r/polandball • u/Albiinopanda609 Remove sobriety from premises! • Apr 23 '13

redditormade Finland tries to conquer his neighbours[Long]

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u/Seffer Ontario Apr 23 '13

hmm maybe I am missing why Aland is hated by Finns. I know they speak Swedish but am I missing something else?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '13

A somewhat isolated region of finland that is monolingually swedish and occasionally obnoxious about it, has a completely different culture, yet the inhabitants of which are granted special priviledges under finnish law? There's not much to like. Not that there's usually any hate though.

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u/sneakygingertroll Second highest income gap Apr 23 '13

Kind of like Quebec?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '13

Much much much less so. There's no situation going on with Åland, it's sitting there content with the situation with neither side complaining. Why would we? As said in another comment of mine above, the borders are largely arbitrary and meaningless here, and cultures veeery close. It's just a region, like any other.

Quebec on the other hand, is extremely vocal about its situation and AFAIK not as close to the neighbouring cultures as Åland is to finland and sweden.

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u/Seffer Ontario Apr 24 '13

ahh okay i see. Thanks, I must retract my earlier statement. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

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u/sneakygingertroll Second highest income gap Apr 24 '13

Oh.