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Thanks for coming to our beautiful and very expensive country Callum. It used to be nicer, not as much these days thanks to immigration. That pizza looked horrendous 😅 I liked this video, you did a fair assessment of our country.
Brit here , lived in Finland for over 2 yrs before moving back to good ol' blighty :( the finns arent the happiest people in the world but they are the most content and know where true happiness comes from- great work/life balance,nature,peace of mind and family.
A Finn here. I think in the Finnish version of the happiness survey is actually using the word content instead of happy. Tyytyväinen = content, satisfied Onnellinen = happy, joy
If you want to experience the Finns in their natural habitat, go to a random rally and just yell "oioioioioi" whenever a car goes by. They will accept you as their own in an instant.
I'm an American. I parked behind a car today, they had 2 bumpster stickers. One was an "autistic pride: because you can't cure who you are" sticker and the other was simply a Finnish flag. I laughed.
We must be the paradise country for autists because instead of small talking and playing a role in public we just ignore each other. No need to do painful masking when people are already acting like you :D I wonder if that could be a strength for getting skilled immigration. All autistic coders welcome
Fun fact, Mannerheim is the only World War 2 leader who doesn't have an English-language biography...... Because nobody can be bothered enough to learn Finnish for it
> Son of Swedish Nobles > Fight for Russian Empire > Fight for newly established Finnish state > Become national hero > Go into the middle of nowhere to start a business > Fight again in WW2 against both USSR and (GERMANY) > Go back to your business > Still loves Tsar Nicholas II Least confusing part of anything Finnish related
As it was often the case, the Swedish elite didn't disappear under the Tzar, they just swore loyalty to the new leader, but kept the values and ideas of aristocrats. They didn't necessarily care about having a nation state as much as they cared about figthing communism.
Mannerheim got kicked out of the Finnish army in his youth for drinking too much, so he joined the Russian army. Whilst serving the Tsar on an expedition to China and Tibet, he taught the then Dalai Lama to pistol shoot.
A bit more complicated than that. He was kicked out of the Cadet school in Hamina, so the only possibility to complete an officer's training was to get to a military school in Russia.
@@EdMcF1He was born in one of the spookiest baroque manor houses in Finland, which is an excellent museum now. The place was bought using the money donated for his equestrian statue; the donations were so huge they could not possibly be spent on a statue. His father went bankrupt and fled to Paris with his mistress. The family was one of extremes, Mannerheim himself was a Dinosaur from another epoch.
My finn friends died inside, then slowly turned away. They are a few generations removed from the old country, however, so this is all based on built in genetic programming, not anything cultural...
On holiday in Spain I made a made a comment about the weather, (the way I'd do to a British person as a matter of course) to a Finnish woman who was at least 20 years older than me. She took this innocent comment as a pass. I don't know who was more mortified, me or her. My guess is that Finns aren't used to speaking to strangers.
Kalevala was not collected by a "Swedish" guy. Elias Lönnroth was a Finnish speaking Finn, despite of his name, which was not uncommon at the time. Also the man who composed the national anthem was not Swedish but German, who had emigrated into Finland.
Similarly Mannerheim wasn't Swedish. His family had migrated to Sweden from Germany a few hundred years earlier but it was already his great-grandfather who had moved to Finland from Sweden. His grandfather was the governor of the Viipuri province in the Grand Duchy of Finland under Russia. I think the big mistake being done here is assuming the people with Swedish names or speaking Swedish were Swedish. It was common for people higher up in the society to use Swedish and adopt Swedish or Swedish-sounding names. It aided them due to Finland's history of being ruled by Sweden and Swedish having been the language of the ruling class. Many families also had some origins in Sweden but had since moved to Finland and become Finnish, yet they retained the Swedish names and even language. Finally, Christianity had been introduced to Finland through the Swedes. When the Finns started adopting Christian names, many would initially adopt the Swedish form. If he was trolling to get under the Finns' skins, well played.
@@bennyklabarpan7002 karelians are a different people from finns? arent they all uralic? p.s. i dont like these two fucking limey cucks...they dont know what theyre talking about...they do a dis-service to the finns imo
Britain declared war on Finland during WW2 but mostly to please their ally the Soviet Union. Churchill recognized Finland's problem and was actually sympathetic to the Finns plight. Hence Britain did not get into military fighting with Finland and to this day maintains good relations with Finland, signing military assistance pledges even before Finland joined NATO.
As a Finn I would not say all Russians are hated but the current Russian government is for sure very disliked. What some guy has said on year X about of some Russian is quite a big generalisation of the whole situation.
Finns just want to be left alone and do as we please. Whether it is on the individual or international level. However, the rest of the world doesn't seem to comply, so we have been forced to intermingle and much ill and woe has befell because of it.
I met some Finns in Prague. Me and my mates shared a dorm with them. Massive fuckers. Very funny guys. We had a bread fight in the room, much to the annoyance of the maid 😬 They liked beer. That’s the extent of my knowledge of them.
I just want to mention that these Swedish people living in Finland that were crucial in the creating the national spirit of Finland and the national romanticism themselves said "We are no longer Swedes, we don't want to be Russians, let us therefore be Finns."
I grew up in Minnesota and I've read some interesting history about Finns coming to America (I have some Finnish ancestry). Evidently when the Finns started immigrating to the area to work the iron mines they ended up having to organize protests to be considered "White enough" to receive comparable wages to their counterparts who immigrated from more western regions of Europe. Some have said that the Swedish immigrants in the area disparaged them and claimed they were Asian in an attempt to discourage Finns from coming to the area lol.
Many Finnish Finns have Swedish surnames for historical reasons. For example named after the farmstead their predecessors worked in. Also many of the Finlands-Swedes speak fluent Finnish and are indeed more Finnish than Swedish, although some have slight cultural differences inherited from the partly Swedish background.
The only reason Finland tops those happiness indexes is because they are done by survey and a Finn answering those questions just does not want to complain about anything to a damn stranger.
Neither Runeberg nor Lönnrot were Swedish. Runeberg spoke Swedish as his first language but was from Finland. While Lönnrot did publish a number of works in Swedish, his first language was Finnish (he didn't learn Swedish until school)
I love how watchers of this channel have now grown entirely used to having North Korean music used as a score, no matter what the subject country might actually be.
@@georgemulford2910 Alcoholism, culture that emphasizes not complaining and handling your own shit, dark winters and lack of proper care. There is so much less stigma about mental health problems, care is not that much better but they do take it more seriously. Gen X already was much better at talking about their problems more openly and consider it normal to have problems. The newer generations are even better at that. Boomers and the Great Generation were taught to shut up and deal with it, to suffer quietly and to be ashamed of having mental issues, depression, anxiety etc. If anyone had known that you go to therapy you would've been social pariah... Which lead to widespread alcoholism as people tried to self medicate.
