Weirdly, I was just in Finland two weeks ago, and the first person who randomly approached me and my Finnish friend in a bar in Turku was some drunk guy ranting about immigrants, who wouldn't leave us alone! We thought pretending neither of us could speak Finnish would solve the problem, but it didn't. My friend enjoyed provoking him in English while pretending not to be Finnish, though. They had some kind of argument about "True Finns", and about Janne Holmén.
In Copenhagen I would say things aren't too bad, but I wouldn't call it a great degree of tolerance or understanding, more "tolerance" in the sense of "will grit my teeth and tolerate you". Outside Copenhagen, things get progressively worse. And the government doesn't treat the religions equally: the Church of Scientology, of all things, got permission to build a church in Copenhagen, but the government is still holding up construction of a mosque.
And Central Europe? It's no fun at all, and possibly physically unsafe, to be Pakistani or black in Poland...
You know, the word "immigrant" (="maahanmuuttaja" in Finnish) has basically become code for "Somali immigrant". If someone is complaining about immigrants, he means Somalis, and yes, he has good reason to complain.
From what I can find, there are very few Somali immigrants in Finland. Approximately 10,000, so about 0.2% of the population. How is this a problem?
In addition, the statistics indicate that Somalis are crime victims much more often than they're perpetrators, mostly due to the high prevalence of hate crimes perpetrated by young white men. See: http://www.poliisiammattikorkeakoulu.fi/poliisi/poliisioppil...
Without reading too far into that, it looks like total bullshit. The central theme seems to be "hate crimes".. What the fuck is a "hate crime", exactly? Why are Finnish policemen lectured about "hate crime" in English?
This looks like government propaganda, basically. Sure, some Finns are genuinely racist, but the overwhelming majority of people here are very tolerant and sensitive about "offending" any immigrant group (as long as they're black, of course).
Quite frankly, the article you linked to looks disgusting to me. Like some "perception shaping campaign" with the aim of sensitivizing the police force to "hate crime".
All this hysteria about "racism", defined roughly as: "pointing out any facets of reality that reflect negatively on any non-white (preferably black) people", could well be meant to stifle freedom of speech. It's working too, because most sheeple in Finland are very strict about not saying anything negative about Somalis, for example, even though there's good reason to.
In Copenhagen I would say things aren't too bad, but I wouldn't call it a great degree of tolerance or understanding, more "tolerance" in the sense of "will grit my teeth and tolerate you". Outside Copenhagen, things get progressively worse. And the government doesn't treat the religions equally: the Church of Scientology, of all things, got permission to build a church in Copenhagen, but the government is still holding up construction of a mosque.
And Central Europe? It's no fun at all, and possibly physically unsafe, to be Pakistani or black in Poland...