The Ripper
06-10-2010, 09:17 AM
I think we have all, by now, encountered the on-going twist about the wider meta-ethnic and cultural identity of the Estonians, and by extension also the other Baltic Finnish nations.
I will very shortly explain my own stance:
It is obvious to me, that the Baltic Finns, or Finnics, form a wider meta-ethnicity that formed on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.
However, I've grown up considering Nordic more of a cultural rather than a linguistic or ethnic term, and thus I've always considered myself a Pohjoismaalainen. For me the terms have not been mutually exclusive. But I'm prepared to compromise, if people consider the term Norcic to be reserved for the Scandinavians / North Germanics, and we can speak of a more general Northern European Lutheran cultural and historical sphere.
Another interesting question is, how do you consider those of our Kinsmen, that were left on the Eastern divide of Christianity i.e. the Orthodox Karelians and Seto, and their relation to us?
I will very shortly explain my own stance:
It is obvious to me, that the Baltic Finns, or Finnics, form a wider meta-ethnicity that formed on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.
However, I've grown up considering Nordic more of a cultural rather than a linguistic or ethnic term, and thus I've always considered myself a Pohjoismaalainen. For me the terms have not been mutually exclusive. But I'm prepared to compromise, if people consider the term Norcic to be reserved for the Scandinavians / North Germanics, and we can speak of a more general Northern European Lutheran cultural and historical sphere.
Another interesting question is, how do you consider those of our Kinsmen, that were left on the Eastern divide of Christianity i.e. the Orthodox Karelians and Seto, and their relation to us?