Almost all the reindeer in Finland belong to someone, they are just not held in pens so they can roam free. There are some wild reindeer of course, but most are "farmed".
Lol, terrible food cultures stick together :D I'm a Finn and fucking love the Nordics and it being so easy to live a good life here. A safe high trust social democracy rules. But Nordic food is overall pretty bad. I like some weird Finnish stuff but mostly just eat food that originates from other places.
A small anecdote about Mannerheim, this was right after the civil war and Mannerheim was told that the finns would not try to retake saint Petersburg to reinstate the tsar and reform the Russian empire. It was also decided that Finland would become a democracy. These terrible news made Mannerheim so distraught that he shut himself in his apartment, not letting anyone in for a week. Then he ran for president
Sun suku katteli ympärilleen ja aatteli "Ugh vihaan asua kylmässä maassa jossa on paska hallitus, huomattava historia ja kulttuuri. Pitäiskö meijän muuttaa tähän paskempaan kylmään maahan missä on vielä paskempi hallitus, huomattavampi historia ja tylsempi kulttuuri?" Mulki on setä ja sen perhe Kanadassa ja niilt on jo 4 lasta muuttanu takas Suomee. Kaikki se työ muuttaa ulkomaille vaan että lapset haluu takas😂
What's there to be proud of... I mean not to be a douche but I can't think of a single solitary useful thing to have come out of Finland. It's a completely anonymous country.
That comment felt like a joke to me. We do pride ourselves to be Northern or Western, but we do have Eastern influences if not from denying it. Even the coats of arms shows this
The all-naked mixed sauna thing. In Germany, that's just the normal Sauna. Never thought about it until I first left Germany. Lol. Always was normal to me. Ofc. recently there have been problems for women in those saunas. As i've been told, the "new Germans" are sometimes not behaving well under these circumstances. They'd stare, and attempt to grab. So private saunas and "women only" saunas are becoming more popular, aswell as driving for some time, to get to rural areas, where things are still normal.
11:04 "High trust society" until the percentage of the immigrants you've mentioned surpasses the critical threshold. Experience: Athens's centre, from a Greek here.
went to greece about a month ago for my first time ever, flew into athens but once we got out in the country it was absolutely beautiful. Your country is amazing!
@@waters3700 I'm really glad you liked it. How was Athens in particular? Did you only go to the centre as most tourists do? Or went to any suburb as well? Athens is a uniformly dense metropolis, and you can get to the most basic suburbs with the metro. As for the rest of the country, where did you go exactly? Mainland or the islands (again, as almost any tourists go for the latter)?
Lumping all Fennoswedes as 'Swedes' is ignorant. Swedish speaking does not mean that you are not a Finn to begin with but in many cases Finnish speaking Finns have adopted Swedish language so if you're trying to figure out if someone is a human or a Finn then language is not sufficient.
He does address this in and seems to use it to emphesize that Fennoswedes are not really the same as Finns, which I at least agree with. It is incorrect in the sense that Swedes would not agree that they are Swedish either but something unique. Something in between what the Afrikaans are to Dutch and the Baltic Germans were to the Germans.
Even some Finns think that Finland's suicide rate is particularly high. In reality, Finland's suicide rate is currently at the European average. Suicides have decreased in Finland since 1990. However, the suicides of young people are worrisome.
The Finnish taste is quite similar to the Dutch. I even noticed some Dutch liquorice in the video (katjes). We also had the n-word kisses, which got renamed (officially).
@@hornantuutti5157 well, if you happened to source those from a fellow at the end of the bridge, you likely got trolled, paid too much, and those weren't really the candies either...
Wait, Callum was here?! In our little corner of the world? Nyt torille! I honestly couldn't agree with you more about Helsinki. It feels like another whole country where you hear more other languages than Finnish while walking outside. I lived there for a year and left as soon as possible. As to the whole "happiest people" myth about Finland, there are two things that should be said. Firstly, I think it is not so much "happiness" as it is "contentment." Here, people don't strive for something akin to the "American dream, " and so material wealth isn't necessarily something a lot of people fuss over. That doesn't mean we don't whine about a lot of stuff, mind you, probably more than the average tbh. Secondly, I think there is a difference between city and countryside people. At least how it seems to me, not being forced to share your close neighborhood with thousands of people makes for a much less stressful environment to live in, and Finland has space aplenty. Even for those living in the largest cities, there are summer cottages you can rent on a lakeside somewhere and a hot sauna to go to after a dip into the water. There are no shortages of places to go where there are practically no people around, which is, in my opinion, a nice counterweight to the normal routine during workdays and the amount of people you have to "tolerate" during them. Me and my dad went traveling around Finland this summer, and it is admittedly sad to see how the border now looks. I personally wouldn't mind seeing it open again.... just as long as Russia would stop being so.... aggressive. In defense of the border police, those guys have a lot of work to do with our long, shared border with Russia. Finnish people have globally one of the most favorable opinions about the police, along with quite a high trust in them. It is slightly taboo matter to bother them unnecessarily, though that goes to every human contact with strangers in general as well. As a proper fennomaani, I have to add to the fact that you raised about so many cultural things being done by Finnish Swedes; the reason for that is of course the fact that Swedish was the language used in higher education and the fact that the most well-to-do people were Swedish speaking nobility who had more time on their hands to spare for such leisure activities. The actual Finns were busy trying to get enough food for the following winter etc. With the change of empires and the russofication that followed, the status of Swedish speaking Finns became dangered due to Russian language joining in as another administration language in government, and so, interests were aligned with both Swedes and Finns to seek independence and put aside the historical gripes about the two-tier society that had existed during Swedish rule. Thus, to strenghten the claim for Finnish nation state and due to the romantic nationalism that was sweeping across Europe at that time, you had many Swedish speaking Finns becoming interested about the native Finns in a typical "noble savage" romanticized way. This doesn't, of course, lessen the value of their work to Finnish culture, but had Finnish language been accepted as a official language in government and in education much earlier, you very well might have had native Finns being the ones to create these cultural works like Kalevala.
Not only, quite many languages throughout Europe have that. At least towards north and east it's mostly parallel calque (translated loan) via German from since or prior 18th century. Also, many of those languages have/had broader usage of "iron" as for general use strong metals - especially for steel and cast.
@@Alex_Fahey too literal though - implying that the metal must be involved. "ironroad" and "railway" are only partially overlapping either way, thus not full synonyms. Reason for why various languages have come up with "trainroad", "trackway", etc
Or is it due to the cultural basis within the community that upholds Christian tenets (whether Christian or non Christian) within their society? Being that their largest denominations are Lutheranism and Orthodoxy, the latter bringing in huge swathes of immigrants...immigration isn't the issue, it's the VALUES & CUSTOMS which those immigrants uphold that determines overall societal health.
