> Curious if anyone from Finland can comment: How is it that you are not scared of seeing your culture be erased by the ever-increasing use of English? For tha

> Curious if anyone from Finland can comment: How is it that you are not scared of seeing your culture be erased by the ever-increasing use of English? For that, one needs to have a culture to be worried for... Somewhat less flippantly: How do you know they aren't? I'd guess most people don't worry about that, but some probably do. Personally, I don't; I'm fairly certain Finnish will survive... And I have enough to worry about for the country's minority language, Swedish, which I fear won't survive here for many more generations. > Some comments mention that you can find restaurants where no one speaks Finnish. Is that not a red flag that at some point the country might flip entirely? No. I think you misread that; at least the comment I saw on the subject read not like "nobody" but "not everybody" to me. Your waitress might speak only English, so if you don't, you'd have to ask for another one -- most, or at least some, of the rest of them probably do speak Finnish.