• teemuki@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Torvalds is Finnish by nationality, he just speaks Swedish as his mother tongue. That’s not uncommon in Finland.

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      1 year ago

      @teemuki @raubarno

      In Finland they have bilingual street signs. Where the majority is Finnish-speaking, the signs are in Finnish first and then in Swedish. And in places where the majority is Swedish-speaking they have signs in Swedish first, then in Finnish.

      To the best of my understanding cultural “!identity” is nort relevant at all there, and nobody really cares.