This year's Eurovision is a very international affair in many ways. Not only are 42 countries taking part with many songs written by authors from another country and the various groups on stage featuring for example dancers from countries other than they represent. Also among the featured artists we have some nice mixes; Joan Franka from the Netherlands is half Turkish, Gaitana from Ukraine is half-Congolese. Finnish Pernilla is of the Swedish speaking minority in Finland and Bulgaria's Sofi Marinova of the Romani minority. Can Bonomo is Sephardian Jew, a minority in Turkey. And we can add Albanian Rona Nishliu to that lot as well being from Kosovo. The Russian grannies represent the Udmurts, a small Finno-Ugric tribe while the Romanian Mandinga makes its own tribe by featuring artists from Cuba, Chile, Romania and who knows where else, too. Then we have singers born in Guatemala and Indonesia representing their new home countries Denmark and France, ...