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'Finland's no good': Disappointed migrants turn back
Hundreds of predominantly Iraqi migrants who have travelled through Europe to reach Finland are turning back, saying they don't want to stay in the sparsely-populated country on Europe's northern frontier because it's too cold and boring. Migrants have in recent weeks been crossing back into Sweden at the Haparanda-Tornio border just an hour's drive south of the Arctic Circle, and Finnish authorities have...
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I'm... confused "too cold and boring" is the phase being used here when there were human shields blocking buses and people dressing up as KKK members. I mean... the latter two certainly would disappoint me and make me want to not try Finland as an immigrant, so I have no idea why the kind of silly and trivial points of weather and social life are being mentioned when there was open bigotry and hostility.
While I agree with your sentiment the article only mentions one person dressed as a KKK member among a demonstration of 40 people.
"Early Friday, around 40 demonstrators -- including one dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit"