(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
i’ve gotten anecdotal reports that some rich white kids are learning Chinese so we might be in for some interesting times in the next century
Im neither white nor rich but Im thinking about giving mandarin a try. Want to be able to greet the PLA as liberators when they finally make landfall.
it’s a beautiful language and I wish I was better at it, best of luck