We disagree but there is no need to write comments because this idea is soooooo unrealistic. Why is that? - Norway's oil & gas - Denmark's Greenland - Sweden's mad immigration politics - Finno-Ugric language & culture in Finland - three monarchies and Finns desire to have a president - history of Nordic countries - etc.
As a dane, i love and respect my nordic brorhers, yes we make fun of eathother, but it's not like we really mean it. And let's be honest, we would be on of the most beautiful and financually staple cuntries in the world.
Denmark have oil too :( btw, it was Denmark who sold the right to the northsea to Norway.. 1KR, and a snaps... (neither of us knew it had oil at the time :P )
My mom is Finnish, my dad Danish & my grandmother on my father side was Norwegian. I was born in DK but moved to Sweden at 11. I definitely consider myself a Nordic kid. I could live with us being one for sure lol
That would result in the traditional wars between the nations in order to be able to decide wich King (or Queen) would get the throne. All the older wars happened because the Danes didn't want a Swedish King, the Swedes didn't want a Danish King etc! The Kalmar Union were a result of the ending of the Viking Age, with Denmark conquering Swedish areas with the help of the Holy Roman Empire.
As a Norwegian. People from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland are all my brothers and sisters. Our history and roots are linked, our shared ancestors blood runs in our veins, sometimes indistinquishably from one another in ancestry. We may talk smack to each other, and have our irks, jokes and pranks, but it's all in good spirit, like a brother or sister would tease each other, but if shit had hit the fan in the world-- we would stand up for each other 100%.
@@ronhan9 That was just a good ol' round of brotherly love and done in the spirit of competition.. *Cough* They didn't hit that hard, right? Was just a little tap, bro. Don't run in to mom and tell on him!
@@skrophj Yes, but ''Viking'' is not the only ancestry we have. And while Sweden, Norway and Denmark is the ''closest'', we also include Finland, you border to both Sweden and Norway, tons of Finnish people in both countries. And Iceland is basicly Norwegians who just moved away from Norway.
It would not be 100% Scandinavian as Finland is not infact Scandinavian. I cannot recall the real name at the moment, but you should google it. (This is coming from a Finn.)
@@marialindell9874 Finnoscandia. It'll probably be an island of it's own in 100mill years due to plate tectonics, water levels and isostatic movements. We'll accept your Perkele if you adopt our æäøöå. Brother from another bear mother.
I have learned one thing about us Scandinavians: Norwegians go to Sweden to buy cheaper booze. Swedes go to Denmark to buy cheaper booze. Danes go to Germany to buy cheaper booze. Finns go to Estonia to buy cheaper booze. All of us fly to southern Europe to buy really cheap booze. :)
Well as a Scandinavian I'd just like to say that, there are those of us who still carry the hope that we'll one day unite under the same flag once again. I really dont consider my Nordic neighbours as foreign. No, we are family and I'll always feel that way. Much love from Denmark.
Why don’t you guys all join Canada? 😂 Technically we’re a Nordic country (certainly North), and share identical weather. And apparently Greenland is already shared between us and Denmark!
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@privcacyonion Norway has an abundance of thorium and gas and an estimated 8 billion barrels of oil of what is found natural resources are not running out anytime soon.
Personally as a Finn I've really wanted the Nordic Council to be more like the EU and replace it for years now. Not that I dislike the EU, but the Central European economic models simply don't work all too well in the north, so things like farming in Finland for example have suffered quite a bit since joining the EU.
I, a Norwegian, a fellow nordic, concur with you my Finnish friend. However... the EU is a tyranny and We must not become one if the Nordic Council is to form an independent union from the EU. And we must not let Sweden get too much saying in the council . They will only push their political correct disaster agenda down our throats!
@@LonelyCinderella123 dude... the EU and the Euro have nothing to do with each other- u could basicially make ur own currency now with some members still beeing in the EU ;)
It would propably have to be a united states or a federation of Northern Countries. This way Norway Denmark and Sweden could keep their monarchies for I doubt that Iceland or Finland would not want their tax money to go to a Scandinavian king or queen.
He named our taxation in the "bad things" list, someone needs to explain to him that we are a capitalist society like any other, but those taxes, specially for the wealthy, or big companies are used to make us the happiest countries in the world.
