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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-03-23 03:28 pm

[ SECRET POST #2637 ]


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(Anonymous) 2014-03-24 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
na

But the question was, ... but who lives in a place with zero non-white people? I mean really, none at all? One of the answers is, some Scandinavian people. They don't even have to live in an "isolated rural areas or towns". The further up north you go in my country, the less likely you are to see POC*. I think I was 20 (so abuot 10 years ago) when I first saw a POC when I went to attend a university in a bigger city, and I certainly didn't live in a rural or isolated ares. You see more POC even in my hometown now because the immigrants and refugees have finally started to spread from the south.

*I don't count the local Roma community as POC since they don't do that themselves.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-25 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Yeah, but the suggestion was that Scandinavia = a place with zero non-white people. Which is not true. And yes, I'm Nordic as well and have had almost the same experience as you -- a bit over ten years ago, I could have counted the number of PoC I knew with one hand. However, that is not the way it is anymore, especially not in the urban areas, and I don't really have a great desire to encourage the idea of Scandinavia/the Nordic countries as some sort of ultimate Aryan daydream with literally zero non-white people. Because it's not. Plus if Greenland counts as "a part of" Denmark, that's one very much not-homogeneously-white place. And whether Saami people are or were historically automatically white is a very tricky subject, but they certainly were not accepted as such by their colonizers.