Monday, December 10th, 2007
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 17,625
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Re: Language tensions mount in bilingual Finland
The more I learn about it, the more that it looks to me as a mess of uncertain consequences.
If the ethnic Swedish minority faded away or if it lost completely its signs of identity to be engulfed by the Finnish, how would this affect the relations between Sweden and Finland? Or between Swedes and Finns? And what about the Finnish minority in Sweden?
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accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
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–Plato–
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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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