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
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