Great point about eye color. I liked that analogy.

You know, I live in this really diverse multi-cultural part of Oslo, where I a minority. I remember this group of teenagers on the subway once. They were every possible color, brown, black, asian etc. .

I noticed their conversation was about their recent stay in Britain. It was funny how they went on about how odd the British were. Their sense of fashion, what they thought was pecular habits etc. They may not have looked stereotypical Norwegian but right there and then clearly identified as Norwegian in their interaction with British culture.

Their perceptions seems no different than mine despite our different skin color. But yeah according to the woke-American ideal I should have identified with the British because they are mostly white and put some wall between me and my fellow non-White Norwegians.

It is stupid. I am not sure how dialects work in Finland but over here in Norway they differ a lot and dialect is source of pride for people. They eagerly use it in TV, so national broadcast always expose you to a lot of dialects. Thus when I see non-white TV reporters or politicians on Norwegian TV a lot of what I think about them is often by their dialect. It gives away what part of the country they grew up in. And every part of the country has some stereotypes. Not sure how that works in Finland, but like here in Norway you got the southerners who are quite chill. The South-Easterners who are seen a bit aloof. People from Bergen who are a bit loud mouthed and overconfident. The Norherners who got that fisherman culture with a lot of cussing swearing, tall tales and no BS. Then you got the people from the inland valleys who are a bit down to earth slow pokes.

There are just so many different ways of being a Norwegian and that difference also exist for people of every variety of skin color. A black Norwegian from Stavanger is not the same as one from Bergen.

Ah sorry... I just went of on a long tagent there ;-)

Anyway nice to meet you Senja.