Most Googled Questions About Finland (with Aleksi Himself)

[@AleksiHimself]

Perkele this was a fun collaboration to do. 😀

[@oh2mp]

That was fun to watch too :) In about 7min there was a question: "Why do Finns look asian?". There might be some truth. Some Finns have very little "asiatic" eyes, so little that it can't be seen if you really don't look the eyes that way. Also it's more visible in children than adults. It might be because Finland was inhabitated from east and west after the ice age. Over 60% of Finnish men have straight father line which originates in east Siberia 10000-20000 years ago. Mother lines are mainly from the west. That is a mystery why. Our autosomal dna (that is the biggest part and inherits from both parents) is still very European. We just have that little bit of Asian genes in our pool.

[@jancovanderwesthuizen8070]

@@oh2mp maybe because of Sami influence? Natives often look a little Asian

[@oh2mp]

No. Finns and Sami people are genetically very distant. Eg. Swedes are much nearer than Sami.

[@jancovanderwesthuizen8070]

@@oh2mp Of course they're distant, but you can't tell me there hasn't been any mixing

[@oh2mp]

It can be seen in our (Finns and Sami) genetic pools. There has been some mixing but mainly to the another direction. Also, some iron age corpses found in western Finland have been recently analyzed and they are near to todays Sami, but quite distant to Finns which is quite interesting.

[@TheEdnar83]

My friend had the best description of what Estonian sounds like to a Finn. It feels like you've had a mild stroke that messed the language center of your brain, after which you're hearing someone talking to you in your native language. You feel like you should understand everything and everything sounds really familiar, but absolutely none of it makes any sense.

[@Sten172]

@Sean Price Finnish is estonian spoken with a burnt tongue

[@atemi3217]

I don't think that we Finns look like Asians at all

[@speckle9850]

Atemi321 I agree to that,I am from the Philippines and I am an asian, and for me, finns wasn't look like asians,here in my country, if we see foreign people, if they are white and tall, we used to assume they are americans, even not all are...

[@Northernliiights]

Both my parents are born in Finland, and ive got those asian looking eyes.

[@te0pol159]

Yeah.. And finns can get it kinda racist... Because they don't look like asian.....

[@kmeanxneth]

Why some people think that finns look asian? Well I think that's related with history. In 1800 many race researcher categorized Finns as Mongols. In those times they who even knew what Finland was thought that there is Asia looking people. After all, that Mongol theory isn.'t maybe all wrong. Average Finn have Asian DNA

[@maple494]

Well, I do look like an Asian a bit, brown skin, brown hair and eyes

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Oh Aleksi is an expert? 😜 Estonian sounds funny, because the common words in Estonian and Finnish are mostly ancient. So Estonian has this ancient sound in it, and same is true of course for Estonians listening Finnish. If I READ Estonian, I can get most of the content. Listening is harder.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Comment updated 2021. That Finns are Asian is an old Swedish nationalist theory of the Svecoman movement. The movement emphasized Swedish culture and people supremacy, and in Finland was supposed to make Finland's Swedish people to connect with and adobt Swedish identity. The Svecoman movement is a political movement in Finland that began as a resistance to Fennoman movement. The Fennoman movement emphasized Finnish language and culture. During this era Finland was autonomic Russian Czar's Grand Duchy. Svecoman and Fennoman movements have English Wikipedia pages. Finns do have an ancient connection to Central Russia from the Stone Age already. The Uralic language family that Finnic languages belong into, is with good concensus thought to have evolved between the Volga River and Baltic Sea reagion. Finnic languages are the most numerous group within the Uralic language family. Bronze Age Finland still had trade connections to Ural Mountains region: Eastern and Northern Finland got their bronze from there, while southern Finland got their bronze from the Baltic Sea trade. The trade connection between Finland and Central Russia was finally cut by the emergence of Novgorod. Some Internet sites call the N-haplogroup that is most common with the Finnish men, as an Uralic haplogroup (after the Uralic language family). After Finns, it is the however second most common with the indoeuropean languages speaking northern Russians, Lithuanians and Latvians. After then comes another Uralic language people, the Estonians. So it's not an Uralic language haplogroup: it's a haplogroup that has two major branches, the other common in Eastern Siberia and the other common in the Baltic Sea region. Plenty of KZbin videos claim that haplogroups is connected to what people look like or what language they speak. As previous paragraph shows, haplogroups are easily common with many different language families, as many haplogroups have wide geographic distribution. Similarly, one cannot tell from a person's haplogroups what he or she would look like. Haplogroup is a part of the chromosome that are inherited together and have low chance of mutating, thus making useful for tracking migrations of peoples. The haplogroups used for this reason are Y-DNA haplogroups that the son inherits from the father and the mtDNA haplogroups that the girl inherits from her mother. Along with bloodtypes, haplogroups were among the first used trying to figure out mass movements and genetic distances of peoples. A few decades back it was thought that the Sami people came from Siberia, and would be a mongoloid people. Their haplogroups however showed that their mother-lines come from the Iberian peninsula (Spain) direction and their father-lines from same region as Finnish ones (Baltic-Sea - Central Russia) region. Now when autosomal DNA (all the DNA except sex chromosomes) research has become inexpensive and there are massive archives of peoples' genetic data, what peoples are genetically closest to each others, those maps are done based on autosomal DNA data: the result is better than haplogroups data. Autosomal admixtures are used to look which ancient peoples modern people are genetically closest with. Autosomal admixture of Finns is closely similar with Balts, Slavs and Scandinavians. European hunter-gatherers make about 50% of Finnish autosomal admixture and Early European Farmers makes a bit less than 50%. With Russians, Finns and Volga region Uralic speakers there's also 5% to 10% Paleo-Siberian admixture. As the sample for Paleo-Siberians, the Nganasan people were used: they are an Uralic language speaking (Samoyed group within Uralic languages) people who are considered remind closest Paleo-Siberian peoples. The ancient Sami people had about 50% of their admixture common with Paleo-Siberians (the Nganasans) and modern Sami have 20% to 30% Paleo-Siberian admixture. Thus the modern Sami admixture has become to remind more Finnish and Scandinavian admixture. Major papers that give good look at the genetic make up of Finns and their distance to other European peoples are: "Genetic Heritage of the Balto-Slavic Speaking Populations: A Synthesis of Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosomal Data" and "Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe"

