This myth that English speakers, particularly English speakers with American accents, are especially hard done by in Finland needs to go away.
They’re just accustomed to a kind of privilege and welcome that monolingual English speakers usually get abroad, a privilege that doesn’t exist in the Nordics.
The fact of the matter is that it’s shit for every jobseeker here. Whether they be Finnish, or a foreigner who learned Finnish, or an English speaker who refused to learn a single word of Finnish.
I feel sympathy for the former two groups and no sympathy for the latter group.
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Interesting read. I think the problem is summed up in this statement.
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This myth that English speakers, particularly English speakers with American accents, are especially hard done by in Finland needs to go away.
They’re just accustomed to a kind of privilege and welcome that monolingual English speakers usually get abroad, a privilege that doesn’t exist in the Nordics.
The fact of the matter is that it’s shit for every jobseeker here. Whether they be Finnish, or a foreigner who learned Finnish, or an English speaker who refused to learn a single word of Finnish.
I feel sympathy for the former two groups and no sympathy for the latter group.