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Originally Posted by wilpuri

In your first post you suggested that there was no "feeling of mutual belonging" among the Scandinavian nations, with the statements made by this politician as proof. That would make the notion a myth.

Point your accusing finger somewhere else, because I did not suggest anything of what you are trying to make people see. Here is first post for everyone to read:

Originally Posted by Mynydd

I would have thought that there was a feeling of mutual belonging among all Scandinavian nations, but that's apparently not the case with the Danes at the Danish People's Party

"I would have thought" does not mean that I suggest that it doesn't exist, only that I am wondering if it does.

You are deceiving people into believing that because I said the Danish People's Party, I mean the whole population of all Scandinavian countries.

It doesn't really. You, however, seem bothered by the fact that Finland is by culture inherently a Nordic country and not just part of some geo-political definition.

I've been talking all along of the Scandinavian countries, not of "Nordic countries", or Finland or Fidji. So clearly it is you who is bothered with other countries having an identity of their own.

Those posters Svin mentioned called us a Brother Nation (this a Norwegian poster). The reasons for such charity extend beyond the geographic factor.

I don't know much about charities. I don't even understand why they bring African children in Europe, stripping them off of their roots.

But of course we are getting off-topic again.

Actually, you have gone off topic since your first post, trying to force feed everyone that Finland should be included as a Scandinavian country. No matter how unrealistic and bizarre it is.

You don't like it? Then take it up with Geographers, Ethnographers, and the such. Once you get the certification from all of them telling that Finland is a Scandinavian country, feel free to put a picture of it in your signature. But in the mean time, try to make some sense.

This is more than cryptic, to be frank. You are lying blatantly. I never said about wiping Finland-Swedish identity (not the same as Swedish identity) from Finland. I am a Finland-Swede. I talked about Swedish as an official language, as opposed to a minority language.

No, it is you who is being blatantly dishonest, and a hindrance.

You called it an "artificial bilinguism" and wished for the derogation of their language rights as Swedish speakers. Something that you know well that would slowly but inevitably force them to disappear as a distinct identity.

That, for your information, is a form of ethnocide. Not that you didn't know it.

Language tensions mount in bilingual Finland