[wilpuri]

"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.

If this is the case, then I am to blame for misinterpreting. No intention of deception.

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.

I am not bothered by it. But its not the first time you suggest Finland's connection to the rest of the Nordic region being somehow artificial or 'geo-political'. But again, not really my problem if you choose to see it that way, I simply want to point out that this is not how we, who actually live here, view the case.

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.

Well this was the case of a brother nation helping another in need, sending supplies and hundreds of volunteers to fight (hundreds of Danes & Norwegians and several thousands of Swedes fought for Finland).

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.

I have never said it was, and I'm not trying to force anyone to believe something like that. Finland is not part of the geographic definition of Scandinavia, nor is it linguistically Scandinavian, which usually form the two main criterias, depending on the exact definition of Scandinavian.

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.

Dishonest? A hindrance? It is artificial bilingualism when people who never have the need to use the language are forced to learn it, when the minority that speaks it is no larger than 5-6%. I hope you realize that the Finnish system is unique, and by your definitions of ethnocide, we must be a shining example to rest of the world in how we treat our Swedish-speaking minority. Indeed, they must be one of the few minorities not being ethnocided at the moment. Of course, you probably know very little of realities concerning the situation, which would explain your bizzarre accusations. I advocate a more localized bilingualism, where it is official where it is actually needed. The nation-wide policy is a remnant of the power of the Finland-Swedish elite once weilded. Wilpuri, the ethnociding wanna-be Scandinavian exits this wonderful thread.