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		<title>By: Odir Almeida</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-379662</link>
		<dc:creator>Odir Almeida</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My name is Odir, I’m from Rio de Janeiro and is my second time here, JUST VISITING THIS DEPRESSIVE AND RACIST CITY OF HELSINKI. I’m in a relationship with a Finnish girl and she tried to live with me in Brasil but she couldn’t get a job there. I even thought about looking for a job here, I’m an art director. So, now I have two scars in my face because I was beaten by four guys on the street in Kallio, Helsinki. I’m 32 years old and nothing like this has happened to me before. These guys came to me and ask where I’m from (this kind of stuff happens all the time here, many finnish look at me like I were a rare animal or something). When I answered, one of the guys push me and I fell on top of my bike. They said to me that I should go home. I think that they did not continue beating me because one woman that was with them started screaming them to stop. I went to the hospital to get my face stitched and do a police report on this violence attack. This happened on my birthday 11th of august, what a birthday present I got!! I have also other unpleasant experiences in Finland, when a guy pushed me because of nothing in a bar in Oulu and when the police took aside to ask me if I have drugs when I came back to Helsinki from Tallin. Anyways, I wish to meet finnish people in Rio like always and continue welcoming them to my country like we do for all the visitors and european immigrants also.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My name is Odir, I’m from Rio de Janeiro and is my second time here, JUST VISITING THIS DEPRESSIVE AND RACIST CITY OF HELSINKI. I’m in a relationship with a Finnish girl and she tried to live with me in Brasil but she couldn’t get a job there. I even thought about looking for a job here, I’m an art director. So, now I have two scars in my face because I was beaten by four guys on the street in Kallio, Helsinki. I’m 32 years old and nothing like this has happened to me before. These guys came to me and ask where I’m from (this kind of stuff happens all the time here, many finnish look at me like I were a rare animal or something). When I answered, one of the guys push me and I fell on top of my bike. They said to me that I should go home. I think that they did not continue beating me because one woman that was with them started screaming them to stop. I went to the hospital to get my face stitched and do a police report on this violence attack. This happened on my birthday 11th of august, what a birthday present I got!! I have also other unpleasant experiences in Finland, when a guy pushed me because of nothing in a bar in Oulu and when the police took aside to ask me if I have drugs when I came back to Helsinki from Tallin. Anyways, I wish to meet finnish people in Rio like always and continue welcoming them to my country like we do for all the visitors and european immigrants also.</p>
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		<title>By: Bleh</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-332316</link>
		<dc:creator>Bleh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 11:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What is a racist anyhow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is a racist anyhow.</p>
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		<title>By: Sirkuspelle</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331830</link>
		<dc:creator>Sirkuspelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 05:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Sirkuspelle</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331688</link>
		<dc:creator>Sirkuspelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 11:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Finns booing Russia is just some of that patriotic
ice hockey fervor popping up. I don&#039;t think Finns are 
racist against Russians, really. I think Finns are a little
uneasy having that country as a neighbour because of the
government, and the dying dissidents, reporters, 
polonium poisoning, etc.. And then there has been the recent 
events in  Estonia, where the Estonian government decided it didn&#039;t want a Soviet soldier monument in the town square any longer. For
Estonians it is associated with Soviet occupation. For Russians 
it is a  memorial for all the Soviet soldiers that died, and they
associate that with Russian history.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Finns booing Russia is just some of that patriotic<br />
ice hockey fervor popping up. I don&#8217;t think Finns are<br />
racist against Russians, really. I think Finns are a little<br />
uneasy having that country as a neighbour because of the<br />
government, and the dying dissidents, reporters,<br />
polonium poisoning, etc.. And then there has been the recent<br />
events in  Estonia, where the Estonian government decided it didn&#8217;t want a Soviet soldier monument in the town square any longer. For<br />
Estonians it is associated with Soviet occupation. For Russians<br />
it is a  memorial for all the Soviet soldiers that died, and they<br />
associate that with Russian history.</p>
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		<title>By: Sirkuspelle</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331687</link>
		<dc:creator>Sirkuspelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 11:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice, I seem to mildly associate Native Americans with America and
white Europeans with foreign.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice, I seem to mildly associate Native Americans with America and<br />
white Europeans with foreign.</p>
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		<title>By: Timo L.</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331525</link>
		<dc:creator>Timo L.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 10:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And btw I did the test and got moderate preference to Europeans. I think it was mostly about the switch in the last section. In the beginning blacks and negative words were on the left.

More accurate result could be achieved by monitoring face muscle movements. Muscles that control e.g. smiling are mostly autonomous and uncontrollable if test person doesn&#039;t know why he or she has censors attached to his or her face.

I suppose in tests like this most people will get result which prefer their own race or ethnic group.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And btw I did the test and got moderate preference to Europeans. I think it was mostly about the switch in the last section. In the beginning blacks and negative words were on the left.</p>
<p>More accurate result could be achieved by monitoring face muscle movements. Muscles that control e.g. smiling are mostly autonomous and uncontrollable if test person doesn&#8217;t know why he or she has censors attached to his or her face.</p>
<p>I suppose in tests like this most people will get result which prefer their own race or ethnic group.</p>
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		<title>By: Timo L.</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331524</link>
		<dc:creator>Timo L.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 09:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anonymous #24: Weren&#039;t the Greeks booing last year to Iceland?

