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Non-white immigration to Finland is relatively recent and has only been in small numbers so i think what you're referring to is just an anecdote. The immigration of Somali groups in particular has led to quite a lot of friction as detailed in this report

https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/jutut/kotimaa/sk-tutki-suomalaise...

See this page also - https://multiculturalmeanderings.com/tag/nordic-countries/

In particular,

>The 2020 OECD report about Finland criticizes that their education is unevenly distributed. In an interview with the HPR, Michaela Moua, a senior officer at the Office of the Non-Discrimination Ombudsman in Finland, recognizes racially motivated guidance in schools, especially in the Finnish as Second Language studies: “Black and Brown students are often advised to take these classes even if Finnish is their first language.”

>She adds that “this shows how it is still widely thought that one cannot be a person of color and Finnish at the same time.”

At the heart of the problem is that Finnish identity overlaps significantly with Finnish ethnicity. So yes, i think your anecdotes are the exception, not the norm.



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