We talk so often about the good things about Finland, but like any country there are also less desirable aspects of Finland. One example can be Finland's 'racism'. While this is not as big of a problem with the younger generation, there have been many accounts of older Finns acting stand offish towards anyone who very obviously is not Finnish (although wither they really are racist or just typical quiet Finns has yet to be determined).
Another aspect is immigration for Finland. It can be incredibly hard to get Finnish citizen ship and for immigrants to get resident permits (especially because an employer has to show why no Finn in the area can do the same job as the person the employer is getting the resident permit for). Sadly, if you don't have family connections, or a Finnish partner, the likelihood of you being able to stay in Finland are pretty low. About this specifically, Alfredo Jaar created a artwork called 'A Million Finnish Passports' (number three on the list) as an example of this issue. It's a fairly interesting piece of work, check it out. It was created in 1995, and things are much better now regarding this issue in Finland than they were, but there's still work to do. And when I say that I really began to feel that we as a world of nations have more we need to do. We're already extremely globalized, and thanks to technology today countries really need to be more open. In my opinion, we should stop being citizens of a country and start being a citizen of the world. Rant over.
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