You are either a troll or you just see racism everywhere.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anonymous #24: Weren&#8217;t the Greeks booing last year to Iceland?</p>
<p>You are either a troll or you just see racism everywhere.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave the Slave</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331517</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave the Slave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 08:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;However, since 1995 the situation has begun to change.&quot; .- Anonymous

Why, is 1995 when you decided to grace the country with your pious presence?

Racism has nothing to do with booing Russians. Russia is not a nation of race, but many different cultures, backgrounds and heritage. The booing was probably more nationalistically based.

I see Finnish kids hanging out with their schoolmates of all different colors all the time. What is false is your perception of what&#039;s really happening in Finland.

Perhaps your time here has not been so great and you project these evil ideas upon the country to make yourself feel superior?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;However, since 1995 the situation has begun to change.&#8221; .- Anonymous</p>
<p>Why, is 1995 when you decided to grace the country with your pious presence?</p>
<p>Racism has nothing to do with booing Russians. Russia is not a nation of race, but many different cultures, backgrounds and heritage. The booing was probably more nationalistically based.</p>
<p>I see Finnish kids hanging out with their schoolmates of all different colors all the time. What is false is your perception of what&#8217;s really happening in Finland.</p>
<p>Perhaps your time here has not been so great and you project these evil ideas upon the country to make yourself feel superior?</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331457</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 16:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Racism in Finland is a defining characteristic of the country. Finland&#039;s been has closed itself off from the outside world for centuries. However, since 1995 the situation has begun to change. Foreigner that come to finland, and then go again return to tell their stories, so the outside world is only just begining to realise the extent of racism that exists in Finland. 

I was not surprised in the slightest by the Finnish rednecks in the Hartwall arena that insisted, en masse, on booing every vote cast in favour of Russia during the Eurovision. British TV  picked up on it and commented upon it, and I&#039;m sure other foreign TV channels noticed the racist boorish behaviour of the Finnish audience too.

So gradually the world is starting to get a clearer picture of what the Finns are really like. The false images, featuring white Finns interacting with non-whites, shown in-between some of the later songs were shown up for what they were: false fabrications, spin, PR. The (false) image of tolerance that Finland hoped to project to the rest of the world was let down by the reaction of the audience. The booing of the Russians by the Finnish audience showed to the world that the images contained in these two mini stories were fake.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Racism in Finland is a defining characteristic of the country. Finland&#8217;s been has closed itself off from the outside world for centuries. However, since 1995 the situation has begun to change. Foreigner that come to finland, and then go again return to tell their stories, so the outside world is only just begining to realise the extent of racism that exists in Finland. </p>
<p>I was not surprised in the slightest by the Finnish rednecks in the Hartwall arena that insisted, en masse, on booing every vote cast in favour of Russia during the Eurovision. British TV  picked up on it and commented upon it, and I&#8217;m sure other foreign TV channels noticed the racist boorish behaviour of the Finnish audience too.</p>
<p>So gradually the world is starting to get a clearer picture of what the Finns are really like. The false images, featuring white Finns interacting with non-whites, shown in-between some of the later songs were shown up for what they were: false fabrications, spin, PR. The (false) image of tolerance that Finland hoped to project to the rest of the world was let down by the reaction of the audience. The booing of the Russians by the Finnish audience showed to the world that the images contained in these two mini stories were fake.</p>
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		<title>By: AnonymousAnna</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331416</link>
		<dc:creator>AnonymousAnna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 11:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I made the test before and I had only slight preference for white people. I didn&#039;t have any preference for whites than jews, which is quite understandable cause you just don&#039;t meet any jews in Finland.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I made the test before and I had only slight preference for white people. I didn&#8217;t have any preference for whites than jews, which is quite understandable cause you just don&#8217;t meet any jews in Finland.</p>
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		<title>By: Antti rn</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331394</link>
		<dc:creator>Antti rn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 06:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Much like Finns in Sweden...&quot;

Heh, aren&#039;t the original finnjävlar already retired or pushing horsma.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Much like Finns in Sweden&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Heh, aren&#8217;t the original finnjävlar already retired or pushing horsma.</p>
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		<title>By: Stello</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331383</link>
		<dc:creator>Stello</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 00:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The test was useless. It was totally irrelevant whether they had white/bad, white/good, black/bad or black/good up there, or monkey/banana, monkey/apple, lion/banana or lion/apple instead. It was like playing Simon, really.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The test was useless. It was totally irrelevant whether they had white/bad, white/good, black/bad or black/good up there, or monkey/banana, monkey/apple, lion/banana or lion/apple instead. It was like playing Simon, really.</p>
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		<title>By: ChivaCongelado</title>
		<link>http://www.finlandforthought.net/2007/05/14/are-you-a-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-331367</link>
		<dc:creator>ChivaCongelado</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 21:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I had no racial preference according to the test.  Interesting, really.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had no racial preference according to the test.  Interesting, really.</p>
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		<title>By: en finne igen</title>
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		<dc:creator>en finne igen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 21:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Yes, the media reports crime accurately enough for people to know that African Americans are far overrepresented among (violent) criminals.&lt;/i&gt;

Much like Finns in Sweden, I guess.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Yes, the media reports crime accurately enough for people to know that African Americans are far overrepresented among (violent) criminals.</i></p>
<p>Much like Finns in Sweden, I guess.</p>
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		<title>By: gopha</title>
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		<dc:creator>gopha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 20:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t be asked.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t be asked.</p>
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