I don't know why, but I have a strong feeling the middle guy is Russian.
Angel Anderson
our greatest ally
Leo James
the place they went is called tamokdalen, op didnt translate the finnish name
Chase Moore
At least around Turku they prefer swedish speaker (ruotsinkielinen) instead of fennoswede and at least the ones I spoke with seemed to hate swedish people
Austin Reed
(You) keep b8tin
Jason Ramirez
They are Finns. Having Stockholm syndrome wont change their genetics.
Nokia was literally irrelevant before Finns made it into a tech company
Landon Hughes
this
Ayden Edwards
So are finnoswedes to Finns like chicanos to Mexicans? Just overall better, smarter, new breed, etc?
Cooper Ward
here we go
Grayson Butler
Fenno-Swedes are >40% tomato pickers and fishermen in northern Finland >50% fishermen in southern Finland >9% middle class in Capital area >1% richfags with old money from oppressing Finns in 19th century
Blake Anderson
They are an old minority in Finland, a remnant of Swedish rule. Not recent immigrants.
Elijah Foster
They weren't invented until the 19th century
Carter Jenkins
True, before that all Finns were Fenno-Swedes.
Ryan Butler
yeah, you're right, because before the 19th century there was no such thing as a finn you were literally eastern sweden
Jonathan Myers
There were more bilingual people who spoke both languages but they had to choose which side of the language strife the were on
Nicholas Myers
The populist movement of Finland likes to pretend that Finns as a group existed before that, but the truth is that they were just different tribes. I could pretend that Sweden as a nation existed 500 AD, but it didn't. Sure, Swedes were one tribe. Geates were another, Gutes a third and so on but a "Sweden" did not exist. It's the same thing with the Tavastians, Karelians, Savonians and such in Finland. Some Finns take it as a deep insult when you say this, but it doesn't make it less true.
Landon Gonzalez
Some proper Swedes chose to become Finnomans, and some proper (as in completely ethnic Finns) chose the Svecoman side. Interesting what a chaotic event that was.
Luke Gray
See you guys after thread locked
Christopher Watson
>1% richfags with old money from oppressing Finns in 19th century Based No bully finns please
Jacob Adams
500 AD isn't a long shot away from the truth, so you might want to adjust the number. Historians agree that Norway, for example, was unified into a kingdom we can for the first time call "Norway" in 872 AD. Otherwise I agree with you.
Isaiah Bell
% tomato pickers and fishermen in northern Finland
Wrong
Julian Morales
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Parker Cooper
Norwegians are a bit of an exception, you have been a unified nation by definition longer than almost any other group on earth.
Christopher Hernandez
You're right, it's more like 35%.
Leo Garcia
In northern Europe* I assume you mean. Nations (not nation states) have existed for thousands of years in various forms in other parts of the world.
Ian Allen
Rather, kingdoms* in the sense that I mentioned in would be a better term to use. Technically an indian tribe is a nation.
Brody Martinez
Yes. Well in Europe as a whole I guess. Continental Europe has had border gore and falling and rising nations perpetually
Isaac Sullivan
More like 3-5%. There are some small towns what are populated by Swedish speaking fags but but in largest Northern cities (Rovaniemi, Oulu) they aren't even 0.3% of population. Compare that to Espoo and Vaasa.
Grayson Morris
Pretty accurate, I don't understand, why everyone not from areas with fennoswedes thinks that all of them are those smug """bättre folk""" coast jews
Charles Thomas
Ostrobothnia and Central Ostrobothnia are northern for me since I'm from the actual south. We might pretend they are Central Finland but that's essentially part of the same thing.
Nathan Jackson
>mountain has a Finnish name >Finns have Swedish names