Some entirely anecdotal evidence: from family stories it seems that Finns were discriminated against and viewed as inferior in parts of the western US in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. I recently saw my father’s birth certificate. To my surprise there was a space for “mother’s race or nationality” and one for “father’s race or nationality.” To my even greater surprise my American-born grandfather’s race/nationality was listed as “Finn.” My grandmother, who had no Finnish heritage, was identified as “white.”
Well, Swedes wouldn’t have known any better.
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Lots of Swedes in my upstate PA hometown. They were all teased with " Ten thousand Swedes ran through the weeds, pursued by one Norwegian."
I feel really weird reminding everyone that The Master did a column on Aryans.
Yeah, oddly enough, the Danish-style spelling rather than the Swedish orthography. But my family elders are insistent that the old country in this case was Sweden.