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Originally Posted by wilpuri
Finland-Swedes are a very heterogenous group and to simplify the situation into a question of an ethnic Swedish minority in Finland is simply atrociously false.
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Please, help me understand this.. According to what you say, they call themselves "Swedes" but they are not?
This is curious. Something that you said earlier looked to me as if you were calling or wishing for the ethnic disintegration of "Finland Swedes", and their assimilation into the Finnish ethnic group:
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Originally Posted by wilpuri
Swedish as an official language is on the way out. And its about time, in my opinion. It should not be up to the state to uphold artificial bilingualism in this case, and I think it would be good if Swedish-speakers realized this (I am myself from a bilingual family).
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But then you call them "Swedish-speakers" (Finns?), not "Finland Swedes".
Quite some strong statements here.
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