Persone non finlandesi, qual è la cosa più strana che avete vissuto in Finlandia?
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Persone non finlandesi, qual è la cosa più strana che avete vissuto in Finlandia?
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Salmiakki
Finns
Yes.
I am pretty sure the problem with that survey was that they asked people who are living a comfortable lifestyle.
There are a lot of people (any growing) living pay cheque to pay cheque who would have a different outlook on life.
This survey reminds me of the saying
“don´t piss on my shoes and tell me it´s raining”
I was an American exchange student and on my first day of school (1989) at TYK in Tampere they served mustamakkara for lunch.
I ate it, but I wasn’t super excited about the flavor.
Half-napping on the bus home I imagined this sickly cow with a long piece of surgical tubing sticking out of it dripping blood into an aluminum bucket. A metallic “drip, drip, drip”, I imagined hearing it hitting the bottom of the bucket.
Seeing bottles of blood on the shelf in the supermarket was new, too.
Still vivid 36 years later.
We also had split pea soup, näkkileipä, and some kind of watered down mehua, all three of which I think we had essentially every day. I never got tired of those, oddly enough. I also turned out to be autistic, so relatively bland, monotonous food was never a problem.
Finland might be the worlds happiest, but not Finnish people.
Best
It’s more like least unhappy, rather than most happy. Most people would say things are not great but not terrible. Other countries you got way more of the extreemes while everyone here is pretty much neutral
Finnish Christmas food. I’d never tell Finns to stop tradition ofc but my wife and most of her family have said: “We all hated the food at one point but when you eat it enough times you just start to deal with it”. My wife however still hates the food.
I’d rather just eat food that I liked at the start rather than force myself to eat something honestly. So it’s definitely a tradition I’ll be taking a miss for I’m afraid. No offence intended ofc.
In Finland we also have a saying:
“Ken onnen löytää se onnen kätkeköön”
Which roughly translates to
“Who finds happiness should hide it”
and I think we do that pretty well
Se on tonnin seteli
Obligatory I am Finnish but my spouse isnt, some notable observations of theirs:
– ”Any questions?” And an already painfully quiet group somehow gets even more quiet, everyone is avoiding eye contact, everyone is nearly holding their breath. In class or other group events teachers/managers have to specifically push people to please talk to each other if there’s a group task, because unless people know each other beforehand, aint nobody socializing unless they are absolutely forced to. This doesnt seem to happen literally anywhere else in the world.
– Same people who dont dare to talk to strangers unless forced to, get offended if you dont want to come to sauna naked with them
– Coffee is served everywhere and mostly self-service style with the assumption of you are allowed unlimited refills with purchase, and most people do drink 2-3 cups
– There’s many unspoken social rules that make Finland very similar to Japan: extreme public politeness and consideration of others is expected, but not reinforced. Also because of the shy antisocial behavior, those who dont adhere to the unspoken rules often go unpunished and maybe never realize how much they disturb others, because no one goes to them to tell them to stop and that the whole bus/tram/train/space they are in is hearing them and glaring at them hoping they will understand their mistake. It is rude to make noise and annoy people, but it is super uncomfortable to go an confront someone about it. It feels more rude to call someone else out on being rude than the rude noisy behavior to begin with. Therefore it just continues but everyone else is silently stewing with anger.
Not that weird on it’s own, but the weirdest thing I experienced. Grocery shopping. Anything that needs to be weighed (fruits, veggies, pastries etc.) have their own code under the price. You put the stuff on a scale and choose the code on the screen (or board of buttons with numbers 1-200+) and it prints you the barcode sticker. I only saw this in Smarket and Kmarket. I remember my first time just ignoring all those those codes and just went up to check out without a single barcode, assuming the cashier does it. Had to go back and look for the codes for each item lol. I’ve been to many countries, but never saw something like this before. But now, I low-key think it’s a pretty good idea.
We are better than Swedes at happiness. Thats all that matters.
When I was out jogging I saw a woman in the distance who was walking in my direction. As we got within greeting distance she looked at me and then turned me her back instead of risking having to say hi. As a Swede I think I understand their culture and that the intention was to give me privacy as well as herself but it’s kind of a weird thing to have in your culture.
Mission impossible: Non native being able to not mention this meme in every conversation about fins
In between sad and maniacally smiling.
Checks out.
It’s happiest because the sad peiple keep killing themselves.
If memory serves me, the metric is moreso measuring general life satisfaction. People have stability, healthcare and all the basic necessities met.
The weirdest thing at first is going to the sauna naked with your family or coworkers. But it’s not actually weird. we’re just not used to their culture, and we don’t think like they do. The longer you live in Finland, the more it all starts to make sense. Finns see everyone as human beings nothing more, nothing less.
For me, it is “pretending”. For example, something is wrong with the project. But we have to pretend it is not. Police suck at doing their job. We have to pretend nothing is wrong. The health system sucks. Pretend it doesn’t.
Wife carrying race. And it is not even remotely close to the next thing I might consider weird. Thankfully, only seen it, not taken part in any of the roles. Tree climbing race might be among the coolest, but also just a tiny bit peculiar.