(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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    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