(I mean, at least in the Metropolitan area) Earlier I waited in line at a shop in Helsinki and behind me was a large group of schoolkids, all various people of colour and all speaking American English with each other. It’s a fairly common occurrence in Eastern Helsinki and makes you feel like you’re in the US or Canada
It’s interesting how quick things have developed just since I was a kid
I think it’s cool but it seems to cause Finnish boomers enormous existential anxiety of the Great Replacement variety
This is why I support mandating bilingualism, if not multi-lingualism (at least one native language, then one lingua franca like English, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish).
I just don’t care what your other languages are, we just need to communicate in a standard one… even if I have to learn a different global language et re-adjust my brain to it…