Talk:Åland crisis

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Tuomas: Please explain why you think 15% of the mainland population (i.e. the Swedish-speaking) considered themseves to be Swedish??? This appears very POV.

I can see your point in that the Ålanders considered themselves Swedish, but not the mainland Swdish speakers. I am of Swedish-speaking Finnish descent myself (Hangö, Bromarv), and none of my grandparents or other relatives EVER considered themselves to be Swedes at that time (1917)! User: 85.76.95.40

There's lot's of discussion about this. My understanding, based on following these discussions, is that the Ålanders have a quite different identity compared to the Swedish speakers in Finland. I'm not sure exactly what the differences are, but generally it seems that they see themselves as more Swedish than the Swedish speakers in Finland. Osli73 21:12, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

In 1921, again despite the fact that 90 percent of the islands' population was Swedish — and that they expressed an almost unanimous desire of being incorporated into Sweden — the League of Nations determined that the Åland Islands should remain under Finnish sovereignty,

This article is clearly pushing a point of view and needs a complete re-write. --Kieran Bennett 08:04, 13 January 2007 (UTC)