Let me put it another way. Its been already close 2 years here.
Finns racists? Good heavens, no no no. They are strongly opposed to apartheid in South Afrika.
No, there is no racism here. But there might be if a lot foreigners came.That’s why they cant take too much refugees.
Just a few, for humanitarian reasons. Carefully choosed, educated, healthy, professional people…
The trouble is any unfortunates, who wouldn’t integrate and want to fit in with finnish way to live.
They’d just create their own separate ghettoes.
Well, possibly, the fear is not so clueless.
One nice finn said to me, Simo,(actually for finns it’s male name) we Finns are so different, so unusual, an outsider can never really understand us and our way of life. These refugees are used to places where are a lots of different races and ways of life, they would’n be able to….
erm, let me put it a different way- WE Finns like to keep ourselves to ourselves.
And look, it’s quite simple. This country is very cold, the winters here are long and dark. You would never be happy here. This is terrible place! It would depress you. Then you would start complaining about what a horrible place it is, and if there’s one thing what FINNS can’t stand - it is criticism of their country.
By this time I have collected the most outrageous replies and comments.
WE MUST PRESERVE A HIGH STANDART OF LIVING.
WE ARE VERY FREE HERE; WE LOVE FREEDOM, we can shout out loud that expresident Tarja is an lesbian, we are so free, we can do what we want….
