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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Subject: Re: The Finns of Sweden
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <ksand-231192195403@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:57:26 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.151136.10154@ericsson.se> <1992Nov23.070019.256@jyu.fi>
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- Followup-To: soc.culture.nordic
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- In article <1992Nov23.070019.256@jyu.fi>, ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) wrote:
- > : 1. Do you still claim it was a complete genocide (=folkmord) of the
- > : Finns in northern V{rmland? Did the Swedish government kill every
- > : single Finn that lived in Finnskogen?
- >
- > If we consider the treatment of red-indians in USA or in Amazonas
- > as genocide the answer is yes, the genocide does not mean only concrete
- > killing but destroying one's culture and language. Some may think
- > the red-indians of America were not genocided or how you call it
- > but they just did not manage to survive. For me genocide
- > means destrying one's culture &language. So my answer is YES.
- > It was a genocide.
-
- So why look at Amazonas and Sweden, there's a cultural genocide
- happening in the Swedish speaking parts of Finland, every day?
- The only difference is that we don't call it genocide, instead
- 'that's the way it is'.
-
- If you insist that a cultural genocide is something scary,
- talk with any of us Finnish-Swedes that know what it feels like.
- And we don't exactly complain about it. So before you save
- the poor Finns in Sweden, could you try to save people living
- in the same country as you? To start with you could stop
- complaining about learning the second Finnish language in school.
- That would already do us a favour concerning the local genocide
- in Finland.
-
-
- Kent
- PS: I'm not rambling about possible genocide in Finland, but
- if Mr. Ryti wants to continue talking about cultural genocide,
- he should start by fixing problems in his home country, and not
- Sweden. Same with other minorities in Finland that is subject
- to his dreadful genocide case, like the Saami people.
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