Tourism In Finland - The Finns, Are They Human?

Seeing Finland and it's odd people.
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[@loshobittos959]

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.

[@amirhamza7610]

@@Britannica1 visit Noristan province of Afghanistan please

[@Pyhantaakka]

Small correction; when you said that it was only Finnish sea mines, there were also plenty dropped by soviets and Germans.

[@Vulture-1066]

come to norway, it is similar

[@Vulture-1066]

Not eastern part but west and north part of norway😁

[@janlesniewicz6949]

How ironic - the nation who built 60% of all ice-breakers hates small talk.

[@Ralphie750]

How has this not been pinned it's glorious and I hate you for it

[@thearpox7873]

A proper icebreaker pushes you past the small talk and straight to the point. Very on brand, actually.

[@seanmanning188]

Brilliant work there, mate.

[@GafferPerkele]

I can confirm that Finns are infact sentient snow.

[@HarhaUkko]

Koska jää on vettä ja ihmiset osa vettä! Brilliant.

[@Karathos]

Meil' on hanki ja jää... 🎶

[@c3bhm]

That has been debunked, in the book "Yellow Snow" by I.P. Freely!

[@hunn20004]

This is lies and government propaganda. The Finns are a subset species from the local Poro.

[@YeomanArcher]

Oh, I just thought of a naughty joke.

[@pauljmorton]

I once saw a great headline about Finland being rated the happiest country on earth. The headline was, "Finland is the happiest country in the world, and the Finns aren't happy about it."

[@butterflies655]

They mostly are. There are exceptions of course.

[@GorGob]

yes because it is a lie finland is doing really bad now thanks to our lying government. Almost every day someone is getting stabbed. This is the end.

[@JJONNYREPP]

liquorice drink? Spore. They would chew it, bung it in a bottle and let it ferment. Spore. Ahahah.....

[@shipmcgree6367]

There's a giant potato farm just outside of Finland. It's called Estonia 🇪🇪

[@jonbaxter2254]

kek

[@CabbageBloke]

@@jonbaxter2254Poo

[@hashkangaroo]

This reminds me of that one time an Estonian got into a Twitter argument with an Indonesian.

[@Pentti_Hilkuri]

I thought it was Åland...

[@madsdarre6200]

@@jonbaxter2254 translating kek means cake

[@LightningNC]

He went there to try to find archeological relics from the Hyperwar.

[@New525]

so much history lost....

[@jonbaxter2254]

@@New525 Jackie Chan died that day...

[@Mal0Imperzia]

Imagine a full imperial korean warship out in the woods just abandoned.

[@pekkajarvinen69]

Please don't speak about our dark past. We are not the same people as we were during the hyper war.

[@pekkajarvinen69]

​@@Mal0Imperzia all of those ships were found long ago and recycled properly. There are no remnant of our violent past left in this world.

[@clopec]

The Finns were forced to clear mines also in Soviet waters. About 20000 mines were laid by the Soviets, which were the problematic ones, as the location of these was not known.

[@Hukkavei]

Considering how many people also died in order to clear all the mines as part of the peace treaty, i'd say a little brass sign is least bit of respect that could be shown to them.

[@tonituomanen3113]

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.

[@Gigadoomer13]

They're being replaced within their own nation. Thier leader is willing to thrown them all in the meat grinder against Russia for America.

[@viikmaqic]

I think its more normal for countries where there is no poverty to be more suicidal. Having what you need but still depressed is a bigger reason to end your life than to have nothing and everyday is a fight for survival. Then you would strive for survival.

[@gaarakabuto1]

Finland (and to a lesser degree Sweden and Denmark) has become the default option of "problem deflection" for most Europeans. Whenever you start criticising a country for the problems of organisation and discipline they always deflect it as "we are passionate" or whatever else word they like using and they bring these countries to further feed the misunderstanding by telling you how "those robot like soulless countries end up being so depressed and alcoholics", being stuck back to the numbers of the 90s, because of course they only can recall the numbers of their favourite news shows from their times and looking up on statistics is too advanced. Honestly France is worse in every category. Germany is following closely. Finland and Denmark are actually doing very well and at this point in terms of numbers they are getting closer and closer to southern Europe. Sweden is a different case because of their crisis. Norway is all over the place but honestly still doing good in terms of improvement.

[@Nabium]

Finland's suicide rate is lower than the USA, yet I've never heard anyone descripe the US as ridden with suicide, like they do with Finland and other Nordic countries.

[@soulie2001]

Because the stat youre looking for is "gun violence deaths" in the US.

[@thedudefromrobloxx]

because it used to be a lot higher here nad has only declined to the EU average, which is still a lot, in the last decade

[@danraider482]

​@@thedudefromrobloxxdid it really decline or migrants just don't do it as opposed to finns

[@Skitdora2010]

Suicide is not accurately counted in America. Murders are often counted as such, as in people on Clinton suspected kill list for example, and people overdose and do dangerous things hoping for chance of dying are counted as accidents. Suicide in death has to do with motive and motive cannot always be proven. Personality disorders such as borderline and anti-social use threats of suicide to try to manipulate and control others and sometimes are known to accidently die in suicide because person they expected to find them over dosed and save them worked late that night. They plan to be found and saved and scare somebody into capitulating to their demands. They have not been listed as suicide but accidental, self-inflicted accident when they have that cluster B personality diagnosis and medical history of admitting wanting to self-harm for attention. When they say suicide treats are a call for help, it is a call for attention and person wants you to stop everything and turn your world upside down to give them anything they want. It is holding themselves ransom instead of taking somebody else as ransom, but you are the person truly held ransom. So, toxic manipulators turn off would be helpers who burn out eventually and stop trusting people and manipulation receive countless aid where real people struggling are silent and often neglected. Toxic manipulators also turn some people depressed and suicidal because those toxic people use and discard people as they see people only as tools for themselves. To get back at people not helping them personality disorders will call up jobs of people they are angry at and try to get them fired and try to slander people and destroy lives. Makes a new depressed and real suicidal person at times depending upon victims own resilience. Therefore, if we were real in trying to address suicide rates, we would remove indefinitely criminals and documented malicious cluster B personality disorders as they make everybody else's lives unnecessarily worst. We do not need them for progress or self-growth (saying good cannot exist without evil) because enough adversity already exists naturally. Any place with criminals and toxic personalities running around will have a high suicide rate. Cities are not called riddled with suicide because cause of death is what they are called riddled with, unusually as deaths from firearms or overdoses on drugs. Places with homeless people looking like zombies, like San Franscico and Philadelphia are Americans who can be said to be suicidal but not quite finished. Those are called cities of high drug abuse instead. Leading cause of death with firearms is suicide, but firearms is called leading cause of death, not suicide. 6 out of every 10 gun death is a suicide. In 2022 gun suicide rate among black teens surpassed gun suicide by white teens. Firearms are a tool and not the motive, yet firearms are blamed. Then we can continue to refuse to address the causes by blaming the tools. And that is how America hides its ugly problems.

[@Nabium]

@@Skitdora2010 I was with you until the end, there. Sometimes tools _are_ the problem. If you have some weeds you want to remove in your garden, then the chemicals you can use to remove it will be regulated so you don't use chemicals that are too toxic for the surrounding environment and people. You're not allowed to try to remove weed with plutonium for example. Same thing goes with defence. When America has a far larger murder-rate than other developed countries, it's because of the legality of guns. And when the frequency of school shootings are far far more frequent than any other developed country, then it's because of the availability of automicatic firearms for children. It _is_ the tools that are the issue, in that regard.

[@artoh2863]

One correction, liquorice and salmiakki are not the same thing. Liquorice is made of mainly liquorice root but salmiakki is when ammonium chloride is added, so they do not taste the same. And Finnish people do not consider them the same thing

[@NandoP2000]

Yumm ammonium chloride, my favourite food topping!

