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Originally Posted by Gere
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.
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I wouldn't compare them to EB's.
The ostrobothnian swedish speakers aren't actually as Nordid looking as some other Swedishspeakers from other parts of the country.
There are actually quite big regional differences amongst swedish speaking groups. The Nyland Swedish speakers have IMHO retained more of the original swedish phenotype than others. I'll try to find an old Anthropological study which addressed this point. But in the mean time here's a link which show's that in Nyland do the Swedish speakers differ strongly to a more Nordid direction regarding facial width while in ostrobothnia there doesn't seem to be as much of difference nor are they nearly as long-faced as Nylanders.
Finnish Physical Anthropology: March 2007