Why Finland is so impressive!!!
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- čas přidán 12. 03. 2021
- Living in Finland, I have noticed some really impressive things about Finland and the Finns! And I am not talking about the sauna, free universities or the midnight sun in Finland! I am talking about the Finnish things that caught my eye in everyday life in Finland!
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Thank you so much for watching! Let me know any interesting things you know about Finland and finns!
I am a Finn, now 45 year old woman. When I had just had my drivers license (exchanged from american one to Finnish one, cause I got the american one while being an exchange student there with an international licence included) - well anyhow I was saying - I was in Turku and found a lost American tourist walking about the road trying to ask for instructions. So I made it my business to not only explain where she needed to go, but to take her there and show her around the town while at it. For free of course - it just was fun for me to find an English speaker and get to show my country to an American - and you are right, not all Finns are quiet or withdrawn. I am both. There are moments when it's hard to get a word in between - and times when I literally vanish from the face of the Earth cause I simply need my own time. No - I will not be walking around with a perma-smile - but I am more happy than I have ever been in my life all though currently I don't live in Finland, but France. My husband is French. Both of us dream to move in Finland where I have a house waiting for us, once his son is legally adult (18 yo). Few years yet, and then we will be even more happy - cause here our home is but a tiny flat in an apartment building which somehow resembles a sardine can of people - in a city and surrounding town-areas having as many people living in same area as there is population in the entire country of Finland. We haven't been able to travel due covid either, cause I am in risk group being bit ill permanently, so haven't been home in long while and miss Sauna the most, I want to feel clean again - lol. As we see things - moving to Finland will be a definite upgrade in life quality.
The consistent (I would say over doing the please) will sound fake to a Finn. Makes one wonder if the other has good intentions or not when they are constantly being super polite. And it annoys me to have to remember to slip it in even more than I would, cause English comes to me relatively naturally also in the manner of using the words and language. But still, I trust more people who speak when they have something to say and do not smile like your best friend when you barely know them - well it is like with French commercials. I do not speak French, never studied it at school, so I have learned very little by now - some but not really to understand everything especially when people speak fast or just do not articulate clearly enough aka speak in soft voice. I really wish they did not constantly try to speak so quietly - lol. It is really hard to try and learn like a baby does - you know by ear, just by observing. And so when I observe something said in French - and commercials are something one see everywhere. I don't watch TV - but I am on tube and computer all the time. So all those commercial clips - they have began to annoy me to bits - cause I do not understand so much as to listen the words or understand the topic fully - but what I do understand is the tone. And it all sounds so fake happy and excited - literally over acted. And thus for me it passes from truth to a lie because of that feeling it gives. I have thought about this stuff a lot, cause I live elsewhere and often will look at videos about Finland maybe being a bit homesick at times - and cause I been a lot outside of Finland by now. It gives one utterly different perspective to ones own country after living elsewhere. One starts to notice ones own love for the native country on completely new level and so on. I never have been interested in rally or sports in general, still am not really - but somehow I would even end up watching video clips about Finnish rally (as I did just recently). But yea as much as I managed to stroll from the original topic - using the word pls is not so overly common in Finland. Though, last but not least - this does not mean we do not have similar polite expression. Saisinko / Saanko (the ending -ko) could I get is in a way polite because it places a request into the sentence the result if which is not known. The speaker gives an option to say no. Haluatteko (Would you like) The world haluta (to want) is paired with te (you in respectful aka formal form) and has the endking -ko). Or saying - yksi kahvi, kiitos ( one coffee thank you). It is not the same as pls exactly, but there is this kind of ways to include polite features to the language - and of course being polite is also about your tone, as long as you are not being so sweet it becomes disgusting.
The sleepy head day is real. But I don't know a family who would do that to someone who sleeps longest within the family. But there is a town Naantali where they choose a Finnish celebrity as the sleepy head and arrange an event to throw him or her into the sea. The date is July 27.
@@lyrigageforge3259 Thank you so much for this insightful message, really appreciate it! I love how you bring out the fake smile and being super polite, aka American keep smiling! Definately will take a honest face over the pretended smile!! That doesnt mean the person is not friendly, but I can see how it might create a stereotype of finns being cold and reserved! And I need to start learning finnish to understand how to say things nicely then without please, for now I think I will stick with yksi kahvi, kiitos! Sounds simple enough :)
Wishing you all the best to France! I lived 6 years outside of Estonia and I can def relate to missing home and getting a totally new perspective of the homeland while abroad! Will start to miss the funniest things that you didnt even know you liked so much! Stay safe from Covid and you will be in Finland before you know it!!!
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@@happytunes8770 Thanks! Will check them out!
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I live in America. But I have Finnish heritage. I love the History of Finland.
Hehee cool! Do you have a group for finnish foreigners in America?
My mom's side is from Turku, Finland. I have been raised and live in America. I am such a Finn. I belong there.
Ahh I lived in America for 4 years and the difference in culture is hugeeee!!! Move!!! :)
Thanks Viive! You have such great energy and you are very perceptive. Wishing you all the best! And by the way, Estonian culture - literature, music, handicrafts - is very impressive.
Thank you so much for watching& your kind words, really appreciate it!! :)
My father, who was a farmer, taught me not to ask people how much farming land or forest they have, as that is also like asking how much money they make. The reason is obvious - not to make anyone feel inferior. It is quite ok that the tax information is public, it is just that when you are in a discussion with a person you don't bring up issues that may make people look or feel inferior.
Thank you for that explanation! You guys are extra thoughtful, love it! My point of view was just that I would never think less of someone if he had 100 reindeers instead of 300! I think I was more interested that how many reindeers he has to take care of, or is normal for one herder. But I can def see these questions being uncomfortable for some, so learned from my mistake! Awesome that you father taught you that, im starting to see why finns are the happiest in the world if they are so considerate to each other :)
You explained it perfectly! Equality and no competition and no cause for conflict - everything in that domain are ideals to get along as well as possible. But they are ideals. Other rules are like not to whisper, not to laugh, not to stare, so that another person could feel uncomfortable. In Germany people laughed laud and long when I made comical language mistakes - in Finland never.
But nevertheless a Finnish speciality is language/translation jokes, but more like theoretically, not because somebody just made a funny mistake.
@@DNA350ppm :) Thanks for the insight! I def had people laughing at my english a lot in America but I knew I spoke wrong and laughed together with them most of the times, even though sometimes it was a bit uncomfortable and frustarating to me! So I can see why finnish attitude towards this so nice and caring and I appreciate it!
Thank you for your observations.. I have always loved the Estonians very much.. I belong to the older generation who were wondering what is happening there in Estonia, when under Soviet regime... We will always be brothers and sisters.. Finland and Estonia, no matter what:))
:) Aww this is so heartwarming to read, thank you so much for this!!! We feel the same way about Finland!! And the same time occupied Estonians in Tallinn were secretly watching YLE and dreaming of tasting yoghurt, some kind of mysterious food that looked so good in your commercials, but that we could never try on our own haha :)
we don't say please, but we have a polite way asking for things: we use the conditional. And we use kiitos=thank you quite a lot.
Yes I heard that, but it would require a deeper understanding of the language! I will use the kiitos at the end until learning more finnish! Appreciate you watching& commenting!
@@ViiveKaiRebane As long as you acknowledge that 'kiitos' is much more of a 'thank you' than 'please' and will sound weird at the end of some sentences. Unless you use English and Finnish mixed, then anything goes. :D
@@zabnat Haha maybe I will get points for trying at least :)
@@ViiveKaiRebane you will, people will appreciate politeness regardless :)
@@zabnat The word "please" in finnish is "olkaa hyvä", it is formal language and not used much in daily life, but some elder people might use it. And of course in formal situations it is perfectly normal to hear it. And those who knows the films of Mika Kaurismäki :- ). It is perfectly correct to say " Istukaa olkaa hyvä", which translate "please, have a seat". Also "kiitos", can be used in the same matter, for example, " Voisitko ojentaa suolan, kiitos" which translates to " Can you pass the salt, please". As you can see, it depends on the context how you use the words kiitos and olkaa hyvä. Finnish is complicated language :D
To summarise what you found out about Finland is that it is the opposite of what happens in our part of the world.
