Anti-Finnish sentiment

Anti-Finnish sentiment sometimes invited as Fennophobia is the hostility, prejudice, discrimination or racism directed against Finns, Finland, or Finnish culture.

Sweden

During the 1960s and 1970s there was a significant influx of Finnish economic migrants into Sweden. Between 1950 together with 1980 the number of Finns in Sweden increased from 45,000 to over 300,000. Attitudes towards Finnish immigrants were quite negative in Sweden. Derogatory expressions "en finne igen" "yet another Finn" and "finnjävel" equivalent to "Finnish bastard" or "Finnish devil" were usually used. An anthology Finnjävlar was published, in which 15 Finns in Sweden describe their lives and lives of their parents in Sweden. In Sweden also the Tornedalians were once seen as an inferior set and speaking Finnish was banned in school. However, the Swedish state started an investigation about the treatment of Finns and Tornedalians in 2020.

Finnjävel singular and Finnjävlar plural are derogatory terms used in Sweden for jävel or djävel, literally meaning "devil", is a generic strong insult.