[@Aurinkohirvi]

And I would also mention the archeologic view. The oldest sites found in Finland, are connected to the Estonian and Latvian Paleolithic Stone Age Kunda Culture: they brought both the raw material and items with them from the Baltic Peninsula. In Finland it is called the Suomusjärvi Culture, or the Kunda-Suomusjärvi Culture. The Kunda Culture is a child of the Swiderian Culture that developped in modern Poland and Belarussia region. The Uralic languages inhabit (and inhabited historically) the same region where a Neolithic Stone Age culture called the Comb Ceramic Culture (or the Pit-Comb Ware Culture) existed: Finland, the Baltic Peninsula (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Nothern Poland, Russia west from the Ural Mountains. Because it so well connects with the Uralic language family, it was, and still is (depending who talks) considred a region where the Uralic language group existed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiderian_culture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunda_culture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_Ceramic_culture

[@manefin]

It is true that there are some who are very keen on Y - haplogroups spesifically. Even obsessed. But its not nationalistic people actually but more of pan european kinds. People who think that as at least europeans in general look rather same, have same kind of haplogroups, or at least more same than non europeans. That we are the same basically. Though an Y - haplogroup obsessive wouldnt count finns as european of course. A nationalist or nationalistic view is basically the opposite view of that. That example european isnt defined by Y - Haplogroup. Nor is it defined by example language family either. In other words, an actual nationalistic view goes much deeper. What you described of the view of swedes is more of an imperialist view than a nationalistic view.

[@te0pol159]

Umm wikipedia copypaste?

[@manefin]

Studies and scientific facts are interesting in their own way, to confirm something for example. But unique ideas are way more interesting and very rare.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Manefin, that Finns are East Asian (Mongoloid) is a Swedish nationalist theory. Yeah, the haplogroups is much newer thing. The haplogroups enthuasiastists are often interested in an ethnic (and/or linguistic) group wider than national borders. Germanic, Turkic, Finnic, Slavic or what ever. I have kind of a feeling, that people who are interested of pan-European ethnicity is a smaller numer of people. If you take white race supremacists for example, they aren't usually too interested in the Mediterranean or Eastern European people to count in their ranks.

[@0Phoenix0]

Interesting video! Try doing the same with Norwegian youtuber next time, it'll be fun too.

[@Bentcypress]

My family came to the US from far eastern and northern Finland in 1880. From Suomussalmi to somewhere north of Kemijarvi. We do have Sami in our heritage and most of my family does indeed look to be either Asian or Native American (such as Eskimo). My second observation is that when I was a kid growing up in Northern Michigan the local Finnish church (for some strange reason I grew up in the Church of Sweden) hired a Hungarian pastor because most of the congregation could understand him. I've never quite understood that but that's the way it was back in the "olden days." :-)

[@Taurwathwylth]

+Bentcypress7 It's kind of a knack of Hungarians that they like to learn Finnish when they're going to deal with Finns. Probably the priest went to Finnish lectures in addition to taking part in the clergy seminar. When the Finnish football team plays an away match in Hungary the Hungarians often hire stadium emcees who have studied Finnish and they give the important stadium public addresses also in Finnish. Sadly this is much more rare in reverse.