@@missnthrop5763 that was obviously implied. Immigration from ethnitically different people, as such have very different cultures and they do not care about the people they immigrate to or the country and neither do they respect the laws, since its not their own
As usual, you brought the real Finland, and your new chum is absolutely wild. Thanks, Callum, for the informative, eye-opening, and enriching cultural tour.❤️ Btw, where are all the Finns? Are they all in the sauna?
If you wish to learn more about the finish state of mind, I would highly recommend the work of the novelist Arto Paasilinna. He was an incredibly productive and popular writer who pretty much wrote a book a year for 30 years, all that have wildly different stories, from a man traveling the countryside with a hare (The Year of the Hare), to an old god returning to try to make the Finns pagans again (Son of the Thunder God) to a man getting a guardian angel that is bad at his job (A Goofy Guardian angel). Despite their wildly different stories, they all manage to show the essence of the Finns soul. That life is mostly harsh and often unfair, but one will get through it with black humor, sisu, good food and drink and sauna. Sadly, the best books imo aren't translated into english, but The Year of the Hare is, and while it's not the best, it's still really good and is a good representation of the Paasilinna's work. As a Norwegian, I find Finland to be an incredibly fascinating country. So similar, yet so different from my own, despite being almost right next to us. The Finns seem to have the same general demenour as us Norwegians, but turned up to 11. I wonder what the people who find Norwegians hard to approach think of the Finns. XD I really need to go there sometime myself. I've tried to get some friends to join me on a proper road trip there, since we've already travelled across England and the BeNeLux.
The key difference between the Anglo-Scottish relations and the Finnish-Russian , is the latter is between 2 sovereign states and Russia isn't asset stripping and being bank rolled by Finland. Scottish nationalists hate the English? Not a very nuanced take.
Conscript service is 6-12 months, depending on the place of service and the scope of the training. In addition to this, there are still reserve exercises for 60-200 days. Until you turn 65 years old.
Felt a bit offended by the assumption of a Swedish name = Swede. It's not like the finns weren't subhumans in their own country with a Swedish name as a mandatory to be middle class.
Finland, Finland, Finland The country where I want to be Pony trekking or camping or just watching T.V Finland, Finland, Finland It's the country for me .....couldn't resist, it was the first thing that popped into my head at your intro.
There were 3 popular border crossing points between Russia and Finland. One you've visited was the fastest for those who wanted to travel to Helsinki or port Kotka, 2nd was just on the way to Lappeenranta (that had even bigger shopping district right on the border) and the third one was on the way to Imatra, that have a rare Russian city that is located just on the border. Those border crossings used to have a huge queues in both directions - Russians used to travel to shop for european goods and spend weekend by the lake, finns traveled to get cheap alcohol and do business. Road you've seen was quite busy. As was the railway.
I kinda wish it was Finns running the country but in reality we are ruled by the EU. In fact, I think we genuinely ran our own country few decades right after independence struggles and few years between fall of Soviet Union and us joining the EU.
Most countries have border zones for borders that are not open. It would be pretty difficult to effectively patrol and guard the border otherwise. You can get a permit if you have an actual reason to enter the border zone. Some people live in the border zone with permission because their families had property there when the border was established. Other than those people fixing their homes or building sheds etc. nothing new is built there. By entering the border zone without a permit or by attempting the same you would be committing a "lievä valtionrajarikos" (minor border offence) or a "valtionrajarikos" (border offence) under Finnish criminal law (rikoslaki 7 §). The punishment would be a fine and/or imprisonment for up to one year. The border and the border zone are electronically monitored 24/7 and they do come to investigate pretty damn quick if you step into the border zone without permission.
Didn't expect that you would visit so this was a pleasant surprise. Glad to hear you enjoyed at least some aspects of my country. It's also clear to me that you did your research since the lore you described was quite accurate. Solid job.
Elias Lönnrot wasn't swedish, yes obviously he was in sweden as literally every single finn at the time, since finland wasn't a thing but still Finnish
The Germans were not that considerate in Northern Norway. They burnt everything in Finnmark County. I suppose the difference was that in Northern Finland, the remaining houses wouldn't shelter Soviet troops.
As a Swede, I can tell you we really have even more in common with the Finns than I thought. Railroad is "iron road" (järnväg) in Swedish too and that's not awkward or cumbersome. We never defer to English for that. Our tendency for Swenglish is just borne out of laziness and insufficient IRL social interaction. I do have a connection to Finland and a little Finnish ancestry, but I am Swedish through and through. We have a lot of licorice here too, but it's often considered a Finnish thing by us. We have that same 'Salmiakki' stuff in our supermarkets. Salt licorice is superiour to sweet. 32:15 My uncle's favourite. Milk situation is about the same here too. Arla is dominant, but Valio is a strong second. They brought back conscription here in 2017. Though not everyone has to do it. At least I didn't have to. Also, we have the equivalent of Alko, known as 'Systembolaget'. Direct translation: The system company. Support for it isn't that great among non-lefty types and I presume it's similar in Finnish. The Purvo pizza was a lot like a Swedish kebabpizza. That road sign is used to signify ancient monuments and stuff here too. 53:15 It's quite common with substantial underground parking under big malls in Sweden. I know there's that in Stockholm. But I've never seen a Bitcoin machine before. Saturday sweets, or Lördagsgodis, is something we do in Sweden too. And all of the red houses with white trims are a Swedish thing as well. Falu Red is the colour. Hex value #801818. 48:28 This is Swedish food, including the Thursday tradition, though Swedish pancakes are thinner and more like crepes. Back when school food was good here, it's something you might've gotten. Seeing all those abandoned places around 36:00 is just sad, man. I've seen some sparsely populated places in Sweden, but never like this. Not with these kinds of structures around. You'd expect a population of at least 30K, which is a lot for us. It's like you're the last man on Earth. That border zone stuff is insane. That's people's homes, but the territory has been claimed in the name of the 🤓empire, NATO. It really is a shame how much we've adopted modern swampy Americanism, with censoring art and such. That's part of the meaning of "little Americans". Neither neger nor 'neekeri' were bad words until we imported the sensitivity around the American n-word around the '90s and '00s. I mean, I said it as a kid and it was just considered a bit rude. I'm turning 24 soon.
Salmiakki is my jam, especially salty licorice variants hahahaha! Should've gone to a Metal concert, Finland has more bands per person capita than any other country in the world, some killer record stores there too. Thanks for the laughs dude!
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Thanks for coming to our beautiful and very expensive country Callum. It used to be nicer, not as much these days thanks to immigration. That pizza looked horrendous 😅 I liked this video, you did a fair assessment of our country.
