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You're right, there are no African-Americans or Asian-Americans in Finland… There are some African-Finns and Asian-Finns though.
by rue 16y ago
You're right, there are no African-Americans or Asian-Americans in Finland… There are some African-Finns and Asian-Finns though.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoNot enough to make a difference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland
- borism 16y agooh yes, there is more than enough to fuel anti-immigrant sentiment in finns. I'm sorry, but I live nearby and know those things.
- chc 16y agoYes, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're enough to influence education statistics. It could mean, for example, that Finns are just easily riled up in general.
- rue 16y agoStatistically, probably not much of a difference if you subscribe to the theory that there would be. I was just correcting the implication that there were none.
- endtime 16y agoEthnic groups in Finland, from Wikipedia: Finnish 93.4% Finland-Swedes 5.6% Russians 0.5% Estonians 0.3% Roma 0.1% Sami 0.1%
- cromulent 16y agoThe Finland-Swedes are essentially Finns anyway, so you are talking about 99% homogenous population. I moved to Finland a couple of years ago and have two kids at school. The key differences I see (compared to Aus) are: - later start (7 years old grade 1) - hot lunches - every kid gets the same education, almost no private schools, no advantage in going to a different school - multiple languages are taught - teaching is quite a prestigious and reasonably well paid occupation - lots of small schools (they scale wide, not high, from a hardware perspective) Of course these are basic observations, not a study. I have no idea how they get such good results, but they do.
- borism 16y agoYou lived there for a couple of years and you haven't seen any blacks or asians in Helsinki? Because every time I travel north I notice quite a lot of them compared to here in Tallinn where there's virtually nil of both. There's certainly enough of them there that I keep hearing angry anti-immigrant sentiment from finns. Edit some examples: http://hs.fi/english/article/South+Asian+population+grows+sharply+in+Helsinki+region/1135220364219 http://hs.fi/english/article/South+Asian+population+grows+sh... http://finlandforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=39892 http://finlandforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=39892
- cromulent 16y agoNo, I didn't say that - what gave you that impression? Did you read the grandparent? Finland is also not just Helsinki, you know.
- borism 16y agooh, you didn't indeed. I just thought we were arguing here whether Finland had enough immigrants for them to make a dent in education statistics. And the answer is resounding yes. also, Helsinki clearly isn't the whole Finland, but most African and Asian immigrants do live in Helsinki.
- endtime 16y ago>teaching is quite a prestigious and reasonably well paid occupation I'd put money on this being at least an order of magnitude more important than all the other factors put together.