[@iloirtimusiikista]

If the pastor indeed spoke Hungarian, the Finnish speaking congregation would not have understood one word of his sermons, so this can't be true!

[@themaster1670]

Finnish and Hungarian are so distant that we don't understand each other at all, so that's so straight BS right there. Also the Sami people have this kind of Asiatic/inuitic look about them, but the Finns look like Swedes because basically almost all Finns have at least some Swedish ancestry.

[@Wenixi]

Maybe the pastor was able to read Finnish texts in a way that the people could understand it...? Because of his dialect. And an interesting story!! Thanks for sharing!! And indeed people have agreed here in the comments that Sami people look a bit Asian, Caucasian... they have a bit different genes. But Finns do totally NOT look any asian. We have come from Europe way back and isolated ourselves. 😆

[@ana-mariastiolica4246]

So nice to see you colab again. Good job, i luv you guys

[@AleksiHimself]

Good stuff! 😀

[@arescue]

This video has been a lot of fun. I am an American, watching a video in English, with a Swede interviewing a Finn. So, if I were to visit Europe, should I visit Sweden or Finland?

[@eldakka2163]

FINLAND!

[@silvrigasylvia]

arescue SWEDEN

[@Diaval7711]

FINLAND

[@MinimiMax]

Why not both? You can move from one to the other very easily.

[@AleksiHimself]

Definitely both and if possible the other Nordic countries as well.

[@trenchrock]

Great video! Also I'm wondering if the Finn's look like Asians might be talking about Sami specifically...I don't think the average Finn looks Asian but maybe some that have Sami ancestry.

[@Youlubucki]

reddit.com/r/fingols

[@sannikuukuu6687]

Ummm... no

[@wardeni4806]

What? You mean that the most blonde and blue-eyed nation on earth doesn't look Asian to you? Pure madness.

[@coyotelong4349]

Yep, I think you’re exactly right. I think the person is referring to Sami people

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

I lived in Australia 20 years. Ppl there always asked me If I come from Scandinavia. Nobody asked me If I come from Asia. I am a Finn.

[@jordannewbould8745]

Since many ethnic Finns originate from a different places than Scandinavians (some North east Russia or Siberia) some have different genes than the Swedish populated coast, they can have different physical features from most Swedes (although admixture of Finns and Swedes go way back) with some have more "Asian looking" features like epicanthic folds along the upper eyelid, and rounder and wider faces. These physical characteristics are not restricted to Asians though, but found all over the world. Interesting topics, great video (:

[@kaasuakaasua8651]

If you look at saami people they definetly look more asian. some "original" poplation came from siberia and its said that even mongolians would have come this far even tho they didnt rly take over or rule any part officially. surely osme people from russia too so there definetly is people with more asian genes than other. also that vikings never managed to take over finland so the "race mixing" doesnt go so far in the past. And to this day peopel up north doesnt have so much to chose from so... And maybe not only that but genocide of saami people and everything in history so thye had tendency to stay on their own and "keep the bloodline strong"... well inbred.

[@kaasuakaasua8651]

And if finnic tribes found their way from northern russia/ finland/sweden all the way to hungary... i guess everything is possible.

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

Epicanthic folds. I never saw them with finns. I saw them with finns who have got asian mother or father and some Sami ppl. Even they haven't got them so often.

[@youraveragestalker8438]

I understand swedish very well but if you want me to answer in swedish i'll be like "ja....solen skiner och jag..will...eiku siis ska gå till...the beach" I throw some english words in there too haha

[@nixo-jz3oo]

I think that almost every finn understands basics of swedish but talking might be little harder 😂😂

[@iloirtimusiikista]

Oh for heaven's sakes!!!! NOT true.

[@snowy_gateaway7583]

Same i understand swedish, but i'm bad to speak it

[@kaasuakaasua8651]

I dont understand and i dont speak it... well i can intorduse myself and ask name and then tell i dont speak swedish.

[@Repsikka]

It's Finno-Ugric language family and it originates behind the Ural mountains. Also, as a person who speaks both Finnish and Estonian, frequently visit Estonia as well, I have noticed that generally speaking Estonians understand Finnish better than vice versa.

[@iliilil5761]

i live in the west coast of Finland and i only hear swedish when we are learning it in school

[@petrol_vadim]

voi perse butter ass

[@NatureSmarter]

Grymt video, tack Nackagubben! Hälsningar från Tjeckien!

