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    Default Colour-coded ID cards: when your skin colour fails to reveal that you are a foreigner!

    Another journalistic gem a lá Pravda.

    By Outi Kaartamo

    “A foreign resident’s ID card is shit-brown in colour. A Finnish national’s card is sky-blue”, an Iraqi-born man living in Finland wrote in his Facebook update on Monday.

    The new official identity cards issued by Finnish authorities that came into force at the beginning of June recognise colour.

    An adult Finnish citizen’s ID card is now blue instead of white. This is fitting, for at least in the winter most of the Finns are more blue than white in skin tone.

    The colour of an underage Finn’s ID card is now purple. How fitting and how modern: the colour of repentance and confessing of sins does not take notice of one’s gender.

    And yes. The identification card of a foreigner living in Finland is now brown in hue.

    According to the National Police Board, there was a need for the colour coding system.

    The purpose behind the move was to make checking people’s IDs easier.

    If one cannot tell at first glance that a five-year-old really is a child, then the colour of his or her ID card resolves this mystery even from a short distance.

    And of course it is handy that a foreign national carries a special indicator in his wallet to attest to his origin, as being a foreigner does not always show on one’s face.

    The foreign national “Trevor Traveller” from the adjacent model ID card, however, is set for a disappointment.

    Unlike in the case of the Finnish nationals, whose ID card allows them to use it as a valid travel document when travelling in the European Union, the Nordic Countries, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and The Vatican, for poor Trevor the brown ID card is only good when touring domestically.

    That is to say, umm... when travelling abroad… errr… inside his present country of residence.

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    I wonder if he describes his own skin colour in a simmilar way?

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    They say it's racist but I'm a white Canadian, I'd probably get a brown one too.

    If one cannot tell at first glance that a five-year-old really is a child, then the colour of his or her ID card resolves this mystery even from a short distance.
    5 year olds have IDs?

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    What I wonder most is this: what has changed? Have the rights of those carrying the ID cards with new colours lessened or increased? The author hints at it when mentioning the validity of the ID card in Finland? Is this a new development? Of course, nothing, but the colour of the plastic has changed. Sensationalist bull crap as usual.

    And like Acadian Driftwood pointed out, white foreigners would carry brown cards and Somalis with Finnish citizenship would carry blue ones.

    On the bright side, its stuff like this appearing in the largest and most prestigious daily that has people fed up and voting for the True Finns.
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    I think it's a good idea with different colour IDs for foreigners.

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