Yeah! With that we can support things such as good healthcare for all and free further education too! (Education is seriously so important I'm so happy the opportunities for it are so good in my country)
The purpose of high taxes is to keep people poor so that they will keep voting on socialists. There are plenty of other countries with equally good or even better services, but with way lower taxes.
@@Merecir There are no taxes "keeping the poor poor so they vote socialism" we have a mix economy that taxes rich and big corporations so that the poor can study for free and stop being poor. That is why America is full of homeless and we are not. Americans keep asking how much we pay in taxes, to feel better? first I'll say that the important part is how much money you end up with in your pocket AFTER paying those taxes, because most upper mid, mid and low class Swedish people make more AFTER our big taxes than equivalent Americans after their low taxes, on the other hand you can't put a price on happiness, taxes are high, but we keep getting high up on all kind of happiness lists. Also not having the expenses that Americans have, like school loans or excessive medical prices, we usually have more money to buy things, Sweden is a mix economic system, not socialism or capitalism, we are "lagom" the taxes only unintuitively, help us be great consumers of goods and luxury. In any case there is a lot of Swedish people that may love the idea of an American owned Scandinavia, the thing is that Swedish people with money are the ones that travel to USA, and when they are there they enjoy, they don't live the rough life that 60 % of Americans live everyday. The rich Swedish people look how the rich Americans live and they wish they could pay zero taxes like Amazon does. They come back here wishing Sweden was America. If the other way around was possible, if the the middle low and low class Americans could come here and see how swedes low and middle low class live and then go back, a big revolution would happen there. But the thing is that most Americans don't have the money to come to Europe, hell, every time I go there I meet people thay have barely leave their own state. You keep living the American DREAM We in the meantime are living a beautiful reality, no need for a dream.
@@pedroavillarroelh Dom allra rikaste (0,1%) betalar mindre skatt än andra. Sveriges skatt på företag är lägre än den i USA. Moms är en ren skatt på fattiga då det är procent av varans värde så den relativa kostnaden blir mycket större för en låginkomsttagare. Svensken tror att Sverige är bra pga sosseriets propaganda, men det mesta fungerar knappt. Skolan, polisen, försvaret, sjukvården, etc går på knäna av överbelastning och underfinansiering.
That is one thing I would like a lot. Unite the Nordic countries and leave the EU. I am not very good with economics, but the fact that DK, NO & SE already use “kroner” must simplify achieving a unified currency, I imagine...? If we can keep Greenland in the deal we would have a major hand in the “fight for the arctic”. Personally, I’m down to simply have an ABBA song as our national anthem at that point as well 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮
YES, YES IT WOULD! Just keep it being a union and not a singular country. I love my country and it's culture.. You guys can have your rotten fish and moonshine for ya self :P
Oh yeah, as a Finn I've long dreamed that we could just step out of the EU and make a similar economic union between the 5 Nordic countries and their autonomous regions. Maybe let the baltics and the netherlands in as well for some added wealth and territory. The EU is so bad for countries like ours whose produce comes mostly from fishing and small farms. Also if we acted as a single entity we'd be in the same league as other major players, meaning other countries would finally take us seriously
People here are so, so, so naive to the effects of unification... This is the perfect step towards complete globalist regime/weltanschauungen... the dissolve and dilution of all Nordic diversity into one ambiguous mass, where we inevitably lose our national, demographical, cultural, historical roots, identity and individuality from one another. It’s less borders to protect our lands and furthers the room for more, even more ambiguous, contradictory mixing of identities in the future. Why fix what doesn’t need fixing? Do not ruin these beautiful lands and betray our ancestors who fought for their individuality/national identities. I LOVE my fellow Nordic people, which is why I say this. I don’t want us to turn into a United States of Scandinavia and turn to degeneracy like the USA. Our matters should be national, local and meaningful, not under a super-state which’s only purpose is war and money...
@@meganaxeliar I would never support the centralization of power in to the hands of my enemies, so I would not support unification. But in theory unification in to a confederation or just a colaition would be useful as small countries and nations have a hard time surviving.