[@paanikki]

Swedish language is exclusively used on Aland islands and in a narrow strip on the Ostrobothnian coastline between Vasa and Karleby. The Swedish speaking population in some parts of Ostrobothnia has been isolated from other Swedish speakers for hundreds of years, so the local dialects are only partly intelligible with Finlandssvenska (Standard Finland Swedish) or Rikssvenska (standard Sweden Swedish). Some people living on the coast of Västerbotten or Norrland (Sweden) understand them though. Most native Swedish speakers live on the Helsinki region and the Southwestern coast around city of Turku. Nearly all of those near Helsinki are completely bilingual. If there are 10 Swedish speakers having a conversation and one Finnish speaker joins in, everyone else immediately switches to Finnish. So, Finns don't have ANY possibility to practice their Swedish, even if we wanted to. Swedish continued to be the language of Administration even through the time when Finland was a Grand Duchy, a part of Russian Empire (1809-1917). Actually, it wasn't until 1920's when all fields of public administration worked also in Finnish. And there were propotionally more Swedish speakers as high ranking officials and politicians for a long time after that.

[@Raamen123]

I am Swedish from Stockholm and have lived in Finland for almost 6 years now. i know the differences about looks, language, culture and also landscape and shops and price differences. for example, here in Finland they do the "plus pant"(plus recycling) on soda. the price is already there. About the looks... yes there is differences in those pure finnish looking people but not Asian.. just different looking eyes and mouths, i guess people can only relate to different looking eyes to asian eyes or something.

[@JanoTuotanto]

Yes the mouth thing. Being something of a caricature artist I've studied this. Finns usually have nostril to mouth:mouth to chin ratio 2:3, while Swedes have 1:2 ( see eg. this video) - Englishmen are 1:1 and Russians 4:3 . Germans have same ratio as Finns but they have wider jaws. Swedes ironically have the oriental mouth, Chinese and Japanese are also 1:2.

[@trumpjongun8831]

I have nothing against swedes, if they are nice like Nackagubben. Comes from a finn.

[@arturepler2568]

We Estonians have a lot of these words that were mentioned in the video

[@markusosenius5317]

Also. In Finnish veri is blood. In Hungarian vér. Mostly Finnish as a language is nothing like any other.

[@aardvark8127]

My beautiful late Mother was Hungarian and I caught her watching a Finnish movie one late night on a global international channel here one time and she recons that she was able to pickup some of the Finnish language. Finnish and Hungarian closer than you may think!

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

The language is in the same language group, but racially very different ppl. I met them a lot and their culture is very different. the food , the folkdances, the character etc. for their benefit. I wish finns could be even a little bit more like them. Hungarians have got paprika and fire in their veins.

[@wereldvanriley7]

I never knew finish at Hungarian were similar

[@AleksiHimself]

They are but very distantly.

[@wereldvanriley7]

Aleksi Himself - Videos about Finland I heard the finish language is kind of hard. So is Hungarian. I know one person who is actually from hungry and I’ve heard him speak the language a few times

[@leevikv]

U 9 Za

[@themaster1670]

They are related, but they aren't even remotely similar in my opinion.

[@wardeni4806]

They're distant (and I mean _very_ distant) relatives as languages, but they don't sound alike at all. A Finn won't understand a single word when reading Hungarian and vice versa. Finns actually have more words in common with Germanic languages. Finnish and Estonian have gone through the same process with various north Germanic languages that English did with French, where a whole bunch of words and some grammatical constructs came into the language(s) because they were ruled by people who spoke a different language. The core of the language(s) remains, just like how at it's core English is still a Germanic language, but the vocabulary changed drastically. Estonian has been influenced by German and Scandinavian languages, and Finnish has been influenced heavily by Swedish, old Swedish and old Norse. It's a bit of a weird situation, because due to the vocabulary other people who speak languages that are related to Finnish can't understand us due to the words we use, and Scandinavians can spot out the words but don't understand us due to the grammar.

[@MaybeitsmeJulia]

You should be more famous! I love your channel. And I would even if you did no Finland content. I am learning Swedish again so I am gonna use a special word I learned: You should be youtubes bonuspappa!

[@Pexicant]

I think that is funny, that when I went to Sweden (multiple times) specifically Norbotten. There were these old people who could speak finnish, although with northern accent. But I heard that that finnish speaking swedes are dying out

[@alinakrome8330]

The Finns look Asian question thing I've kinda heard before. I've heard that maybe way way way back our ancestors came from the Mongolia area or something like that. So that could be the reason? Idk though, I'd have to google it! 😂🤣😂

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Wanna know more rather than guess? See my comment in this page.

