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Originally Posted by Erik Puke
Aren't there quite some differences between Ostrobothnian Finnish Swedes and South Eastern Coastal ones? The dialect is different at least, with the Ostrobothnian dialect being more like old Swedish or Gotländska. The part about foreigners being integrated into the Swedish speaking population also seems far fetched when it comes to isolated Ostrobothnian farmer communities.
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Well. I'm currently in the military, and as I'm registered as a Swedish-speaker (my brother on the other hand as a Finnish-speaker), I'm serving in the Swedish-speaking brigade (Nylands Brigad), and this is really the first time I've come in contact with (Swedish-speaking) Ostrobothnians. The dialect is mostly quite similar to what I'm used to, with the big exception being
Närpes-dialect, which I'm having great difficulties with.
As for the nature of Ostrobothnians, they seem to me to be the mirror-image of Finnish-speaking Ostrobothnians in many ways. Their attitudes, their temperament, etc. My mother's family is originally from Ostrobothnia, from where they moved to the South-Eastern coast (where my mother grew up). I don't see a whole lot of difference between, or lets say, any more differences than you'd expect to see between Ostrobothnian Finnish-speakers and Southern Finnish-speakers.
What comment about intergration of foreigners did you mean?