Misconceptions about Finland 

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This is true, sort of. However Scandinavia is part of Fennoscandia and Finnish Lapland belongs in Scandinavian peninsula so if someone calls us Scandinavians it doesn't really bother me that much. It is close enough.

Why would anyone care, that is just geography and does not matter in any way or form to anything.

@@Ziegeri There is also lots of cultural and linquistical differences in this, not just geographical. On top of that, to say geography doesn't matter in any way or form tells me enough not to continue this conversation with you...

@@WickedBrutality well it has not had any effect to my life so far. And I have hard time seeing how it would affect to anything even if Finland was part of Scandinavia literally nothing would change.

Well reason for that is that in English-speaking countries people tend to use term Scandinavia when they are actually referring to Nordic countries. Term Nordic countries is not that commonly used in everyday conversations.

The downfall started when 10s of % of the pupils started to have a different home language than the rest of class.

A more important issue that did not appear in the video. Does Finland beat us in alcohol consumption?

@Egolo Egman I personally love Finnish, but I can only imagine the animosity Swedish children would’ve felt towards Finland if we too had to sit down and learn 15 cases and five infinitive forms. @MrGunnar69 Southern Sweden gets pummeled by Finland in that regard for sure! Northern Sweden is hard to beat though.

@Egolo Egman Why do you hate Sweden?

>we love you guys over here gay

Raavitaa ulkomailta lisää massia sisämarkkinoille 💪😎

@@toastie8173 Jokainen lati tulee kyllä tarpeeseen...

its only upwards from now on. try to hang on dont fall off

sun videot on niin hyviä* korjasin ton

@@keravavantaa2886 Itse asiassa

@@ςουηωανε Itse asiassa ei

oikeastaan kyllä, mutta tosiaan ei

joo

Eih, pls dont. Se ievanpolkka meemi paska tulee korvista ulos. liian käytetty.

@@somebody2468 vitut ievan polkka on kultti klassikko, vaikka vanha onkin

Thanks for the suggestion!

you had your wish come true! :)

Ehkä vielä joskus tulee video suomalaisten moottoriurheilusta

True and it should be eaten with mustard

@@user-ls1bw2uw1j Uh... I don't like mustard in it. Mustard is for sausages only. But some do.

Youu will only need English to communicate, everybody understands it but as always we appreciate if you can do a few words in Finnish :)

Welcome to Finland! And remember, if you ever have anything to ask (about grammar, culture, common phrases, places to go etc.) you can ask here! We all will be happy to help you out. (:

no small talk, sauna, personal space (exept in sauna) thats all you need to know

School food is free for the most students (university students etc. get one for a large discount.) The quality is sometimes debatable, but free food shouldn't be taken for granted.

It could be translated something like "What the f* is going on?"

I don't think it's shyness even with foreigners. It's just part of our culture to not "bother" strangers, so you wouldn't just start talking to a stranger unless you actually needed to. People from other cultures have very different conversation cultures, so Finns not used to that might find it difficult to speak with a foreigner. For example, personal questions are generally seen as rude and invasive (unless you know the person well), so foreigners often make Finns uncomfortable and unwilling to continue the conversation without meaning to. This includes innocent questions like "what is your job", "are you married", "where do you live, "do you have children" etc. Finns will generally wait for the other person to bring up their personal life first before it is acceptable to ask personal questions. On the other hand, meaningless chit-chat is often seen as pointless, dishonest, and annoying, and when done, it carries a feeling that you're purposefully keeping your distance from the other person. It feels like you don't want to get to know the person you are speaking with. For example, if you ask a Finn "how are you", they expect that you actually want to know, and if you are asked that and just say "good" and leave it at that, the Finn will think you don't like them and don't want to speak with them.

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@@mandelin0 Aivan! Kiitos :)

That's not true at all! We say "Saatanan", not "satana". The rest is accurate.

Finland is actually #1 when it comes to coffee consumption (4-5 cups a day / 10kg a year.) Yet I still prefer drinking tea.

@@seriousspikesam7770 Yeah, that's what i was getting at. Everyone's addicted to caffeine there.

Great summary 😂

Oh but in fact Finns do love to speak about the weather, one of the main reasons I deleted Facebook. I simply wasn't interested enough to read what's the weather like in every part of the country 😑

I am one of those later ones...

Yeah the latter refers to Karelians. They will not shut up once they get started

@@oobee123 So true! Glad I am Ostrobothnian...

As Finnish extrovert I feel a bit exhausted time to time. I have to carry all the convos

the first group is called osthrobotnians and the second is savonians. never talk to savonians.

power of viina can make even finnish people talk

@@kossurr viina and sauna

Spot on 😂

@@disadadi8958 Missä terva?

@@mantelikukkapenkki2368 I se ainakaa meikää saa puhumaan

Sama

Every finn drinks about 10 litres of 100% alcohol/year. I don't know who drinks my 9 litres...

I think Finns and the rest of us people in the Nordic nations are the same, we don't drink too much alcohol on average, but we do drink a lot of alcohol when we party, mostly because we couldn't have a party without alcohol, it would be too awkward without it. Everyone would just sit there in silence, thinking, I could have done anything else than this at the moment, oh look everyone I found some vodka, now we can finally enjoy this party. I personally drink about every day, not much, but enough. A beer or 2 per day, roughly. It is really good after a hard day's work, to come home eat some food, and take a cold beer and just take a seat in the sofa and relax. After all Alcohol in small amounts is good for you.

Watch The video "Country alcohol consumption comparison." Finland's alcohol consumption has dropped drasticly down in 10 years. It is fashion now NOT to drink alcohol. It has got a name "raitistelu". In Europe the highest alcohol consumption countries are: The 1st Moldova, the 2 nd Lithuania, the 3rd Chechia and the 4 The Germany Finland is likely in the middle even under. Forinstance Russia, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, UK, Estonia,Serbia Belarus, Portugal, Hungary, Cypros, Luxemburg, Poland etc. are ahead of Finland.