[@tapanilofving4741]

If you have heard it it doesn't make it true ;) Also everything you read in newspaper or hear from TV is not true either. Rule number 1 in life.

[@alinakrome8330]

I know it's not necessarily true...only what I've heard so I only took it with a grain of salt. I'm not saying it's true at all.

[@autisti6669]

No, god said "perkele" and then created the finns

[@themaster1670]

Finland has absolutely nothing to do with mongolia, and our ancestors are some of the oldest Europeans. Actually Finns are very Germanic, but the language we speak arrived from the Ural mountains so people think we did too. Finnish people are a basically very early Europeans who stayed isolated for a long time, before coming closer to the Scandinavians and mixing with them. So the average Finn is part Finnic, part Scandinavian, but there's no Asian or even Slavic influence there. Some people do have Sami ancestry, and the Sami have more Asiatic features, but they aren't mongols either.

[@heh9392]

Just like, cool that you got a finnish guest, as its quite rare of finns to be in country comparison videos with other people from other countries, but I hoped that Alexi would've known alot better about histories and DNA's of the finns and so.

[@mikrokupu]

Good one, thanks! Few ethnic Finns have any Asian features but as mentioned here already there is some truth about Finns and Asia, a notable part of Finnish genes come from Northern Asia originally, that's thousands of years back though. My genes from the paternal side belong to this genetic group (haplogroup N), according to a test from 23AndMe. But still, I look much like a typical Northern European ;) Yes, there are some spots in Finland that are close to 100% Swedish speaking, in Österbotten and Åland especially. In my previous job I got regular calls from Åland, to make it easier we two Finns spoke English on the phone, my Swedish was worse than his Finnish :)

[@Hispandinavian]

I speak Dutch. A Swedish musician friend told me it sounds like German underwater. Friends that heard me on the phone to The Netherlands told me I sound like I'm clearing my throat or like I'm choking and coughing. By the way I'm half Swede and been 2 times in Kaunis Suomea!

[@jussipussi1941]

There are a lot of areas in Finland where EVERYBODY speaks swedish. They also learn a few lessons of finnish in school, but then forgetts it because they newer need to use it.

[@aaro3455]

I got a coffee machine as a christmas present to my own room when I was 13😅

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

in estonian many words are similar or the same as in finnish, but they can mean way different things. For example government is hallitus in finnish, but hallitus means mold in estonian

[@jochendeclercq5648]

I'm dutch, i've been to Sweden in 2018, for a project with Mittuniversitet. And i can asure you that it's not us speaking a weird kind of swedish, but you guys speaking a weird kind of dutch ;)

[@Cikeb]

Swedish is spoken in the west (Karleby to Kristinestad), southwest and south (Åbo region southwards through Pargas, Hangö, then east towards Kyrkslätt, Helsingfors and all the way over to Kotka). And of course the Åland islands, but that's a given. Also, there are small Swedish language enclaves in places like Tammerfors, Björneborg and Uleåborg. It's very easy to find someone to speak Swedish to in places like Vasa, Borgå, Jakobstad, Raseborg and so on. The official statistics might claim that a place has a certain percentage of Swedish-speaker, but in practice the number is higher as there usually is a large bilingual grey area in these places. When you register your first language there is no bilingual choice. You chose either Finnish or Swedish.

[@lazlotokoz7571]

Korsnäs (commun in Finland) is the most swedish municipality, commun or whatever in the whole world (including Sweden).

[@Cikeb]

Nope, it's not anymore. The most Swedish-speaking municipality is nowadays located within the Åland islands.

[@radkamiskova7433]

I heard hungarian many times because I live like 3 hour from Hungary, but I couldn´t see any similarity with finnish, so now it was nice to see some similar words. :)

[@Pyovali]

Radka Míšková Yeah, Bengali and English are related but they sound nothing alike. Same can be said about Hungarian and Finnish, although phonetically they are almost identical.

[@enpakeksi765]

I recently listened to a Hungarian song. I felt that it was tonally Finnish, but lyrically it was anything but.

[@SharksAttack]

Hungarian sounds so familiar but can't understand a word

[@Aurinkohirvi]

The similarity of Hungarian and Finnic languages is very much true in grammar. Hungarians migrated to Pannonia, adobted a lot of other peoples in the region and have had non-Uralic language connections. They do have Uralic words too, but much of their words now are loans related to Pannonia and it's neighboring languages. The Hungarians and Finns of today cannot understand each others, but there is some "strange familiarity" you can hear.

