Language politics

As an offshoot from the Swedish military service - thread I thought I'd start a thread about language politics in general. My beef is with so called forced Swedish as it is known that Finns are forced to speak in elementary school, college and university. Also all government offices are forced to be able to give service in Finnish and Swedish. There are also schools, universities etc. that are for the Finnish-Swedish - speaking minority of Finland. And of course Åland, an entire island much nearer to Finland then Sweden that is completely Swedish speaking and their men are also exempt from military service.

Actually the language that is tought to Finns is not Swedish as is spoken in Sweden but Finnish-Swedish, a dialect of Swedish spoken really only in Finland.

I know that for example in Belgium language politics have been a hot button - issue with the Flemish language etc. Would be interesting to hear views and opions about this matter, even from Swedes.

Wiki-article about mandatory Swedish.