@@Danny-vl2ym Who the hell wants to be a part of Russia? Your high school history teacher is crying. We fought long and bitterly against that very idea in WW2, and in the end Russia could only steal some pieces of Finland, but had to give up on invading the whole country. In fact this very video referred to that war, yet you still missed it.
@@herrakaarme The only reason the whole of Finland wasn't conquered was because the Russians fought the Germans so you were lucky with the timing, It will take about a day for Russia to conquer Helsinki in 2019.
Awesome idea, and something I myself as a swedish-speaking Finn would love! The capital should definitely be divided though. Parliament in Stockholm (central location and largest city), the government should sit in Copenhagen (closest to europe), military leadership should be in Helsinki (military history and only major land border) and the supreme court should be in Oslo. That way, all countries get something valuable. Unfortunately for us Finns, we'd have to accept that the currency would become Nordic Crowns.
This sounds very...logical! I am surprised how logical. This would be a good sharing! But Finns don't know much about the ocean (do lots of lakes in frozen state or open)..so I would place navy units to Norway or Iceland.
Sure, and rest of Nordic countries would have to accept Finnish language to be added as the second national language, so that all Nordic countries would be two-speaking, just like Swedish is in Finland.
@@sotakoira1390 Yes, Swedish speakers In Finland are 6% and every citizen that has Finnish language as 1st language has to learn swedish, Even Åland Island school goers have only Swedish mandatory, and Finnish as a free to choose language.
@@coryinthehouse5250 Nah, the three Scandinavian languages are so close they can understand each other almost fully if they pick the right words, so the standard language would probably be one of the three or maybe some sort of middle ground dialect between them
@@mrbenjiboy9527 As a gotlander: please no. we have a water shortage as it is, we don't need all of fennoscandia moving their administrative centers to us so things can get worse.
Julius Hakala nosiis, se vaikuttaa lähes kaikkeen. alkaa ahdistamaan et pitäiskö sitteki jättää se espanjan matka väliin, ja oonko paska ihminen jos meen autolla treeneihin enkä pyörällä. en sanois että on vielä vaikuttanut mun elämänlaatuun mutta ajatus siitä että tää maailma tuhoaa itteänsä koko ajan enemmän.
Quite to the contrary, my dear @@rullvardi. I say it's about god damn time we have the god of mischief as our spiritual and temporal ruler, commander and sugar daddy.
I vote for building a united parlament in the middle of Greenland so we can keep the politicians as far away from the people as possible. I do not really care where the capital is.
A finnish song "Nypykät - Lastenlaulu" says: "The country of Sweden brought to its children a beautiful king who however is nobody The country of Denmark brought to its children Lego cars and an uspeakable language The country of Norway brought to its children oil slicks and an ability to enjoy the smell of herring"
Folks here are already planning for it. Rudely, some of the plans seem not to involve asking you guys first. The idea seems to have brought up the worst Viking instincts...
@@RandomBazooka they're scandinavian, I just didn't know Estonia was "Estland" as its called in norway.. So I knew where Estland was but not Estionia even though they're the same lol
Stockholmers are to scandinavia what New yorkers are to the USA and what Tokyoers are to Japan. They think they are the best and the brightest in their region/country, but everyone living in said region/country know they aren't.
@@oLawlieto It's interesting how as someone living in Stockholm, you really don't ever hear people here say they believe they are better or brighter than others though, you only hear it from outsiders when they bitch and whine, like you are doing here.
I am Swedish and i think that there should be a new city built to house a united parliement for stuff that concerns all the teritorries of a united nordic nation but that the old Capitals should handle stuff within their own region
Swedish is one of official languages in Finland you missed that they also learn it in school. So Norway, Denmark and Finland all understand Swedish even if they don't talk it.
But it is all bout the motivation. Finns study swedish but most of the ex students dont remember actually anything bout the grammar or anything, only a few interesting words XD
As a Swede, I would love for this to happen. Many Swedes seem to feel the same as well, and would rather be apart of a Nordic union than the EU. There would be quite a few bureaucratic obstacles to overcome, and I think it'd be best set up as a republic with states with a fairly high independence, and a federal organization for defence and similarly important things. And I do believe that it would have happened sooner or later if the EU hadn't happened first. The peoples of the Nordics have had our violent disagreements in the past, but we do mostly get along nicely these days.
