Are Finns, Scandinavians?

[Turkophagos]

The Scandinavian Peninsula:




In a strict geographical sense, Finland is a Scandinavian country. Culturally it can be debateable, although I consider them to have far more in common with their viking neighbours than anybody else.

[Östsvensk]

Scandinavia is a geographical concept , and Finland is into this area ,
so the Finns are scandos like Laps in Norway or Sweden .

No, Finland is actually not part of the Scandinavian peninsula geographically. Iceland is not either, although the Icelanders are Scandinavian from an ethnic standpoint.

Are they germanic ? well that's a different question .

The last time I checked, Finnish wasn't included among "Germanic languages", so obviously they are not. They (especially Western/Southern Finns) have a large amount of "Germanic" (Scandinavian) genes, though.

[Turkophagos]

No, Finland is actually not part of the Scandinavian peninsula geographically.

So, Tromso is actually part of the Scandinavian peninsula while Halti isn't?

[Östsvensk]

So, Tromso is actually part of the Scandinavian peninsula while Halti isn't?

Lol. Actually, the Wikipedia article states that Northern Finland is part of the Scandinavian peninsula. I wonder why?

[Motörhead Remember Me]

Silly thread... Maybe you should start thread "Are Polish/Russians/Czechs/Belarussians etc. Scandinavians?" FINNS AREN'T SCANDINAVIANS. Stupid thing is even including Finland to Scandinavia, but Finns ??? It's completely nonsense. Scandinavians are NORTHERN-GERMANIC people, Scandinavians are: Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelandic People and people from Faroe Islands. Finns are URALIC, NOT GERMANIC PEOPLE with non-scandinavian, Uralic, language! It's enough for say that Finns aren't Scandinavians, at all. This is a definition of word "Scandinavians": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavians FINNS AND OTHER URALIC PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH SCANDINAVIANS. FURTHERMORE! They have less in common with Scandinavians than Italians or Spanish People, because Finns even aren't Indoeuropeans.
Of course, there are some scandinavian influences in Finland, caused by fact, that Finland was Swedish colony by centuries (however Finland also was Russian colony), it's similar like French, English and German influences in India or African's colony, however it doesn't make Hindi People English, Namibian People German or Finnish People Scandinavian. Being of Swedish colony is only reason that some (silly) people today include Finland to Scandinavia, and what is more stupid- Finns to Scandinavians, but it's nonsense and I hope that most of people know the true.
Finns aren't Scandinavians, they don't speak Scandinavian language, they even don't look like Scandinavians. Finns are Finns.
It's ridiculous that some Finns (especially Swedish-Finnish mixes from the cost) like to be recognise to Scandinavia/s, they can't be proud of their culture so they want be more western and less Finnish, stupid... But I think that most Finns are proud and they haven't problem with the identity.

More informations about ethnicity and race of Finns:
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...660#post433660

You're just another jerk. Get stuffed.

[Motörhead Remember Me]

Are you people both illiterate and stupid?

Most commonly Scandinavian simply equals Nordic because Nordic often simply equals Scandinavian... Both terms are used to describe a political and cultural affinity.

1. In a strict traditional ethnocultural sense Scandinavian is Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

During most of the historical time there were only two nations in Scandinavia, Denmark (which controlled Norway, Iceland and parts of what is now Sweden ) and Sweden (which included Finland of various size and sometimes parts of what was Norway and Denmark which now is within Swedish borders).

2. In a strict geographical sense Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden and northern Finland.

3. In a strictly linguistic sense, Scandinavians are the speakers of the Germanic Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic languages called the Scandinavian language group.

4. There is a Scandinavian minority in Finland. This minority is "most" Scandinavian in the Åland island and Swedishspeaking Ostrobothnia.

There is a traditional millenia old non-Scandinavian Nordic minority (Finns and Saamis) in Sweden and Norway, and a non Scandinavian German minority in Denmark.

5. In a racial sense the term Scandinavian is pseudoscience. Nordic peoples are a wonderful cocktail of speakers or Germanic, Saami and Finnic languages. There is a substantial Scandinavian compound in Finland and there is an equally substantial Finnish, and to a lesser degree, Saami compound in Norway and Sweden.
This together is the essense of the Nordic peoples.

[Motörhead Remember Me]

Lol. Actually, the Wikipedia article states that Northern Finland is part of the Scandinavian peninsula. I wonder why?

The geographers and geologists know something that a dumb dick like you doesn't.

[billErobreren]

let me rephrase that inside Finland I do consider the people of Aland to be Scandinavian just to be clear

[Motörhead Remember Me]

let me rephrase that inside Finland I do consider the people of Aland to be Scandinavian just to be clear

Of course. But what about the Finlandswedes? After all they(we) talk, eat, shit and act more or less like Swedes.
Scandinavian, half Scandinavian or not Scandinavian at all?

Or the centuries old Finnishspeaking and Sami minorities inside Norway and Sweden? How about Swedish sports legends Börje Salming and Ingemar Stenmark, are they Scandinavians?

How about the approximately 0,5-1 million descendants to Finnish 16th-17th century colonialists in Norway and Sweden, are they Scandinavians or not? What makes a Scandinavian? To eat herring and dance silly dances around a midsummerpole?


Where do you draw the line?

[Mordid]

Are Estoners, Balto-Slavic ?