[@jyripeltola6677]

True, but they are kind of similar, but salmiakki is salty while liquorice is not. I hate them both and here it isn't easy to find bags of candy without some black ones in it, be it salmiakki or liquorice.

[@jakemaanimeikalainen248]

Salmiakki is the ammonium chloride that is added SOMETIMES to liqourice for specific candies. Salmiakki isn't a word for a salty liqourice.

[@nicechock]

The card game character is Mustapekka. Which is like a black man named Pekka. = Black Pekka

[@poweredbymoonlight9869]

@@nicechock Also the round blackpepper cheese/ -cheese-sauce !

[@BigVorst]

As expected, when I showed my Finnish friend this, he had next to no reaction.

[@VoyageurCountry]

😂

[@BattleBro77]

For a Finn, that's quite an extreme reaction.

[@VoyageurCountry]

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...

[@cassu6]

I don't know man. We Finns usually swarm every youtube video that has the word "Finland" in the title.

[@kkiuoi]

​@@cassu6"as a fin" 😂😂😂

[@antonyford430]

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.

[@Keskitalo1]

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

[@hans7856]

Great work-life balance. That explains why everything is closed all the time.

[@yarsivad000.5]

This guy is presenting Finns as dirt bags. That is a new take on Finland.

[@johnduffin9425]

Mio’s is absolutely slammed On a Monday!

[@johnduffin9425]

Great minds think alike My almost date was a no show Widow Still struggling with life

[@Draugo]

We "sided with Hitler" because no one else helped. All the allied countries gave mostly platitudes apart from some voluntary donations. We surprisingly wanted to stay independent so lesser evil it was.

[@unter1103]

implying he was evil speaks a lot about you than him

[@smonk3074]

@@unter1103 I think ordering millions of people to be killed is bad and so do most finns. Siding with Hitler was an unfortunate neccesity for our nation's survival.

[@MERIPURSU]

i wasn't a fan of how pro-soviet the war explanation was, with the video painting the continuation war as a rabid expanse rather than as a reclamation of some of the largest cities lost (viipuri and sortavala, for example, were both important culturally, not just militarily). the idea of a greater finland, even "just" the one of the whole of karelia and kola, was one only entertained by jingoist nationalists. also, finland didn't transport any jews to germany, and forbade german soldiers from discriminating finnish jewish soldiers. similar in that fashion to americans in britain trying to segregate black british people to no avail.

[@Montis6]

​​@@MERIPURSUThis is somewhat of a misconception, as while we didn't give up any Jews who were Finnish citizens, we did transfer some Jews who had taken refuge here from the pogroms etc. happening Nazi Germany. We did transfer some under a dozen Austrian jews (one of whom had volunteered to fight in the winter war) who came here originally as refugees from Germany, but that was more so because our idiot right wing police chief agreed to hand them over in what was (if I remember correctly) his own decision which hadn't been approved by the government or his superiors in the government. Nevertheless, approved or not it still happened and is a stain in our history, though some would argue siding with Germany no matter the circumstances at that time is as well. Some 47 more jews were also extradited to the USSR in 1942 during a POW exchange with the Soviets, though their religious identity wasn't afaik the reason for their extradition. They might've been Soviet Jews or Jewish refugees from elsewhere in Europe.

[@o0131]

@@unter1103 to us he was

[@GothGF-ArcaneBunny]

finally, a travel youtuber who doesnt just stay at helsinki

[@imakedamoney420smokeweed]

You will never be a woman

[@SamiJuntunen1]

There is something outside Helsinki? JK

[@lethn2929]

It's amazing how full of shit youtubers are when it comes to that sort of thing

[@illliiiiillliii6265]

@@SamiJuntunen1 Yes, Finland.

[@luisdawnfinder3188]

If I left Helsinki could I find a goth gf?

[@UhriLammas]

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.

[@RandomlyGeneratedUsername]

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.

[@ville9756]

Yeah what an idiot.

[@bennyklabarpan7002]

Most finnish people aren't finns either, there are more tavasts, swedes and karelians than actual finns

[@Weberkooks]

"man discredits entirety of sweden."

[@warren-g]

@@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

[@resmarted]

Ed on Helsinki: decadent hell hole Ed on rural cuisine: peasant food middleclassism?

[@SuperFranzs]

He is a caricature of a Edwardian middle class man, what do you expect?

[@resmarted]

@@SuperFranzs Uh, I don't know, I'm American.

[@samil5601]

resmarted@@resmartedTypical middle-class Brit who failed to achieve any form of status in his own country and is now whoring abroad where he might get visibility just by being a foreigner.

[@ForbiddenSecretsManuscripts]

Helsinki is a hellhole and decadent 😂they say its the best city but all i see is junkies, hobos, thiefs and expensive prices😢

[@antsa85]

​@@ForbiddenSecretsManuscripts This!

[@squidcaps4308]

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.

[@haik1234567]

As that priest said all the sad people killed themselves.

[@georgemulford2910]

Why was it high beforehand?

[@illliiiiillliii6265]

@@georgemulford2910 growing pains from joining the new world order.

[@pekkaporsliini606]

​@@georgemulford2910Eu elections maybe?

[@squidcaps4308]

@@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.

[@areloTET]

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) Edit: forgot to mention they were ethnically Finnish

[@skurt9109]

But they were still ethnicaly finnish. Your lies and decite is disgusting.

[@molotovribbentrop2839]

Not sure about Runeberg but we know paternal haplogroup of Lönnröt, and it's as Finnic as it gets.

[@flameofudun4238]

The Finnish relationship with the swastika is as ancient as the land itself. The design may have changed when that one swedish baron or whatever he was brought to finland from somewhere in 1917-18 but the ancient swastikas are also widely in use all over the place

[@bogdanrusgp]

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.

[@B1gLupu]

Or shout "HANAAAAA". That also works

[@coosoorlog]

I was first thinking of a political (or so) rally and was really really confused.

[@NiVoldiza]

"a random rally" = satunnainen poliittinen kokoontuminen

[@LayDownAndRot]

Meaning, a rally car race

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

They are insanely good really drivers. Unique among all rallying nations, they dig vicious little ditches at the side of their roads just for the extra challenge.

[@EdMcF1]

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.

[@t.wcharles2171]

He was also involved in the coronation of Tsar Nicholas, which he declared to be the proudest moment of his life.

[@sampohonkala4195]

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.

[@sampohonkala4195]

@@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.

[@cassu6]

@@t.wcharles2171 That certainly must've been quite a sight to see

[@t.wcharles2171]

@@cassu6 he said it was 'indescribably magnificent.'

[@vonvonvonvonvonvonvonvonvo7009]

I'm from Sweden, I often feel more in common with Finns than I do with a lot of Swede's today, the Americanization here is really strong... Länge leve Kung Gustaf.

[@GafferPerkele]

"It was closed" The average finnish experience.

[@snakeplissken2148]

The busy Times of tourism are over. 10-20 years ago, on every corner somE Kind of activity or nature Center opened. But the cost to maintain em for 5-10 visitors per day made em unsustainable. And the self servicing places at least in the south were robbed by New inhabitants of finland, so they also are in a desolate state.

[@WednesdayFin86]

"No fun allowed" is the SOP of any government since the 1100's. Remember "huvilupa" or the official government fun regulation bureau fun permit which still sort of exists.

[@snakeplissken2148]

@@WednesdayFin86 are you serious? The change of how ppl spend their freetime is Not regulated by the gov. Its more the fact that young folks rather stay at home playing games or the other ones have the financial possibility to travel through the whole world instead of staying in finland. And by the way you dont often meet folks who obey so strong to their officials like the fins. No matter who is in Charge 🤣

[@A3A3adamsan]

Do you know what other languages translate "railways" as "iron road"? Welsh, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese. Just to name a few. Sometimes the linguistic ignorance of the "lotuseaters" is too annoying.

