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Posts Tagged ‘ Finland ’

The media should stop stereotyping immigrants!

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June 19, 2013
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Black is beautiful, but I have a question: Why is it that whenever there is a story about immigrants or refugees in the Finnish media, the picture that is published with the story is usually of a black man or Muslim woman? Publishing pictures that feed the public a stereotypical image of immigrants does nothing...
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Center Party politician’s home attacked the third time in Helsinki

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June 18, 2013
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Abdirahim “Husu” Hussein, a Center Party politician who hosts the Ali and Husu talk show on YLE, found a rude message at 4 am in the front of  his apartment building door: a shattered beer bottle. It’s not the first time his family has been targeted in such a manner at their Helsinki home. ...
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Ariela Patterson: The right to be me on my terms

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June 17, 2013

One of the biggest challenges facing Finland in the new century is to come to terms with its ever-growing cultural diversity. While some Finns have no problems with this, others oppose it. Finland’s cultural diversity is, however, something that nobody can stop. There are today tens of thousands of Finns with multicultural backgrounds. Ariela...
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OECD study states that immigration boosted Finnish economy

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June 17, 2013

An OECD study claims that immigration boosted the Finnish economy by 0.16% in 2011 including pensions. This revelation is a blow to anti-immigration pundits, who commonly claim that immigration drains social welfare resources and offers no economic benefits. As Migrant Tales has shown over and over again the red herrings, urban tales and outright...
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Migrant Tales Literary: What Color is the Finnish Government?

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June 16, 2013
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By Dana  There is a fist on earth, saying stop this crime oh human There is a fist on parliament, shouting stop the lie oh liar men Unresponsive Helsinki, there is a city in  Saami -land  Has a shame building in it, there is a city in Finnish – land Sham parliament, raw members...
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