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finnish people are generally not super happy or super sad, we are content ... and content seems to be enough for to be happiest country in the world.
Big changes lately though with university students launching nationwide protest against government cuts. This due to a ballooning national debt that is nearly 2x that of say Denmark or Sweden.
Yes, content whether going up or down. Having perspective.
3:45 The first time I heard that Finland is ranked the happiest country in the world, I just felt bad for the rest of the world. Like, if WE'RE the happiest, how fucking miserable is the rest of the world?
It is pretty bad in most places for the average person in comparison to the Nordic countries
I have been living few short times abroad. Therefore I wasn't surprised at all. Every time I came back I valued my country even more.
We have a beautiful land where you can be quite easily who ever you wanna be. And if someone says you are nice or athletic or funny, you can truly believe it and be proud. It was always a fresh wind hear some straight talk after small talk.
I ❤ Suomi.
Famous finnish poet Eino Leino wrote "kel onni on se onnen kätkeköön" and it translate “he who has joy, let him hide it”. And that was 100 years ago and it still descripes finnish people pretty well.
A Song About Happiness
The one who has joy, shall hide it,
the one who has a treasure, shall cover the treasure,
and shall be happy with their happiness
and rich in their elation just alone.
No joy suffers the eyes' of people.
The one who has joy, shall go to forested wetlands
and live quietly, only quietly
and quietly rejoice in their happiness.
- Eino Leino
We are, the problem is that happiness is usually mistranslated in this context to mean "iloisuus" which is the more spontaneous joy/jolly/laughing happiness, when in fact it means the onnellisuus/tyytyväisyys which is the safety/feeling blessed/content/loved part of happiness.
Finns who hear we are the happiest country in the world, think it means the first kind, which they disagree with, but fail to realize it actually means the latter, which most can agree with more easily
Tämä!
The feeling of going to sauna in the winter is very much like "warming my bones". That is what it feels like, the heat goes into your bones, deep inside.
That sounds amazing, would love to try it on the winter.
yes school trips are free for everyone
When kids get home early they are either by themselves or with friends - they don't need someone looking after (over) them all the time. As it is e.g. said in the video, most kids walk to school, or take the bus, by themselves without any supervision. A real villain of our times is some people's need to control their children, and not giving them the freedom they need.
The Finnish mindset of stoic pragmatism definitely helps when things don't go the way one expects. I personally find the "Happiest country in the world" a bit misleading because it's not really about happiness, but more along the lines of how well the society functions. I'd say we Finns are quite content with our little mundane lives, not much to complain about. Corruption is nearly non existent, education is free all the way to Uni, human rights are respected, extensive social welfare so that no one ends up on the streets. All in all Finland is a really decent place to live. 👌🏽🇫🇮
To me the lows of life help you appreciate the mids and highs
That kind of mindset has at least helped me thru rough times without much despair
Yea im proud Finn
I’d love to go to Finland greetings from Houston texas usa
I'm almost 60 yrs old Finn and when I'm not suffering a lot. Then I'm happy. :)
omg the skateboarding lady is so epic!!
I can give you a hint about Finish happynes, eat a lot of black liquorice, have a private sauna, take at least one bath outdoors in winter!
Why do you need anymore to be happy?? Mayby blood sausages or liver sausages??
I' m happy 🤘🇫🇮
Finnish lottery winners live similar lives as they used to before winning. Maybe buy a bit better car and a bit better sausages for the grilling. Personally, I do feel happy enough to live here and hope it continues.
I am not sure about the happiness, but as a foreigner who lives in Finland, I can see that people are quite happy with what they have, and even most of the time, people don´t like to show they are rich (shy to show off), and even some of the managers or VPs in companies like to use secondhand shop materials for their daily lives, and they are proud to do so as well.
I feel happy and melancholic at the same time.
I'm lucky to live on Finland. Here has been safe to live. That's why I'm Happy.
Just one comment I wanted to add. Finnish humor is kind of dark and sarcastic and we like to have fun around these kind of stats. Visit us and you know what I mean
Happiness is connected to your mindset, attitude, and reactions towards on different things that are happening around you.
What has been mentioned here is the consistency of the living. There are many things that are far away from perfect, but we get along with some of the things. We have all our own individual criteria of what makes you happy, that's why I think the name of this report has been received with such different reactions, it should probably be renamed.
It's not cold it's moderately cool (I am Finnish, so I can say this)
I know that’s right
Lena's cap says Mummotunneli and that mean Granny Tunnel. And it's a bar in Helsinki
Finland is safe
I feel happy and lucky to live here!
And I have been travelling, everywhere there are nice places, but
Happiness means, that you are comfortable with yourself.