[@LarsPallesen]

He seemed to assume that every other nation's word for train is a translation of the English word for train.

[@A3A3adamsan]

@@LarsPallesen It's slightly worse, he described it as a weakness of the language or culture (if I recall correctly), when almost every language does this. It's not a bug, it's a feature. Even the English word "carriage" used to mean "horse-drawn carriages" in the 19th century. Also "railway" - rail is the name of the pair of steel tracks, way is a synonym for road. So basically, even English does the same.

[@SocialistFinn1]

Anglophone moment

[@funkervogt47]

For a tourism video about Finland, there sure weren't many Finns shown.

[@hermanthetosser4219]

There were parts of the video what explained pretty much what you typed

[@Kardinaalilintu]

What can you expect from a brit...

[@perceptoshmegington3371]

I like Finns, they’re brutally honest if nothing else. You always know where you stand with them.

[@DavidJames-p9f]

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.

[@wanhaliitto]

@@DavidJames-p9f We don't do that. Why would we, again?

[@pekkajarvinen69]

We are also very blunt, straight to the point. No meaningless words to disrupt the bliss of silence.

[@EzekielBrockmann]

​@@pekkajarvinen69 I was going to reply to your comment, but then I changed my mind. (Sorry, I'm an American.) 😆

[@TeroHal]

@@DavidJames-p9fIt was probably the eye contact you made. Now you know why Finnish men tend to avoid making eye contact.

[@I_Stole_A_BTR-80]

> 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

[@GafferPerkele]

It's simple. He hated communists.

[@ignoramus3736]

> Trained soldier willing to fight for Finland. Best we could do, as Finland did not have its own military at the time.

[@Redask9]

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.

[@Thezftw]

He was a man of the Empire and loathed the communists that came after.

[@12345678927164]

But still always based.

[@Zuukable]

4:05 Elias Lönnrot wasn't a Swede or even a Swedish speaker despite his Swedish last name. Lots of regular Finns have Swedish surnames because when they moved from using patronyms to proper last names, they were simply written in Swedish in the church documents.

[@VladimirPutin-cd4cl]

Irish are not English because the speak English. The same holds to Swedish speaking finns. Most of those 19th century elite guys who spoke swedish and shifted to Finnish, had mixed ancestry, Lönrot, who wrote Kalevala, mostly Finnish. Few proper Swedes became Finnish nationalists. Why is this so difficult to understand to foreigners?

[@OldForestBushcraft]

Important point

[@TommyMiikhail]

But they are called swedes of Finland, not swedish speaking finns

[@VladimirPutin-cd4cl]

​@@TommyMiikhail No, they are never called "swedes". To call a "Finland's swede" (suomenruotsaleinen) a "swede", is kind of offensive, at least in southern F, and certainly something that will be corrected. There is no significant genetic difference between Finnish and Swedish speakers of the same regions, the difference between eastern/northern and western Finnish speakers is genetically much bigger. Jolly heretic is a habitual bullshitter and speaking like expert on subject he knows nothing about. That idiot knows absolutely nothing about Finnish history, but lectures about it like a professor. For instance, he does not even know that in 19th century most finns had Swedish names, and he thinks finns outbred swedes in Oulu, when they just changed names.. That he's married to a Lutheran priest tells all you need to know this pervert.

[@concretejungle9608]

A Ukrainian New Yorker here- the Finns ARE SUPER HUMAN - are you human, dude ?

[@JH-fp1lw]

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.

[@Lagmaster33]

The eternal Swedes...

[@JaakkoKesoYle]

That's right, Finns were called China Swedes and roundheads.

[@MrRaitzi]

Sweden is gay version of Finland lol.

[@KaizoeAzurum]

@@MrRaitzi No, Finland is the angry version of Sweden. Norway is the special ed version and Denmark is the drunk version. And Iceland is... Iceland.

[@LayDownAndRot]

TSD

[@Le_Trouvere]

Finnish is low-key one of the best sounding languages on earth. Can see why Tolkien used it to create the sound of Elvish.

[@juhajuntunen7866]

Finnish can be silky smooth honey to ear like: "aja hiljaa sillalla" or brutal like shooting machinegun and rubbing it with barbwire "älä rääkkää sitä räkäjätkää".

[@arska-pelejavlogejajaautoj5030]

@@juhajuntunen7866 "älä rääkkää sitä räkäjätkää" still sounds pretty smooth compared to the average of many other languages. You - and I - are being biased by the meaning of the words.

[@khatack]

@@arska-pelejavlogejajaautoj5030 Meh, every conversation with foreigners about which language is strongest can be ended with a single "PERKELE!".

[@b.a.m.5078]

Dated a Finnish girl for years, and listening to hear voice was the most amazing anti-depressant yet created. Finnish just sounds magical for some reason, it's really beautiful to hear.

[@muwuny]

He didn't, Elvish is based off of Celtic languages

[@topias9426]

Finnish language originating from Ural mountains doesn't equal most Finnish people originating from there. Finland has been inhabited since the end of the last ice age, much before uralic languages arrived. People then spoke ancient now-extinct languages unrelated to modern languages. We have a hint of those languages in some place names, such as Saimaa, Päijänne and Inari, which are names of some of the biggest lakes in Finland.

[@knarme5160]

The common ancestor of Baltic-Finnic peoples (Finns, Estonians, Karelians etc. many more) originates from the Volga river region in Russia. The common ancestor of all Sami peoples also comes from there, but they populated Fennoscandia and Western Russia earlier than Baltic-Finnics did. The Uralic language group as a whole, which contains the latter groups both, and more groups with their origins in central Siberia, likely does originate from Siberia truly. So, one could say, yes, the earliest roots of Finnish language are quite possibly in Siberia, but we're talking about a time before even the divergence of Pan-Baltic-Finnic ancestors. Uralic peoples/cultures do share genetic ingredients in common. We all have some North Asian ancestry. The most eastern Uralic people like Nganasan or Selkup look more North Asian than they look "European", and many other Uralic groups really look like a sliding scale from North Asian to European ("white" or whatever) looking. Finnish people are a mix of that North Asian but also local European ingredient. Some Finns have a more 'Eastern' genome while others have a more 'Germanized' one, especially in the west coast of the country where Swedes settled heavily during their crusades into Finland. Good amount of ethnic Finns also probably descend from culturally assimilated Sami peoples as well, with no modern connection to Sami culture or identity. So. Finns have many origins as people. Both Finns and Sami have probably mixed with the "paleo-european" now-extinct culture that lived here before either group. Said culture was most likely Indo-European linquistically, and Sami languages have loanwords from their extinct language. I think these ancient Indo-European groups of northern Europe might be whom the North Asian Uralic ancestors mixed with, creating those Uralic groups that look like a mixture of European and North Asian.

[@skurt9109]

@@knarme5160 majority of finns today share most ethnic simularity to swedes becouse most of them are

[@gabrielgabriel5177]

Most of us finns still have n-haplo group genes wich are asian and uralian. Of course we have mixture also like all people on earth. But its stupid or ignorance that many finns think they are indoeuropeans and even western. The western colonialisimg in the past and modern western politics have brainwashed most of modern finns. Our fathers were not western nor liberal. We are finno-ugrics.

[@skurt9109]

@@gabrielgabriel5177 You are stupid, you are more indoeuropean (swedish) than uralic. Why dont you have monolid eyes? It is becouse you got fucked to bad you turned swedish.

[@molotovribbentrop2839]

@@knarme5160 Germanic ancestry in Finns is much older than Swedish colonization of Finland, unless those Swedes then gave Swedish women to Finnish men. Most likely scenario for that admixture is that prior to early Finnic people expanding from the Baltic to Finland, Finland was settled by Germanic-like people who were then assimilated by the coming Finnic people. This also makes sense in paternal haplogroups, as only 5% of the I1 lines in Finland are clearly Swedish in origin.

