Mitäs voisit sanoa puolueesta joka kalastelee ääniä kiivaasti mustamaalamalla maahanmuuttajia? Ilmaisjakelu lehti Helsingin Uutiset kirjoittaa, että perussuomalaisten ajatuspaja Suomen perusta selvittää kuinka paljon maksaa maahanmuutto Suomelle ja “työmies” Matti Putkonen paljastaa torstaina uutisen. Lehden mukaan uutinen on niin iso, että saattaa syntyä perussuomalaisille kauan kaipaama “Jytky 2,” tai sitten ei. Suomessa, ja erityisesti perussuomalaisissa, todistaa, että on paljon…
Month: March 2015
UPDATE (Mar. 30): Migrant Tales’ 2015 Hall of Poor and Sloppy Journalism
Migrant Tales’ 2015 Hall of Poor and Sloppy Journalism will be updated separately. To see other examples of opinionated journalism in Finland about cultural diversity, please go to this link. Mar. 30 Ilkan kysely: Lukijoista suurin osa ei halua pakolaisperhettä naapuriinsa (Ilkka) What’s wrong with this story and how does it reinforce prejudices about refugees? Ilkka of…
Abdirahim Husu Hussein: A focused candidate with clear goals for Finland
Abdirahim Husu Hussein is no stranger to Miglrant Tales. He has written a number of times for us and we have followed his political career with keen interest. “Husu” as he’s known to his friends and acquaintances is a Center Party candidate running for parliament who is focused and determined to reach his goals. Finland…
Camilla Edström Ödemark (March 29, 2015): Exposing White Voids
Camilla Edström Ödemark is an artist from Åland who moved from her native Mariehamn to Sweden after she graduated from high school. Her artwork hits a sensitive spot especially if you’re in that sometimes challenging situation of adapting to a new country. Ödemark says that her work focuses on what or who is “abnormal” or…
Camilla Edström Ödemark’s White Voids art exhibition to open in Helsinki on April 2
Migrant Tales will publish a feature on Camilla Edström Ödemark’s and her White Voids art exhibition which will open on April 2 at the Third Space Gallery, Tarkk’ampujankatu 18, Helsinki. Camilla writes: In order to suppress you need to mask yourself as a true underdog. It must be your rights that are threatened, your words…
Defining white Finnish privilege #20: Labeling Others to strengthen “us” and “them”
There were two news stories where the term “person with foreign background” was used by the media this week. The first case was reported on Wednesday, when two people with ”foreign backgrounds” were attacked in Joensuu and the second one a day later, when a suspected Finnish man who tried drive over a fifteen-year-old ”with…
Migrant Tales Literary: A return in Pixles
I pulled out my laptop and went on Google Earth. I typed in my mother’s childhood home address, but Google Earth didn’t recognize any matching location. I decided to turn to my mother and carried the spacecraft-like laptop to her. After placing it on top of an orange table mat, I asked her to help me…
Perussuomalaiset ad stresses “us” versus “them”
The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* ad below (in Finnish) is the pits. The only mention it makes about our culturally and ethnically diverse society is picture of a Muslim woman. All of the people in the ad are white Finns. It uses slogans like: “Let’s build a good Finland” and “the Perussuomalaiset are on the side of (white)…
Institute of Race Relations: Deaths of Europe’s ‘unwanted and unnoticed’ migrants exposed
IRR European News Team The IRR publishes a disturbing new report, Unwanted, unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe, revealing the extent of Europe’s departure from its vaunted humanitarian ideals.
RoPS coach Juha Malinen gets snubbed by the Football Association of Finland for inappropriate tweet
The head coach of Rovaniemen Pallo Seura (RoPS), Juha Malinen, has stuck his foot in his mouth again. Contrary to the first time in April, when he announced that he had the most “Finnish team” in the country according to the surnames of the players, he is now embroiled in another scandal. The Football Association…