(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

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Thankfully I don’t see that. Mostly indigenous languages and Spanish on my end. Go to the capitol city and you’ll hear English phrases more.

    I’d feel more sympathetic towards Europeans getting culturally colonized if they didn’t have a history of forcefully doing that to others.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      33·
      7 months ago

      I’d feel more sympathetic towards Europeans getting culturally colonized if they didn’t have a history of forcefully doing that to others.

      Even le wholesome epic liberal Nordics have done it to both the Inuit and Sami peoples