@@Britannica1 visit Noristan province of Afghanistan please
Small correction; when you said that it was only Finnish sea mines, there were also plenty dropped by soviets and Germans.
come to norway, it is similar
Not eastern part but west and north part of norway😁
I can confirm that Finns are infact sentient snow.
Koska jää on vettä ja ihmiset osa vettä! Brilliant.
Meil' on hanki ja jää... 🎶
That has been debunked, in the book "Yellow Snow" by I.P. Freely!
This is lies and government propaganda.
The Finns are a subset species from the local Poro.
Oh, I just thought of a naughty joke.
Brit here , lived in Finland for over 2 yrs before moving back to good ol' blighty :( the finns arent the happiest people in the world but they are the most content and know where true happiness comes from- great work/life balance,nature,peace of mind and family.
A Finn here. I think in the Finnish version of the happiness survey is actually using the word content instead of happy.
Tyytyväinen = content, satisfied
Onnellinen = happy, joy
Great work-life balance. That explains why everything is closed all the time.
This guy is presenting Finns as dirt bags. That is a new take on Finland.
Mio’s is absolutely slammed
On a Monday!
Great minds think alike
My almost date was a no show
Widow
Still struggling with life
"It was closed"
The average finnish experience.
If you want to experience the Finns in their natural habitat, go to a random rally and just yell "oioioioioi" whenever a car goes by. They will accept you as their own in an instant.
Or shout "HANAAAAA". That also works
He went there to try to find archeological relics from the Hyperwar.
so much history lost....
@@New525 Jackie Chan died that day...
Imagine a full imperial korean warship out in the woods just abandoned.
Please don't speak about our dark past. We are not the same people as we were during the hyper war.
@@Mal0Imperzia all of those ships were found long ago and recycled properly. There are no remnant of our violent past left in this world.
I'm an American. I parked behind a car today, they had 2 bumpster stickers. One was an "autistic pride: because you can't cure who you are" sticker and the other was simply a Finnish flag. I laughed.
Brilliant 😂😂😂🇫🇮
@@annatenhunen4887 What were the odds it'd be in the exact same day I see this video 🤣God has a sense of humor
We must be the paradise country for autists because instead of small talking and playing a role in public we just ignore each other. No need to do painful masking when people are already acting like you :D
I wonder if that could be a strength for getting skilled immigration. All autistic coders welcome
@@luisdawnfinder3188 As a Finn myself I’m 100% sure they made that on purpose 😂 A perfect example of our sense of humor 👌
finally, a travel youtuber who doesnt just stay at helsinki
You will never be a woman
There is something outside Helsinki? JK
It's amazing how full of shit youtubers are when it comes to that sort of thing
@@SamiJuntunen1 Yes, Finland.
If I left Helsinki could I find a goth gf?
Pekkas are funny people. They stopped the heavily armed Soviets, but they couldn't stop the Scientists and Engineers that came without any firearms...
Well.. the Soviets that Stalin sent there weren't exactly heavily armed either to be fair. They just sent a lot of men to zerg the country.
@@badrollmodels1298 do you believe that every country suffers as much as the "enlightened west" ?
So fucking true, but not in the way you meant it.
Fun fact, Mannerheim is the only World War 2 leader who doesn't have an English-language biography...... Because nobody can be bothered enough to learn Finnish for it
Lol
I smell a business oppu-
Nevermind, i just remembered what Finnish looks like. I'll stick to thankless eroge translation works
I found one by Jonathan Clements, it looks like a legit English-language biography?
I have a C.G. Mannerheim coin/medal thing.
No Brit would take the biography of Mannerheim seriously.. And it also would be too unbelievable to be another Monty Python sketch either 🥺
> Son of Swedish Nobles
> Fight for Russian Empire
> Fight for newly established Finnish state
> Become national hero
> Go into the middle of nowhere to start a business
> Fight again in WW2 against both USSR and (GERMANY)
> Go back to your business
> Still loves Tsar Nicholas II
Least confusing part of anything Finnish related
It's simple. He hated communists.
> Trained soldier willing to fight for Finland.
Best we could do, as Finland did not have its own military at the time.
As it was often the case, the Swedish elite didn't disappear under the Tzar, they just swore loyalty to the new leader, but kept the values and ideas of aristocrats. They didn't necessarily care about having a nation state as much as they cared about figthing communism.
He was a man of the Empire and loathed the communists that came after.
But still always based.
Mannerheim got kicked out of the Finnish army in his youth for drinking too much, so he joined the Russian army. Whilst serving the Tsar on an expedition to China and Tibet, he taught the then Dalai Lama to pistol shoot.
He was also involved in the coronation of Tsar Nicholas, which he declared to be the proudest moment of his life.
A bit more complicated than that. He was kicked out of the Cadet school in Hamina, so the only possibility to complete an officer's training was to get to a military school in Russia.
@@EdMcF1He was born in one of the spookiest baroque manor houses in Finland, which is an excellent museum now. The place was bought using the money donated for his equestrian statue; the donations were so huge they could not possibly be spent on a statue.
His father went bankrupt and fled to Paris with his mistress. The family was one of extremes, Mannerheim himself was a Dinosaur from another epoch.
@@t.wcharles2171 That certainly must've been quite a sight to see
@@cassu6 he said it was 'indescribably magnificent.'
There's a giant potato farm just outside of Finland. It's called Estonia 🇪🇪
kek
@@jonbaxter2254Poo
This reminds me of that one time an Estonian got into a Twitter argument with an Indonesian.
I thought it was Åland...
@@jonbaxter2254 translating kek means cake
As expected, when I showed my Finnish friend this, he had next to no reaction.
😂
For a Finn, that's quite an extreme reaction.
My finn friends died inside, then slowly turned away.
They are a few generations removed from the old country, however, so this is all based on built in genetic programming, not anything cultural...
I don't know man. We Finns usually swarm every youtube video that has the word "Finland" in the title.
@@cassu6"as a fin" 😂😂😂
I like Finns, they’re brutally honest if nothing else. You always know where you stand with them.
On holiday in Spain I made a made a comment about the weather, (the way I'd do to a British person as a matter of course) to a Finnish woman who was at least 20 years older than me. She took this innocent comment as a pass. I don't know who was more mortified, me or her. My guess is that Finns aren't used to speaking to strangers.
@@DavidJames-p9f We don't do that. Why would we, again?
We are also very blunt, straight to the point. No meaningless words to disrupt the bliss of silence.
@@pekkajarvinen69 I was going to reply to your comment, but then I changed my mind. (Sorry, I'm an American.)
😆
Are we human? No. We are finns.
You are Ukko's chosen people!