This so cool and so are you Viive-Kai. 👏
Hehe thanks! :)
It does not matter how much you make or what you do for a profession. It only matters what kind of person you are!
So true! :)
Finland is admired in so many ways,please make a video about their education system,it gets a lot of praise here in California.
Could you also please visit the new Oodi library and talk about it?
Thank you. Jose Pareja
The education system has been going downhill for years already, so it's old news but it is still being told by many sources. Something changed along, who knows what...
Yeah I think I am not the right person to talk about that as I am not involved in it to know enough! But thanks for suggestion and for watching, cheers!
Hehe interesting, what do you see shifting?
@@iam5085We have had a party of the rich in power for too long (kokoomus). Money has been steadily taken out of the smaller, rural schools. All the services are being moved closer to cities, to save up the costs. This makes too big class sizes, making it harder for individual students to get attention. Schools used to have their own psychologist/therapists at hand, where student could go ask for help. Now the counselors circle through several schools, only being present once in a full moon in any individual school.
Capitalism has eroded our school systems: Despite everything still being free for the students, the availability of services has gone down. You are living in a rural area? You don't get the same amount of options as ones in big cities get.
@@Sienisota Stupid explanation. Do you really believe it's that simple? Perhaps simplicity is also evident in your political background. I'm sorry to have to say this, but these political "throws" without any kind of deeper reflection are getting annoying. Do you really think that just recklessly sharing money (other people's money - taxpayers' money) will make everything better? How does parenting or the lack of parenting play a role? On many levels, it's more about attitude and changing culture than money. And that's thanks to you, socialists.
thx for sharing these interesting facts about finland, really enjoyed watching it ...... love watching ur channel
Glad you enjoyed& thank you so much for watching!! :)
Kiitos, Viive-Kai! You made a lot of really good points and some that I didn't really realize! :)
I'm glad to hear this! Thank you for watching! :)
Viive, fascinating...happy for you that all is going well. Daniel
Thank you so much, appreciate it!
I was born in Finland but brought to Canada when I was 3 years old. My wife and I went to visit Finland in 2005 and I have to admit that we were probably seen in a poor light, because we brought our Canadian ways with us and they are not slow and calm. Your video helps me to realize that if I were to visit again I would have to change my ways. Thank you.
It's completely fine to ask one's profession, I do that pretty often. It's "Muumi" in Finnish too. I don't really see Estonians as foreigners since historically we derive from the same tribe so we are pretty much the same people!
Ok good to know! I just read about it so maybe it was fake news! And haha so cool to read that you dont see us as foreigners, few other people also told me that! Love that! :)
@@ViiveKaiRebane i love Estonians..they are almost finnish as well
@@jukkap.5722 :) I had an idea in my mind that finnish and estonian language is more similar and I can understand more. But then I got here and realized I cant understand much haha! But people really are quite similar!
@@ViiveKaiRebane foreigner can mean several things. Someone from southern Finland who has moved to Lapland just 30 years ago can well still be a newcomer, a foreigner.
Someone who has moved to Helsinki from outside Ring-I, can be seen as foreigner moving in from the provinces.
Finland has or has had some larger tribes and smaller tribes and even more different groups like Same, so in that context it is not very strange to see Estonians as an other tribe in the same language family and not so foreign.
If you look at how much foreign language immigrants have moved to the Capital area, in that picture Estonians are old neighbors, relatively not so foreign.
@@just42tube Very good point, never thought about it like that! But makes all the sense!
Incredible positivity :) not sure why this was on my front page but great way to start the weekend :)
Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you had a good one!
Nice points you picked up.
About driving in Finland. The speed limits in the north during winter are mostly quite ok, as the roads are slippery and there are a lot of animals on the roads. In the south the limits are lower, so breaking the speed limit is more common (where there are no cameras).
Money, once you have enough to survive, getting more doesn't improve your life quality as much as other things in life. People are not judged on base of their income, but rather on their caracter and what they do. We have social security, so you always have a way to get a roof on your head and food on your plate, not starwing to death.
And about Estonians, you are family, same culture and same language family, same kind of lifestyle. The kind of next door neighbour we like, so you are welcome to stay here if you like it!
Thank you so much for watching and commenting! To be honest I am quite surprised how good the road conditions are even up in the north with all the snow and ice! Did meet some wandering reindeers, mostly young ones on the road, so I see how this would make people cautios! I love how money is not seen as the most important thing, very healthy perspective to life!
So happy to have you guys as our neighbours! Estonia has always looked up to you and tried to be more like you, I think it has helped our society to improve so much faster! Thank you for the kind words!
@@ViiveKaiRebane , Estonia was similar to Finland after your first independence. There was 50 years when Estonia had much worse political situation. Estonia is slowly reducing the difference.
@@suokkos Yes, very interesting! I read about it, that if it wasnt for soviet occupation, we would be on the same level. Also quite interesting that Finland has gained its wealth in the last century and that it doesnt come from oil or exploiting some other natural resource but basically from being smart haha. And being smart comes from living in the cold temperatures, where you need to be smart and able to prepare for winter, because if you are not smart you will likely not survive in such a harsh climate.
@@ViiveKaiRebane , It hasn't been perfect. Previous generations have made many bad decisions everywhere. We are making our own bad decisions now. World is too complicate to avoid them completely.
We exploited trade with Soviet Union. This included oil and gas imports. The trade relation caused a bad recession in 90s when the Russian system collapsed.
We also use natural resources. Forestry is a big industry which has influenced bad decisions like building drainage to marshes. Mining has caused trouble like Talvivaara recently.
At least we are slowly fixing past mistakes when our understanding of world improves.
@@suokkos Thanks for the insight! Really interesting to read about the recession after soviet collapse, had no idea Finland was trading so much with it! Correct me if I am wrong but with forestry at least you guys are not just selling the raw material but making it into much more expensive products, increasing the value significantly?
And thats why Finland is awesome..
These are of course a small fraction of things I have noticed and that I find impressive! What do you think make Finland awesome? :)
You're fun! And you make me smile! I'm living in England, but I would love to try Finland. Sounds like a more purposeful, meaningful & egalitarian society. x
Hehehe glad to hear!! Finland is pretty awesome... cold& dark at winter but so beautiful!! And the people really take care of each other :)
Do You know what IS The NATIONAL SPORT of Finland ? No IT IS Not Ice hockey - Not salmiakki eating - Not Soccer - Not Cricket - Not Basketball - Not Volleyball ! Many have never heard of FINNISH BASEBALL ? The Game has Been around Over The past 100years ! As Mr Tahko Pihkala travelled to Boston Mass - to see a Red Sox Game - but didn't take any NOTES ! After He returned to Finland - He told everything that - He remembered about The Game ! Many Americans never seen The game before CZcams - for The 1st Time ! Many Americans Dont even know - that Mr Tahko Pihkala travelled to USA ? This IS How just One Person - Can invate a Game - that turns to NATIONAL SPORT ! PESA / BASE - PALLO / BALL !
That was fun to watch. :)
Appreciate you watching and taking time to comment! All the best!
