(I mean, at least in the Metropolitan area) Earlier I waited in line at a shop in Helsinki and behind me was a large group of schoolkids, all various people of colour and all speaking American English with each other. It's a fairly common occurrence in Eastern Helsinki and makes you feel like you're in the US or Canada

It's interesting how quick things have developed just since I was a kid

I think it's cool but it seems to cause Finnish boomers enormous existential anxiety of the Great Replacement variety

  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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    9 months ago

    at least language is something we made up to communicate and two people not being able to is a failure, there's no analogy to species extinction in that regard.

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      • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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        9 months ago

        feel like there's a difference between what was deliberately done to indigenous people and a more gradual "common second language" thing going on.

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