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Go West By Abdul Turay Published Postimees 21 June 2010 Some people, when they go abroad, are ashamed to tell people they are Estonian, even when it is clear that the person they are talking to is sophisticated enough to know such a country exists. A person I knew once told me about a girl he met in a wine bar in London. On spotting that she had a slight accent he asked her which country she came from. Instead of saying the specific country, she paused a little and finally said she was from... well..... em......“a country in Northern Europe”. This guy who has pretty good detective skills thought about this for a while and then said without any embellishing remarks: “You must be from Estonia.” This guy described how the girl blushed and looked round uncomfortably, like he had found out a guilty secret. He explained if she were from a “real” Northern European country like Denmark or Sweden she would have said I'm Danish/Swedish end of story. Therefore she must