As a Finn I'd say I enjoy the good parts and don't give a fuck about the bad parts. True that my life has been pretty good always as my family is close and tightly knit together and suportive.
Frank Martela said in another interview that Finns don't advertise their joyfulness, as opposed to some for example Latin American countries. And happiness is comparative: you're happy if you believe you're having more sex than your neighbours. So if everyone around you advertised how perfect their lives are, you tend to feel bad. That's Instagram for you. In Finland showing off your success and belongings is frowned upon. Lottery winners don't necessarily want to buy a fancy car or quit their jobs.
also finnish high schools are completely free, too. School gives every student a free laptop (which we use in every finnish high schools and also some primary schools), also free lunch and everything for free. (this also includes the very fem private schools)
I am happy here in Finland. I have lived also in Spain and India. Everything is organised and work well. Like now a month ago I divorsed after 15 relationship. He was beating me etc. Goverment paid me moving company and got apartment in two weeks. And still got all these benefits every month to pay my bills, rent etc.
No one says it, but they are mostley happy because the Moomins are from Finland. 😊
All the Helsinkian viewers laughing out loud at the skating grandma wearing a 'Mummotunneli' cap. Of course she is... 🤣🤣
As a Finn I'm not surprised at our ranking as happiest. We generally have good social services and health care, low corruption, lovely nature and lots of it, that kind of thing. I also think that contentment equals happiness. It's not about grinning ear to ear 24/7 but of feeling pretty secure and content. Finns usually aren't obsessed with social climbing or consumerism, "keeping up with the Jones's" is not a thing. More like if you have ore than your neighbor, you're more likely to downplay it. I think it's more calm and centered and more about focusing on what you have rather than what you don't. It may also be because there has been so much war in our pretty recent future so people either remember what it's like not to have peace and security or have heard the stories from parents and grandparents about those times. I hope we can continue to be happy and at peace.
i had to take my bicycle to the school because it was under 6km. and it was a good thing. some days i took the bike, some days i rand. but for like something extremely cheap i could take the bus also.
when i wanted to go to helsinki i just needed to save up on the free bus- fare bills and i could hang out at the capital which was extremely cool . now i live here. i LOVE helsinki. best capital on earth.
There is also a saying, towards to new disappointments. Kohti uusia pettymyksiä. So we don't have high hopes and things planned ahead to retirement. Little setbacks are little and mostly expected. And when we succeed we accept it just a little thing too and not a thing to celebrate. So difference treating success and failure is small.
When my friends played basketball in highest level in finland, they had a saying if we win we drink (alcohol of course) and if we lose we drink twice as much. So it was celebration either way.
And when their team rose to highest level they had a friendly off season game against another team which was already on highest level. You could smell that old booze in the audience. And when I sat on first row I heard what those centers said each other, before judge threw ball.
"I have hangover"
"me too"
"Ok lets play this game so we can go to the bar"
And it was actually good game with lots of points and action.
These are funny -and real!
I can say that I am happy
Sauna is amazing, we have more saunas than cars. It feels Soooo fucking good I tell you, and it's good for your skin too!
I now a 80 years old woman in sweden that are a graffiti artist
Dwayne, you don't have to be so surprised that the first skater generations have reached retirement age... ;-) We all grow old some day. :-) 😊
Haha that’s true lol! But I mean, you don’t see that everyday 😂
Finland is renown for their school system, and we other Nordics would really want to have the same one, but unfortunately our politicians don't want to...
It's worst in Sweden, where the big corporations owns the politicians... and as long as it's like that our school system and health services will never become what the people actually want.
Answer is dairy, xD
about the accepting bad thing more easily, i feel like most Finns have the "it is what it is" kind of mindset. accepting that something happened doesn't make it less bad or the bad disappear, but there is no reason to dwell in it. it already happened so why worry about it happening? its time to move on and find a solution to fix it.
Älä itke kaatunutta maitoa = Don't cry about the spilled milk
The problem with the happiness index is that it has the biggest clickbait title. It takes several metrics into account like GDP per capita, environment, corruption levels etc. In reality it makes sense why Finland is nr 1 because of these factors. I think of it more as the average person having a higher chance of living a good life here. Malaysia is a lot warmer, welcoming and happier but there's a bigger chance that you are born into poverty or experience corruption.
Another things is that Finns tend to complain a lot which is funny because we literally border an incredibly corrupt country where they never seem to complain, but on the other hand this is the key to success. You don't solve problems without recognizing them first.
The older woman don’t break your hip
and schools have afternoon clubs for small children they wont send like 7y kid home before parent/parents are home, they do homework, play and get a snack. Parents just inform the school the days they need the service and its free
but ofc you can be without it if you trust your kid can manage few hours alone and usually they do.
