I have been here 10 years now. I don’t feel like an outsider, and I feel right at home. I also don’t speak the language.
Someone who immigrated to Finland can probably give better perspective, but from a natives point of view:
If someone speaks the language and has integrated into the society, I will see them as a Finn.
Ask yourself why do you need to feel finnish… You have to be fine with being an outsider if you’re planning to emigrate to anywhere else because there is nothing that can change your real ethnicity. Why would you want the approval of people who wouldn’t consider you an equal if you follow the same laws and pay the same taxes? Consider that not being finnish is fine and some people will give you a hard time for it because they are ignorant, but some people won’t care because they see you more than your nationality.
15% at best.
Just put effort into trying to integrate and 9/10 will accept you
I left my home country because I felt like an outsider
Well, that happens pretty much everywhere you immigrate to. Your roots are in the country you grew in, your were raised in a different culture after all.
Even if you integrate as much as you can, you will still be missing those early years compared to everyone else, you will still have an accent, probably a different diet.
Most people won’t see you as a “native” but will be deeply appreciative of your efforts in integrating.
Also, if your skin tone is darker than coal/or asian the first impressions will be always of a foreigner. The same that would happen to a Finn in Asia or in Dubai. At the end the only thing that matters is who You are and how you behave, not in which nationality box you are assigned.
i ask that you dont ask chat gpt.
ChatGPT knows!
ask from AI
I was born here and grew up here, still feel like an outsider
Thats enough. I dont ask for more.
So it’s basically the same as in any other country then
rather then trying to be finnish one should focus on forming community around themselves, while maintaining an openess and curiosity of the culture around them
Complete nonsense. I’m an immigrant and the Finnish people in any part of the country have been so nice, so caring, so welcoming.Finnish people are not as standoffish as the internet tells you.
That’s most places TBH
im 100% fin and if you come here and jaut dont cause trouble youre cool with me
I’m half Finnish yet I have dark curly hair/hazel eyes/olive skin from a distant south Italian and Greek ancestry branch that decided to take over my entire appearance. Nobody ever believes im of Finnish descent let alone 50% of me.
I would love to learn more of the language, my grandparents speak it well and I love the metal music of Finland and the peace found in quiet environments but I think my genetics have made it so that I’ll never fit in over there even if I was super proficient in the language.
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I have been here 10 years now. I don’t feel like an outsider, and I feel right at home. I also don’t speak the language.
Someone who immigrated to Finland can probably give better perspective, but from a natives point of view:
If someone speaks the language and has integrated into the society, I will see them as a Finn.
Ask yourself why do you need to feel finnish… You have to be fine with being an outsider if you’re planning to emigrate to anywhere else because there is nothing that can change your real ethnicity. Why would you want the approval of people who wouldn’t consider you an equal if you follow the same laws and pay the same taxes? Consider that not being finnish is fine and some people will give you a hard time for it because they are ignorant, but some people won’t care because they see you more than your nationality.
15% at best.
Just put effort into trying to integrate and 9/10 will accept you
I left my home country because I felt like an outsider
Well, that happens pretty much everywhere you immigrate to. Your roots are in the country you grew in, your were raised in a different culture after all.
Even if you integrate as much as you can, you will still be missing those early years compared to everyone else, you will still have an accent, probably a different diet.
Most people won’t see you as a “native” but will be deeply appreciative of your efforts in integrating.
Also, if your skin tone is darker than coal/or asian the first impressions will be always of a foreigner. The same that would happen to a Finn in Asia or in Dubai. At the end the only thing that matters is who You are and how you behave, not in which nationality box you are assigned.
i ask that you dont ask chat gpt.
ChatGPT knows!
ask from AI
I was born here and grew up here, still feel like an outsider
Thats enough. I dont ask for more.
So it’s basically the same as in any other country then
rather then trying to be finnish one should focus on forming community around themselves, while maintaining an openess and curiosity of the culture around them
Complete nonsense. I’m an immigrant and the Finnish people in any part of the country have been so nice, so caring, so welcoming.Finnish people are not as standoffish as the internet tells you.
That’s most places TBH
im 100% fin and if you come here and jaut dont cause trouble youre cool with me
I’m half Finnish yet I have dark curly hair/hazel eyes/olive skin from a distant south Italian and Greek ancestry branch that decided to take over my entire appearance. Nobody ever believes im of Finnish descent let alone 50% of me.
I would love to learn more of the language, my grandparents speak it well and I love the metal music of Finland and the peace found in quiet environments but I think my genetics have made it so that I’ll never fit in over there even if I was super proficient in the language.
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