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</div><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">From: </span><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">Isaac M. Davis</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com">isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com</a></span></span><br style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">
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Subject: </span><span class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.08 (03) [EN-FR-NL]</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">Paul Finlow-Bates wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><div>Might I also add that my experience of Finland is that most of the
native Finnish speakers I know resent having to learn Swedish at school;
many thought it a waste of valuable time that could be spent learning
something else - most thought more English. Despite the fact that to
work in any service industry you must be fluent in both, plus
English, it seems to have done little to reduce the general antipathy
towards Swedish-speaking Finns. I was surprised to find it was so
strong even amongst young people.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>It's
fascinating how similar that is to attitudes in Canada as well, in this
case mainly the attitudes of Anglophones who have to learn French. The
attitudes of Francophones towards learning English are a bit different,
but I don't know whether they'd map closely onto Fenno-Swedes, since the
closest Francophone populations in any given direction are nowhere near
as close to French Canada as other Swedish-speaking populations are to
Finland, and I would expect that to have an impact on attitudes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Isaac M. Davis</div><div><br></div></div><font color="#888888">-- <br><br>"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master."<br>—Abraham Lincoln</font><span></span><div style="text-align:center">
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