regret&#8221; over any public abuse. Mr Glaubitz is to be posted to Canada to become consul-general in Montreal. He told Dutch newspapers: &#8220;It is not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-estonia","category-wtf","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-gT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}