Well the old (and quite true) saying is that: 20 percent of population drink 80% of the alcohol so yeah.

You are welcome for the service.

Actually Denmark is the happiest country according to studies, although they are also the county with most psych-drugs per person, so that may be the secret reason behind that.

@@tarksurmani6335 I am sure there are some studies that puts Denmark to number one spot on happiness, but by doing a quick search on topic I found only one where either Finland or Denmark is near top spots and it is the UN World Happiness Index. On that index Denmark was number one last time in 2016, Finland has been on top spot for four years in a row now.

I've read the criteria and some of the data of Finland in the UN World Happiness Index in the past. The reason I think Finland (and other Nordics) places high, is the relatively low differences in socioeconomic standing of households and high educational standards. Both of which are majorly affecting/improving all the "negative" markers in that study.

Well about this and those Pisa scores. My bestie tried to kill themselves today but were so bad at math that are still kicking now. This isn’t a joke. :/

@@nonniperkl6273 like, didn't OD enough, lived?

I know few estonians and I like them. Bit like us but little bit more social...

@@juhomaki-petaja Because they are building your balcony while you drink Karhu in your chair haha

@@viiskymmend50 Sort of true. Here northern Finland there are mostly metalworkers.

No vähän vaikee oikeesti arvioida koulutusta tällä hetkellä etäopetuksen ja muun vastaavan takia. Ja toisekseen kun vertaillaan koulutusta pisa-testien tuloksilla, se katsotaan peruskoulun puolelta joten toisen asteen ja korkeakoulu opinnot voidaan sulkea pois aiheesta. Ja kanditutkinnollakin pääsee duunarin hommiin töihin ;)

@@okim666 Juu, en ole mikään ekspertti Suomen tämän hetken tutkimusten arvoista työpuolella, niin tattis lisätiedosta. Mutta sen sanon varmuudella että etäopetus sössii minkä tahansa opinahjon jos Tampereen Yliopiston tyyli sanoo mitään.

@@sgball7 juu kyllä näin on, onneks ite ehdin valmistua just ennenku alko etäopetukset sun muut että niistä eioo omakohtasta kokemusta mutta mitään hyvää en oo kuullu

Finnish universities are a joke now. You get what you pay for.

@@Itapirkanmaa2 About the paying, why do you have to pay for school healthcare and other stuff, if you do studying from home and have a fulltime job, which comes with healthcare. Last time I visited uni was like 3 years ago and still have to pay for stuff I will never use. :D

100% bet we would! Love your accent lol.

lol kiwis

wtf :D

as an finn that may be possible if the two polar bears manage to escape the zoo in ranua :D

i remember finnish nightmares having a meme about polar bears in finland, well one guy was calling the bs so of course me and few others went there to correct him by telling him stories about the time i forgot to fill the bears fuel tank so it ate the neighbours dog etc...

Hey, it was fantasy after all ;)

Ei sen pöllömpää...

Sama. Itse tulin kommentoimaan samaa, mutta kerkesit ensin! 🤘👍

It is suspected that Finland will pay silent money to maintain the "least corruption" status. But I don't know if it's true or just a rumor because I haven’t found any research on it. But if that were true it would be paradoxical.

Or as one show host put it: "Our corruption rates are bad but not quite as bad as everyone else's aka we're the best" (or something along those lines)

@@danielmalinen6337 Politicians are paid so well there is no that much need for corruption. So in a way the corruption money is included in the salary.

@@danielmalinen6337 That makes no sense. If "least corrupted" status was achieved by bribing, why would tiny Finland spend more money on bribing than big countries like USA or China?

the definition of corruption probably means something like how common is it to give cash to someone to get what you want. here it is called 'suhteet' (relations), what makes things go your way., also the knowledge of 'what strings to pull', as we say, will take you further than what average people can get. There is also cartels in Finland. Idk if this falls under 'corruption', but... it is really about how one defines 'corruption'.

It is count on statistics. About 1/5th of Finnish alcohol is "non documented" No idea how its calculated, but higher statistic maths is more complicated than my engineering maths

That "false" statistic is also the reason why Germany and Czechia always rank so high. Because of tourists that come to the country for a few days, get totally drunk and then leave.

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Sano mun sanoneen, kyl tää kanava kohta posahtaa Jos tää meno jatkuu siis

Nii

Totta

Pyh

Työnnä pakkoruottis hanuriis.

Exactly. How corruption is dealt with is also a part of the corruption ranking. There are always people who are willing to indulge in corruption, but what matters is how it's met with.

Well....It comes from your "friendly little sister" Estonia, who sees lots of Finns either drunk on street or walking back to ship with ship-container full of cheap alcohol. But we love you still.

@Petri Jokinen 😭

I agree. If we think we are the best, we stop looking for things that can be improved. And if we think we are the best but are not on top, then we start thinking how others are cheating instead of what they are doing right that we should copy.

Yeah. One of the reasons why the Aarnio case was so shocking and got so much coverage was because cases of that magnitude are almost unheard of in Finland. It's very rare that corruption cases of that level happen here.

@@georgiosgiannoukas3319 Could just be that they don't get caught, who knows how long corruption has been going on in the KRP. Maybe the guy before Jari Aarnio was the leader of even bigger drug cartel, but just didn't get caught.

Tätä kun tein, niin muistin joskus nähneeni Darth Vaderilla Suomi-lasit ja Koffin tölkin kädessä, eli inspiraatiota on ehkä otettu! 😂

He is one of my favourites