First: a virtual hug for you :) You can naturally crystallize things, like when the government invests in people, it correlates with happiness as well. I admire your intelligence, but your heart even more. You have a great dog. I haven’t watched all of your videos, so I guess your health is better than 4 months ago. You are so fresh. The coffee fan from Helsinki wishes you all the best :)
:) Thank you so much for the kind message, warms my heart!!! I have this interesting feeling while in your country, as if I can feel how people are really taken care of and protected not only by the government but also by fellow citizens, I feel this strong sense of safety and all the new things I am learning keep confirming that idea! I am sure not everything is as good as it looks for me right now but it is an exceptional society! :) Jack says Hi!!! And thanks for watching of course!
@@ViiveKaiRebane Good attitude too. I still had to tell you that your background music is super. I’m wondering if you’re playing for yourself, or if you just have such a good sense of situation with music because your music fits so perfectly with the nature of the videos. And thanks to Jack for the greetings :)
@@mikorossi1959 Ohh thanks! To be honest I cant sing or play any instrument to save my life haha def had an elephant step on my ear haha but luckily there are so many talented people whose music I can use! :)
Not asking about the job is basically us not wanting to intrude as well as just not caring that much about what you do. If you are an "OK" person, does it really matter what you do for living?
But if you tell me your profession, then I can ask all I want, because you opened that topic, meaning you are comfortable talking about it.
Makes sense! That is just being extra careful not to make anyone uncomfortable, love that! But I am just a curious person and would love to hear peoples stories and what they do! But I will wait for the cue that they want to talk about it then! :) Thanks for watching!
About the fines.
It's not just the traffic fines that are based on one's incomes, it's all the fines - as it should be.
There are two types of traffic fines. The fixed fines (several categories, same amounts for everybody) are for minor traffic offences, like speeding less than 20 km/h above the speed limit. The "day fines" are for more serious offences, e.g. for speeding more than 20 km/h above the limit.
The "day fine" means, that everybody gets the same number of those day fines for the same offence/crime, but the cost of each "day" depends on one's income. And if you don't pay, you ultimately go to prison for as many days.
That is so interesting to know, thanks for writing! I really think this is a fair system to have and that other countries should take notice!!!
I really wish (and indeed planning) to visit Finland for 10 days or so for aurora hunting and everything (well, hopefully the pandemic still allows it....). I watched your video and now I wanted to go even more!!! It sounds like a really great country to live in :)
Yes, it really is so surreal experience to sit under the lapland stars and watch the aurora, make it happen once the borders open!!! Finland is a gem! :)
A very inspiring video! Always heart-warming to hear somebody from a place you like liking the place you're from; I was on many family vacations to Estonia as a pre-teen during the nineties and even owned a model of the Kõpu lighthouse from the one we spent in the isles. As the former fief of The Mad Baron, Hiiumaa is of course the coolest ;)
Some commentary on the things you described:
The corruption and driving over the speed limit are subtle problems in Finland.
The corruption in the sense that we have cronyist old boy networks, in Finnish hyvä veli-verkosto (lit."dear brother network"), on several levels of goverment and administration. They circumvent official decision-making processes to the members' benefit and then don't take responsibility when that backfires, usually claiming the need for executive action or some other hokum. Shit, we even have three volumes published of our longest-serving president's letters to the senior goverment officials starting with "Hyvä veli", in which he communicates past his cabinets to implement things the way he wanted them. It's deeply rooted and as stated, subtle, and thus invisible to many people.
As for the speed limit it's true that many speeders are foreign cars and/or drivers, at least by my experience. But oh boy, wait for the summer and take (don't, not at least for this reason) a trip up eg. Valtatie 2 and see how eager some Finns are to get to their cabin on time (whatever that means on vacation). At the moment it's evident in the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area with many casual drivers having to rely on their cars for transport due to the pandemic. They're the ones driving carefully and sometimes "too slow" which of course makes the more aggressive drivers think they have a right to make decisive maneuvers that are just plain dangerous. You could say the problem is people who are drivers first and parts of traffic second (as a former professional driver and the son of a lauded traffic researcher I of course have a strong opinion on this but also founded perspective).
You really have a solid grasp on the country and people I think. Ismo Leikola and Moomin are things I adore so you had me sold on those already, but your excitement and energy are so palpable that even a world-weary xennial like me gets stoked.
I wish you all the best here. Tere tulemast!
Thank you so much for this insight, appreciate it!!! I lived in Hiiumaa so it is so cool to hear you had the lighthouse haha! Had no idea about the hyvä veli! They must be hard to catch if they are so subtle and know exactly how to not get caught& have each others back to hide the action. Love the saying: it is not about what you know, but who you know! So true in so many fields these days.
And haha ok I will make a new assessment in summer about the traffic culture! Our neighbor is also a former racer and goes to drive on the ice, so I already got a glimpse of how fast they can go if they want haha I am really impressed. As long as its not happening on the roads! Appreciate your comment, thanks for watching& take care!
Kiva video! Kiitos! Ja Tervetuloa Suomeen!!
Kiitos kun katsoit!! Suomi on uskomattoman kaunis maa!
Finnish taxation politics is very open. You can ask from tax office every single Finnish people incomes if you want.
Ive been told that! So you can find the information behind a persons back but never ask it directly haha got it!
@@ViiveKaiRebane If you're asking about how many reindeers they have got, you are asking about capital not income.
There isn't generic capital taxation in Finland, so such information is not directly collected nor available to public. Ownership of real properties is public information. But it doesn't come with real market valuations.
Not anymore. They put in a possibilty for rich people to hide their tax information.
@@fdagpigj Uuh good to know! Wonder how they explained this...
@@ViiveKaiRebane Okay I think I misremembered, they can't prevent people from getting their tax information if they know to specifically ask for this person's tax information. It's just that the tax office releases a list of names of everyone who has earned over 100 thousand euros each year, and they can now choose to hide their name from this list. Which is pretty much as bad, because now you can't know who all are rich, you can only know whether someone is rich. The "explanation" was that apparently the rich people are worried about getting bullied by their friends because they're rich (in practice almost no one asks the tax office for the tax information about their friends' income..). So it's basically as bad as if they could hide it totally.
People do drive over the speed limit but less so during the winter since most people understand the higher risk when switching lanes. During the summer, it's quite common especially in the countryside.
Ok, good to know! I will make a new observation in the summer hahah
11:25: Ok, I'm sold! I'm moving to Finland!
Here in Sweden the driving is definitely more rushed than that, even in small villages.
Very informative!!! Hope to visit someday. My grandparents were from Ollu
You should! Especially in winter time if you like cold! Thanks for watching! :)
8:30 yes I have a tendency to do this as well. Generally I prefer to buy a product or a service in Finland even though it might cost a bit more than while I am travelling in a cheaper country.
Suomi!!!!! Finland i from Finland moi kiva kun kuvaat videon
:) Moi! Glad you see you here& kiitos for the comment!
Most beautiful about Finland is NIGHTWISH!
Ok so because I live under a rock, I never heard of them but I looked it up and now Im hooked!! Thanks for the comment!!! :)
@@ViiveKaiRebane😂😂😅 yeah🤟. I salute you because of that.
I am pretty sure that it is the municipality that is paying that taxi to school since municipality has the responsibility of arranging the basic education. There are rules for those circumstances when transportation to school is arranged. And in some situations taxes are the only or optimal alternative.
I do realize that taxies are probably cheaper to run if there are only few kids to pick up from longer distances! But I love the fact that this is not left on the parents but is organized by the municipality!
@@ViiveKaiRebane It is also used to ensure taxi serivices in small municipalities, which have quite low demand for taxis during typical week day. So paying kids taxis drives is not only cost effective but it also ensures that other residents of municipality have access to reasonable priced taxi service that you don't need to wait hours arrive from closest larger municipality.
@@ES-ig4pm Ahh I see! That makes a lot of sense!! Thanks for that!
Love you Viive-Kai.