[@mamimumi7589]

Never seen a tourist in Finland who thinks that the best part here was food. Amazing.

[@---do2qd]

Well to be fair, everything else he tried to do was closed.

[@wanhaliitto]

He was right about the food, though. It's honest, real. Just like the Finns.

[@yarsivad000.5]

He is British. They eat beans for breakfast.

[@Teawisher]

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.

[@kaksidaksi3455]

@@yarsivad000.5i was just about to say no wonder he liked our food.

[@jacobseppala6142]

Fun fact. Kamala means horrible in Finnish

[@roskcity]

Coincidence?

[@RichardPhillips1066]

Means horrible in English now too

[@RichardPhillips1066]

Means horrible in English too now

[@RichardPhillips1066]

Means that in English too now

[@LayDownAndRot]

@@RichardPhillips1066 I think they got it.

[@viophile]

As a Finn I find this quite refreshing. We did what had to be done to survive. Now we can breathe again due to Nato membership.

[@mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytre-pm9wl]

haha LOL

[@johnl5316]

Finland was not an Axis country, and there was noting to "get away with.' It was fighting against an enemy that wanted to destroy it and the West refused to help, and Germany did help

[@ludara8697]

Ahahaha

[@Sir_Baddington]

​@@ludara8697shut up troll

[@ToiletBowl-fi5vm]

Most people dont know about the lapland war were we fought away the germans.

[@johnl5316]

@@ludara8697 ?

[@jameshodgson3656]

Well don't take this as an endorsement of Russian colonialism but Finland had been a Russian subject for 100 years and wasn't destroyed, and in fact was far more independent than it had been under Sweden. There's no indication that Soviet leadership had any intent beyond taking land, whereas the Germans openly intended to wipe out the "asiatic" non-aryan races, which certainly includes the Sami if not the Finns as well.

[@KN-vz8dj]

A full hour video about Finns without showing a single Finn. I'm puzzled. Many good observations, though.

[@milamilamana]

I thought the same

[@wanhaliitto]

He has more in common with the Finns than he knows.

[@samuelprice2461]

Seemed to me that there were barely any Finns in the country, lol. Are they all hiding in the woods?

[@sunnyjim1355]

We heard some... that was about as extrovert as they could handle.

[@hopoheikki8503]

And didn't go to sauna. :P

[@mentomori666]

This video is littered with a whole bunch of absolutely wild inaccuracies but my favorite bit's gotta be 41:28 and the word "fetish store" when the store in question is just your average Underground, a chain piercing studio/clothing store for alternative folks lmao.

[@mebebrownie]

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

[@royale7620]

Lol

[@commisaryarreck3974]

I smell a business oppu- Nevermind, i just remembered what Finnish looks like. I'll stick to thankless eroge translation works

[@The00air]

I found one by Jonathan Clements, it looks like a legit English-language biography?

[@TheBcoolGuy]

I have a C.G. Mannerheim coin/medal thing.

[@mhyotyni]

No Brit would take the biography of Mannerheim seriously.. And it also would be too unbelievable to be another Monty Python sketch either 🥺

[@luisdawnfinder3188]

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.

[@annatenhunen4887]

Brilliant 😂😂😂🇫🇮

[@luisdawnfinder3188]

@@annatenhunen4887 What were the odds it'd be in the exact same day I see this video 🤣God has a sense of humor

[@Teawisher]

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

[@annatenhunen4887]

@@luisdawnfinder3188 As a Finn myself I’m 100% sure they made that on purpose 😂 A perfect example of our sense of humor 👌

[@Joakim-j7h]

That is so f**kn hilarious! 🤣

[@Jacob-qr8pl]

I'm American, but Swedes being called "Little Americans" even made me cringe in pity that they are called that 😂

[@hopoheikki8503]

Wouldn't call Finland naive about the rest of the world at least when it comes to Russia. While most of the Europe has been "asleep", Finland has been continuously preparing against potential Russian hostilities for the past 75 years.

[@MidWitPride]

Finns certainly have that "depressive realism" thing going on that's often the case with the people's from around the Urals. Probably one of the few ways Finns can relate to Russians by. That "Oh well, it is what it is" -kind of attitude.

[@molotovribbentrop2839]

@@MidWitPride Honestly, we really don't have much do to do with Urals. I would much rather point these similarities to shared ancestry in northeastern and eastern Europe, which would of course encompass Russians.

[@Gigadoomer13]

You are a mere puppet of the international banking system.

[@mnemonicpie]

"wouldn't call Finland naive" - naive guy

[@hopoheikki8503]

@@mnemonicpie Thanks for your input

[@jaakkokosola5948]

Being a direct descendant of the Lapuan Liike founder I feel like this is a great opportunity to elaborate on some of that. The reds lost the civil war mostly due to poor training and organization. The whites had a bunch of people trained in Germany. Then they managed to seize a lot of Russian equipment when things started to heat up, this wasn't too hard since the russians didn't really know what to do with their own command chain being as fucked as it was. During the 1920s the government made a bunch of concession to the socialist side to repair the rift caused by the civil war. Meanwhile in soviet Russia the commies were doing their thing and a lot of people got killed. This of course made people very suspicious when the communists in Finland kept up with their demands of more socialism. So it was decided that the safest move was to just rid the country of communists so they can't try another coup or act as partisans when the russians invade. All of that ended surprisingly peacefully with first most of communist activity being shut down and them being denied all kinds of democratic rights we take for granted nowadays. Ironically those same laws the the Lapuans got into effect were later applied to ban the Lapua movement after the most extreme members did a drunken "we're totally gonna coup you up" declaration and then got even more drunk and managed to achieve absolutely nothing. Most members then moved onto a slightly more democratically oriented party (the original movement wasn't even an actual party) and even got some people into the parliament. They got shut down by the soviets however after ww2 along all the other meddling they did to influence finnish politics.

[@sampohonkala4195]

During the attempted drunken coup my grandfather took the task of driving the car as the leaders were too drunk. The police searching for Kosola in the local bars and restaurants could not find him as he was staying overnight at our house. My grandfather was later in a police hearing but was not found guilty of anything illegal. Was later member of parliament.

[@LayDownAndRot]

It's a shame communists are granted democratic rights today.

[@pettahify]

One common misconception about the civil war is that a lot of people think that the red side had a lot of Russians. This was not the case.

[@jaakkokosola5948]

@@pettahify That is true. Most of them left Finland to defend Petersburg from germans and only a few thousand remained

[@kekekessa]

With the plethora of mistakes already pointed out in the comments, unfortunately some foreign viewers will get a very wrong picture of the country.

[@urban7514]

He will get a lot rubles for his efforts, do not worry, he has done his job.

[@98Zai]

Yeah, but the intro shows his obvious bias almost immediately. Nobody can take him seriously lol.

[@nigelwatson2750]

I am a Brit living in Finland. This is what I think kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWaQqX-shp5-fsk

[@Kinotaurus]

Butthurt detected

[@98Zai]

@@Kinotaurus So you're a butt detective? That explains the smell.

[@GafferPerkele]

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.

[@Jeff-cn9up]

I feel you, man. I wish the world had not come to my country, either. It's a culturally polluted mess now.

[@londonhodnet4079]

❤

[@SK-nw4ig]

This is so so true.

[@Rezec75]

You vill not escape ze bugz. You vill not escape having no property. You vill not escape the happiness.

[@wanhaliitto]

@@Rezec75 We will escape into the forests like we always did if things get too dire.

[@Petjuspelailee]

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.

[@AlisteirCrowley]

As a Norwegian, the finns are like that one brother you had growing up who got abducted for a few years by some abusive pedo before finally being found by the police and given back. While we still love our brother they never were the same after the incident.

[@bakerboat4572]

Oddly specific example...

