#and again i'm sorry to any swedish people who do not condone the behaviour we've seen

[bisnes-socks]

last post on this i promise.

as my post about how rude certain swedish people are being to finland over eurovision (honestly i still can't believe this is happening over a song contest) is gaining notes, i just wanted to take a minute to say:

i'm sorry about notes and comments in the post that seem to be anti-sweden in general. my intention was not to be hostile towards an entire nation - that would be quite hypocritical of me considering the post i made.

(though i will say, i've seen exactly three swedish people, in official media or on social media, being civil about this. the rest of the loud ones all accuse us of cheating, bc apparently it's possible for 5.5 million people to be in on a scam on sweden)

but for context:

from a finnish perspective, this is just another straw on the camels back, and the back is cracking dangerously. push has come to shove.

because in the bigger picture..

from a finnish perspective it seems that swedes either don't know anything about us or still believe in negative stereotypes about us - see a study made by having 1000 swedes participate in workshop conversations (link in finnish) about what they thought of finland, when finland was celebrating 100 years of independence in 2017.

from a finnish perspective it seems they don't even want us to be finnish - see this article about how finnish speakers in sweden are still told not to speak finnish (link in finnish) and how they've essentially abolished teaching finnish (link in finnish) even though it has an official minority language status.

and since Expressen wants to make it about history by calling us the "former eastern part of the kingdom" (🙃) we could really start getting into how Sweden treated Finns historically, and how, ironically enough, Finns were initally allowed to be more Finnish under Russian rule than Swedish rule. because again, from a finnish perspective, Sweden has never been nothing but rude and condescending towards us.

these are probably things a lot of Swedish people don't know or have forgotten about - i wouldn't be surprised if they didn't teach this in schools in Sweden. the reason i'm sharing these things is that to us, this is the country now trashing us over friendly competition.

throwing a tantrum over the one fucking time we do well in something they consider "their thing", is just another day of them being condescending, mean, stand-offish, superior and even cruel towards us. and this time we've kinda had it, bc they have no idea, no idea, what Käärijä and Cha Cha Cha meant for us culturally.

no. fucking. idea. how much he has meant to us this year.

and that's why we're so mad. we know they're trolling. we know they're being childish and insecure.

but we were so happy. we were so fucking happy for him and because of him. he made us so proud of our country, our culture and our language (none of which would exist if sweden had its way btw) and they just had to try and shit all over it. and make it as cruel as they could.

so yeah we're upset that swedish people keep trashing us but the truth is we're used to it. i guess we just didn't think they would honestly do it over a song contest.