(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

  • oregoncom [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    and Montreal, which will ironically be the last francophone stronghold.

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Don't most french people have trouble understanding Quebeccois? As in, the there might be a point where the two "dialects" diverge enough that it becomes a separate language (at least to anyone who isn't a Quebec nationalist)

      • oregoncom [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Idk they understand it well enough to make fun of it from what I can tell.