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They have a long standing, shared cultural history and value system that is ingrained into the every day lives of the society. Like it or not, the overwhelming
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They have a long standing, shared cultural history and value system that is ingrained into the every day lives of the society.
Like it or not, the overwhelming majority of human history and culture is ethnocentric. It should not be a surprise that the ethnic values, ethics, and ways of living continue to be the dominant force in an area that has remained the same demographically for centuries.
That's not to say the culture, values, and ethics are inextricably bound to the ethnicity, but it is without a doubt a vehicle for sustainment and major factor in policy success or failure.
- Mordisquitos 4y agoFinland is emphatically not a mono-ethnic state [0]. Not only are there areas which are bilingual Swedish/Finnish, but there are even communities (such as the island of Åland) which are monolingual in Swedish [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Finland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Finland [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Finland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Finland
- suggestion 4y agoFinland is over 90% ethnically Finnish. The total Swedish speaking population is ~5%. The majority also consider themselves ethnically Finnish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish-speaking_population_of_Finland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish-speaking_population_...