“All of these countries are ethnostates! Why can’t we have one? Because we’re Jewish?”

“Because genocide.”

“Point being?”

https://fxtwitter.com/jewishwonk/status/1788543985729884390?s=46

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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Like there is some history of what can be called colonization in Finland and Japan, with the Ainu in Japan and Sami people in Finland. But like these places resemble ethnostates based more off of geographic and language isolation.

If Japan spoke English as a second language the same way you see in former British colony states, you can bet your ass that island would be full of immigrants and non-japanese people.

But it's an island with a language that is really hard for Westerners to learn.

Finland is a snowy wasteland most the year, so yeah not a lot of people want to live there, so only the people who have always lived there live there. Finnish is also a hard language for not Scandinavians to learn.

The other countries are just absolutely pulled out his ass, I think, but again are probably more ethnostate like due to geographic issues and not because some people started colonizing it in the last century and kicked out the modern native population that was living there forever

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Finland is a snowy wasteland most the year, so yeah not a lot of people want to live there, so only the people who have always lived there live there. Finnish is also a hard language for not Scandinavians to learn.

    Finland has multiple times been caught out in its repression and turning away of immigrants, in 2023 setting up concrete barriers topped with barbed wire and accusing Russia of so-called “hybrid warfare” when faced with an influx of asylum-seeking migrants. You don't have to defend Finland like this in order to be against Israel.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    it's a hard language for scandinavians to learn, since finnish is entirely unrelated to swedish, danish, norwegian, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    it's closer to russian than it is to any of the Scandinavian languages

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    lol no it isnt, it's exactly as far from russian as it is from the scandinavian languages. cos you see, finnish is an uralic language, while scandinavian languages and russian are indoeuropean.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    IIRC a lot of words are borrowed from russian, like niet which comes from the russian nyet, no? maybe my sources are just bad

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