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Hey all, just a thought I had the other day.

In Scotland, the gaelic culture is often seen as the "native" culture that became the minority after english colonizaton/cultural erasure. While it is of course true that gaels lived in Scotland well before germanic people, the dominance of germanic peoples begun with the Scots themselves, not the english. Now obviously a lot of people know this, but the gaels are still sometimes seen as the "true scots". This is of course not to rag down on the scots or call their culture based on lies or whatever.

If a similair situation had happened in Scandinavia, and Sweden somehow became the lesser power in a union, probably under Denmark, would a similar notion happen about finnish culture? Perhaps finnish would be seen as the ur-swedish and finnish mythology, folk costume and language would become an important part of how the swedes seperate themselves from the dominating danes.
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