I have been here 10 years now. I don’t feel like an outsider, and I feel right at home. I also don’t speak the language.
tiilet09 on
Someone who immigrated to Finland can probably give better perspective, but from a natives point of view:
If someone speaks the language and has integrated into the society, I will see them as a Finn.
SpliffyTetra on
I mean, obviously. Even Finns don’t feel like Finns and want to leave Finland on some level. It feels like the odds are against everyone here, even natives. This doesn’t help https://yle.fi/a/74-20169859
acrobaticalpaca on
Ask yourself why do you need to feel finnish… You have to be fine with being an outsider if you’re planning to emigrate to anywhere else because there is nothing that can change your real ethnicity. Why would you want the approval of people who wouldn’t consider you an equal if you follow the same laws and pay the same taxes? Consider that not being finnish is fine and some people will give you a hard time for it because they are ignorant, but some people won’t care because they see you more than your nationality.
FishyR6 on
15% at best.
Just put effort into trying to integrate and 9/10 will accept you
NotGoodSoftwareMaker on
I left my home country because I felt like an outsider

SakanaGojo on
Well, that happens pretty much everywhere you immigrate to. Your roots are in the country you grew in, your were raised in a different culture after all.
Even if you integrate as much as you can, you will still be missing those early years compared to everyone else, you will still have an accent, probably a different diet.
Most people won’t see you as a „native“ but will be deeply appreciative of your efforts in integrating.
Also, if your skin tone is darker than coal/or asian the first impressions will be always of a foreigner. The same that would happen to a Finn in Asia or in Dubai. At the end the only thing that matters is who You are and how you behave, not in which nationality box you are assigned.
TerryFGM on
i ask that you dont ask chat gpt.
_mr-pink_ on
ChatGPT knows!
Rich_Artist_8327 on
ask from AI
ssakurass on
I was born here and grew up here, still feel like an outsider
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I have been here 10 years now. I don’t feel like an outsider, and I feel right at home. I also don’t speak the language.
Someone who immigrated to Finland can probably give better perspective, but from a natives point of view:
If someone speaks the language and has integrated into the society, I will see them as a Finn.
I mean, obviously. Even Finns don’t feel like Finns and want to leave Finland on some level. It feels like the odds are against everyone here, even natives. This doesn’t help https://yle.fi/a/74-20169859
Ask yourself why do you need to feel finnish… You have to be fine with being an outsider if you’re planning to emigrate to anywhere else because there is nothing that can change your real ethnicity. Why would you want the approval of people who wouldn’t consider you an equal if you follow the same laws and pay the same taxes? Consider that not being finnish is fine and some people will give you a hard time for it because they are ignorant, but some people won’t care because they see you more than your nationality.
15% at best.
Just put effort into trying to integrate and 9/10 will accept you
I left my home country because I felt like an outsider

Well, that happens pretty much everywhere you immigrate to. Your roots are in the country you grew in, your were raised in a different culture after all.
Even if you integrate as much as you can, you will still be missing those early years compared to everyone else, you will still have an accent, probably a different diet.
Most people won’t see you as a „native“ but will be deeply appreciative of your efforts in integrating.
Also, if your skin tone is darker than coal/or asian the first impressions will be always of a foreigner. The same that would happen to a Finn in Asia or in Dubai. At the end the only thing that matters is who You are and how you behave, not in which nationality box you are assigned.
i ask that you dont ask chat gpt.
ChatGPT knows!
ask from AI
I was born here and grew up here, still feel like an outsider