[@JetUranus]

@@bakerboat4572 very fucking odd

[@Tomi-sc7dv]

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.

[@LolSumor]

Also the Finnish dialect of Swedish is different from Sweden's Swedish.

[@karhu96]

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.

[@MrRaitzi]

Finnish Swedes are more woke and descption was fair.

[@skurt9109]

The ”Fennoswedes” he mentioned was still ethnicaly swedish so counts non the less.

[@alfgotl]

​​@@karhu96As a Fennoswede I can confirm

[@AK-_-_]

You would’ve gotten hours of content from interviewing an old guy at a bar about immigration

[@Britannica1]

We did do this, but they spoke in Finnish and Ed could only translate so much whilst being drunk.

[@AK-_-_]

@@Britannica1 understandable, not the easiest task

[@Quammor]

@@Britannica1 Ed couldn't translate because despite living 19 years in Finland he does not speak Finnish. One example of bad integration right there.

[@Britannica1]

@@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.

[@tommym5023]

@@Quammor I can tell you he can.Once gave a lecture in Finnish... Mine's is better though

[@arcticradio]

It’s always tough as an ex British person to see these takes on Finland after having lived here for many years. They rarely ever represent what life is like.

[@nigelwatson2750]

Me too. I live in Pori. This is my take on Finland kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWaQqX-shp5-fsk

[@young_hortler6432]

That Ed guy sure seemed to like his own imaginary view of finland. Shame you didnt get an actual finn to travel with you instead of a guy who hasnt been able to integrate in 19 years.

[@krockpotbroccoli65]

I think he moved there mainly because he married a Finnish woman. Also, England sucks, but Finland seems to be doing it's best to bug chase after the same societal contagions that ruined his home country.

[@AkhrikArdzinba-pt4wc]

Maybe just cry about it.

[@tuukkahelminen8794]

@@AkhrikArdzinba-pt4wc or you know, dont post a shit video full of wrong and completely made up info

[@GOAT-rl2uq]

For real, the whole video is absolutely littered with wild inaccuracies.

[@asoim889]

We got an arrogant immigrant's view of Finland. Great...

[@eirepat]

You'd have to wonder if the Sub-Saharans heading to Finland could even point to it on a map before they left

[@tomwinterfishing9065]

They haven’t got maps.

[@basilbaby7678]

Apparently, the American midwest, middle-nowhere, podunk town that I reside in was priority on their “vision board” too.

[@imakedamoney420smokeweed]

They can't even read

[@dhjgjkd]

The people who sent them there probably just said to them that there's good welfare and blonde women.

[@adolfdyversiti6517]

They're biological weapons....

[@chevalier_de_balibari]

Not Swedish -- we're referred to as Finland-Swedes or Swedish-speaking Finns.

[@mistercrumbling1694]

@@chevalier_de_balibari yeah he acknowledges that In the video min vännen or however swedish goes. He just said that he will call you swedes for clarity.

[@SchwarzTulip]

Survive the Jive: Are Finns European? Britannica: Are Finns human?

[@PiousMoltar]

Who's going to be the one to ask if Finns are even Earthlings?

[@mhyotyni]

Funny, as a Finn I always thought that all the foreigners were aliens 👽

[@wheediesmanchild5229]

As the video didn’t find any Fins, the jury’s still out

[@manefin]

I think the question should be are finns native europeans, unlike most europeans who arent native to europe but migrated to europe en mass. Then answer would be kind of, given the very small percentage of hunter gatherer dna left in finnish genome. But not really, as all native europeans/native european genome were basically wiped out by one way or another by the neolithic farmers who took over europe. Likely mostly by breeding the hunter gatherers out over time. Replacing the small native populations of europe. But if one asks are modern finns just general europeans, then the answer is more or less yes. As most "europeans" genome is similar enough to categorize them into one larger more generic group compared to other people/groups. In case of many european countries, they are the same exact people but just living in different countries with different languages and customs. Because reasons i guess. This is why one cant say ones genetic heritage based on language. I mean im finnish, not english, even though i speak and write english. And i am not swedish even though i speak and write swedish. To a british person that might seem weird given how some people speak and write many languages but british only one. Thus language spoken and/or written is a very defining characteristic to a british or such while its not to many others.

[@maintaint3003]

Atlantean gardens: Are Finns... everybody?

[@johnsmith-x1e7k]

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.

[@wanhaliitto]

I talk to my neighbours a couple of times a year. I consider them quite close, therefore.

[@sunnyjim1355]

Bliss. I'd 'fit right in' in Finland... if that's even an appropriate term for being terminally 'anti-social'. 😆

[@MrPelzi91]

I don't know if socializing is exhausting for us finns but it's more like why bother or why to get to know some random neighbor. If someone comes to me and start a conversation i will talk with him/her but i don't want to make a friend out of that person necessarily so making friends in Finland is hard but when you get a friend you get a loyal friend.

[@Terminatedd]

I'd love to talk with random people here in Finland, but it always feels like I'd just be a bother if I just started randomly talking 😂. If everyone is drunk, it's pretty easy & natural to talk with randoms though.

[@urban7514]

Helsinki: “A decadent hell hole”, Turku: ”The A**hole of Finland”, Åland: ”A weird place”’, Porvoo: ”Deserted”, Eastern border: “Ruins and swastikas”. I’m glad you were able to have a good look around and make lots of friends. 😂 At least you found Taleban run Afghanistan up to your standards, I’m very glad for both of you.

[@thedudefromrobloxx]

The asswhole of finland is a very common joke. Are you finnish, because this is a showcase of one national feature that we are very sensitive to critisism

[@urban7514]

@@thedudefromrobloxx asswhole? You mean the whole ass?

[@urban7514]

@@thedudefromrobloxx My good man, should you not begin such a comment with: ”As a Finn…”?

[@rockmcdwayne1710]

Funny how the Finns mentioned that, they dont have words for the LGBT stuff! Im from Estonia and we have a similar situation. It is not possible to translate the entire debacle into our language so those that dont speak english are walking around with big question mark above their heads if anyone even attempts to ''educate'' them lol!

[@longiusaescius2537]

Based?

[@justskip4595]

The whole concept of "gender" is just imaginary as far as I am concerned. I can not even imagine it, we do not have any words that could even exist in the same universe as it is described by English speakers.

[@Sylinteri]

Setan sivuilla on tehty sanasto

[@dmacarthur5356]

I guess you have to just describe what you are talking about like "the lady with balls"?

[@rockmcdwayne1710]

@@dmacarthur5356 Even that stement wouldnt much make sense to many. The crux of the issue is the whole trans ideology revolving around gender, pronouns and such. Our language does not have concept such as gender or pronouns! You have to literally make shit up on the fly if you would attempt to translate many of these... things!

[@AK-_-_]

I always thought bald and bankrupt would come to Finland first but we probably don’t have enough soviet stuff

[@McDuggets]

Also not a cheap country where you can get 😸 just by showing off your passport

[@warren-g]

@@McDuggets lol

[@starrattmaster]

Maybe there's not enough strip clubs for him to visit there

[@Jermadumptruck]

Bald really likes Hesburger and Finlandia Vodka, but he probably thinks Finland is too liberal and not poor enough for him to visit.

[@JimboRustles]

@@McDuggets The women are notoriously easy though

[@djmonstermixful]

The amount of inaccuracies in this video is wild.

[@HeadCrabbyPatty]

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.

[@JesusFriedChrist]

Suomi Perrrrrrrrrrkele 🇫🇮 Proud to have Finnish ancestors 🫡 Terveisiä Kanadasta, veljet! 🇨🇦

[@ImHomiesexual]

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😂

[@loshobittos959]

Tule takaisin sieltä 😅

[@mithrandirthegrey7644]

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.

[@siaitsme6800]

​@@loshobittos959 😆😆😅😁👍👍

[@otto5423]

Come back we need more finns here.

