By Dana Yes, who invited you here? If you don’t like it here, why don’t you go back to where you came from? This statement is aimed to tire and weaken you. It’s a dark trick with a dark ending for you. And who knows about those dark goals better than I? Back home you…
Tag: Immigrants
Why is the immigration debate in Finland so distorted?
Here’s a question that needs serious debating in Finland: If refugees account for a minority of all immigrants, why do they get so much attention in the media? Why do anti-immigration parties like the Perussuomalaiset (PS) constantly speak of them and give us the impression that all of Finland’s immigrants are mostly refugees and Muslims…
Migrant Tales Literary: Sharp-sighted bird and the Yellow Crocodile Kingdom
By Dana Once upon a day there were a pair of birds who made their first egg… after a short while the egg broke and a female baby bird emerged and tweeted her first song… Her parents were shocked and asked how come the little bird was so different from other ones…the bird had big…
Migrant Tales Literary: Suomi tai Suola, Saltland or Finland (Part II)
By Dana Before a storm everything looks great but it will come and it will break and destroy perfectly Wind will clean all happiness And trees will cry their best When a sun can’t make you happy And when a rain is a curse When a child is singing about death And old men and…
Migrant Tales Literary: Suomi tai Suola, Saltland or Finland (Part I)
By Dana YES, that’s it! Risk-land and jail-land What is the opposite of the Nobel Peace Prize? Is there a Nobel Ignoring Prize or such a prize in the world? I mean a Nobel that could be given to people who neglect others? For sure Finland does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize and never…
The Stockholm riots reveal in the raw our prejudices and loathing for cultural diversity
Apart from being a wake-up call to ever-growing social exclusion, discrimination and outright intolerance that is alive and kicking in Sweden, the riots in the northern suburb of Stockholm have revealed in Finland our prejudices and loathing for cultural diversity. The Local writes: “Stockholm is not on fire. Let’s get that clear immediately.” Read full…
City of Helsinki shouldn’t contract companies exploiting foreign workers
By Zuzeeko Tegha Abeng Foreign workers in the cleaning services sector in Finland face exploitation and abuse from employers and sometimes from customers. The authorities, including city councils that award cleaning contracts to companies that violate employment rules and collective agreements share the blame. Image: The Copenhagen Post According to a Yle report, work safety inspections conducted in…
Fighting racism in Finland the Ricky Ghansah way
Ricky Ghansah is a young African who was being harassed by a “super racist”at a Helsinki bus stop. On entering the bus, Ghansah noticed that the man had forgotten at home his wallet and bus pass. He went to the bus driver and paid the man’s ticket. Read Facebook thread here. The man, who had…
Assaulted Helsinki, Finland, black bus driver: Immigrants are treated unfairly by the police and law
Ali Dahir, the black bus driver who was assaulted Tuesday in Helsinki by a white Finn, claims that the police and the law treat foreigners differently from Finns. The bus driver, who is a Finnish citizen and a native of Somalia, was attacked while at work and suffered concussions. While the police and government officials…
Migrant Tales Literary: Boycott ?????
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