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You missed my point. Adopting English as an official language of some sort, and openly using it in official circles projects an image of wanting to be a part of the "big world".
BTW, a barmaid at the local pub started last week. She is Latvian, born there, as has only been in England for 2 weeks. Her English is near perfect. She is coloured, obviously with a black father. She said most young people want to and speak English in Latvia. They look west and want to be a part of it, despite Russia next to them. Sort of like the Finns.
I spoke to her last night. Her father was from Sudan and mother from Latvia. She does not have negro features, although dark skin and that figures as her father is Nubian. They met while in university in Russia. She was born in Libya, but her mother wanted to return to Latvia when she was a few months old.
The Nordic countries are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It consists of five countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) as well as their autonomous regions (the Åland Islands, the Faroe Islands and Greenland). The Nordic countries have much in common in their way of life, history, language and social structure. Politically, Nordic countries do not form a separate entity, but they co-operate in the Nordic Council.
What you are looking for is Northern Europe, which coincidentally does include all Nordic countries and territories (except Greenland cause thats not in Europe)
Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. Geographically, northern Europe is usually taken to consist of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the British Isles (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man). Greenland (which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark) is geographically located in North America and is sometimes included in the northern Europe grouping or the Nordic countries, though rarely Scandinavia proper. Some northern parts of Russia are also in the northern part of Europe.
Northern European Countries according to the UN:
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Iceland
Latvia
Lithuania
Faroe Islands
Sweden
Norway
United Kingdom
Ireland
Yeah, and Finland clearly is blue on that map. You're the one that drew that pathetic stupid thin red line then claim otherwise.
The line was drawn by Putin, not me.
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