Indeed.
Finland should hire the two Britts to do PR work.
You'd have to wonder if the Sub-Saharans heading to Finland could even point to it on a map before they left
They haven’t got maps.
Apparently, the American midwest, middle-nowhere, podunk town that I reside in was priority on their “vision board” too.
They can't even read
The people who sent them there probably just said to them that there's good welfare and blonde women.
They're biological weapons....
Kalevala was not collected by a "Swedish" guy. Elias Lönnroth was a Finnish speaking Finn, despite of his name, which was not uncommon at the time. Also the man who composed the national anthem was not Swedish but German, who had emigrated into Finland.
Similarly Mannerheim wasn't Swedish. His family had migrated to Sweden from Germany a few hundred years earlier but it was already his great-grandfather who had moved to Finland from Sweden. His grandfather was the governor of the Viipuri province in the Grand Duchy of Finland under Russia.
I think the big mistake being done here is assuming the people with Swedish names or speaking Swedish were Swedish. It was common for people higher up in the society to use Swedish and adopt Swedish or Swedish-sounding names. It aided them due to Finland's history of being ruled by Sweden and Swedish having been the language of the ruling class. Many families also had some origins in Sweden but had since moved to Finland and become Finnish, yet they retained the Swedish names and even language. Finally, Christianity had been introduced to Finland through the Swedes. When the Finns started adopting Christian names, many would initially adopt the Swedish form.
If he was trolling to get under the Finns' skins, well played.
Yeah what an idiot.
Most finnish people aren't finns either, there are more tavasts, swedes and karelians than actual finns
"man discredits entirety of sweden."
@@bennyklabarpan7002 karelians are a different people from finns? arent they all uralic?
p.s. i dont like these two fucking limey cucks...they dont know what theyre talking about...they do a dis-service to the finns imo
Socializing is exhausting for finns and I welcome everyone who thinks so. I have a house and I don't even know the neighbors I've had for 8 years.
I talk to my neighbours a couple of times a year. I consider them quite close, therefore.
Bliss. I'd 'fit right in' in Finland... if that's even an appropriate term for being terminally 'anti-social'. 😆
I always thought bald and bankrupt would come to Finland first but we probably don’t have enough soviet stuff
Also not a cheap country where you can get 😸 just by showing off your passport
@@McDuggets lol
Britain declared war on Finland during WW2 but mostly to please their ally the Soviet Union. Churchill recognized Finland's problem and was actually sympathetic to the Finns plight. Hence Britain did not get into military fighting with Finland and to this day maintains good relations with Finland, signing military assistance pledges even before Finland joined NATO.
As a Finn I would not say all Russians are hated but the current Russian government is for sure very disliked. What some guy has said on year X about of some Russian is quite a big generalisation of the whole situation.
The Finns have absoluetly nothing to fear of the Russian Federation... joining NATO was a massive mistake, or I'd say even a psyop.
@@sunnyjim1355The best decision for Finland is joining NATO.
Russia attacked Finland many times.
Russia's troll farm is working well.
Finns just want to be left alone and do as we please. Whether it is on the individual or international level. However, the rest of the world doesn't seem to comply, so we have been forced to intermingle and much ill and woe has befell because of it.
I feel you, man. I wish the world had not come to my country, either. It's a culturally polluted mess now.
❤
This is so so true.
You vill not escape ze bugz. You vill not escape having no property. You vill not escape the happiness.
@@Rezec75 We will escape into the forests like we always did if things get too dire.
I was reliably informed that Finland doesn't actually exist.
Please let everyone else know, as well, so we can be left to our own devices.
Uh, that's so last decade by now...
Survive the Jive: Are Finns European?
Brittanica: Are Finns human?
Who's going to be the one to ask if Finns are even Earthlings?
Funny, as a Finn I always thought that all the foreigners were aliens 👽
I met some Finns in Prague. Me and my mates shared a dorm with them. Massive fuckers. Very funny guys. We had a bread fight in the room, much to the annoyance of the maid 😬 They liked beer. That’s the extent of my knowledge of them.
i believe the game my summer car is the most accurate and condensed finnish life imitation
That or "Unreal World". o/
@@GM4ThePeople Love 'Unreal World' 👍
Finnish people are cool i wish they were real
Like Calum said, it's a mythical place. :)
You would’ve gotten hours of content from interviewing an old guy at a bar about immigration
We did do this, but they spoke in Finnish and Ed could only translate so much whilst being drunk.
@@Britannica1 understandable, not the easiest task
@@Britannica1 Ed couldn't translate because despite living 19 years in Finland he does not speak Finnish. One example of bad integration right there.
@@Quammor He did speak what seemed to an outsider as a decent level of Finnish, less then I would have expected tho, so somewhat agree.
@@Quammor I can tell you he can.Once gave a lecture in Finnish... Mine's is better though
I just want to mention that these Swedish people living in Finland that were crucial in the creating the national spirit of Finland and the national romanticism themselves said "We are no longer Swedes, we don't want to be Russians, let us therefore be Finns."
I grew up in Minnesota and I've read some interesting history about Finns coming to America (I have some Finnish ancestry). Evidently when the Finns started immigrating to the area to work the iron mines they ended up having to organize protests to be considered "White enough" to receive comparable wages to their counterparts who immigrated from more western regions of Europe. Some have said that the Swedish immigrants in the area disparaged them and claimed they were Asian in an attempt to discourage Finns from coming to the area lol.
Nice to see Finland's largest city in the Thumbnail. 😆
Which one's that, Woodland A, Woodland Nord, or is it Saunland Wood? Sorry not native so wasn't sure they kind of all look the same😅
I didn't quite catch it, was that a rundown shed with a large graveyard?
Many Finnish Finns have Swedish surnames for historical reasons. For example named after the farmstead their predecessors worked in. Also many of the Finlands-Swedes speak fluent Finnish and are indeed more Finnish than Swedish, although some have slight cultural differences inherited from the partly Swedish background.
A full hour video about Finns without showing a single Finn. I'm puzzled. Many good observations, though.
I thought the same
He has more in common with the Finns than he knows.
Seemed to me that there were barely any Finns in the country, lol. Are they all hiding in the woods?
We heard some... that was about as extrovert as they could handle.
The only reason Finland tops those happiness indexes is because they are done by survey and a Finn answering those questions just does not want to complain about anything to a damn stranger.
Untrustworthy self-administered surveys are the lifeblood of modern sociological data. That's why its all shit.
Neither Runeberg nor Lönnrot were Swedish. Runeberg spoke Swedish as his first language but was from Finland. While Lönnrot did publish a number of works in Swedish, his first language was Finnish (he didn't learn Swedish until school)
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I love how watchers of this channel have now grown entirely used to having North Korean music used as a score, no matter what the subject country might actually be.
