How Finland and Japan are similar and different? - Talk with my Finnish friend
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I’ve traveled to Tokyo and loved it now I’m headed to Helsinki. Much respect from an American of Iranian descent 😊
This is surely a City thing as well, but I think it's also a Japan thing:
I'm a Finn from a very tiny village living in urban Japan. I find Japanese people are much more fond of spending on consumable experiences such as spending money at cafes and patisseries, on sweets and foods, and activities.
It can be a problem when trying to make friends when there is an expectation to do activities where lots of money is spent with relative strangers. This to some extent is keeping my circle of friends small. Some say the best things in life are free, but friendship certainly isn't free. When visiting your friend for a few hours costs a few hours' wages, one may question whether you can even afford it.
That's actually a good point. I agree with your opinion that friendship certainly isn't free in a way.
Hah, well this one hit quite close home! After 15 years, I’m changing my place of work. When you stay at one place for a long time, after a time, your development may start to stall if you’re not careful. Happily, for many years my work was very versatile and I had the opportunity to keep learning new things while working. But when I realised that I had started to become unsatisfied and anxious, I knew that my time at that company was finally coming to an end. I know that staying this long at any company is VERY rare these days, but I gained so much deeper knowledge about so many things during that time. Some times I regret for staying that long, but in the end, I thing the things I gained, outweigh the ”time lost”.
Cool, as far as you learn new things at work during the 15 years, it's great and nothing wrong about it. Job hoppers aren't always good.
The biggest difference is that Finns are almost always 本当 hontō, even brutally honest. Most just blurt out NO or YES, and we mean it. The most direct no you'd get from a Japanese person is "hazukashii..." or something like that. 😆
フィンランドに興味があり、コロナが落ち着いたら行ってみたいと思ってます。とても興味深い動画でした！
ありがとうございます。ぜひぜひ！
Awesome new experimental videography technique, Daichi! Keep on walking! And of course, the first similarity that came from the Finn's mouth is THEE defining one! But to paraphrase the United States Marines: Once a friend, always a friend.
Haha Thank you!
As a Norwegian who have traveled around in Japan alone, I find this quite interesting and relatable.
Hope to be here soon
Great video
Thank you!
mahtavaa video! it was so interesting to hear the similarities and differences between finnish and japanese people. for future reference, i think it would help if you filmed these type of "discussions" indoors, maybe in a studio environment, because the background outdoor noises, like the seagulls squawking and the gravel that you are walking on is very distracting and it makes it difficult to hear your discussion.
Thanks. Haha yeah, we suddenly just decided to film without any plans but maybe next time it could be done inside :) Thanks for the feedback.
Hi Daiki! Newcomer here, just arrived in Finland and am slowly discovering the cultural differences. Enjoyed your videos a lot, keep up the good work!
Thank you for watching, and welcome to Finland! Hope this country treats you nicely :)
I have been working in the same company for nearly 13 years, all my adult life.
In blue collar works staying in one company is more common. In my workplace have alot of people who has been there since 70's.
I see, that's interesting!
今日は二回目。 幸せな週末。
Thank you!
In one way I think japanese working hierarchy is quite appealing with all the rules where who sit etc. It sounds like you really respect others,.. But on the other hand it sounds a bit too much and very old custom, which it is..
Yes exactly... 😁
I have dropped my wallet four times in Finland and every time it's been returned, with nothing missing.
フィンランドと日本は北方に先住民族がいるのが共通点かなと思いました。サーミ人とアイヌ人です。
East Asian work culture, not just in Japan but also in China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan is the worst.. there is little work life balance to speak of, and workers are expected to almost work like slaves for their bosses. I do not know if it is because of Confucian ethics, philosophy and values; but all these societies have similar problems which does not exist only in the workplace but also in school, where students are made to study ridiculous number of hours for national exams. What is even worse is that many of these countries even have an 'after work drinking culture' where colleagues are coerced and expected to go for alcohol drinks after their job, something like a 'team bonding session' if you will, but hierarchy is still strictly adhered to, and there is little to no enjoyment; its just part of your job and you can't say no. It is so extreme there are phenomenons like 'karoshi' （过劳死） in Japan, 'gwarosa' in Korea or 'guolaosi' in China, it's all referring to the same term from Chinese loanwords which means 'overworked to death'; and youths in China are increasingly wanting to give up on life, by just 'lying flat' (躺平）. Motivation among young people are at all time lows in these countries.I'm not from any of the abovementioned countries but here in Singapore where we have a huge ethnic Chinese population (~75%); part of our culture encourages hard work, yet at the same time because our society has been 'Westernised' by some degree due to our British colonial history and adopting English as our first language, it is a more toned down / watered down version of what they have in China, S. Korea or Japan. By that I mean we are still expected to be contactable by our colleagues / bosses even when on leave or vacation; it is an interesting mix but still less work-life balance compared to many European countries. Would love to be able to work in Finland some day.
Daiki, I am watching the video again and I have a HORRIBLE statement to make: There is only one country in the world where someone stole money from my unattended wallet, and that country was Japan. I could not believe it; When I was teaching a class in Tokyo in the early eighties, a Japanese person stole all my cash left unattended. I thought you did not have to worry about thieves in Japan...I was wrong...
Well it could happen anywhere and Japan is large but I'm sorry to hear that
Even Japan has its criminals.