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Originally Posted by JackAubrey
I bet there is no racism at all in Finland. Everybody over there just loves the Roma people and the Sámi are socially and politically integrated.
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I'd say that the Roma have it better in Finland then in many other nations, including Germany.
The Sami don't yet have their own nation, that might require not just Finnish Sami but also Swedish, Norwegian and Russian Sami to form their own common nation. But the Finnish Sami do have an almost autonomic status and are guaranteed to things such as being tought their own language etc. But really, please tell if you know of cases of racism against the Sami in Finland, being part-Sami myself I'm kind of interested to hear it.
Of course not to mention the fact that all Finns are forced to speak Finnish-Swedish, our official second language, Jehova's witnesses are exempt from the military service as are people from the Åland. So I'd say that the minority situation is pretty good, it could be better in many ways and there is some cases where minorities especially the Swedish speaking minorities actually have things better then the Finnish speaking population.
As for the 'anti-islam'-crowd, ever since the end or world war 2 and even before that the racists can't really focus on race anymore, it's kind of not in vogue anymore. Instead modern racism focuses on ethnic and cultural purity etc., things that don't necessarily ring the racism-bell that quick. The same bunch also tries to deny the Holocaust from having taken place because they try to paint nazis and racism etc. in a more positive light.