(I mean, at least in the Metropolitan area) Earlier I waited in line at a shop in Helsinki and behind me was a large group of schoolkids, all various people of colour and all speaking American English with each other. It’s a fairly common occurrence in Eastern Helsinki and makes you feel like you’re in the US or Canada

It’s interesting how quick things have developed just since I was a kid

I think it’s cool but it seems to cause Finnish boomers enormous existential anxiety of the Great Replacement variety

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    It’s not like great replacement anxiety. Great replacement is a fear of people who have been subjugated for centuries. Whereas anglophones have been dominant.

    Totally different dynamics. Blurring them together is like talking about reverse racism. The content and context matters.

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      “The Great Replacement” (sic) is literally a racist conspiracy theory though where white people in America and Europe believe the Jews are trying to destroy the white race through forced immigration and race mixing

      It’d be best to use another term for cultural genocide of a non-imaginary variety