Thank you :)
As others said, the salary dependent fines are only used for more severe cases (like speeding more than 21 or 26 over the limit). For smaller misdemeanors (parking ticket, speeding less than 20), it's fixed fines. Would be too much paperwork to do the salary calculation in all cases, I guess.
12:44 these are called 'leveäkaistatie'. They are quite rare nowadays as they are considered obsolete and dangerous. It is not legal to cross the center line while passing another car if there is someone coming from the opposite direction but many drivers break this rule.
Is there job opportunities for ACCA..
And chartered accountants
Large internal migration from rural areas to towns has been going on in Finland also. It happened mostly some decades ago. I would say mostly between 1960 - 1990, but I might have these years wrong.
Almost 400.000 People moved from Karjala to rest of The Country as The same Number moved to work in Sweden !
Those wide roads are suppose to help passing other cars, but actually you're not suppose to go, if there's another car coming from the opposite direction.
I think that too haha but people be going!
27.7 is the Sleepyhead's Day - Unikeon päivä (Unikeko lit. means 'Sleep pile'). Traditionally it was a family fun, when country families were bog, when there was lots of uncles and aunties around, and/or serfs, farmhands in a big house. Now it's more a local festival thing, where somebody famous in the town gets thrown into the water, and it's then a small news story in the local news. But, families can develop their own traditions - Finns like to inven their own versions of many ideas. Just a sprinkle of water in the face might be it. I was the sleepy one in my childhood family - think I got couple of water sprinles as a teen.
You can ask someone's profession, but it's more like when you meet in work or studying in some course. But typically not the first thing tp ask. When going to a party, I think the most typical approach is to volunteer tourself to tell how you know the host, or how you're related to the happening - how you got invited or heard about this happening.
Like for example: When I landed my saucer under the bridge in Kalasatama Helsinki in my hangover while on my way back to Mars, I found this genie come out of an oll lamp, and pointing me to a message in a bottle drifting under the bridge - and that message told about this private presidential Boys' night out with beer, gardening, ironing and pool by the pool. Or something else very typically Finnish.
OK - maybe that was a slightly marginal example, after the immigration grew bigger. the genies in the oil lamp used to be tourists only, now some have migrated here. I should give more typical, classic forms of Finnish pass-time.
Like you can:
- hatch Moomins from Mozzarella - or tractors from the white eggs you see on the fields in summertime
- hunt a parking slot in downtown Helsinki
- throw the water birds with anything you can't fix anymore, or a crank.
- throw water. Happens even in the modern times - in cities too, not just on the countryside. In cities you will see the marks of it on the building walls or amidst broken glass in the streets, especially in downtown during great festivals like vappu (1st of May), Juhannus (etc.) or any big music festival. It almost has nothing to do with alcohol.
- go into a berry
- fill in the lotto coupon
- sulk, or watch and envy the neighbours from behind your curtains
- dress your gloves into your hands,
- sauna (here in Finland it's a verb - compare bathe)
- carry your wife through an obstacle course
- throw wooden blocks called Mölkky (just don't become a Mölkvist)
- stand in a boat with your fly open
- sleep into a bomb. Happens mostly on working or school days, or if you need to travel. The result of this tradition is you either miss or nearly miss the time you were supposed to be, where you were supposed to be.
- run head as the 3rd leg,
- pull your arses on your shoulder It almost has nothing to do with alcohol.
- pull someone from the lip
- make a topic out of a stick. Memory sticks have helped a lot in this. In the eras and eons of wooden sticks only, it was kinda stretching it a bit to call it a story or topic.
Hahaha woww this is very entertaining!! I love the idea of inventing your own version of a tradition- actually, thank you for a great idea haha I might celebrate the sleepyhead day after all!! And the way you tell the story of how you got to a party haha I am waiting for the day someone starts saying anything like that haha that is very creative!
As for the list of Finnish past time, it seems I have a lot to look forward to haha and that I have so much to learn! But why not start now, what the hell does run head as the 3rd leg mean? Thank you for a laugh haha this is awesome! Kiitos!
@@ViiveKaiRebane I wrote the list mosly translating Finnish sayings literally to English. I think if you translate in Estonian, some of them might be familiar to you. That was my plan, that you might find a few failiar surprises :)
But I mixed there some bd sides of Finns, like sulking. they're traditional too, but culture change has started to change at least sulking a bit
Running head as the 3rd leg means you're in a great hurry.
@@timomastosalo Haha yes some of them are similar if they have a same meaning, for example pull someone from the lip, is that to make a prank on someone? We say carry someone by the nose to that. But what the hell is hatch Moomins from mozzarella hahah
@@ViiveKaiRebane Pull from the lip AND pull from the lip both mean to cheat or prank someone.
Moomins and Mozzarella have nothing to do with hell - there's a modern meme that the mozzarella balls are 'Moomin meat' :) I then combined it with the 'tractor eggs', which is a common joke, after the Fonnosh farmers have started to wrap their hay inside those white canvases.
So I tested if you have heard either of them, the 'tractor eggs' is 15-20 years old, the 'Moomin Mozzarella' is about 5 yeras maybe.
@@timomastosalo haha I def havent heard either of them haha but tractor eggs haha I will start calling then that!! Abd not sure if I can ever eat mozzarella again :D
Unikeonpäivä is a real day (27th July says Google), but I think throwing to water only happens to the honorary sleepyhead in Naantali, I think. It seems the day is a wider tradition than just Finland.
Haha okk so I will just make sure to not go to Naantali in July then just to be safe haha thank you for this information!
@@ViiveKaiRebane In Naantali the official Unikeko is usually a locally known person, the mayor, a preast, teacher, an entrepreneur or even a local member or parliament. It is an honorary post, but yes, to the see he / she goes.
@@sampohonkala4195 Haha that is a really interesting way to honor the person!!! So weird, love it haha!! Thanks for the clarification!
And in Hanko.
There are people like Björn Wahlroos who always use chauffeur in Finland and drive them selves only in other countries. He says it is cheaper for him to have a chauffeur than risk getting speeding tickets in Finland.
Hahah that is funny! Would be easier to just take the leg off the gas :)
@@ViiveKaiRebane One must always take into account that Nalle Wahlroos makes jokes just to chock the media. (He probably has tried to work in the back seat...)
This is also very Finnish - there a public people (julkkikset) that all the nation know stories about...
@@DNA350ppm Haha good to know, thanks for this!! :)
Reason ppl drink so much milk in Finland is because vitamin D is added to milk to guarantee sufficient supply of it. As some might know vitamin D is composed(?) in the skin by sunlight and since there's very little sunlight during autumn and winter ppl don't get enough vitamin D naturally.
Hmm thats really intersting to know, makes sense! Estonians just take the vitamin d supplements for that but I guess milk with vitamin D would get the work done! Thanks for the insight!
I drink it coz it tastes good 😂
I think it's because milk is in the national nutrition recommendations, at least for the kids.
I don't think I've ever seen a Cafe in any of the cities in Finland that did not have cappuccino on their menu. Mostly not having fancy coffees is a rural thing I feel? So definitely don't have to miss the cappuccino.
Perhaps! But even in the gas stations, in Estonia you would get a cappuccino in most of the gas stations, here I saw it in only in one and thats because they had this fancy bakery in it :)
Hi Viive. I am born in Finland but I have never heard about the tradition to throw the last one out of bed thrown into the sea, but it sounds nice.
I like Estonia. I have been to Tallin many times with my Swedish friends.
Take care of yourself.
Juha
Hey! Thanks for watching! Well I guess then you have been lucky to not end up in the sea after waking up, good for you! :) And thank you, I am glad you like our country, warms my heart! All the best to you from Estonia!
