(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
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They are also indigenous to Lapland
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They're literally indigenous people
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What would you call them? They were there first before Finns, Scandinavians and Russians showed up to boss them around and had their language, religion and traditional ways of life suppressed for a long time
...i used to work with a sámi; he called himself a black norweigian...
(most folks just assumed he was ethnically mexican)
Mfw they were literally sterilised by the state but because they have pale skin they are not 'indigenous'
Sami look "white" i wonder what could explain that huh?
Sweden spent a lot of time and money to prove that this wasn't the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Institute_for_Racial_Biology
Supposedly one of the first in the world actually, which one of my swedish coworkers likes pointing out when Sweden makes the news for being "too politically correct".