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MTV3: Maahanmuuttajat sopeutuneet Suomeen Britanniaa paremmin: “Vihaa vähemmän”

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October 9, 2011

Jouni Sipilä Britanniassa hallitus on huolestunut muslimimaista tulevien maahanmuuttajien radikalisoitumisesta. Toisen ja kolmannen polven maahanmuuttajat ovat omaksuneet vanhempiaan konservatiivisempia uskonnollisia näkemyksiä. Britanniassa radikalisoituminen on eräiden tutkimusten mukaan ollut nopeinta Euroopassa. Meillä Suomessa tämäntyyppistä kehitystä ei ole havaittu. Asiantuntijoiden mielestä maahanmuuttajat ovat sopeutuneet meille huomattavasti Britanniaa paremmin.
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The language of “keeping Finland white”

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October 9, 2011

The ongoing debate on the role of immigrants in Finnish society boils down to one big issue for the right-wing populists: How to keep Finland white and curtail non-European immigration. The view, that Finland must remain white, is as racist as a white man's claim in the United States during the Civil Rights...
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Finland’s belated response to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

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October 8, 2011

Finland lags behind Europe in some areas. Good examples are immigration and reaction to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Is the growth of right-wing populism in Finland today only a belated response to the demise of the former Soviet Union in 1991 and Berlin Wall?
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Are we all Finns?

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October 7, 2011

It is a nice idea when some people state to immigrants that "we are all Finns." I am certain that the person who makes such a statement has the best intentions in mind. However, isn't it our right to choose who we are on our terms? Affirming that "we are all Finns" is...
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Don’t blame the foreign worker in Finland

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October 6, 2011

One of the matters that continues to surprise me about the ongoing immigration debate in Finland are the so-called "bad" foreign laborers who purposefully come to this country to dodge taxes and work for slave-labor wages. Some claim that it is the foreign laborers' fault while in fact opportunity to break the law is...
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