(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

  • darkmode [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    i've gotten anecdotal reports that some rich white kids are learning Chinese so we might be in for some interesting times in the next century

    • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Im neither white nor rich but Im thinking about giving mandarin a try. Want to be able to greet the PLA as liberators when they finally make landfall.