Right you are. And there you went saying most of the things I was just too plain lazy to write or think of.
And to compound the issue; am I as a Swedish speaking Finn more likely to identify with Scandinavia, than a Finnish speaking Finn would? Or with germanic culture? Or might it be a regional thing more than a language thing? I really have no idea, I mean I can say a lot of things about how I think it probably should work, but in the end I just don't know.
From a personal standpoint of course I can tell you that af far as shared culture/heritage I think I share more traditions with scandinavian and germanic culture than I do with slavic or baltic. But then it's really hard to say where some of those things come from originally.
It's quite difficult really and we're kind of in between different places, belonging neither here nor there completely. Not that I'm totally sure but I think, not culturally, tradiotionally, genetically or by language... damn ancestors making things complicated for us.
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And to compound the issue; am I as a Swedish speaking Finn more likely to identify with Scandinavia, than a Finnish speaking Finn would? Or with germanic culture? Or might it be a regional thing more than a language thing? I really have no idea, I mean I can say a lot of things about how I think it probably should work, but in the end I just don't know.
From a personal standpoint of course I can tell you that af far as shared culture/heritage I think I share more traditions with scandinavian and germanic culture than I do with slavic or baltic. But then it's really hard to say where some of those things come from originally.
It's quite difficult really and we're kind of in between different places, belonging neither here nor there completely. Not that I'm totally sure but I think, not culturally, tradiotionally, genetically or by language... damn ancestors making things complicated for us.