Suicide rates are not skyhigh anymore, they are EU average. This has happened in the last decade so many people still don't know about it.
As that priest said all the sad people killed themselves.
Why was it high beforehand?
@@georgemulford2910 growing pains from joining the new world order.
@@georgemulford2910Eu elections maybe?
@@georgemulford2910 Alcoholism, culture that emphasizes not complaining and handling your own shit, dark winters and lack of proper care. There is so much less stigma about mental health problems, care is not that much better but they do take it more seriously. Gen X already was much better at talking about their problems more openly and consider it normal to have problems. The newer generations are even better at that.
Boomers and the Great Generation were taught to shut up and deal with it, to suffer quietly and to be ashamed of having mental issues, depression, anxiety etc. If anyone had known that you go to therapy you would've been social pariah... Which lead to widespread alcoholism as people tried to self medicate.
Wild reindeer: has collar
Almost all the reindeer in Finland belong to someone, they are just not held in pens so they can roam free. There are some wild reindeer of course, but most are "farmed".
Never seen a tourist in Finland who thinks that the best part here was food. Amazing.
Well to be fair, everything else he tried to do was closed.
He was right about the food, though. It's honest, real. Just like the Finns.
He is British. They eat beans for breakfast.
Lol, terrible food cultures stick together :D
I'm a Finn and fucking love the Nordics and it being so easy to live a good life here. A safe high trust social democracy rules.
But Nordic food is overall pretty bad. I like some weird Finnish stuff but mostly just eat food that originates from other places.
@@yarsivad000.5i was just about to say no wonder he liked our food.
A small anecdote about Mannerheim, this was right after the civil war and Mannerheim was told that the finns would not try to retake saint Petersburg to reinstate the tsar and reform the Russian empire. It was also decided that Finland would become a democracy. These terrible news made Mannerheim so distraught that he shut himself in his apartment, not letting anyone in for a week. Then he ran for president
What's so wrong about rolling in the snow after getting out of the Sauna? What are you a prude?!
Yes.
@@vorynrosethorn903 I suspected as much. I bet you wouldn't even consume the local delicacy of river lampreys.
@@suspiciousentity9305 I would not consume lampreys even if my life depended on it. Salmiakki is the only Finnish delicacy I'll eat.
The Brits can be rather uptight about these sorts of very natural things.
Not prudish, we just rarely have snow, otherwise...
The Finn’s are absolutely superb songwriters
Well, what else is there to do? Everything's closed!
Suomi Perrrrrrrrrrkele 🇫🇮
Proud to have Finnish ancestors 🫡
Terveisiä Kanadasta, veljet! 🇨🇦
Sun suku katteli ympärilleen ja aatteli "Ugh vihaan asua kylmässä maassa jossa on paska hallitus, huomattava historia ja kulttuuri. Pitäiskö meijän muuttaa tähän paskempaan kylmään maahan missä on vielä paskempi hallitus, huomattavampi historia ja tylsempi kulttuuri?"
Mulki on setä ja sen perhe Kanadassa ja niilt on jo 4 lasta muuttanu takas Suomee. Kaikki se työ muuttaa ulkomaille vaan että lapset haluu takas😂
Tule takaisin sieltä 😅
What's there to be proud of... I mean not to be a douche but I can't think of a single solitary useful thing to have come out of Finland. It's a completely anonymous country.
@@loshobittos959 😆😆😅😁👍👍
Come back we need more finns here.
Hey, don't diss our Salmiakki candy, it's the best. Salty liquorice 😋
Finland is not east european country .Its northern european....a fuckin huge difference
That comment felt like a joke to me. We do pride ourselves to be Northern or Western, but we do have Eastern influences if not from denying it. Even the coats of arms shows this
I think he meant more "shares border with Russia" with Eastern Europe, and not literally Eastern European
We've been both. Today we just religiously want to be Nordic in order to not be East-European
People in Rovaniemi definitely didn't appreaciate the Germans 😂
The all-naked mixed sauna thing. In Germany, that's just the normal Sauna.
Never thought about it until I first left Germany. Lol. Always was normal to me.
Ofc. recently there have been problems for women in those saunas. As i've been told, the "new Germans" are sometimes not behaving well under these circumstances. They'd stare, and attempt to grab. So private saunas and "women only" saunas are becoming more popular, aswell as driving for some time, to get to rural areas, where things are still normal.
11:04 "High trust society" until the percentage of the immigrants you've mentioned surpasses the critical threshold.
Experience: Athens's centre, from a Greek here.
went to greece about a month ago for my first time ever, flew into athens but once we got out in the country it was absolutely beautiful. Your country is amazing!
@@waters3700 I'm really glad you liked it. How was Athens in particular? Did you only go to the centre as most tourists do? Or went to any suburb as well? Athens is a uniformly dense metropolis, and you can get to the most basic suburbs with the metro.
As for the rest of the country, where did you go exactly? Mainland or the islands (again, as almost any tourists go for the latter)?
@@Pan472 Athens was quite short only went to the Parthenon, but I stayed in the village of tsotyli, saw the beach at Parga and went to mt Olympus!
Also went to meteora! Stunningly beautiful
Same
Experince: Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa the greater capital region in general.
“No 🚳 Gay”
*tries to identify the degree of vodka consumption on Callum's face in the thumbnail*
He’s going to search for Sophie, you can’t fool us Callum! Lol
Chris Chan is there at the same time
*_What mischief are you going to get up to in Finland, Callum, your unique brand of devilment and fun is missed on Lotus Eaters, sigh..._*
He’s going to take the Simo Häyhä challenge
💪🏼🇫🇮💪🏼
@@JesusFriedChrist
*_If Callum can rub shoulders with a bunch of hostile Taliban, he can do anything ..._*
You finally said something that makes sense and is true. Congrats!
@@JesusFriedChrist
*_If Callum can face down the Taliban, he can do anything ..._*
lmao, you've got over 1k subscribers & zero videos.
Well done, that's a rare talent
Lumping all Fennoswedes as 'Swedes' is ignorant. Swedish speaking does not mean that you are not a Finn to begin with but in many cases Finnish speaking Finns have adopted Swedish language so if you're trying to figure out if someone is a human or a Finn then language is not sufficient.
Also the Finnish dialect of Swedish is different from Sweden's Swedish.
He does address this in and seems to use it to emphesize that Fennoswedes are not really the same as Finns, which I at least agree with. It is incorrect in the sense that Swedes would not agree that they are Swedish either but something unique. Something in between what the Afrikaans are to Dutch and the Baltic Germans were to the Germans.