@Swede Well everyone's heard of Copenhagen as well :) but many think it's the capital of the Netherlands... I don't know whether that's worse for Amsterdam or Denmark ;)
Axel Kruhsberg ? Alta could also put up a sign in their airport, but that doesn’t suddenly make it true. That campaign is SO weird and misleading, especially because People already get confused with the Scandinavian and Nordic countries.
Yeah, even if we unite all the countries it would still be the 7th biggest country and not to much population. It would basically become a strong and developed country. Love this idea!
Well I don't think it is likely to happen but if it ever were to happen it would likely be something like all of the nations continue as normal domestically but stand united on external policies and issues (in some way) and then after that massive leap they can slowly inch together integrating more and more until eventually it will all be like one united nation for the most part at least
The nordic countries are already allied with a shared welfare system etc. You don't need to be citizen you just need to be registered as living in any of the nordic countries and you will receive the same benefits as a citizen. If that could extend to trade as well so you could import/export products as if it was within the same country we would be halfway there. I don't think anyone would accept a shared political system though since Sweden is pretty much nuts when it comes to politics.
@@mixuz91 watch the video "Alcohol consumption comparison." Finland's alcohol consumption has dropped drasticly down in 10 years. In Europe the highest alcohol consumption countries are: The 1st Moldova, the 2 nd Lithuania, the 3rd Germany, The 4th Germany Finland is likely in the middle. Forinstance Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, France,UK, Russia, Estonia Belarus, Cypros, Portugal etc. are ahead of Finland.
@@weedidi7144 Yea the Nordics would win every time, the years Sweden's great pop songs wouldnt work we could just send a metal band from any other of the 4 countries - or a young violin boi from Norway, ez win year to year
@Spacecowboy Eson I believe in science, and the "happiness" rating is based on factual parametrics, many of them. Finland is a peaceful and stable country with high standard of living. No wonder it is #1.
Old quote from Finland: We are not Swedes nor we are Russians, so let us be Finns! ps. I'd be happy to see Kalmar union back, but with actual equality this time around.
I wouldn't mind having Scotland with us. They seem to be rather unhappy being a part of Great Britain and they have a quite similar society like we Nordic countries have.
I don't think it's just that they don't like the UK, I think they just don't like being together with anyone. So it would probably just be a question about time until they would like to leave the kalmar union as well...
I don’t agree with you. I think we should build a capital near a city in south Sweden. Then we would have a capitol we could make to a national symbol, instead of capitals from the old countries.
@@SteffenBagger I mean that we could spread out the government to make more people feel included. Maybe even make a joint parliament somewhere like Gothenburg but a backup in case of war. Like somewhere hard to get to.
For the people wondering why at 4:24 he said that there would be 1.2 million reserve personnel, but on the screen it showed 2.1 million, im fairly sure the figure on the screen is the right one since Finland alone has 900 000 reserve personnel
I got censored by Google. I did say out of NATO and then not being enemy or worry for either of NATO or Russia but just a peaceful region who don't really have to bother with or bother either of them. As for EU I made some claim about those who wouldn't any longer be brought to our land so to speak but clearly Google didn't liked that.
4:56 Military service in Finland is compulsory only for men, you can also opt out by entering alternative non-military service, and the minimum length for military service is six months, not nine.
Lol Xd Plus the fact that we did not really lose to Russia. Yes, there was the peace agreement and all that jazz but we still held on to one of the three most powerfull and most influentian counties. And it did not happen only once.
@@marialindell9874 You only held out because of the stupidity of Staļin. He attacked with an unprepared army with tactics and weapons not suted to the environment.
I would literally not care if we became the same country (im from sweden). I mean I love our neighbours and we are basically the same country with just a line drawn over it.
A new capital: Valhalla. While our viking roots might be long gone and we no longer belive in the old gods, every proud Nord would still be able to go to Valhalla
Yeah fuck Christianity! It ruined the Norse worldview and indigenous Viking religious belief system of strong gods of war and love and passion and life!! - and replaced them with a pathetic weakling on the cross. Which led to the Vikings becoming tamed, as they began to worship this new emasculated “god” (read: weak little man?) on the cross who called normal human passions “sins” and made people feel guilty for just being human. The Norse gods were an affirmation of life - while the Christian god turned life into something sinful. Such a tragedy for the Norse and the Viking culture. Here’s hoping the old Norse gods rise again!!
