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. 10 PAM: Ulkomaalaisomisteisiin ravintoloihin tarvitaan lisää valvonta (YLE) What’s wrong with this story? Right from the onset of the news story, in the headline, there…
Month: March 2015
Ruskeat Tytöt: Ei kannata ehkä… käydä kouluja
Koko Hubara Voi olla, että luokkatoverit sanovat sinulle: ”Kannattaisko peseytyä, kun oot noin likaisenvärinen?” Voi olla, että bommaavat alikulkusiltaan, jonka läpi kaikki kulkevat aamuisin: ”Koko = nigger whore.” Alkuperäisen blogikirjoituksen voi lukea tästä.
Racism and time
Racism is harmful because it robs you of one of your most important things in life: time. In the same way that Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-70) asked in a poem where sighs, tears and love go,* do we know where time goes after it’s used up? Since humans are social animals, attack and prey on others…
European racism is like a Cadillac but has the ability to appear and vanish
Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year. Malcolm X (1925-65) The story of the three Chelsea fans who are suspected of turning away a black person from entering a train on the Paris subway station of Richelieu-Drovat highlights the many “Cadillacs” and shades of racism in today’s Europe as…
UPDATE (Mar. 6): 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. 6 Olli Immonen rajoittaisi somaleiden maahanmuuttoa (Verkkouutiset) What’s wrong with this story? We all know what Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Olli Immonen’s xenophobic views are about migration and especially…
Koko Hubara: The brave woman who founded the brown girl’s blog
Koko Hubara is a young energetic woman who founded a few weeks ago on Valentine’s Day a blog called Ruskeat Tytöt, or brown girls. The interest that her blog has received in such a short time surprised her. Why would anyone be interested in a blog about Other Finns? Is it because there are already so…
Migrants are not a burden to Finland
The letter to the editor below could be perfectly well applied to Finland. In Finland, migrants and minorities are tired of being called a burden by opportunistic politicians that want to gain with xenophobic sound bites voter attention. Sensible Europeans know better and more of their voices are needed in the face of this…
UPDATE (Mar. 6): 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. 6 Yli puolet nuorista on kokenut syrjintää – ongelmia eniten kouluissa (Helsingin Sanomat) What’s the missing story in this story? Migrant Tales has written before…
Contemporary Immigration in Greece: A sourcebook
Dr. Theodoros Fouskas, a lecturer at the New York College, Greece, is editor together with Dr. Vassileios Tsevrenis of a comprehensive book on immigration in Greece. As some are already aware, Greece has seen a surge in xenophobia due to the great number of refugees that enter the country from outside Europe. Dr. Tsevrenis is…
Politicians who fuel and support opportunity segregation in Finland
Tanja Hartonen-Pulkka is a Perussuomalaiset (PS)* candidate in April’s parliamentary elections. Last year she was noticed by Migrant Tales for all the wrong reasons. Hartonen-Pulkka lives in Mäntyharju, a small town in Eastern Finland with a population of 6,200 people that has a handful of foreign residents. She claimed in fall that at the present…