Why is Finland considered a Nordic country when Russia and the Baltic states aren't? (index, 2013)

[tharapita]

Originally Posted by joachim1000

Baltic, hanseatic, but not Scandinavian.
Most ethnic Finnish are in Russia.

last sentence, according to what?

[BigSwede]

Originally Posted by joachim1000

Nobody considers Finland as Scandinavia.
Just geography, Finland is as Scandinavian as Mexico is North America.

Finland is not Scandinavia, but it is nordic.

[mrcricket300]

Lot of Russians have Finnic ancestry, especially the ones in the Northern part. Putin himself is rumored to be part Finnic.

[joachim1000]

Nordic...in Europe is a type of eiderdown. Why Baltics, White Russians ...St. Petersburg and former East Prusia are not Nordic?

[joachim1000]

Originally Posted by mrcricket300

Lot of Russians have Finnic ancestry, especially the ones in the Northern part. Putin himself is rumored to be part Finnic.

Also Andropov..

[soUlwounD]

Originally Posted by joachim1000

Nobody considers Finland as Scandinavia.
Just geography, Finland is as Scandinavian as Mexico is North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Peninsula

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennoscandia

It is all confusing

Finland does not belong into scandinavian linguistic area but still parts of it belongs to scandinavian peninsula and fennoscandia.

Also when finland belong to sweden and it still has swedish as second language...

It is not simple, it is confusing...

[soUlwounD]

::: Wolf Cave - Varggrottan - Susiluola in Finland occupied by Neanderthal man 130 000 BP:::

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Cave

[Ariete]

Originally Posted by soUlwounD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Cave

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The wolf cave hypothesis is most likely false.

[Helsingborgaren]

Originally Posted by mrcricket300

Lot of Russians have Finnic ancestry, especially the ones in the Northern part. Putin himself is rumored to be part Finnic.

Finnic is not by any means the same thing as Finnish. Finnic is a branch of the Uralic language family, just like Germanic is a branch of the Indo-European language family.

Finnic languages includes Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Vepsian, Ingrian, Votic, Livonian and others. Contrary to popular belief in forums like these, Finnic languages has extremely little in common with Ugric languages like Hungarian or Udmurt, and even the mutual intelligibility between the Finnic languages themselves is apparantly very limited

Much like Germanic (which can be anything from English to Swedish to German) does not necissarily mean German, Finnic does not necissarily mean Finnish, allthough Finnish is the most widely spoken Finnic language.

Putin is rumored to have Vepsian roots, which is Finnic, not Finnish. Vepsians (like many other Finnic people) lives in Russia and has nothing to do with Finland, and has never been part of Finland/Sweden.

[Helsingborgaren]

Originally Posted by joachim1000

Baltic, hanseatic, but not Scandinavian.
Most ethnic Finnish are in Russia.

Don't think so

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns

Most ethnic Finns lives in Finland by far, and the majority of Finnic people are Finns, in case it was Finnic you were referring to. There are more ethnic Finns in Sweden, Canada and the USA than there is in Russia.