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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4699)	10/13/2001 1:41:35 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 281500

OT,kind of. Finland has its own set of "minorities", language, "ethnicity", historical and culture, regional and economical. One goal, includes a lot of underlying mechanisms to be reached, is to have the majority to be honestly proud of their minorities. As well as the minorities proud of the majority. Takes mutual respect and some common sense, in my experience. As well as some responsibility by leaders and the media when the rest does not, as well as the other way around of that is the case. Ilmarinen Btw, took the finnish, general majority some time to "get it" that "even" Saami minorities have the right to have different opinions on even their own issues. Btw,btw, judging from the preparations made for afghan refugees, the direct military conflict will or might probably last for some time until it changes from destruction to construction. (luckily we already have some afghan refugees from some 5-15 years ago, who now can use fairly fluent finnish to explaine their views, although it might be more emotionally satisfying to just give "them" some easy labels)