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- From: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
- Subject: Finns in Norway (Was Re: Swedofobia in Jarmo Ryyti)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.082725.7717@ugle.unit.no>
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- Reply-To: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
- Organization: SINTEF, Norwegian Institute of Technology
- References: <921011.202044.achristo@nutri1> <1992Nov16.145703.6102@jyu.fi>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 08:27:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.145703.6102@jyu.fi>, ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
- |>
- |> Yesterday driving home from Karelia I listened to a radio programme of the
- |> Finns of Northern Norway who had a congress in Saariselk{, Northern Finland.
- |> One representant of the congress, I think from Alattio explained how
- |> so called Nordic cooperation is mostly just speeches. She mentioned
- |> as an example how they have tried the norwegian authorities to accept the idea
- |> having an own antenna receiving Finnish speaking radio-programmes from Finland,
- |> because there is nothing for them in Norwegian radio, she told that
- |> as a result of decades demanding aid for such a project
- |> the norwegian authorities
- |> are against over there. The reason, she said, is that the norwegian
- |> authorities are afraid that the Finns sthrengthen their culture and
- |> start demanding more and more (like education in finnish)
- |> (You know there are places where is since 1600th century finnish people just
- |> as a background information.)
- |>
- |> Terveisi{,
- |> Jarmo
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-
- I risk to continue an end- and meaning-less discussion - maybe I should
- keep my big mouth shut, but somehow I haven't lost the hope of at last
- having a deasent discussion.... (maybe I'm naiv... :-)
-
- I think that if you look around in Norway, maybe in Sweden and Finland
- too, you will find many small places/villages in which they don't even
- get the official radio and TV broadcasts. In Norway the new TV station
- (NRK TV2, financed by commercials) can be seen by less than 60 % of the
- population (I'm uncertain of the 60 %..).
-
- This is, of course, because the norwegian authorities are afraid that
- the population sthrengthen their culture and start demanding more and
- more .-)
-
- To be a bit more serious: Do not believe in all you hear, and do not
- take whatever as evidence of racism. The politicians have to decide how
- to use the (more and more limited amount of) money most efficiently,
- this means that a lot of good projects have to wait. We can agree or
- disagree in how they do it, but no matter how it is done, some will
- have to wait. And a lot of projects wait today, not only the antenna to
- receive finnish broadcastings.
-
- I think that the finns in northern Norway have been opressed earlier,
- just like the sami population. But I can ensure you that this is not
- the case today - at least not officially - and I am sure that the finns
- in Norway are regarded as just as good norwegians as others - not by
- all people, of course (weird people are found always and wherever), but
- by the majority.
-
- And I am sad to say that I don't think the finns are the ones who have
- been treated worst. I think the sami population were treated worse in
- the earlier days, and I think that the immigrants from Asia, Africa and
- South-America are treated worse today by the racists.
-
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