[@Nikzzza]

Edit: found the video. Sorry if I'm wrong in linking it as it's from different channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJvEloZ-m7OHq7M There is a video on KZbin from a history related channel about origin of fins. And apparently we're some descendants of Asian. I don't really exactly remember how it went. But it was quite entertaining to watch. That could be why some of us could look a little Asian.

[@nope-jj1rw]

Swedish is the main language in many areas in Finland, but the number of speakers is low. So it mostly depends on where you go. But then, the Swedish dialect spoken in some of those areas is very old-fashioned.

[@zachzanal1067]

certain rural tribes in Finland have got stunning asian features especially mongloid as in Siberian Russia.{this may be due to the primitive settlements of asians,on their way to north america's in northern europe}One possible candidate , for average height being pretty higher in mostly northern European nations compared to a typical asian country for example India,where i am from,can be" The climate".It is not only the height but also the thickness of the skin,the long nostrils with thin nasal cavity,which may be for maintaining the temperatures .For the height,I don't know the exact reason,but strongly believe that the best body feature for surviving in cold climate is long,slender type{may be it too has something to do with heat dissipation }

[@Ricamros]

I believe that the perceived resemblance to Asians comes from our East Asian genetic heritage. I may be incorrect but as far as I recall, the original people who migrated to present day Finland came from Asia (through Russia). That's a long ass time ago though. I personally would not say Finns look like Asians, but I do have a friend who is often mistaken as one. He is very, very Finnish. I myself do have Slavic, Asian, Baltic and Inuit heritage in very small parts, but apparently I just look Russian.

[@heino5711]

I'm Finnish-Swedish and my vaari (grandfather) has very Asian looking eyes. I also have slightly Asian looking eyes, but not as much. I think this is because of our genetic similarities with the Mongols (from when they were travelling all over the place and spreading their genes), and they are Asians so... Go figure. P.S: Really interesting video guys, mycket bra (tai erittäin hyvä, Aleksin tähden)! Stay awesome!😄

[@themaster1670]

Nope, Mongols never even came close to Finland. The reason why some people have asiatic eyes is because it's a very old indoeuropean thing, and it's spread across Europe, but due to Finland being so isolated and also due to mixing with the asiatic-looking Sami people it's something that more commonly pops up in parts of Finland. though most Finns don't have any such features because of Scandinavian influence. One example would be the Icelandic Björk, who has asiatic eyes even though she's 100% Icelandic.

[@heino5711]

TheMaster1 Fair enough. Thank you for the insight, my friend.

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

At last somebody knows The facts.

[@heino5711]

True. I actually found out not too long ago that the whole 'Finns being descendants of Mongols' was some sort of a racist, false pseudo-scientific theory/study put forward by a Swedish 'scientist', that claimed Finnish people to be mongoloids due to their skull shape/eyes etc. I can't remember exactly the details of the whole thing or who proposed it but the report worked very well in suppressing the Finnish minority and asserting that they were 'lesser', and, as is apparent by my previous comment, is a common myth that is still falsely believed and misunderstood (knowingly or not) by many today. So my sincere apologies for being ignorant and misunderstanding about myself and my fellow Finns. I hope my momentary ignorance wasn't too far gone in offending anyone.

[@karrooh]

Coffee IS a very important thing on Finland -you can just Ask friends to come to Ur House And talk And drink coffee. Also morning coffee IS important And The Day starts More active 😊 thanks, this Was a good video!

[@christines928]

There are actually some parts in finland where there are allot of swedish talkin ppl, and even some places where like everyone knows swedish and has it as there first language, but how mutch you know of this ofc depends on where in finland you live and ofc if you yourself is speaks swedish then u might know of more places

[@nassernusair]

About the Asian Eyes, Finns are not 100% ethnically Indo European, North Asian tribes from Mongolia traveled and settled there thousands of years back and mixed with locals after.

[@Aurinkohelmi]

Well working on customer service by phone, Swedish is part of the day to day job, so it is needed!

[@QuagSass]

The question about finns looking like asians is actually quite amusing to me, since I'm a finnish asian myself. Like, I was born in finland and have lived my whole life in finland, but one of my parents is asian, haha.

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

You must look very nice. The mixtures are often beautiful.

[@Redgethechemist]

Actually, as a western European, I also think that many Finns have slanted eyes, they look European except for the eyes. Maybe it is due to the Samis who have a more Asian physiognomy so probably a non negligible part of Caucasian Finns have this particularity. I was also surprised when I arrived in Finland that there are quite many people with dark brown hair and even hazelnut eyes. I had this cliché of blond people, but it's probably more a Scandinavian thing.

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

Percentually Finland has got most blondies in the world. You travel in other Nordic countries you can realise that.