I'm happy but I don't make a number of it....because I'm Finnish 🙃
happiness comes from that you are taken care of whatever ever might happen to you. content. that´s the right word.
almost nobody cares about income or money .. .etc
you don´t need money to do whatever you want to do. school ... health-care ... anything.
everybody knows people with summer cottages and boats and whatever you need .
most people don´t long for anything they don´t have.
if you want to eat any kinds of mushrooms. they are extremely easily found in the forest. even to helsinki-people.
my mum as a kid during ww2 they had free school meals
They have a better school system
They have somethink to drink called : Finlandia
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"Why Finland and Denmark are happier than the U.S?"
Grandma don’t break a hip
Contentment and ease of life - those are the main points imho.
PS. Why are English-speaking people "expats", whereas everyone else is an immigrant - shouldn't the word "expat" really be banned?
Things could always be worse, so finnish people are more or less content without anything major to 'achieve.' I guess few Finns really seek out excessive materialistic possessions and we tend to value experiences and relationships more. And tbh, those who do don't seem all that happy either.
On Finnish standards, we are not very happy and things are not going so well. But the world doesn't set the bar too high... ;)
I think us being happiest is misleading. We have very small requirements to be basic content. I wouldn't call us happy, I would call us content, not even satisfied since there's a ton of stuff that we could improve upon. But we have sisu so we will just deal. And we take even the smallest bits of happiness as just that, being happy. Sauna, good food, nature, our pets and families and so on. We love fiercely.
"Why are Finns the happiest.." = In English it means that our municipal/national/parliamental/civil servants/school system/health care etc. are 98% reliable systems...nobody is left alone. In my opinion there would be more homeless people if it wasn´t so cold here. Luckily during the daytimes 6-22 there are many places were you can stay warm without being hushed away (libraries, malls...) Some tens of Finns actually have chosen to live in forest. BUT the ones who would really like to have a place called home is around 1000 people, so this problem is easilly solved.
What is it in Fahrenheit here in usa
Cant express this enough, Its CONTENT not happiness. The word is silly.
basic hapiness😂
jee jee jee, i know what ya mean
I don't think Finn's ( I'm one) are melancholic people. I personally think we are more pessimistic people. We expect the worst to happen all the time and for things to go down the drain. So... When things don't go badly and things are actually going well.. we are happily surprised by the outcome of things. At the same time IF things go well for too long we are always waiting for the other shoe to drop. So in essence we don't believe at out core that we deserve to be happy. And we don't flaunt our happiness when we have it because we believe that it will be taken from us. So we are silent and content and our happiness is mostly internal or the expression of it is kept within the family or among close friends. (I've heard that many foreigners think that Finn's are always angry.. no... we are not.. we are just an actual country of people where "resting bitch face" is the norm 🤣)
Finland is full of forests, lakes, rivers, pure nature. It is a human's built-in gene inheritance to be close to nature. Man is happiest close to nature, not to cities.
The Guardian recently made a video that compares child care in the UK and in Finland, that might be of interest to you: czcams.com/video/9sAdisqKsaM/video.html
finnish happiness: you don´t need money to be happy.
Its not FREE!!!! Its the taxpayer who pay this!!! Nothing its free!!! Its always someone who pay!!
finland has more saunas than cars, clearly. who needs a car anyway?
Finland is not the happiest country in the world.
@@peketee2278 "Happiness" can't be measured and thus trying to name one becomes Impossible.
But the meme in Finland about it being the happiest country on Earth is because all the sad people kills themselves is also part of the reality. It didn't come up from nothing.
@@peketee2278
"but if the measurement result doesn't match your narrative, you start arguing against it."
I beg your pardon. 'My' narrative?
I suggest you to take your own advice and keep an eye on yearly suicide rates in Finland.
@@peketee2278
Oh boy. A common mistake to use wikipedia as a source.
The same site states Hitler to be a facist, which is inaccurate.
Please try to refrain from using wikipedia.
I know it becomes more difficult to use links as this platform doesn't support it -- or more importantly they don't allow links that are in line with their policies. Or agendas, if I may say so.
I'd suggest to do multiple research and compare the results in statistic sites.
Even, if we would go where the fence is the lowest and use your preferred site as some kind of source. Finland doesn't do very good in there to be titled as "The happiest country".
It's impossible to prevent suicides. But ignoring them in such magnitude and hail Finland as the "Happiest" is quite.. Well.. In my opinion STUPID. Like really stupid.
Hence probably why the meme is very known what I was referring to earlier.
High IQ individual deletes all of his comments. Good job.
Tuo onnellisuus indeksi on iso höyryävä kasa PASKAA=That happiness index is big steaming pile of SHIT ,made by people who has never seen hardship of any kind in their lifes.