Comment: Finland lags behind most European countries when it comes to immigration, ethnic relations and populism. One cannot avoid some of the parallels with Margaret Thatcher’s Britain of the 1980s and Finland today. One reason why her New Right policies still exist after a quarter a century since she was forced from office, is...
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Civilizations should be measured by "the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained."
W.H. Auden, English poet (1907-1973)
Posts Tagged ‘ Argentina ’
Institute of Race Relations: ‘May we bring harmony’? Thatcher’s legacy on ‘race’
The oddly unspoken topic of racism
“Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.” Pierre Berton (1920-2004) Many visitors have come and gone on Migrant Tales. Those that jump the MT ship the soonest are those who choose to justify...
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Finland and cultural diversity in 2012 will be published on December 28
Migrant Tales will publish on December 28 its review of the major events that shaped 2012 on the cultural diversity and immigration front in Finland. Contrary to 2011, this year’s review will be called Finland and cultural diversity in 2012. Finns colonized Argentina in 1906. Some, like Eelis Heikkilä, made a meager living by...
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Exposición de Colonia Finlandesa, Argentina
Esta exposición sobre la Colonia Finlandesa, Argentina, fue expuesta en las ciudades finlandesas de Kitee, Helsinki, Peräseinäjoki, Mikkeli, Tampere y Turku entre 2007 y 2010. La colonización finlandesa nace en 1906, cuando Arthur Thesleff lleva un grupo de ciento y pico de finlandeses a colonizar las selvas de Misiones en el noreste argentino. Los...
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New World Finn: Open the doors
Twenty-five years ago, when I worked briefly for the Buenos Aires Herald as a young reporter, I wrote a column about how Argentina’s past could come to haunt it in the future. The last military regime (1976-83) that ruled the country was one of the most ruthless that Latin America had seen during the...
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Migrant Tales Literary: El gaucho más corajudo de la Pampa durante la dictadura
Siempre me ha fascinado el oponente más débil. Hay muchos ejemplos en la historia: José Artigas, Esteban Echeverría, Sacco y Vanzetti, Resistencia Rosa Blanca, Che Guevara, Antero Rokka, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Alvaro Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, y El gaucho más corajudo de la Pampa, entre muchos otros. Un buen ejemplo es el Maracanazo,...
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Eino Parkkulainen’s home in Argentina becomes a community library
The late Eino Parkkulainen, a Finn who moved to Argentina in 1924 from Kitee, would be proud to see part of his former home in the hamlet of San Martín being used as a library. Built in the mid-1930s, his home is probably the last one in existence built by the Finns that colonized...
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