(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

  • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    in the rare circumstance I find a friends/acquaintances IRL that speaks Russian, I avoid talking in English. I was worried my Russian was going to get rusty because I only use it for the rare stranger or my overseas family members, but my mom just moved in with me so we're going to be doing it 24/7. She says she's had too much English practice lol.