[@tsigaraki_arvyla_xasan]

ΟΚ BUT could someone explain to me the fingol memes? Like, why do they say that Finns descended from Mongols? Is this supposed to be an honorary or a pejorative thing? I don't get it

[@nope-jj1rw]

Sweden never conquered Finland, as there was no united Finland back then. Sweden expanded into the area that today is known as Finland.

[@ssr8555]

Finns drink coffee because our Winters are dark and depressing. We need coffee to actually have the motivation and power to get up in the morning. And since it has caffeine in it, it's addicting causing us to drink is at Summer too. Finns actually drink so much coffee we can only buy 2 packs per customer XD

[@JUIGENIINI]

I think Estonian is more intelligible to Finns than vice versa. Most likely due to dialects of Finnish we get exposed to. Like Savo or Pohjanmaa dialects might be hard to understand for someone why is just learning standard Finnish. There are even some words that have different meanings depending on where you are in Finland. Like in the east itikka=mosquito/bug in general, in Pohjanmaa itikka=cow.

[@vattu3168]

in finland they pay 24min in work time for coffeee

[@jussapitka6041]

I don't understand my Hungarian music teacher even though he tries to speak Finnish.

[@MinimiMax]

Honestly, I can kinda see the Asian thing. I have never thought about it like that before seeing this video, but now I totally see it. We don't have that many large and very open eyes here so they might look Asian-ish to someone.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

The Asian type eye is found all around Europe, America (indigeous peoples) and in Africa even. Good video of the subject. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jam3n4mNnLR6gsU Although he says the Sami people would have come from Siberia, but it's not exactly correct, the Sami people are a recent culture born in Scandinavia, but Eastern and Northern Europe (different thing than the Sami!) has had people coming from Siberia in very early Stone Age era.

[@mr.strugglesnuggle6668]

@@Aurinkohirvi It really depends on where you live. Some of the Finnish tribes did/do have Asiatic features(Sami, Karelians and etc) while some do not(Coastal Swedes, Tavastians). There's really not such a thing as an "ethnic Finn". We are the descendants of several tribes that settled over here after all.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