[@petrinampajarvi8530]

This english immigrant seem to know many old "finnish customs" we have no idea of

[@RyoHazuki1]

That's pretty common because anywhere you go you get the 'tourist explanation' of a place that incorporates the old traditions and customs, rather than how how things are typically quite mundane for the locals and that is true almost anywhere you go.

[@tomwinterfishing9065]

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.

[@TuomasLevoniemi]

That swastika explanation was completely out of the woods. The swastika was the emblem of the Finnish Air Force before World War II. That is, in use before the nazis took it over. Finns still don't associate the swastika only with the nazis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Air_Force

[@jm-holm]

We also had our own "swastikas" long before that (tursaansydän) but the video is meant to be 50% comedic I'm sure rather than a factual documentary. Lots of the stories told in the video are quite made up.

[@j.reinholme]

Yea a lot of incorrect info being spoken with authority in this video

[@YodielandInhabitant710]

Katsoitko edes saman videon? Tais mennä täysin ohi kohta missä selitettiin ihan oikein tuon symbolin alkuperä mutta oli pakko tulla vinkumaan kommentteihin :D

[@RaffieFaffie]

@@jm-holm Basically every European country had their own swastikas

[@Laughing_Chinaman]

@@RaffieFaffie not just europe, all the world, including the new-world had sun wheels aka swastikas.

[@Rezec75]

Pekkas are funny people. They stopped the heavily armed Soviets, but they couldn't stop the Scientists and Engineers that came without any firearms...

[@mithrandirthegrey7644]

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.

[@Rezec75]

@@badrollmodels1298 do you believe that every country suffers as much as the "enlightened west" ?

[@vikipoyta]

So fucking true, but not in the way you meant it.

[@moonliteX]

are you norwegian? 😂

[@deniskfender]

Watching this great video as a Russian with Finnish roots, living in Finland for the last 2.5 years very close to the border, I haven't experienced much negative reaction from locals. Finns generally judge you on how you act, not your background. This is especially true for the younger generation. Sure, you might run into some old farts who can be a bit crusty, but that's rare - there were just a couple of cases for my daughter and wife. Overall, Finns are pretty chill if you're not causing trouble.

[@sampohonkala4195]

Likely true. Comments on this issue often totally miss the fact that generally Finnish and Russian people get along quite well. Russians are often less formal than most Europeans, which is also a Finnish quality, something we can relate to. Lots of ethnic Russians live in Finland and mixed marriages are common. There are also those families that immigrated before or right after the Russian revolution; people with a Russian surname and considered totally Finnish. And of course celebrities like Aleksander Barkov. The Finnish - Russian relations are much more than 'Finns hate Russians'.

@@sampohonkala4195 Wow, didn't know that about being less formal. Norwegians, or a lot of them at least, are also less formal than what's normal in the rest of Europe. You maybe didn't know about it since we have that darn Sweden in between us. :)

[@sampohonkala4195]

Actually I know that, I had a three year project in Finland with a Norwegian client. But now that all Norwegians are millionaires they start having a hard time of not showing it. You might succeed even in that; the Swedes would totally fail, they are a bit stiff already.

[@Fortuna88828]

As a Finn I am glad to her this.

[@chubbbubb6870]

Nice to see Finland's largest city in the Thumbnail. 😆

[@valentine8161]

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😅

[@crimsonpotemkin]

I didn't quite catch it, was that a rundown shed with a large graveyard?

[@Darocfi]

Are we human? No. We are finns.

[@Dasistrite]

You are Ukko's chosen people!

[@wanhaliitto]

Indeed.

[@yarsivad000.5]

Finland should hire the two Britts to do PR work.

[@mnemonicpie]

Finnoids. Are you drunk right now?

[@deathraygonzo6339]

You guys talk too much

[@pekka1900]

A finn here, and I thought it was quite amusing. I just felt bad that you didn't get some finn to take you under their wing, and show you all the finnish things people like here to do, such as sauna, fishing, hunting, hiking, and doing mythical things deep in the forest where no mortal dare enter nor can the leave. Ps. I hate the cold nature and cold people, but it's a stockholm syndrome at this point, so its hard to leave this place. Its safe and you can trust what the people say. Cheers.

[@MasterSpira]

What's so wrong about rolling in the snow after getting out of the Sauna? What are you a prude?!

[@vorynrosethorn903]

Yes.

[@suspiciousentity9305]

​@@vorynrosethorn903 I suspected as much. I bet you wouldn't even consume the local delicacy of river lampreys.

[@livedandletdie]

@@suspiciousentity9305 I would not consume lampreys even if my life depended on it. Salmiakki is the only Finnish delicacy I'll eat.

[@wanhaliitto]

The Brits can be rather uptight about these sorts of very natural things.

[@sunnyjim1355]

Not prudish, we just rarely have snow, otherwise...

[@lightmind20]

Somehow you found the craziest man in Finland

[@gaarakabuto1]

The reason Finland away on being part of the axis, is very simple actually. They never really were part of the axis. They didnt join the war between the allies and the axis, germans offered to join their war with the soviets and they agreed, for reasons that they dont matter, the point is thay they accepted the help of a peculiar player in the current wider war. Finland never contributed to the axis. The only reason Germany was in Finland was because there was a common foe and Finland wasn't too keen on Germans either, thus the later agreement. So i guess still there is the question why did they got away with helping the nazis even if they were not part of the Axis. Because it showed very clearly how little allies they really were when the Nazis burned down half of Finland and when a similar situation was happening in Norway. Neutral is the best way you can put finland during WW2 and whatever alliances they had with either side was payed for with great losses.

[@cipriannecsutu]

Filming at karaoke is a terrible thing to do, she was right, etc. For once i empathize more with the culture from the visited country then with the visitor.

[@Shuorbr]

As a swedish speaking finn who has lived in Sweden for a couple of years and worked in Sweden for ten years, we're not swedes in Finland and share very little but the language.

[@butterflies655]

Wrong. Finland 🇫🇮 is a Nordic country with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇮🇸 politically, economically, religiously, culturally and geographically. If you like it or not.

[@Shuorbr]

@@butterflies655 I meant in the sense that he tries to apply that we're swedes in Finland when we're not. And I don't really know how much time you've spent in the nordic countries the last decade but finns aren't that close to the other nordic countries culturally, just attend one of the joint nordic military exercises and you will see the vast differences. All nordic countries are VERY secular so don't even mention the religion bullshit. Finns are way more like eastern european than this jolly gay attitude that scandinavians have adopted.

[@SixtiesStick]

@Shuorbr The jolly gay attitude has gotten much more pronounced, though this is mostly due to urban, college-educated millenial finns. But yeah, the average blue-collar rural finn is still very much reactionary, xenophobic and nationalistic.

[@SA-rb5xq]

Kanske är du finlandsvensk finländare, men visst inte svensktalande finne. Som finne i Sverige känner man sig också bortkopplad från dagens Finland på liknande vis, då förföräldrarna alla kom på 50- eller 70-talet. Ändå är man inte svensk fast språket är svenska.

[@djremotion2]

We are not eastern european country, we are nordic country.

[@hauskalainen]

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.

[@omiq7761]

if my memory servers me right, it is the only time two democratic countries have been in war. At least on paper. ( But then again UK is an old empire with kings and such.) Tho they did come here during the Napoleonic wars when Finland was part of Russian empire. There is still a British war ship maintained in Kokkola that was capture from the Royal Navy, probably only one in the world. They still pay us for keeping that thing in public display.

[@aleksikovanen6698]

@@omiq7761 👌👌👌

[@justaddsrbs6867]

Look at the world map of 1942 and find the shortest route through which Churchill could have sent a military force to fight against Finland.

[@yeast7485]

@@justaddsrbs6867 northern route to murmansk, same as the equipment shipments to the soviet union

[@justaddsrbs6867]

@@yeast7485 you may want to read how well PQ-17 fared on that route.

