Eipä ole suomenkielisissä uutisissa tainnut olla tällaista juttua!
"Finland’s integration policy calls for newcomers to learn either of the country’s two official languages, Finnish or Swedish. However many immigrants who have mastered Swedish say they feel shortchanged, as knowledge of the Finnish language is a vital skill in Finnish society.
Sami came to Finland from Pakistan four years ago. Today he studies Swedish at the Swedish Adult Education Centre of Helsinki (Arbis).
”It will also help me if I look for a job in other places, like Sweden or Norway. It’s also so close to German,” he explains.
Minority Ombudsman Eva Biaudet says newcomers learning Swedish have had many good experiences.
“We've had many success stories in terms of integration in Swedish-speaking areas.”
But many immigrants feel they’ve studied Swedish in vain.
Paula Kuusipalo, an official at the Interior Ministry’s migration department, says she has been the target of many angry complaints from refugees and immigrants who were directed to Swedish-language courses in Ostrobothnia.
“Some have been really frustrated—even angry. They didn’t know that Swedish wasn’t enough to get by on,” she says.
Many immigrants moving to the capital region from Ostrobothnia, a region with a Swedish-speaking majority, say they feel cheated. According to them, they were kept in the dark about the fact that Swedish-language skills would not suffice for launching a career in Helsinki—or anywhere else in Finland.
Stressing to immigrants that Finland is a bilingual country may not tell the whole story.
Biaudet says immigrants must be given the opportunity to choose whether they want to study Finnish or Swedish, adding that recent arrivals should be given an accurate picture of Finnish society.
Kuusipalo meanwhile points out that officials in Swedish-speaking areas like to believe that immigrants will settle down in the areas where they first arrive.
Roughly six percent of Finland's population speak Swedish as their native tongue."
http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/11/immigrants_learning_swedish_over_finnish_run_into_problems_2114684.html
"Finland’s integration policy calls for newcomers to learn either of the country’s two official languages, Finnish or Swedish. However many immigrants who have mastered Swedish say they feel shortchanged, as knowledge of the Finnish language is a vital skill in Finnish society.
Sami came to Finland from Pakistan four years ago. Today he studies Swedish at the Swedish Adult Education Centre of Helsinki (Arbis).
”It will also help me if I look for a job in other places, like Sweden or Norway. It’s also so close to German,” he explains.
Minority Ombudsman Eva Biaudet says newcomers learning Swedish have had many good experiences.
“We've had many success stories in terms of integration in Swedish-speaking areas.”
But many immigrants feel they’ve studied Swedish in vain.
Paula Kuusipalo, an official at the Interior Ministry’s migration department, says she has been the target of many angry complaints from refugees and immigrants who were directed to Swedish-language courses in Ostrobothnia.
“Some have been really frustrated—even angry. They didn’t know that Swedish wasn’t enough to get by on,” she says.
Many immigrants moving to the capital region from Ostrobothnia, a region with a Swedish-speaking majority, say they feel cheated. According to them, they were kept in the dark about the fact that Swedish-language skills would not suffice for launching a career in Helsinki—or anywhere else in Finland.
Stressing to immigrants that Finland is a bilingual country may not tell the whole story.
Biaudet says immigrants must be given the opportunity to choose whether they want to study Finnish or Swedish, adding that recent arrivals should be given an accurate picture of Finnish society.
Kuusipalo meanwhile points out that officials in Swedish-speaking areas like to believe that immigrants will settle down in the areas where they first arrive.
Roughly six percent of Finland's population speak Swedish as their native tongue."
http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/11/immigrants_learning_swedish_over_finnish_run_into_problems_2114684.html
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tuon kiintiövaltuutetun puheet:
"Eva Biaudet says newcomers learning Swedish have had many good experiences."
Juu, varmaan bödöö ikinä myöntäisi mitään ongelmia, jotka liittyvät ruotsin kieleen.
Svekon omatunnon ei tarvitse olla puhdas - pääasia on että alapää on puhdas - siitä pitää Bidée huolen...
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pois sieltä soossaamasta kommunistit
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Vilpitön osannottoni niille maahanmuuttajille, jotka on yritetty kotouttaa ruotsin kielellä.
Tässä kyllä silmään ja sydämeen tökkää vähemmistövaltuutettumme liturginen vastaus. Suomenruotsalaisten identiteettiin on istutettu niin ehdottomasti ajatus, että "suomi on puoliksi ruotsalainen ja ruotsista seuraa vain hyviä asioita", ettei taida tämä vähemmistövaltuutettu koskaan nähdä realiteetteja.
Biaudetilla lienee omat vahvuutensa, mutta suomenruotsalaisena hän näyttää olevan kykenemätön näkemään muiden vähemmistöjen tarpeita ja todellisuudessa olemaan vähemmistöihin kuuluvien puolella. Valitettavasti.
Biaudet vähemmistövaltuutettuna on yhtä irvokasta kuin Tino Singhin kommentti, että "RKP on myös puolue joka tietää, millaista on kuulua vähemmistöön".