About the money thing: how much money everyone makes is actually public info in Finland. Everyone's tax returns are published each year in a day some people call "the national jealousy day" :D. Also, greeting from a Finn living in Estonia, it is very interesting for me to hear about your thoughts! :)
Haha national jealousy day, love it!!! Thank you so much for the comment! Interesting to know that the tax returns are public to everyone. I guess that makes the system more see-through and helps to catch some criminals and gives people better understanding if they are underpaid. I am convinced that talking about money would help to decrease the gender wage cap for example, which is a huge problem in Estonia. But if no one tells how much they are making, it is so much easier for the companies to underpay some people. So I applaud the national jealousy day hahah I think it is for the betterment of the society! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Yes - the tax info is public, but that definitely is not the same as how much one earns. And nowadays only the taxes of the wealthy and celebrities are published.
It indeed is not polite to ask questions, which might imply that you want to know "how rich/poor you are" - at least if your are not GOOD friends. So don't ask how much money you earn/make, how much your house/car costs, how much that designer handbag costs or how many reindeer you have.
However it's ok to ask how many dogs a dog-breeder has, how many beehives a beekeeper has or how many moomin (in Finnish pronounced just like you did - Muumi(t)) mugs you have...
@@timoterava7108 im not sure, but isnt it only over 100k earnings puplic?
@@MrJanZko All the tax information is public - meaning, that you can go to a tax office and search for anybody's information.
The tax administration makes a list only of those, who earn more (taxable income) than 100,000€, and gives it to media.
What the media does is, that they search for the tax information of all the "interesting" people of their choosing, and publish it together with the info of the richest list.
@@timoterava7108 thanks
Yeah when I was in elementary school the rule was if you have more that 5 kilometers to school you get a free taxi to school and back during one time I went 2 years with taxi to school and back every damn day.
We do talk aboat money but I guess only when you are like old good friends. I would never ask a casual stranger how much they make
Makes sense! Thanks for watching!
IAM moving to Finland .wow
Haha yaaas do it! Lovely place :)
You are welcome! We have plenty of companies that work in English.
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Thank you so much, really appreciate the support!!!
It's normally only one person in town who is thrown in water. It's a spectacle that a lot of people come to watch
Sounds like fun haha :)
Oh right, I never thought there would be anything strange about kids being taken to school by taxi! It started in the 70s.
Hehe it blew my mind! I know people who are struggling to get their kids to the school bus in Estonia so it is a very nice touch!
The Moomin cartoon series was actually produced in Japan, if I remember correctly. So, the Japanese people are very much into those characters too. Originally the characters were created by Tove Jansson, of course.
Ahh, I did not know that, thanks! Interesting to know! Really cool cartoon either way :)
this is not true moomin comes from Finland Tove Jansson the creator of moom is actually in Finnish person not from Japanese.
@@Kokardi65 and you obviously can't read... I wrote, that THE CARTOON SERIES was made in Japan, I never claimed that the actual characters were of Japanese origin. Actually, the Moomin TV series that we all knew and loved was first aired in Tokyo, Japan, in 1990. A second season was also aired in the next year, in Japan. This series was then translated into various languages, including Finnish. The artistic style of the series is also quite typical Japanese Anime, including the music. You can check out the Wikipedia article for the subtle differences between the Anime series and the original books by Tove Jansson. Moomin is actually the third Anime adaptation of the books. Jansson was said to be displeased with the two previous attempts, but gave her approval to this third version, which became also known in the Finnish TV as the original Moomin series. It's both seasons have been aired in Finland and they consist in total a whopping 104 episodes.
@@Apollyon.King.of.the.Locusts okey i was check the story and that is a produce Japans,holland and finnish together with Tove Jansson.Stories are from Tove's moomin books
Muumi is Moomin in English - in Finnish it's Muumi.
The original name is Swedish - Mumin.
The closest how that spells in Estonian is Müümin - though the Swedish U is between U and Ü in Estonian (= U & Y in Finnish).
Good to know, appreciate the info! Kiitos!
Maybe you were talking about ohituskaistatie, 2+1 road? They are meant for easy passing of slower vehicles, and road signs tell how many kilometres are for the next one (for easy passing slower vehicles) fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohituskaistatie
I think it was about leveäkaistatie: fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leve%C3%A4kaistatie
Yes, I was talking about the leveäkaistatie!! Took me a moment to understand why some cars are making the third lane haha
Hey! Pasi is right, I was talking about the leveäkaistatie! The 2+1 is a brilliant idea though and Estonia is starting to use them also, they work great!
Some comments. If you are making latte or capuccino, best milk foam comes from Valios Vanhanajan luomu maito it has lot of fat. And taxi for school is not normal taxifares but lower and its cheaper than huge bus.
Ahh thanks for the tip! When I think about it it makes sense to have the taxies, but I guess in Estonia we have the school bus, but how the person gets to the bus station is their own problem, and can be difficult for a lot of kids, especially those with special needs!
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:) Really appreciate this Terron! Thanks for the support!
People from Finland like hi quality products. Most of them understand that it will cost more also.
Yup, makes all the sense! And why not if you can afford them :)
Yes the midnight sun and endless night are almost a thing here south (hello from Helsinki), but have you been to Lapland 😅
A totally different thing 😊
Edit: ok you went to Lapland 😅
Hehhe yes I have and I love love love it up there! Gotta go one day to experience the midnight sun!
Heh was on Philippines and was hearing something being talked about sounded so familiar but didn't make sense turned out there were a few estonians nearby.
Hehehe I had a similar experience with hearing finnish in JFK and that made me feel like home haha! It is strangely similar yet so different!
I go to Estonia quite often with my own car and a year ago I was shocked when I did my trip and I was back in Finland. A couple of weeks after the Estonian police send me a letter, there was a 12Euro penalty for speeding... I was just WTF? It probably cost Estonia more to get my home address than they get money back with that ticket.
They are really crazy with the cars if you drive around 30-50km out of Tallinn roads are not that great anymore, their one-line main roads are full of trucks and then you had to try to find a good place to pass them.. but that is not easy if you don't have a powerful car. At least they are trying to make more two-line roads but it looks more or less the same as 5years ago.
Their health care is not cheap for Finlander. About 30min time for a doctor is around 80-185eur normally about +150eur and then you see some Estonian guy get that same service a lot cheaper. In Finland, it does not depend on what country is written on your passport.
Then people outside of Tallinn like in Tarto most only young people speak English so doing business with older people is a bit harder thing to do. Sometimes I need to do phone calls to Estonian companies and it is painful... you never know which language works the best, English, Finnish, or my couple of Estonian words that I know... normally I try to use all of them at the same time and still can't get things sorted on the phone if the company is located outside of Tallinn. Sometimes they just start laughing and hang up the phone. Sometimes it is easier to drive about 200km to go to the company office and ask that thing again.
A month ago my rich Estonian friend told me they don't have middle-class people most are poor and the rest are rich. Some older people got some benefit from that when the soviet union collapsed as he did.. we always have good talks in politics and how things are in Finland and in Estonia.
cheers from Lithuania! Just imagine, where we were now, the Baltics, if not that damn Russian occupation...
Cheers! I have been thinking about that a lot. How cruel and unfair what was done by the soviets to our nations. We would be so well off! But when you compared how far we have gone already after all this violence... I can see some patterns that are embedded in us, the soviet times has shaped our characters, both in a good way and in a bad way. But it is what it is.
@@ViiveKaiRebane and sadly, I am not sure, we are safe in the near future from the Russian occupation. Especially Latvia and Estonia, you have the long land borders with it, and big former unwelcomed guests inside, who think it is there country... As you probably know, right now these hords deliver tens of thousands soldiers on the border with Ukraine.
@@SuperYankis Absolutely, it is always a threat and will be! Perhaps after Putin is gone, they will get someone to lead who is more peaceful and caring for the people! Hope dies the last! But to tell the truth, most Russians living in Estonia probably dont want to live in Russia, they like the development that is taking place and they dont want to go back in time.