[@t-pnaminami3808]

Your pal seems like a very dislikeable fellow with the attitude of a sneering and arrogant imperialist, so no wonder he doesn't enjoy himself here. We probably don't enjoy him either. Glad you liked the food though.

[@SK-nw4ig]

:D I thought he quite liked to be here :D

[@AkhrikArdzinba-pt4wc]

Boohoo

[@jarnovilen5259]

@@AkhrikArdzinba-pt4wc I am starting to notice a pattern here. Some one is bitter and he is not a Finn😉

[@AkhrikArdzinba-pt4wc]

@@jarnovilen5259 The only ones coping here are Finns lmao. Maybe do some reflecting before commenting. You are the most bitter people I've ever met. You never take accountability for anything and always deny everything.

[@djmonstermixful]

@@AkhrikArdzinba-pt4wcu okay bro :D ?

[@huugosorsselsson4122]

From this video you get a sense of this guy's politics. A dead giveaway is picking a fringe ideologue rather than any Finn to talk to. Not sure what the point of any of this is.

[@MyZk089]

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."

[@omppusolttu5799]

Hell a finnish *identity* didn't exist before that. It just used to be a "finns are the pile of different people that exist in the colony of finland". The concept of being finnish was born out of an effort to form a finnish identity to unify the different tribes of finns, sapmi and swedes who had lived there for generations.

[@LayDownAndRot]

​@@omppusolttu5799 Well, there still always was the nation of peasants that spoke finnish. What would you call those people?

[@SuperFranzs]

@@LayDownAndRot Peasants.

[@alexp7579]

​​@@omppusolttu5799It's a myth that Finns as a people wouldn't have existed during the Swedish times. I guess it comes from the rise of nationalism under the Russian rule but the Finns as a people certainly did exist before that. In the 1600's it was already whole of Finland that was referred to as "Finns". There even was an attempted independence in the 1700's when over a hundred Finnish officers rebelled against the Swedish king and colluded with Russia due to being tired of Finland carrying the burden in wars against Russia (the Anjala act). Had they succeeded in a separate peace with Russia they would have gone into war against Sweden, but they didnt succeed so the conspiracy eventually fell apart as it would have been a two-front war. They did drive the Swedish king out of Finland though. The root cause of the rebellion wasnt nationalistic, but these mostly Swedish-speaking officers referred to belonging to the "the proud Finnish nation" in their manifesto, so the Finnish identitety definitely wasn't something that only emerged under the Russian rule, not even in the case of Swedish-speaking Finns.

[@pasteldecarne6576]

Ironically the guy who said the original line was soon sentenced to exile for his nationalist activities and lived the rest of his life in Sweden lol

[@yarzel3753]

For such a long video, it is a surprisingly shallow dive in the local culture and customs. A lot of commenters have pointed out some errors so not going to go into that. If someone has a genuine interest in Finland, I encourage to do more research beyond this video. The lack of thoughtful research that has gone into this trip is really showing in places, like not finding out schedules and then complaining about it, or not looking into the cruise programme, ending up in Sweden and blaming everything else but themselves.

[@paragon81]

The video is titled Tourism in Finland and I'd argue it's one of the more accurate tourism videos about Finland on KZbin. There's really not that much to see or do in Finland as tourist and all the touristy stuff is outrageously expensive.

[@Ryuuoo_]

@@paragon81 Best things to do finland as tourist is too see the normal life.

[@yarzel3753]

@@paragon81 I appreciate the feedback, but I do have a couple of counterarguments. Yes, tourism in Finland is the title, but misrepresented history and sociology does not really add anything to it. Also, going to tourist traps anywhere in the world is expensive, at least relative to the surrounding society. The alternative option anywhere is to do a bit of research and go to the smaller, lesser known locations. It's like saying France is incredibly expensive after visiting Paris and Disney.

[@rudiruttger]

That tank is a finnish sturmgeschütz III, and its marking is finnish

[@Karathos]

In English the term for Swedish-speaking Finns (what Callum said he just decided to call ’Swedes') is Fenno-swede or Finn-swede. As a part of said group, I would really not put too much stock into the words of those two women you spoke to in the hotel. The stereotype is true yes, a lot of Finn-swedes are quite highly educated and snobbish, but that does not automatically translate into some kind of fetish for immigration and globalism. There's plenty of people who are purely Finnish-speaking who are the absolute worst sell-outs to foreign interests and current-thing agendas. If you, for example, check out the names on the list of big Finnish Defence Forces general officers, you'll find that quite a few of them have Swedish-side ancestry and even some background in old nobility from Sweden. But that did not stop them from being incredibly patriotic FINNS. Food for thought.

[@alfgotl]

Honestly as a Fennoswede I think this stereotype applies to the ones living in Helsinki. Dragsvik is the hub where every military aged Fennoswede meets each other. I can confirm that Helsinki Fennoswedes wanna adopt more modern Swedish cultural norms. While all the other coastal Swedes just keep to themselves in their small communities. All Fennoswedes outside of Helsinki think Helsinki Fennoswedes are snobbish clowns.

[@nordiskahavder935]

@alfgotl Very much agreed (am from Ekenäs myself)

[@DanielosVK]

You're very wrong about calling every second person Swedish. Those people are Swedish-speaking Finns, didn't consider themselves Swedes. Language (which in the case of Finnish Swedish is quite different from proper Swedish anyway) doesn't go hand in hand with national identity all the time. The difference between them and Swedes is so large that actual Swedes ask them to speak English when they hear them.

[@skurt9109]

The men he mentiond are still ethnicaly swedish, so they count.

[@KattFisken]

I have met and spoken to Swedish speaking Finns and I definitely did not have to ask them to speak English. I do agree with the rest of what you are saying though, they should be refereed to as Swedish speaking Finns.

[@madmarilyn]

Being Swedish, I can confirm that we absolutely understand the Swedish-speaking Finns without issue. Maybe immigrants in Sweden have trouble understanding them, but it would be the same kind of people that have trouble understanding the southern Swedish dialect skånska. If Swedish is your first language, you will understand it.

[@alexp7579]

It's more like some customer service worker in Stockholm might answer in English to a Swedish-speaking Finn out of politiness, as they first think he's speaking bad Swedish.

[@molotovribbentrop2839]

@@skurt9109 They are not. For example, Lönnrot had Finnic N1c paternal line, not Scandinavian I1. The same also goes for Sibelius and the Jansson family at least.

[@kgsvvgla2i]

One major correction to make: Names of Swedish origin are quite common in Finland and most often such a name doesn't imply personal Swedish (or Finnish-Swedish) background.

[@jane---489]

*_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..._*

[@JesusFriedChrist]

He’s going to take the Simo Häyhä challenge 💪🏼🇫🇮💪🏼

[@jane---489]

@@JesusFriedChrist *_If Callum can rub shoulders with a bunch of hostile Taliban, he can do anything ..._*

[@thetruth45678]

You finally said something that makes sense and is true. Congrats!

[@jane---489]

@@JesusFriedChrist *_If Callum can face down the Taliban, he can do anything ..._*

[@earthmanbrick]

lmao, you've got over 1k subscribers & zero videos. Well done, that's a rare talent

[@roscoeshreder875]

Holy moly, two restrained Anglos being shocked by wild northerners. And yes, Finland is Nordic country, not Eastern European, by its location and culture. Fortunately many institutional and practical things work here better than in the UK.

