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How you mean "even in Finland" and "edged out"? Finland resisted Russification when under Russian rule and was more on the Swedish and German language orbit bef

• pimmen 9y ago
  Because after WWII Finland was very influenced by the Soviet Union. Finland tried to avoid enacting or supporting policies that opposed the Soviet Union during the cold war, especially during the first half when the USSR was Finland's largest market. There's even a word for it, "Finlandization", which means not upsetting the super power right next door even though you secretly really don't like it. But since Finland wanted to have access to the global, capitalist market English was the way forward. I don't think national pride made them break away from the Soviet sphere of influence it was money, and English is still the language of global business. Until the opportunity cost of learning some other language than English for your field is too big countries will most likely stick with English.