Ethnic discrimination in Finland

Apparently liberal Scandinavians are no less biased than the rest of the world:

According to a report released by the Finnish League for Human Rights on Monday, racism and ethnic discrimination are still regrettably common in Finland. The annual report attached special attention to racist crime, position of the Roma people and treatment of immigrants in the labour market.

In 2002, 248 people were victims of racist crime. A majority of the victims were naturalised Finnish citizens of Somali, Turkish and Russian origin. The trend showed that the number of racist crimes had fallen since 2000.

"However, the share of unreported crime remains large. Almost 70 per cent of racist crime victims do not report to the police," said one of the report's authors, project leader Aysu Shakir.

According to the League, Finland lacks a system supervising the progress of a racist crime handling all the way from reporting to the police to the prosecutor's office and further to the court proceedings. The report mentions a reform of the criminal law, according to which a racist motive provides grounds for increasing the severity of the punishment, as a positive development.

Just goes to show that tribalism is everywhere. Learn to live with it folks.