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by hjgjhyuhy 527 days ago
In some countries yes, others not. Nobody got killed to make Nordic countries ”ethnostates”. It’s just that not that many people wanted to live so far north.

In fact, in Finland the largest ethnic minority (Swedish) on average do much better than ethnic Finns. Sami minority got discriminated admittedly, but not violently persecuted.
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nordic-ethnos 527 days ago
That’s gotta be among the most revisionist takes I’ve ever seen. The nordic countries subjected hundreds of thousands of individuals from mostly lower class backgrounds to mandatory sterilizations over a period of decades in order to secure the population distribution they have now.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/08/how-did-sweden-sterilise...

https://nordics.info/show/artikel/eugenics-in-the-nordic-cou...

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JumpCrisscross 527 days ago
> Nobody got killed to make Nordic countries ”ethnostates”

Literally the Vikings [1].

> in Finland the largest ethnic minority (Swedish) on average do much better than ethnic Finn

Yes [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Norwa...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%E2%80%93Novgorodian_...

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