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Oh my, now they are trying to Marie Curie Linus Torvalds.
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Marie Curie was Polish but the French pretty much convinced the whole world she was French.
Good thing Linus is Swedish. If you knew history and read the wiki, you would know about swedish rule of Finland and that a numerable swedish minority stayed in Finland over the centuries.
Since his father is in the "Swedish Peoples Party", I will assume Finns casually use Swedish as a denomination for people who live in Finland but speak Swedish. I think he also talked about speaking Swedish at his home with his family.
Wow, lemmy goes to new lows every day. I cant understand why I have to feed this to you...
Your understanding of the concept of nationality seems very basic. There are many different minorities in different countries and sometimes they will identify solely as citizens of this minorities (like Russians in Latvia for example), sometimes they will identify as citizens of the country in which they were born and raised (like some minorities in USA) and sometimes both (like other minorities in USA). The fact that Linus speaks Swedish doesn't mean anything and he doesn't even hold Swedish citizenship AFAIK. He holds Finnish and American citizenships so unless you can show me his statements claiming he's Swedish your arguments here are pointless.
Well then he's neither: he's American. He lives in Dunthorpe, Oregon and has been naturalised American. That's all beyond the point: what people mean isn't his official citizenship, but his ethnicity, his cultural background. And in that regard, he's Swedish.
It's not for you to decide based on arbitrarily chosen data points. If Linus says he's Finnish (another commenter said he does) then that's it. Also, think how strange it is to insist that someone has one ethnicity or another. Categorizing people like that based on their genes or language is sooo previous century. Time to move on my friend, time to move on.
I've met him. He says he's Finnish. He was born in Finland and attended school in Finland. He graduated from the University of Helsinki. He has since moved to the United States of America. So he's a little bit American now.
Yep, typical Marie Curie intent. I guess Swedes don't have enough famous people.
Well they have their famous king, Kalle Kaviar or something
the knig <3
He says he's a Finn. He was born in Finland. He lived in Finland until he emigrated to the USA.
Then you say he's actually Swedish because he knows the language, his dad was from Sweden, and "Marie Curie". Bizarre.
What? You're confused. I'm saying he's a Finn. The other guy says he's Swedish.
I was confused. Sorry. Glad we agree.