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Re:Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-languag... by willeh on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:59PM (#28397297)
With the important difference being that the Finnish minority in Sweden moved for economic reasons and Finnish is forgotten within a generation or two, while the Swedish minority in Finland are the remnants of the Swedish colonial project and largely marry within that same groups. That said government websites in both countries are available in both languages.
Re:Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-languag... by CRConrad on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:38PM (#28399202)
> remnants of the Swedish colonial project

If in a few centuries some part of Finland (say, Päijät-Häme or something) is an independent nation, do you think it would be natural for them to talk about the old days — our present — as "back when we were part of Finland", or should they say "our dark age of oppression under the bootheel of the Finnish colonial project"?