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It seems clear that she can be described as
Finnish - she is a citizen, what more is required? You can be from somewhere else originally and still "of" the country you currently live in. Norum notes that she isn't white as a reason for not describing her as Finnish - I'm not sure how its relevant to
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She is a citizen of Finland, but she is not Finnish. If she was born there then we could say she is Finnish. She is a Somali with a Finnish citizenship.
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