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Originally Posted by sachsenkoenig
I honestly don't really consider Finland a traditional Scandinavian country.
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Me neither. Despite the cultural similarity, a concept like Scandinavia stops making sense if Finland is included. Scandinavian languages are mutually intelligible (at least to some extent), and an ethnic border doesn't belong between Finland and Estonia either.
Though I'm given up the effort of correcting each and every foreigner on this long ago.
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Originally Posted by sachsenkoenig
They favor Scandinavia over Russia, just like the Baltic nation of Estonia(a near cousin to Finnish people). Those occupied by Russians are grasping further into the past to get away from Russia and closer to a more ideal ethnicity.
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"More ideal ethnicity", what's this supposed to mean? For me, Finnish is the one and only ideal ethnicity there is. We don't favour "Scandinavia over Russia", we favour independence and belonging to our own cultural sphere over Russia.
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Originally Posted by sachsenkoenig
I believe the reason why Swedish speaking Finns have it so great in Finland is because Finland is a very Scandinavian oriented nation.
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It's rather because the traditional upper class Swedish-speakers are still possessing wealth and political influence.
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Originally Posted by sachsenkoenig
Also in any society, a person who speaks two languages is better then one who speaks one, especially in a country like Finland where their best friends speak Swedish.
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True, the same is happening in Sweden with the offspring of Finnish business managers and the like.