*_Its nice when somebody talks about the Nordic countries!_* *_But if we would become one country, i only want that Finnish language and Sauna survives!_*
Finnish would survive don't worry, too many of you bastards still exist. And saunas? That's the biggest reason I want you in our new union! Just kidding I love you Finland
@@niklasvilhelm7247 no NO FUCK OF ALL THE KIDS IN FINLAND ARE SUFFERING BECAUSE THEY NEED TO LEARM FUCKING SWEDISH AND ARE GETTING MENTAL BRAKEDOWNS SO SHUT THE FUCK UP TULTA MUNILLE PERKELE
Honestly just imagine how much more we could do if we united the nordic conutries... We could make everything better with the high economic growth and as most of the nordic countries are the idols of todays society we would become even bigger idols...
Bigger countries with more power equals more duties with more ambition, as well as bigger threats. It's unlikely that a unified Nordic country would be any more idealized. If anything, it will have far more attention paid to it, and thus its flaws would become hyper-scrutinized by a less starry-eyed multinational media.
@@stephenjenkins7971 Why? all nordic countries go by the same peace keeping policies... we have not gone the offense in over 200 years and would not be threat to anyone... and all of our infrastructure could become better and use eachothers strenghts to make one powerfull nation.
@@carlz7646 You "haven't gone the offense in over 200 years" because you haven't had the power to do so in 200 years. Countries are political entities, not people; they 100% abuse whatever they have at their disposal, including military arms. Don't be naïve. And more land means more maintenance and less checks on doing the right thing since there's more people to check on now. If anything, corruption will likely rise by a lot with unification.
@@stephenjenkins7971 No... we have not gone the offense in 200 years because there is no reason for us to do so... same as many other countries... and us nordics have built in anti corruption laws and among the countries with least corruption in the world so i dont think corruption would grow a bit...
@@carlz7646 "No... we have not gone the offense in 200 years because there is no reason for us to do so... same as many other countries..." HAHAHAHAHAHA. Yeah, and I have a bridge to sell you. Any country with power that isn't backed by a big power go off and abuse their military. The only real exception being Germany, but that was due to heavy Anti-Nazi propaganda. Hey man. Keep living in that fantasy. Having all of the laws in the world only matters if you have the means to police and stop perpetrators. Obviously you don't understand how corruption functions, and how insidious it could grow with a little less supervision.
We're much worse than we'd be united. As a Swede. Unsure whatever any of the others would want the crazyness which is Sweden though. We could join and then have no voting power for Sweden.
Dutch speed skaters would still be a challenge. Koreans for short track. Canada, USA, Russia (mostly Canada) would still challenge in Hockey (Though admitted Swede-Fin union would be tough). Italy and Austria will still give their input to the Alpine events. Swiss, Germans, others in the sled events. Russia, USA for figure skating. So on and so forth. Having said all that... yeah a unified Scandinavia would totally Rock!!
Hey Everyone Thanks for Watching! Cross Flags for the Win Small Mistake with the animation when we said about the reserve personnel should have said 1.2 million!
I could see something like happening if EU would collapse as we have nordic council that could became nordic union as : iceland,denmark,norway,sweden,finland and estonia 🤔
Septem We fought politically for over 500 years. And in 1905 the only reason they let us go was because Sweden feared a war. They would probably win it, but they knew since we had rejected both Sweden and Denmark for over 500 years, we would never fully embrace them.
@@b3nny357 "i do know" with that you cant speak for the majority, Finns generally speak better swedish around the coast, but outside of that quite low amount of people can have a conversation in swedish.
@@guseks8413 We need to make it in a unified language and thats Swedish (im swedish myself) im not sure if "Norden" tho is good for all 3 languages but then id definitely like it.
@@AnonyMous-ql9nj I would guess that what we call norden would be just "nord" for danes and norwegians because they don't bend words the same way we do. So maybe we would have to settle for simply "Nord". That said I think we could use our respective term because there is no need to get one language since they are so simillar, for me norwegian just feels like another accent. So a norwegian could say "Vi i nord" while us Swedes would say "Vi i norden" just like we do today.