@@ViiveKaiRebane As a Finn, I cannot wait for the day when Putin is gone. I only hope that the next one in line won't be even worse... True democracy in Russia would be the best thing to happen to our countries since the fall of the Soviet Union. I hope one day we Finns will have our Karelia and other stolen territories back, too.
@@Silveirias Lets hope for the best! :)
About wide, long, roads, those are for military. For jets to land and go. We call those emergency airfields.
Ahhh good to know, thanks!!! :)
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Thanks! Will check them out!
Finnish person here 🙂 The part about asking someone's salary is true, but I hate it 😄 And to add: like in many countries, also in Finland some companies make employment contracts that deny the employees from talking to each other about how much money they make. In Finland that is against the law, meaning that that denial in the contract is unvalid, it means nothing. It's just there to intimidate the workers. In Finland all workers have the legal right to discuss how much money they make
I def had a contract where it said I cant tell anyone how much I make, such bullshit! This is why Estonians have the biggest wage gap in Europe- if no one discusses how much they make, they cant know they are hugely underpaid!! SO we need to stop making salary something that is not talked about!
Finland is a great country and a great land to live, by far looking southamerican countrys, with a lot of problemas in polítics and economics
It really is a great country :) I hope they know it, sometimes they dont seem to be too happy with their country haha and keep telling me all the things that are wrong... instead of realizing how far they have become! But I guess that kind of analytical mind is what builds great countries like Finland :)
Howfar IS The School ? If The School is More than 5km Away - The City / or rural Community makes IT easy - to Get to The School ! You must remember that at Winter - there are days - that You just Cant Ski to School - Thanks to being so dark in The mornings 7 - 8am - before The School starts ! Note - Isnt Estonia Famous for a Book that starts - When Arvo Gets to The School - They Have started with The Lessons already ! Kids need to Be at School - before TEACHING BEGINS ! What Do say to Kids that are ALWAYS LATE ?
I love my Viro brothers and sisters
Right back at you! :)
it's not at all unpolite to ask the profession but as a basic finn that doesn't like smalltalk, i often have zero interest in talking to strangers about my work or their work. it often leads to futher questions just for politeness sake and you're not really interestd so it feels tiring. even studies are more interesting. i like to talk about hobbies and other interests instead.
of course there are exceptions when someone is really passionate about their job and/or do something really interesting. but even in those cases i would feel awkward for asking the same questions everybody has asked them thousands of times ...
this is one way of thinking, but certainly not the only one
for example about a week ago i made friends with a new person and we spoke for hours straight. but not once did we go into what our jobs or educations are. at least not that i remember 😆. instead we talked about where we had lived etc
Heheh thanks for the insight! I think that it is interesting to hear about what people do- of course if they love their job and are passionate about it! To hear what they think about the problems in their field etc. But I see what you say about the smalltalk, totally agree :) Thanks for watching!
well you see that's the problem for me. as you said "what people do". i don't see "what people do" as where they get their money from. to me, "what people do" is what they're most passionate about in that moment or in their whole life. not what theyre job is.
i mean. there are lots of people that are really passionate about their jobs and can't stop talking about it. but i'm gonna bet a substantial amount of money on that most people don't want to talk about it.
it's just like talking about the weather. they just don't know what else to talk about. in essence you're just asking where you get your moneys and i kinda find that a bit rude.
i myself always try to take the harder but more fruitful route: talk about peoples TRUE passions, hobbies, dreams, history, family, love life, travels, prospects and even physical conditions.
i don't carw wherw people get their money from. but probably it's just me.
and yea please dont get me wrong. i'm not angry or anything, i'm just a analytical person and i'm speaking on a very positive note :)
@@moonliteX I see your point, very true :) But I guess if you would ask what do you do, they could start talking about their job, or whatever else that they do that they really like! But hhaha funny you mentioned the weather, I always think that is what you ask if you want to do smalltalk because otherwise you would stand in awkward silence :D
Yes we drive over the speedlimit.
Someone said people are just careful when roads are icy and snowy, so maybe thats why I got this impression :)
I am not surprised that one can't get cappuccino in Utsjoki: it is a very small municipality (not a town or a city) with about 1000 inhabitants. I would almost compare it to a village in Alaska ,)
Utsjoki municipality, pop. 1,220.
Utsjoki consists of 3 main/official villages and 5 smaller hamlets.
The center of Utsjoki is the "church village".
@@timoterava7108 It is sometimes funny that english speaking foreigners fairly often call places cities no matter how small they are. Some seem to use city as a almost synonym to municipality or any size concentration of houses. Hamlet's is rarely used in my experience. I welcome your way of using words more meaningfully.
@@just42tubeThank you. That incorrect usage disturbs me too.
It's not just the foreigners - e.g. the Americans (of the USA) use "city" quite liberally. IIUC "city" has a different official meaning there, compered to the UK or the EU - which again have different classifications.
On the other, because of some historical reasons, there are some very small cities in the UK too.
@@timoterava7108 so the obvious available solution is to try to avoid the usage of this messy English language 🤔
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I think the main reason we here in Finland obey rules, is that we trust our government/ leaders. If they give you a rule to follow, it's probably because it's good for you. That's why we had no problems following new rules when we were struck by Corona.
About speeding. We do drive mostly according to speed limits, but if we exceed it's usually the max 7 km/h over the speed limit. Speed control cameras don't flash sub that. I usually keep the cruise controller at 2-3 km/h above speed limit. Works fine. Everyone use that speed. Even in morning traffic I can use it about 70% of my working way.
One bad thing though: nowadays more and more drivers seems to forget to signal when changing lanes. A bad habit that sadly is spreading.
Still; love my country.
Thanks for the comment!! I love the trust you have in the government!!! But that can only come from government not breaking the trust like it is in a lot of corrupt countries! Ive been told the speeding starts once the snow melts :D It was icy and snowy when I drove to Lapland so that probably made people drive slower as well :) It is a beautiful country you have!! :)
Rebaane is a popular last name in Estonia. Are you related to Peter Rebaane?
There are a lot of people named Peeter Rebane in here, Rebane is a very common name, over 2000 people have it! It translates as fox.
Hi, am ACCA qualified student....WILL i get good job in finland
,as being an expensive country finland, am interested to move to finland...in additionally....I have qualified CMA ( inter) ,
CA ( intermediate level) ,a degree too..
Sorry but I am not sure about that! Not familiar with the job opportunities and needs in Finland, or what you need to do to work there. There are of course many international companies so I wouldnt see why not if you are qualified :)
People of the country select their representatives to parliament. Parliament is the highest decision makers and gives laws. Government of the country has the executive power. They with ministries implement and administer the execution of laws.
They must follow laws, so it is not at all about if the government of the country cares about something only then something gets done.
Good point!
From what I've seen and heard, although there isn't technically a word for "please", Finns use "kiitos" in the same way that other nationalities use "please", and they say it all the time!
I would say that Finnish has several expressions for different situations, where English could use simply please without all the same nuances. Finnish has ways to bend words to include more nuances to fever words.
Yes they do! Gets the work done! :)
Yes and no. In some situations, you can use the word "kiitos" the way you'd use "please", but if you actually want to make an equivalent sentence to something that in English would use "please", you have to use the conditional mood in Finnish. There is not technically about it. The Finnish language does not have the word "please". "Kiitos" is not equal to "please".
While you would translate "Kahvi, kiitos" as "A coffee, please", this is not what the Finn is saying, even though it conveys the same meaning.
"Mum, can I get a cinnamon bun, please?" You could never replace "please" with "kiitos" in this sentence and have it sounds natural. You must say "Äiti, saisinko korvapuustin?" or "Äiti, voisinko saada korvapuustin?" Directly translated, this would be "Mum, may/could I get a cinnamon bun?" but because the word "please" does not exist in the Finnish language, and because a conditional is used, this should be translated as something like "Mum, can I get a cinnamon bun, please?"
