According to a sociological study published in 1981, the Swedish-speaking Finns meet the four major criteria for a separate ethnic group: self-identification of ethnicity, language, social structure, and ancestry.
据一个发表在1981年的社会学研究表明，芬兰瑞典族符合定义一个民族的四个主要条件：自我认同、语言、社会结构和祖先。