@@guseks8413 Reading my comment back i realized i wrote it wrong. I meant to say that the name he proposed is Swedish and not that the unified language would be Swedish. Mb.
Its time for us make it so, Icelanders with their great nature, gas, history and heritage for ur nords! Sweden with our diplomacy, inventions and we will also be the heart of the lands Norweigh with their great fjords, oil & gas and they will also be the frontline to the west Finland with their formidable military edge, which would be our front line to the east and their beautiful history and culture, not to mention the archipelago forming between swe and fin. And finally denmark with their great connection with the mainland, such a small country whith so much pontential, not to mention the wast greenland which we could use effectively! Let use see it!!!
@@wardope Nah, most are actual swedes, more than half of our population, I think around a million would be kicked out. We have approximately 1,33 million immigrants or 14,3% of our population so very far away from half but still alot.
Well about half of Sweden's population votes for those laws so the political climate would probably be fixed considering the Norwegians, Danes and Finns could vote them out of office
I mean, I usually travel to Copenhagen from Sweden and I travel to Norway in the summer walking mountains and looking at nature. I haven't been to Finland and Iceland yet but I don't see a problem for this to become reality. Scandinavian people are the best. 👍
@[ Karhu ]Håll käften, nästan 1000 år av din historia är svenskt so let´s be friends and sing together as brothers eller så tvingar jag in dig som vi gjorde med Norge
Fun fact: sweden and denmark is the two countries that have been in war the most, yet, nowdays having abit of a brotherly love for each other. Infact the whole of scandinavia is kinda even in certain cultures and we wouldnt have a hard time to integrate to the new unification
only thing is danish government bashes Swedish government for being a bit to PC, but then again everyone living in rest of Sweden agrees with the danish government.
+nehintenamn nejintenamn It is, Danish media makes fun of Sweden a lot. But that's really not unique to Denmark, a lot of countries do, because of Sweden's insane immigration policies and negligence of their own people.
I agree, and that as a Swede who lives in Stockholm. Other than it is the major city with the most sensible location it also historically has mattered a lot in the swedish and danish-norwegian relationships - and not to forget that it is on the train-line between copenhagen and oslo while still being the second largest town in sweden.
Sure, stockholm is the largest city, however, copenhagen and malmø combined in addition to other cities around the øresund strait would be substantially bigger, and in the most densely populated region as well which is common for other capitals. Keep in mind that stockholms nickname as the capital of scandinavia is one they made themselves. I’d argue everyone in norway at least, would look towards copenhagen/malmø as a capital if there was one
@@RickSigma That would certainly make it a good candidate for the capital, but to be honest I don't think Denmark, Norway and Finland would want the capital to be Stockholm because of Sweden's "Big brother attitude"
Adrian @Oblivion well, look towards any other country and you’d be surprised about how often the capital is not in the center of the country but rather somewhere along the edge of it, more often than not in the most densely populated area. The most densely populated area in the nordics is a tie between eastern denmark and southwestern sweden, so...
Petfama sure many counties have capital cities not in the center. And yes the space between Copenhagen and Not only southern Sweden but all the way to Oslo is the most densely populated. In the middle of the way between Oslo and Copenhagen is Gothenburg. That’s why it’s great. The shot distance form already existing big cities won’t crate to much of a change.0
6:44 Umm... you do know Finland has 2 official languages, the other being _Swedish?_ Everyone learns both Finnish and Swedish at school, as a citizen should be able to speak both.
Yes, Swedish is mandatory here. However, because we are forced to study it, no one likes learning it. And when you don't like learning something, you won't learn it. The Swedish skills of most Finns are poor. We can probably communicate some very simple sentences, but remember that legal stuff has completely different vocabulary from the daily language. We would not be able to understand it. Another thing is that (at least in my school) we are taught Finnish-Swedish. And believe me, it's MUCH easier to understand than Swedish Swedish. When I meet someone from Sweden I have absolutely no idea what they're saying and they might have some trouble understanding me. TLDR; Ireland has two official languages, English and Irish, yet virtually no one speaks nor understands Irish. The same thing applies to Swedish in Finland.