@@Silveirias Languages are living evolving things with regional, personal and circumstancial styles and conventions. There is basic ruleset, but even that can and change overtime.
I personally often use "Kahvi, kiitos.", when ordering coffee. It is nothing uncommon.
But the very idea of finding very tightly corresponding words between languages from different cultures, isn't very helpful, since the main goals surely is to translate meaning from culture to culture in meaningful ways. Taking just one word works sometimes, but leads often to bad translations.
I have seen many translated technical documents, which I could really understand only after having studied the original language version. Mechanical translation can go only so far.
@@just42tube I never said it's uncommon to say "Kahvi, kiitos". I say that all the time, too. In this instance, "kiitos" serves the same function as "please" in English, but they are still not the same thing. Translating "Kahvi, kiitos" as "A coffee, please" is the correct translation because of the context, but the direct translation would of course be "A coffee, thank you". I even gave an example of direct vs. correct translation with the "Mum, can I get a cinnamon bun, please?"
A man named Jaakko throws a cold stone which starts the water bodies getting colder but the climate is now even warmer in August than in July 50 years the climate has changed
It definitely has gotten warmer, nice in the summer but of couse not good for the ecosystems! And winters also dont look right...
I live in Finland myself. :o
Cool! What you like about Finland the most?
@@ViiveKaiRebane I like the people there a lot. Wherever I go, the people always greet me there. :))
@@creamypufferfish5419 They are friendly arent they, always so thoughtful! :)
Sisu = "Whatever needs to be done, will be done, whatever the cost".
My grandfather lived this his entire life.
Yup, these people definitely have a lot of sisu!!!
There is NOT free health care for included in the taxes. For children yes. You do pay a fee for a doctor´s visit and hospital stay. I am Danish - Denmark has it.
Thanks for the comment! I should have used the word Universal health care instead of free health care, as that might sound misleading! Luckily with the fees being quite nominal to the real costs of procedures I am assuming no one is left without medical help! Greetings to Denmark and thank you for watching!
In Finland the health care fees vary, depending where you live, if you are working/studing and so on. In Helsinki there's no fee for a doctor's (general practitioner) visit in the public sector. And generally, if you are employed, your employer must provide you some basic health services (private services typically). If I need to see a doctor, I use this path, more quick.
@@mikrokupu Appreciate the insight, thanks! Is there a big differnece in quality between public and private health care?
@@ViiveKaiRebane To my own experience the biggest difference is the waiting time (general practitioner, dentist), otherwise no major differences I think. On the other hand, in Helsinki the public laboratory services (blood tests etc) are well arrenged and easy to use.
@@mikrokupu Interesting thank you. I am on pension and pay 29 euros for a visit at the GP, 59 at the emergency, 25 for an ambulance and daily fee if I end up at the hospital. There is also public dentists where you pay same as for a GP´s visit (for us pension at least) - that is for "normal" maintenance of your teeth.
Ironically, the Muumi mugs are manufactured in Thailand. The unikeon päivä is 27.7. but that specific tradition is not in my family at least, we just point it out verbally to the last person to wake up, if we remember. Also I think the rudeness of asking about people's wealth at least partially originates from our civil war (/failed communist revolution), because there's been a national shame/silent-keeping of it and everything that followed, and if someone is wealthy it pretty much automatically gives away which side their family was on.
Ahh after I heard that apples grown in England and sent to South Africa to be waxed and then sent back to british markets, I am not longer surprised at anything! Of course Muumi being a national pride, this doesnt look good! But business is business I guess. Thanks for the insight on the money thing, I havent heard this argument before but makes all the sense!!
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About how well Estonians are received in Finland... Perhaps Estonians have been so successful in their invasion to southern Finland that we have just given up and accepted it.
How you personally have been received is of course or must be a reflection of how you yourself interact with people. Niin metsä vastaa kuin sinne huudetaan.. something along those lines.
:) Love the saying, I actually understood it because it is so similar to estonian, translation would be: Nii mets vastab kui sina hüüad! But I am a firm believer in that, life often mirrors what we give out! Thanks for watching!
I’ve always considered estonians as cousins with a funny but familiar language(surprise, surprise, as it’s finno-ugrig). Whenever meeting an estonian person when travelling abroad we have always had an instant connection. 😊
@@tomofasia Haha true!! Same cultural backgroud unites! I am thinking the same, finnish is kinda similar but then some words they say in a funny way! :)
@@ViiveKaiRebane Ta on tõlge aga kas see on sama vanasõna Eestis ka mis tähendab sama asja?
@@ralepej Ma arvan, et eesti keeles oleks sama sellega: Kuidas küla koerale, nõnda koer külale! :)
The biggest problem with most countries especially in Africa and eastern Europe is corruption .The Finland politicians got it right .The original idea of government is to promote the wellbeing of your people .
Agree! Who are the politicians working for and where is the money going defines so much for the citizens!
Have you notice that some people don't want to explain where they are from. That has to do with some people who have nonlocal biological backgrounds but have totally local identity having often been born and raised in Finland. The are tired of being the obvious exceptions and treated as immigrant. They find comments like "you speak very good Finnish" troubling, since Finnish is their native language. And don't start conversation with them in English, they don't want to be reminded all the time that they have darker skin tone or other "foreign" features.
Good point, makes all the sense in the world!
Hey! Tere. Olen Austraalanne aga elan Eestis. Eesti Kohvi on kõige parim! 😉 I don't understand why Finnish coffee is so bad. Estonia makes coffee like we have here in Australia. Everytime I fly to Eesti via Helsinki, I'm surprised that the Finns have such terrible coffee. But, other than that it is a very beautiful country and the people are friendly and helpful. :)
Tere! Pean tunnistama, et olen teiega nõus! :) Aga eks see ole see, millega keegi harjunud on, neil on see tõesti teise maitsega! And totally agree, people here are super helpful! Thanks for watching! :)
Cool fact about Finland: We actually poor milk in the coffee!
Hahhaah magic
I don't understand, no cappuccino? You can get it in all of the million cafeterias at least in the Southern Finland. Edit: But otherwise a cool video!
Hehe well I was just talking about my experience, and I was in the middle and northern part mostly, or just driving! It wasnt available in the gas stations I visited, only this pot with already made black coffee in most places :) But thanks for watching, glad you liked it! :)
Where on earth are you that doesn't have cappuccinos? XD Have you ever been to a cafe? I've lived in Finland my whole life and in a few different places and never have I come across a cafe that doesn't serve cappuccinos. Maybe in some rural areas where their small places don't really serve any special coffee drinks at all I could see that being the case. Otherwise, I don't know what you're talking about. I see cappuccinos and latte drinks in almost every grocery store let alone cafes (store ones are nothing compared to cafes of course but just pointing out that they are there as well).
Almost none of the gas stations offered cappuccinos& very few restaurants that I went. Half way up north I already gave up :) Even some seaside restaurants in the south didnt have any :) But good to know they do exist somewhere!
@@ViiveKaiRebane Oh yeah, gas stations are not the place to go if you want good coffee, they're gas stations :D You go to gas stations for coffee where you're from? That's one difference in Finland then. Gas stations are known for their horrible coffee and small places only serve filtered coffee. The closer you are to south and urban areas though even most gas stations have at least the main special ones (latte, cappuccino and espresso). Not so much in rural areas and can't say about north since I've personally been living and traveling around south and mid Finland :)
But yeah, if you want special coffee drinks, go to a cafe, any cafe! :D or hit up a grocery store for instant cappuccino or ready made cold coffee drinks 👍
A seaside restaurant in the south didn't have cappuccino??? If it was a really small place I can actually see that being the case, but wow, it sounds like you've had such an incredible bad luck of finding the few places that don't have them, hahah :D Hope you'll have better luck in the future!
