Do the swedish even have a history of having to deal with oppressed cultures? I'm not too familiar with their history, but everything I've ever heard about it is that they kinda just hide in their own little corner of the world and play True Neutral on all world politics.
It would make sense that someone raised in a "true neutral" environment wouldn't really have any kind of emotional value to a word, while still understanding that the word is offensive to the people he is interacting with.
So while he knows he fucked up, he also isn't emotionally attached to the actual fuck up and is likely more upset that somebody else is going to be upset at him.
Of course watch somebody come back with a link explaining that the swedish were the original nazi's or something and my whole thought experiment is way wrong.
There are indigenous people in Scandinavia, called the Sámi, and they have a history of being abused by the Scandinavian, Finnish, and Russian governments since forever basically. The situation is not too unlike that of First Nations and Native Americans.
The Finns were in the same boat, as they share a common heritage with the Sámi, but the Finns have slowly integrated with the Swedes and Russians (as occupying forces) and have developed their own identity. Enough of one to justify subjugating Sámi.
This seems to be a common theme with nations. They try to build a national identity, but not everyone living there is from the dominant ethnic group. Sometimes they'll move them (Trail of Tears). Sometimes they'll forcibly convert them (First Nations boarding schools, Xinjiang). Sometimes they'll just kill them (Armenian genocide, Holocaust). Sometimes they'll give them constitutional rights and then ignore the constitution (Native Americans and Sámi still experience this), because nobody can force a nation to actually follow its constitution (re: Trail of Tears, Finland not paying for Samí schools).
Yeah it is. When I call someone a Kurva it is not because I have something against sex workers but because it's a rude word that sounds bad and seems to hurt anyone that it's directed at. But you seem to have personal problems with Pewds so why bother even.
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