[@14Anon2]

Just one correction here, the swirling cross symbol (YT will probably delete the comment if I name it by it's most commonly used name) was most certainly not brought to Finland by a traveller but will have been part of its ancient cultural symbolism, just as it was across Europe including in Britain. The symbol is found throughout the continent, continuously, for thousands of years - in Britain we have many old churches with that symbol in the relief work and it was commonly used right up to the war (Britain was issuing war bond badges with the symbol on in WWI). Indeed, the oldest known example in the world is from Ukraine, on a carved piece of mammoth ivory dating back tens of thousands of years. The post war period saw much of Europe distance itself from this symbol to the point where it is almost entirely forgotten that it was in common use throughout the entirety of European history, with many people now believing the eager claim from Indian nationalists that the symbol is from India and Europeans stole it during the colonial period.

[@ultrahevybeat]

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

[@normaaliihminen722]

A slight correction. Finland hasn’t had high suicide rate after 90s. Since then things have improved.

[@KA-jm2cz]

Saying that Finnish cultural persons etc are Swedish is same that claiming all Irish people British for they have been under Britsh crown and talked same language. No - they were Finns.

[@OldForestBushcraft]

True

[@Aleksilausti]

So many factual mistakes right from the get go, like considering Elias Lönnrot a swede, that I couldn't watch further. So let me just state for the record as a Finn, no we don't particurlarly like to be considered as being human.

[@joukonsson1872]

the missinformation in this video made me seethe

[@davidm5746]

Like what? I'm curious. What was the big one for you?

[@DevilsLettuce4657]

@@davidm5746 1. claiming that Finnish culture is made by swedes(Moomin, the National anthem, paintings etc.) They are Swedish speaking Finns. Different language, same nationality. Similar to French-Canadians. The video even claims some Finnish speaking FInns to be Swedish. --> Elias Lönnrot. 2. Framing the Continuation war as a war to expand Finland all the way to the Ural mountains when it was about taking back the land lost in the Winter war. The Finns crossed the old border to gain a more favorable defensive positions, but halted their advance there. 3. The constant Pro-Russia talking points scattered throughout the video. At the same time alluding to the West being corrupted by LGBT+ degeneracy, at the same time being under an invasion of Muslims. Claiming that the Finns want Russia to be annihilated, and the Finnish kids want all Russians to die while claiming that Russians have no ill will towards the Finns. Almost as if Russia was this chosen land that would liberate the West from its degenerate overlords. 4. Questioning Finland's status as the happiest country in the world due to high suicide rates. The suicide rates in Finland is nowadays around EU average. 5. Talking a LOT about the Finnish use of the Swastika to allude that Finns are Nazi sympathizers. When the Finnish use of the symbol predates the Nazi party. 6. Overall making a hour long video about Finland without a single Finn, accompanied only by some UK evo-psych crank middleclassist knowitall. Claiming to have written stuff said by Finns to his diary instead of filming himself interviewing them. Kinda sus if you ask me.

[@jannevellamo]

A lot of Finns have Swedish last names, but most of these actually do not speak Swedish, they just have a male ancestor with a Swedish last name. Most of these names were given by Swedish priests, who couldn't spell Finnish names, so they replaced the unintelligible name with a Swedish one that sounded remotely similar.

[@jonnenne]

It's more like people didn't have last names and were given a random one. It wasn't before 20th century that people had to have last names.

[@jannevellamo]

@@jonnenne That was indeed the case with a lot of people, but not everybody.

[@marioschristofi7744]

I have been married to a Finnish woman for 11 years. I am Greek. We have been living in Finland for 5 years, and yes the Finns are a different culture, but they are what they are and they are authentic and honest. As a nation they have suffered many hardships. They are hardworking people. Although it is very difficult to make friends here, I love them for who they are.

[@Cycnus_Infernus]

The beginning of the video... confused stuff about peoples and languages. The claim that the Finns are "foreign" to the continent of Europe and are less European than some others is based on lack of knowledge and arbitrary choices of time etc.

[@hevosenpaska114]

Calling Elias Lönnrot Swedish is almost as bad as calling Merlin French. Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) was a Finnish physician, philologist, and folklorist best known for compiling and editing the “Kalevala,” the Finnish national epic. He gathered folk poems, songs, and stories from the oral traditions of Finnish and Karelian culture, combining them into a cohesive narrative that has had a significant influence on Finnish national identity and literature. Lönnrot’s work helped preserve these traditions and played a crucial role in promoting Finnish language and culture during a time when Finland was under Russian rule. His efforts also contributed to the development of Finnish as a literary language. Greetings from Finland! Love your show mate!!

[@TheJollyHeretic]

What was his native language?

[@hevosenpaska114]

@@TheJollyHeretic Yes, Elias Lönnrot was Finnish. He was born on April 9, 1802, in Sammatti about 5 miles where I was born, which was then part of the Swedish Empire (now Finland). Lönnrot is best known for compiling the “Kalevala,” the Finnish national epic, which played a significant role in the development of Finnish cultural identity and the rise of Finnish nationalism in the 19th century. He was also a linguist, physician, and an important figure in the promotion of the Finnish language and culture. Like myself, I was taught Swedish in school because Finland is a bilingual country. He spoke both languages coz you can’t write Finnish national saga in Finnish if you don’t speak the language.

[@0vaku0]

@@TheJollyHeretic Unfortunately I'm not educated on the subject, or in fact I'm not educated at all. Would you be able to recommend some high class, respected university to study Finnish and Swedish history? I've heard about this "Asbiro University" where you could supposedly receive titles like "Professor of Evolutionary Psychology of Business", despite the fact the whole institution doesn't meet the standards to be considered a real university. Apparently it's an easy way for an entrepreneur to receive a fancy sounding title. Pretty neat, huh?

[@TheJollyHeretic]

@@hevosenpaska114 What was his native language? It was Swedish. Though there seems to be a myth that it was Finnish. Elias Lönnrot, National Writer by Pertti Karkama says his native language was Swedish and I'll believe him over you.

[@SocialistFinn1]

@@TheJollyHeretic his native language matters why? Even if it was Swedish, how does that make him not Finnish ethnically, culturally and geographically? By your logic Ireland is just a country filled with Englishmen and the United States and Canada are still full of English people. This is obviously not sensible.

[@jyripeltola6677]

3:35 Finland didn't "get to keep their autonomy" when russia invaded, but rather got autonomy since we didn't have it under swedish rule.

[@rudiruttger]

Finns had any right that a Swedish peasant had in the Kingdom of Sweden.

[@-RXB-]

​@@rudiruttgerYes, this is true. But to appease the Finns after the Russian conquest, the Russians gave them quite a bit of autonomy. It worked, and changed the negative reaction to a more content one. Over time due to this, many Finns came to the opinion that things actually were better for them as part of the Russian Empire, rather than a part of Sweden.

[@adamhorzowski5867]

57:00 You can tell Polish people were there. Our word for f@ggot is "pedał", which coincidentally sounds the same as the word we use for bike pedals, though the etymology is different. Now, if this "no gay" right next to a bike was confusing to you, I think you can draw your conclusions from here.

[@Z1tu0]

The "True Finns" party would be more correctly translated to "Basic Finns" or "Normal Finns".

[@iivarilappalainen9836]

Ive always wondered about the "true finn" translation, how they even came up with that one - sounds super far right and ethnic when compared to the actual finnish reading of boring "average finn".

[@Z1tu0]

@@iivarilappalainen9836 I suppose calling your party "Basic" or "Normal" just sounds quite boring, which might not be very good in electoral politics. The word "perus" could also be translated as "foundational", especially in some context. So I guess "perus" is just a trick word to translate in a way where you're using the closest English language match, while not sounding overly bland.

[@iivarilappalainen9836]

@@Z1tu0 the english name has very little meaning to the elections in finland though. Could be they just flipped coin or went with what sounds coolest. Now that i think about it again, they could be actually rebranding to "finns party" in english. Think they had some material with that name recently.

[@Z1tu0]

@@iivarilappalainen9836 I would go with the cool name theory if I had to make a guess.

[@SA-rb5xq]

Isn't it their Swedish name which is translated into English as True Finns? _Sannfinländarna_