Even some Finns think that Finland's suicide rate is particularly high. In reality, Finland's suicide rate is currently at the European average. Suicides have decreased in Finland since 1990. However, the suicides of young people are worrisome.
The Finnish taste is quite similar to the Dutch. I even noticed some Dutch liquorice in the video (katjes). We also had the n-word kisses, which got renamed (officially).
Im a finn and visited amsterdamn many times. Now i know to bring my own candy with me. Candy there is really bad compared to finniah candy lol
@@hornantuutti5157 well, if you happened to source those from a fellow at the end of the bridge, you likely got trolled, paid too much, and those weren't really the candies either...
Liquorice is also very popular in Venice, or was in the 90s.... I'd never seen so much of the stuff till then.
Wait, Callum was here?! In our little corner of the world? Nyt torille!
I honestly couldn't agree with you more about Helsinki. It feels like another whole country where you hear more other languages than Finnish while walking outside. I lived there for a year and left as soon as possible.
As to the whole "happiest people" myth about Finland, there are two things that should be said. Firstly, I think it is not so much "happiness" as it is "contentment." Here, people don't strive for something akin to the "American dream, " and so material wealth isn't necessarily something a lot of people fuss over. That doesn't mean we don't whine about a lot of stuff, mind you, probably more than the average tbh. Secondly, I think there is a difference between city and countryside people. At least how it seems to me, not being forced to share your close neighborhood with thousands of people makes for a much less stressful environment to live in, and Finland has space aplenty. Even for those living in the largest cities, there are summer cottages you can rent on a lakeside somewhere and a hot sauna to go to after a dip into the water. There are no shortages of places to go where there are practically no people around, which is, in my opinion, a nice counterweight to the normal routine during workdays and the amount of people you have to "tolerate" during them.
Me and my dad went traveling around Finland this summer, and it is admittedly sad to see how the border now looks. I personally wouldn't mind seeing it open again.... just as long as Russia would stop being so.... aggressive.
In defense of the border police, those guys have a lot of work to do with our long, shared border with Russia. Finnish people have globally one of the most favorable opinions about the police, along with quite a high trust in them. It is slightly taboo matter to bother them unnecessarily, though that goes to every human contact with strangers in general as well.
As a proper fennomaani, I have to add to the fact that you raised about so many cultural things being done by Finnish Swedes; the reason for that is of course the fact that Swedish was the language used in higher education and the fact that the most well-to-do people were Swedish speaking nobility who had more time on their hands to spare for such leisure activities. The actual Finns were busy trying to get enough food for the following winter etc. With the change of empires and the russofication that followed, the status of Swedish speaking Finns became dangered due to Russian language joining in as another administration language in government, and so, interests were aligned with both Swedes and Finns to seek independence and put aside the historical gripes about the two-tier society that had existed during Swedish rule. Thus, to strenghten the claim for Finnish nation state and due to the romantic nationalism that was sweeping across Europe at that time, you had many Swedish speaking Finns becoming interested about the native Finns in a typical "noble savage" romanticized way. This doesn't, of course, lessen the value of their work to Finnish culture, but had Finnish language been accepted as a official language in government and in education much earlier, you very well might have had native Finns being the ones to create these cultural works like Kalevala.
In Russian, railroad is also literally "iron road".
Considering a rail is just a mostly straight stick, ironroad is probably more descriptive than calling it a railroad.
Not only, quite many languages throughout Europe have that.
At least towards north and east it's mostly parallel calque (translated loan) via German from since or prior 18th century.
Also, many of those languages have/had broader usage of "iron" as for general use strong metals - especially for steel and cast.
@@Alex_Fahey too literal though - implying that the metal must be involved.
"ironroad" and "railway" are only partially overlapping either way, thus not full synonyms. Reason for why various languages have come up with "trainroad", "trackway", etc
Same for french
Everything I knew about Finland came from the early 90s demo scene.
We need more Bear Riding Clubs
Rautatievaunu = Iron-Road-Wagon=Train=Rolling stock
The country with the least immigrants is the most happy.
Or is it due to the cultural basis within the community that upholds Christian tenets (whether Christian or non Christian) within their society? Being that their largest denominations are Lutheranism and Orthodoxy, the latter bringing in huge swathes of immigrants...immigration isn't the issue, it's the VALUES & CUSTOMS which those immigrants uphold that determines overall societal health.
Turtle Land? 🐢
@@missnthrop5763 that was obviously implied. Immigration from ethnitically different people, as such have very different cultures and they do not care about the people they immigrate to or the country and neither do they respect the laws, since its not their own
Definetly not the least immigrants. That would be something like Lithuania or some other eastern European potato-farm hell hole.
The EU are planning to fix that
Holy shit. I have been thinking if Callum would ever do a video about my country and now it is coming true. Voihan perkeke.
The black kisses and the card game were popular in germany in the past as well
As usual, you brought the real Finland, and your new chum is absolutely wild. Thanks, Callum, for the informative, eye-opening, and enriching cultural tour.❤️ Btw, where are all the Finns? Are they all in the sauna?
Very amusing documentary, thanks for stopping by. NOW F*CK OFF WE'RE CLOOOOOOOSED!!! :D
Dutton's commentary about the way of life of the Finns cracked me up quite a few times, cheers from a Finn!
It's funny because it is true. Also Finn here.
I was shocked that Dr lives in the same city as me, watched his videos for years without knowing.
30 seconds in and North Korean music. It's the main reason I subscribed 😂
Shazam is never able to identify any of those songs!
Sounded like Finngolian folk to me. o/
“Nationalism. It’s all a meme until it’s a dream”. That’s great.
I am 34,1% Finnish and 65,8% Saxon...
Hapa moment
A travel series of Dutton and Callum would be amazing.
If you wish to learn more about the finish state of mind, I would highly recommend the work of the novelist Arto Paasilinna. He was an incredibly productive and popular writer who pretty much wrote a book a year for 30 years, all that have wildly different stories, from a man traveling the countryside with a hare (The Year of the Hare), to an old god returning to try to make the Finns pagans again (Son of the Thunder God) to a man getting a guardian angel that is bad at his job (A Goofy Guardian angel). Despite their wildly different stories, they all manage to show the essence of the Finns soul. That life is mostly harsh and often unfair, but one will get through it with black humor, sisu, good food and drink and sauna. Sadly, the best books imo aren't translated into english, but The Year of the Hare is, and while it's not the best, it's still really good and is a good representation of the Paasilinna's work.
As a Norwegian, I find Finland to be an incredibly fascinating country. So similar, yet so different from my own, despite being almost right next to us. The Finns seem to have the same general demenour as us Norwegians, but turned up to 11. I wonder what the people who find Norwegians hard to approach think of the Finns. XD I really need to go there sometime myself. I've tried to get some friends to join me on a proper road trip there, since we've already travelled across England and the BeNeLux.
