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Originally Posted by Tuurikerttu

West-coast Swedish speakers I have met and who speak that archaic dialect of Swedish, have often been more snub-nosed and round-skulled than your average borealized East-Baltid.

That is the most absurd thing I've heard in a long time, a cheap punch below the belt. Apart from looking a lot more like Swedes than Finns I also have to admit that most of the Finlandswedes I've seen have been more Nordid than the average Swede. Probably, in part, this has something to do with the hightened racial awareness brought about from living close to the Finns for many hundreds of years, knowing that they are different in an obvious way. It also indicates that the Finlandswedish settlers were originally chiefly Nordid.