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Ok, my turn. At first I was thinking that so many people are writing about this that my voice would just get lost in the crowd. But no. Right now each one of us has to speak in the loudest and clearest voice we\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming from New York, being loud is no problem, so here we go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year when the new Refugee Woman of the Year<\/a> is chosen I joke with my friends about why it\u2019s never me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess the main reason is that I\u2019m a white Jewish girl from the Upper East Side of Manhattan. I came to Finland in 1989 in search of new experiences, not out of fear for my life. I\u2019m not a refugee, or even an immigrant. I\u2019m an expat. And that\u2019s always made me different (read better) than all those women (and men and children, for that matter) who came to Finland because they had no place else to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, of course that\u2019s bullshit. Always has been. But now, thanks to Olli Immonen, it\u2019s way more than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By defining us all as one big \u201cnightmare called multiculturalism,\u201d Olli is actually doing something amazing \u2013 he\u2019s equalizing us. And it\u2019s about time someone did that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is that everyone who comes to Finland from someplace else has come here looking for a better life. We all have a story. We all have dreams. And we all \u201ctake advantage\u201d of the Finnish welfare system. You can\u2019t really avoid it. If you study, get sick, have a kid, or just go about your daily life in Finland, you\u2019re \u201ctaking advantage of the system\u201d. Actually that\u2019s kind of the beauty of the system \u2013 it\u2019s the backbone of the society. And it\u2019s just one of many ways in which we\u2019re no different than Finns who happened to be born here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So thank you, Olli. In the coming days, weeks, months and years you\u2019re going to be hearing from more and more of us. In the face of your hatred we\u2019ll come together<\/a> and throw back love. And you can be sure that, as we\u2019ve seen not only in Finland but all over the world recently, love will<\/em> win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And although it\u2019s hard to find anything at all that we have in common, there is one thing. You wrote in your post that you\u2019re dreaming. Well so are we. And just like you, we will fight until the end for our homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#iamfinland #min\u00e4olenunelma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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