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Finland 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 i
by Mordisquitos 4y ago
Finland 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_...