(I mean, at least in the Metropolitan area) Earlier I waited in line at a shop in Helsinki and behind me was a large group of schoolkids, all various people of colour and all speaking American English with each other. It’s a fairly common occurrence in Eastern Helsinki and makes you feel like you’re in the US or Canada
It’s interesting how quick things have developed just since I was a kid
I think it’s cool but it seems to cause Finnish boomers enormous existential anxiety of the Great Replacement variety
so these are second generation immigrants who also speak finnish but prefer English? Could it be they feel alienated from Finnish society on the basis of their race they don’t even want to speak the language and they like English more because they see at least some representation of people who look like them in that context?
Idk just a hunch lol