America and Americans / Europeans

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:29 PM -0500 2/21/02, David Bergdahl wrote:
>"Are Finns Europeans?"
>
>I'd say yes: the dividing line in the north is the Urals.
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Whether or not they're Scandinavians is a bit trickier.  I'm told
(that is, I was told by Finns when I was in Helsinki) that
technically they aren't, although most non-Finns consider them to be.
(It's a geographical, rather than cultural or linguistic, parameter
that's crucial.)

larry