Fortunately, Germans and many other Europeans aren’t subjected to the ridiculous left wing communist stigma that the US is always subject to, forced to always have one woman and one black man in each and every add because of the racial paranoia.

It so happens that over 60% of Germans are blonde or light haired. Next time, do some research before making asses of yourselves about “Germans are dark and swarthy”. Look up statistics on light hair color among Germans and Poles, it happens to be above 60% in both cases. You only need to look at their football teams (yes, I do mean football and not “soccer”)

You probably saw Italians or Spaniards and didn’t realize you needed a lesson in geography, like most Americans!

We were talking of one single black doctor, probably born in the 1930s; if one still wishes to insist that he may have been a native Finn, born and raised in this country… well, one would have to bear a rather heavy burden of evidence in order to support such a claim.

Yes, there were black people all over Europe in the early modern age. Precisely what one might expect, given the colonial involvement and normal migration. This, however, is _Finland_, the forgotten ass-end of the Continent.

I’ll close the discussion here, but if you want to, I can e-mail you at a later date.

Cheers,

J. J.

I am not going to hijack another person’s blog, so if you would like me to point you in the direction of this evidence, email me.

As I said, the age of the person would also be of some importance in making that assumption.

Not that I would be particularly interested in “where the person would be from”, because well, right now, he/she is here.

Cheers,

J. J.

How familiar are you with the patterns of migration to Finland or the history of African-originated people in Finland? Yes, he might have been born and raised in this country – hey, anything is possible – but the odds against that are truly astronomical.

No offense, but I know something about the relevant statistics – this would be one of those things that I do for living – and on this issue, I really don’t think that I need to be illuminated. On the other hand, it’s certainly plausible that his country of origin might have been Sweden or Denmark. Or, for that matter, as you said, Germany.

… assuming that he had been, say, Russian or a Tatar, he probably would have been a native inhabitant of Finland. _These days_, sure, the default assumption for a black person would be that he/she is a native Finn.

Cheers,

J. J.