@@naniyodesu We dont go to gas stations if we want a good coffee, but if we go to gas stations, might as well grab a cappuccino to go :D they are quite decent in Estonian gas stations at least, and every gas station has the machine to make them! I guess I will still have to stick with my opinion that cappuccinos are a mythical creatures in Finland that only exist in the heads of my video commentators :D I hope that the future will prove me wrong and the legend will reveal itself to me!
Lapland is a little bit different than other parts in Finland. People there are so hostile and nice. If you respect Finnish people and culture, they will also respect you.
hospitable maybe?
@@setatampio9016 Yeah, my mistake :D
I am yet to meet an angry Finn! Haha everyone has been so nice!! The search continues! :)
Finns - Estonians: aren't we seeing each other as one Finnic family while others are brotherly neighbors (Latvians very close cousins to Estonians and admirably hardly ever tired of remind it). Take a comparative look here in youtube how expats see Finns and Estonians as well as Latvians, Swedes personality and social traits - you might notice how much of their descriptions align up (compared to others at least). How much of a bond the Baltic sea between all of us actually is.
Estonians, no matter the face, tend to despise "fake praise" and "over please" - they do not tend to like fake acting. But maybe it's mine observations.
Milk in Estonia - directly from farm unofficially do not count into GDP: 20 L/week to be consumed by me singlehandedly is hardly any achievement. Pro-tip you can cook with it so many things and nothing out beat proper farm milk in this field. And I know dairy farms where people take in lines for proper milk (techno-milk in stores just aint same thing - feels like washing water). Point here to suggest, Estonians do use more milk than it might seem on surface. But as this simply tank-to-bottle sale is illegal (at least without some extras) farmers themselves tend to avoid or shuu of this trade.
Government funded taxi for school kids - I can see your admiration, but it's not exactly like meanwhile in Estonia toddlers crawl 10 km to school through swamps in blizzard either. I highly doubt it was your point there, while one might get this expression. We do have government funded school buses, while I can see how this taxi system can also uphold taxi service in more remote areas. I also can not see any harm in little walk within fresh air for some shorter distance. If passage of 1 km becomes achievement to travel by foot, perhaps THEN we should focusing on removing school buses instead of providing taxis (unless some health condition). When I was at elementary school (not that long ago), choosing 6 km (or longer) walk to home were rather common theme (unless literal storm) - actually we got soaked by school officials leaving bus driver to await for kids with no one arriving. Maybe areal differences or something?
Rural life ~ various elements, each huge topics on own. Always every coin have two-sides (at least), lot is locked in locals themselves too.
Estonians love Muumi, as well as their own Lote and Limpa.
Estonian citizens do tend to have supportive mind set towards local products. Not buying have mostly one of two reasons: financial or product quality. For latter old phrase apply "I'm not rich enough to buy broken brush 10 times, if I can buy proper one with price of 3" plus "I can make one my self" - later with bit of pride.
Traffic culture is in constant improving trend - take time travel to Estonia one or two decades ago and you'd feel yourself in quite foreign country - not only in traffic. More exemplary traffickers are always welcome.
Thank you for this insighful comment! Absolutely feel closer to Finns than Latvians, probably because of the language!! But it is true that we are quite similar nations, with our own unique traits! I feel like estonians and finns have colder blood haha meaning are more reserved, and latvians and lihtuanians are much more energetic and outgoing! But thats just my optinion! And you are right, being overly polite is not something you see in Estonia, get to the point haha what do you want!
Did you say 20l of milk per week haha I dont even drink that much water! We have tank to bottle in our island of Hiiumaa and it is legal, def so much better to get it fresh right from the farm!
Love the "I can make one myself" sidenote haha back in the day everybody even built their own house!! Tough times make tough men! Appreciate you watching! All the best to you!
@@ViiveKaiRebane 20l milk together with cooking.
And what I meant with selling it from tank to bottle, sorting legal docs straight - pta.agri.ee/en
@@KohaAlbert I am not sure about the laws but I am assuming it probably requires a lot of paperwork to be able to sell it! Sometimes to eat through the paperwork is harder than the work itself :)
@@ViiveKaiRebane It's not only paperwork, to sell it out you also must make test against salmonella, etc. (reason why PTA permit is required)
Longer-lasted small family-farms often to not have the equipment for test - combinate makes it for them.
It is nice to hear about a foreigner's thoughts about Finland, even if it is by someone from as close as Estonia. What you said is mostly true, although asking about a person's profession is not rude, nor is it uncommon. Also, there are definitely some speeders driving on the roads during summertime, but they are quite rare. What you said about the government and taxi service for children sounded off, though. I mean, that kind of service exists, but it is paid by the municipality where those children happen to live in - not by the government.
Thanks for the feedback! Whether it is the government or the municipality, it comes from tax money and I am still blown away you guys do that hehee thinking of all the people who could use this kind of service over here in Estonia but who are kinda left on their own. It is just one step forward hehee over here people always say how living on a country side is something only rich people can afford, because you cant function without your own car... but this kind of service would take some pressure off from the folks on the countryside.. anyhow, thanks for watching and for the insight!
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My goal is to retire and move to Finland. A truly second to none people.
I hope you reach your goal!!! Such a beautiful land :)
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One thing that is not a correct observation. "Driving according to speed limit, overtaking and driving way too close." Many Finnish people drive over the speed limit. Overtaking and driving way too close to the car in front of you is also very normal.
Thank you for this! This was just my experience that I observed. But now that I have driven in Finland also in summer, I can definitely say that they drive much more faster without the snow! :)
I love how genuine this video feels like, think about this comment when you hit your million subscribers !
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Hahah you are so sweet! I will def think about this once I hit the million! Appreciate the support!! All the best!
Ofc in Finland, we have a lot of government-funded stuff, picking kids to school with "school taxi" etc. But we also pay A LOT of taxes for those things to be available. Also, our taxing system will not make "rich to be richer", because we have progressive taxing. It means that when you make more money you pay more taxes, this way our society is kept up as good as it is today.
I am a big supporter of progressive taxing, and looks like it is working well over here! I have heard a lot of people think that the taxes are way too high, but from an outsider it seem that the money is at least going to the right places :)
@@ViiveKaiRebane Yeah sure progressive taxing is Ummm.. well It depends on which point of view we are looking at it.
If you are a person that isn't making a whole lot of money, then it's good ofc, but for those who are making more money (before taxes), it's not that beneficial. Because when you get a raise, (when you get higher standard pay) you have to get a bigger and bigger salary in order that you are really earning more money (after taxes).
I understand that taxes fund everything and it benefits all people but in order to get "higher salary people" getting more responsibility at work that they are doing, or even get people to do "more complicated work", if you can't really see that work you are putting in, isn't giving you a bigger paycheck, what would motivate you to take more work and try to go higher at the work that you are doing if you are taking more responsibility for basically nothing... That's the downside of having progressive taxing... That's the real reason why we have a "brain drain". It means that people that are highly educated are going to other countries because they get a lot more money in relation to the demands of their work. Now only "easier work" making people stay, and they pay fewer taxes, and a circle of that -> government raise taxes and make more educated people leave, instead of getting a peace of their money (as a taxes to benefit the economy of Finland).
In brief, it's safe to say that it depends on which side you are looking at it and also its double edge sword. Higher standard taxpayers go away and lower standard taxpayers stay and the circle is ready.
Its cheaper to drive taxi than a big buss witch is not ideal.😮
That definitely makes sense! I guess the difference is that if there arent enough kids for the bus, they wouldnt care enough and they would have to find their own way to school here 😅