Tweets by Kondien Fed’a, karelian activist, linquistic and chairman of KNSWhen talking about Kaleval
Tweets by Kondien Fed’a, karelian activist, linquistic and chairman of KNSWhen talking about Kalevala, it is good to remember that a huge amount of suffering and destruction has been caused to Karelian culture in the name of Finnish culture, and that Kalevala holds especially large part in the Finnish nationalism.200 years of assimilation and discrimination simply won’t disappear with “hey, this is all common heritage why to bother to fight eh bros.Kalevala poems have been long since weaponized for use of Finnish nationalism and we are still suffering the aftermath.Especially when as Karelians we get fuck ton of hate when we bring the topic up.Whne the political reality is what it is, there isn’t really that much motivation to listen talk about how we are all the same and our cultures are shared.It is not so.We can all sit around bonfire and sing Kumbayaa because we are all earths children and stardust after the assimilation structures have been dismantled and the marks left by oppression politics have been healed.Unity speeches by held by members of majority cultures sound mostly like cruel mocking as long as the discrimination carries on. -- source link
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