@@finnsalsa9304 For a Dane, Finnish-Swedish is the easiestto understand. The times I've been in Helsinki, and talked with locals was so much easier than speaking with someone from Malmö or Stockholm.
Finnish is actually a pretty simple language because there aren't really any exceptions in the language. What makes it hard is that it's so different from other languages. Also your pronounce stuff like they're written.
I guess you could view it like that if you’ve lived in Finland for years or were born there. To others it might not be the same unless they are a fast learner or something.
Me neither, I honestly think it could better thing with a unified mindset here humor, economy, ideology, peace, progress and prosperity would be the priority and people not get caught up in if someone was born north, east, south or west of Kattegat.
I actually think people would feel even more secure as we could be a pretty big nation with almost endless resources all together, and it would be more easy to befriend eachother.
@@outdoorsredfly5143 Yes I agree with you but those endless of resources would translate into better economy, more prosperity, progress and peace hopefully and with a good ideology too it would make the already best place to live in the world that much more of a bright star and example to all of what is possible when people can work together unified in one cause despite differences. Imagine these great nations working together in todays world. My only worry and concern would be if we got bad leaders or started to forget what made us great to begin with.
Sebastian Thomsen could not agree more, easy as that we are pretty likeminded people. We instinctively as humans need «a feeling of security» and with more prosperity, peace, stable economy for those even down to labor workers ect. We could actually have the answer to eden and surpass most continents with our unity.
Yes we all have dark twisted humor. I made one friend from swedish man in less than 5 minutes to make one joke about fishy smelling norwegians, speaking swedish with a potato in their mouth. And I thought swedish people hates us finns.
Build a New City in a strategic location and call it literally "Scandinavia" That's it, problem solved. Edit: Odinheim seems better cuz Finns are not scandinavian but still nordics.
Why...We ALREADY have a town called Scandinavia...in the middle of Wisconsin. All your politicians need do is develop a taste for beer, brats and cheese...A LOT of cheese...and you're all set!
Hugely expensive and pointless when everything we would need for government is already present in the current capitals, which also happen to be major economic hubs.
Have you ever been to Canberra? Same solution as the one you are proposing, but for Australia. Sydney and Melbourne could not agree on which city to be the capital so they built a new town right between the two of them in the middle of nowhere.. guess it’s fair, but never herd a Australien say anything good about Canberra.
"What if the Nordic states United into one country" *Sad Estonian noises* Edit: I feel like I need to clarify that I am not, in fact, Estonian myself. Edit 2: Again, I am not Estonian. It was a joke.
Mr Martin So we have to join that too then, as we are linguistically linked to Estonia and Hungary! PS: Someone should also ask something abput sami people would they want to join any of those, or that new Nordic coalition wouldn’t have hat on?
I am born in Sweden and live i Stockholm. My grandmother comes from a family in a small village at Fyn in Denmark. My grandfather is from Jämtland, which is like Norway. And my dear son have just moved to Oulu in northern Finland with his lovely finnish girlfriend. And I just adore everything Iceland represent! So why not get together once and for all😊💕🙋♀️
A slight error in your video, in Finland all males of the ages between 18 and 28 are required to do either military service or civil service. Military service is also a minimum of 6 months, not 9 months, although you can do 9 or even 12 months depending on what you do in there. Civil service is basically 12 months of low paid low tier job in hospitals and such.
@@ZeloticMemes Not really, Finland is a small country so conscription is a good way to make sure we have a large enough force to defend ourselves. And military service isn't just about running in the forests until you are exhausted, you also get a free leadership training and there are many non-typical positions too like photographers, it-personnel and so on, so you can get valuable experience for even a future career at best
I love that you suggest Gothenburg as capital. I also think it would be great because of what you said. Or maybe it's just because I am from Gothenburg ;)
LetsReddit Denmark never controlled gothenburg itself but the region directly south of the city known as Halland. The region north of Gothenburg was controlled by Norway which was in a union with Denmark at the time. Sweden took both regions a few decades after Gothenburg was founded though.
"they have similar languages" Sweden Norway Denmark Iceland: similar Finland: "suomi saatana torilla tavataan haista Paska ruotsi Norja on ok, Islanti on outo ja Tanska on Tanska."
