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[juuro]

John Morton, Pennsylvania. Often described as being of Swedish descent, which is technically correct. Finland at that time was a province of Sweden. Martti Marttinen, John's grandfather, was born deep in central Finland.

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[kehoea]

This guy? Of whom it’s interesting to note that the German WP article is longer than both the English and the Finnish, hmm.

Vaguely tangentally, I met a Finland-Swede for the first time at a wedding a couple of days ago. Yay culturally productive ethnic minorities.

[juuro]

That one, yes.

There is, I'm afraid, some historical resentment towards the Swedish-speaking population of Finland. They are still (with some validity) seen as representatives of conqueror power who made themselves into an upper class.

It's only a thousand years since that happened.