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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by jib on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:31AM (#12547952)
Swedish is an official language in Finland and the native language of about 5% or so of all Finnish people (think like French in Canada). Especially Åland Islands is heavily Swedish speaking.
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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by greenshackle on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @12:24PM (#12549648)
Eh, kind of, Canada is 20% native French; there are more French Canadians than Finnish people.

Actually, if you look at Finland and Sweden as a whole, with Sweden having twice as many people, it's more like Finnish is French, and Swedish English.

In this analogy, the Swedish speaking finns are more like anglos living in Quebec.

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