And "Goodness gracious" ("Herranen aika") also by Arto Paasilinna
I've read Year of The Hare in English and I'm not entirely sure if it translates that well.
It's really amazing how a nation being wealthy enough leads to transblack ticket vending machines.
Exactly, I can't wait for some hard times for everyone to forget it and remember what is important.
I honestly never realized the colors had meaning until I saw this video
@Tomi-sc7dv huh
Absolutely FANTASTIC cross-over, with The Jolly Heretic. So cool. Good on you!!
Ed’s meltdown at that appalling tuberculosis sanitorium hotel absolutely killed me 😂
The key difference between the Anglo-Scottish relations and the Finnish-Russian , is the latter is between 2 sovereign states and Russia isn't asset stripping and being bank rolled by Finland. Scottish nationalists hate the English? Not a very nuanced take.
You don't know Scots do you
@@epiccrusadr8583 ehhh.. I'm a Scot.
Scottish cope is hilarious.
Finns gonna Finn
I wish I knew the lore behind why there's always korean anthems playing in these videos
Copyright reasons
Conscript service is 6-12 months, depending on the place of service and the scope of the training. In addition to this, there are still reserve exercises for 60-200 days. Until you turn 65 years old.
Felt a bit offended by the assumption of a Swedish name = Swede. It's not like the finns weren't subhumans in their own country with a Swedish name as a mandatory to be middle class.
Finland, Finland, Finland
The country where I want to be
Pony trekking or camping or just watching T.V
Finland, Finland, Finland
It's the country for me
.....couldn't resist, it was the first thing that popped into my head at your intro.
There were 3 popular border crossing points between Russia and Finland. One you've visited was the fastest for those who wanted to travel to Helsinki or port Kotka, 2nd was just on the way to Lappeenranta (that had even bigger shopping district right on the border) and the third one was on the way to Imatra, that have a rare Russian city that is located just on the border. Those border crossings used to have a huge queues in both directions - Russians used to travel to shop for european goods and spend weekend by the lake, finns traveled to get cheap alcohol and do business. Road you've seen was quite busy. As was the railway.
Britain has Scotland, the US has Canada, Russia has Finland. Every Empire needs a weird cold hat.
I kinda wish it was Finns running the country but in reality we are ruled by the EU. In fact, I think we genuinely ran our own country few decades right after independence struggles and few years between fall of Soviet Union and us joining the EU.
Hear, hear!
Sad
Most countries have border zones for borders that are not open. It would be pretty difficult to effectively patrol and guard the border otherwise. You can get a permit if you have an actual reason to enter the border zone. Some people live in the border zone with permission because their families had property there when the border was established. Other than those people fixing their homes or building sheds etc. nothing new is built there. By entering the border zone without a permit or by attempting the same you would be committing a "lievä valtionrajarikos" (minor border offence) or a "valtionrajarikos" (border offence) under Finnish criminal law (rikoslaki 7 §). The punishment would be a fine and/or imprisonment for up to one year. The border and the border zone are electronically monitored 24/7 and they do come to investigate pretty damn quick if you step into the border zone without permission.
Didn't expect that you would visit so this was a pleasant surprise. Glad to hear you enjoyed at least some aspects of my country. It's also clear to me that you did your research since the lore you described was quite accurate. Solid job.
"They don't have words for that stuff in Finnish." Rarely do I get LOLs in travel videos.
It is the truth, we don't have words for it.
Finnish doesn't even use she/he gendered words, so the troon stuff is very hard to import here.
@GeneralTantzu huh. Before Sweden went prot was there any Catholicism in Finland?
Elias Lönnrot wasn't swedish, yes obviously he was in sweden as literally every single finn at the time, since finland wasn't a thing but still Finnish
Iron road or "rautatie" isnt even so weird, atleast not any weirder than rail way, same thing really
its a good thing you came in summer when its lively. Come see us in Estonia next!
Of all the Brits living in the country, you picked Mr. Dutton. 🤣
The Germans were not that considerate in Northern Norway. They burnt everything in Finnmark County. I suppose the difference was that in Northern Finland, the remaining houses wouldn't shelter Soviet troops.
As a Swede, I can tell you we really have even more in common with the Finns than I thought. Railroad is "iron road" (järnväg) in Swedish too and that's not awkward or cumbersome. We never defer to English for that. Our tendency for Swenglish is just borne out of laziness and insufficient IRL social interaction. I do have a connection to Finland and a little Finnish ancestry, but I am Swedish through and through. We have a lot of licorice here too, but it's often considered a Finnish thing by us. We have that same 'Salmiakki' stuff in our supermarkets. Salt licorice is superiour to sweet. 32:15 My uncle's favourite. Milk situation is about the same here too. Arla is dominant, but Valio is a strong second. They brought back conscription here in 2017. Though not everyone has to do it. At least I didn't have to. Also, we have the equivalent of Alko, known as 'Systembolaget'. Direct translation: The system company. Support for it isn't that great among non-lefty types and I presume it's similar in Finnish. The Purvo pizza was a lot like a Swedish kebabpizza. That road sign is used to signify ancient monuments and stuff here too. 53:15 It's quite common with substantial underground parking under big malls in Sweden. I know there's that in Stockholm. But I've never seen a Bitcoin machine before. Saturday sweets, or Lördagsgodis, is something we do in Sweden too. And all of the red houses with white trims are a Swedish thing as well. Falu Red is the colour. Hex value #801818.
48:28 This is Swedish food, including the Thursday tradition, though Swedish pancakes are thinner and more like crepes. Back when school food was good here, it's something you might've gotten.
Seeing all those abandoned places around 36:00 is just sad, man. I've seen some sparsely populated places in Sweden, but never like this. Not with these kinds of structures around. You'd expect a population of at least 30K, which is a lot for us. It's like you're the last man on Earth. That border zone stuff is insane. That's people's homes, but the territory has been claimed in the name of the 🤓empire, NATO.
It really is a shame how much we've adopted modern swampy Americanism, with censoring art and such. That's part of the meaning of "little Americans". Neither neger nor 'neekeri' were bad words until we imported the sensitivity around the American n-word around the '90s and '00s. I mean, I said it as a kid and it was just considered a bit rude. I'm turning 24 soon.
Salmiakki is my jam, especially salty licorice variants hahahaha! Should've gone to a Metal concert, Finland has more bands per person capita than any other country in the world, some killer record stores there too. Thanks for the laughs dude!
😂 What a awesome surprise seeing Ed! Ed always cracks me up with his appearances on Lotus Eaters! Ed and Callum are a hilarious duo!
This is actually a photo of the happiest man in Finland.
wow finland is so me!
I ❤️ Finland.