First, the Sami are not a Finnish tribe. Second, Finns being Mongoloids is a Swedish racist theory which promoted Swedish culture over Finnish (the Svecoman movement), in order to make the Finland's Swedish speaking people connect to Sweden and Finland remain with Sweden instead of Russia. Why do you hear this claim being Asian about Finns, but not forexample about the Balts or the Russians, is because of the Svecoman movement existed in Finland and is the origin of the claim. Third, Finns do have an old Stone Age connection already to the Volga region in Central Russia (which is in Europe, not in Asia), yet into the genome it has a small influence: for example the Finns are closer to Western European people the Greek are. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svecoman_movement As this is a subject that in many forums is brought up by white pride people, neo-nazis and alike, I will start by saying I'm opposite of those people. In fact I regard Mongolians as one of the most remarkable cultures of Eurasia (it was belittled by the Germanic enthusiasts of the Svecoman era), with a magnificent history, and I regard Asians very beautiful people. My interest is an academic one, I'm not a racist. All modern Europeans (H.s.s.) come from east, first about 55 - 50k years ago from the Middle-East, next from Siberia, 30 - 25k years ago. Then again 9k - 6k years ago the Mesolithic agricultural people migrating from Middle East. The earlier Europeans, the H.s.neanderthalensis have too contributed into the European genome. The Sami are citizens of Finland, but they are not ethnic nor cultural Finns! Sami languages are in the Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages, but they are not Finno-Baltic (also called Finnic Baltic, or in English confusingly just Finnic) languages. There may have been a Finno-Samic language phase that predates the Finno-Baltic language group. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnic_peoples It was earlier speculated that the Sami could have come from Siberia: this was still couple of decades ago the most popular theory. Modern DNA studies changed that picture though. The Sami motherlines have been found to come majorly from Iberian peninsula (Spain - France region). The fatherlines are same with Finns and Sami, both come majorly from Central Europe (Poland - Belarussia - Baltic Peninsula region). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people Of course, that is just haplogroup migrations tracking, and doesn't really give a good answer to the phenotype (your appearance) nor the genome-wide DNA. Haplogroups are just tiny pieces of DNA that are passed on, usually unchanged, which is why they are used for mapping human migrations. To give an example: if a Finnish man and a Chinese woman would have children, the son would inherit a clone of his father's Y-DNA haplogroup, while the daughter would inherit a clone of her mother's mtDNA haplogroup. However, the boy wouldn't appear like a Finn, and the girl wouldn't appear as a Chinese person. That's an important thing to understand, that a haplogroup does not represent the whole person's genome, and a haplogroup does not tell what you look like or which ethnic group you belong to. It basically defines you as little as your blood type! Archeologically, Finland was first inhabited from Estonia when the Ice Age ended about 10 000 years ago. The newcomers came with flint stones that are of Estonian origin (Finland doesn't have flintstone at all). This first culture is in Estonia called as the Kunda Culture, and in Finland as the Suomusjärvi Culture. Sometimes it is called as the Kunda-Suomusjärvi Culture. The Kunda Culture is the child of earlier Swiderian Culture, that existed in what is modern Poland and Belarussia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunda_culture During the Mesolithic Stone Age Comb Ceramic Culture (also known as the Pit-Comb Ware Culture) spread to the region that historically is known habited by Finno-Ugric language family speakers (from Finland and Baltic Peninsula to the Ural Mountains and Volga river system). During the Neolithic Stone Axe a Baltic Peninsula originating Battle-Axe Culture (also known as the Corded Ware Culture) arrived in Southern Finland. It was in couple of centuries assimilated by the Comb Ceramic people, and the resulting culture is called as the Kiukainen Culture. During Bronze Age the eastern Finland connected with the Central Russia and the South-Western Finland to the Baltic Sea cultures. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit%E2%80%93Comb_Ware_culture (the purple region in the map) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corded_Ware_culture Over 60% of the Finns are found to have N1c paternal DNA haplogroup, and it is a very common haplogroup in all the region where Finno-Ugric languages speaking people live, which is why it's sometimes called a Finnic (or a Finno-Ugric) haplogroup. However, after Finns, it is next common with the Lithuanians, then Latvians and then Estonians. Lithuanians and Latvians are not Finno-Ugric languages speaking, they speak Indoeuropean family languages (the Baltic sub-group). So N1c is in fact an Eastern Baltic Sea region haplogroup, not only a Finnic one! Note that "Baltic" in Finno-Baltic or Baltic Finn does not mean the Baltic language group, it means the Baltic Sea region. Baltic Finns are Finnic languages speakers who live in the Baltic Sea region. The Western Finns (the Tavastians and Finns Proper, who are of the same ethnic group) are about as distant genetically from the Eastern Finns (the Karelians and the Savolax) as they are from the Baltic Peninsula people (Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_provinces_of_Finland The Finnish and Sami languages are closer related than the Finnish and Sami ethnic peoples! That's a point that people don't know, especially foreign people. BOTH have adobted a new language. Their oginal language might have been a Finnic one too, but nobody knows for sure. Placenames however would show, that another language was spoken in Finland earlier. The Finnish and Karelian languages are the closest ones. It's not even agreed if Karelian is a language of its own or if it is a dialect of Finnish, but let's here say Karelian is a language of its own. Next closest is the Estonian to the Finnish and Karelian languages. These three dialects formed probably around Iron Age. Finnish dialects was the northent, Estonian dialects southern, Vepsian and Votians were among the eastern dialect people (Karelian language didn't exist yet). The Sami languages are more distant from the three - probably separated already during Stone Age - Bronze Age. During the Merovingian Age, about 500 - 600 AD according to archaeologic evidence, the Tavastians expanded in the Baltic Sea region, to Lithuania and N-E Poland (which is the second richest Tavastian arhaeology region after Tavastland), Latvia, Estonia, Lapland and Karelia. The Karelian culture developped from the local Vepsian people and immigrating Tavastians. So the Western Finns moved to Karelia only a short time ago, and although Karelia has had inhabitants from the Stone Age, the Karelian culture is from the Iron Age! The Savolax tribe is the most recent of these all, they are a mixture of Tavastian and Karelian tribes. Which makes them closer to Western Finns than Karelians are. (Sorry the edits, made a point clearer, I hope)

[@Aurinkohirvi]

@@mr.strugglesnuggle6668 I must give you an IMPORTANT advice here (to anyone). Nowadays you see haplogroup maps everywhere. People do not understand what they show! Where the haplogroup is most common, DOES NOT MEAN THE HAPLOGROUP WAS BORN THERE. It has just become the most common there. You need to see the PHYLOGENETIC TREE to tell where the haplogroup originated, and where did it move next. While most Finns belong to the N1c haplogroup, they belong to many different subclades that have developped different eras and different places! Seeing just the N1c map would give you very poor image of what happened with the migrations. The N1c divided very early into two major branches, one of the eastern Siberia and the other to the Baltic Sea region. For example the "Gemanic" haplogroup I (I-M170) is a good example. Although it is nowadays most common in Scandinavia and Finland, the oldest subclade in Europe are in the Austria-Southern Germany region (where it is now only about 10 percent of population). It is much more common in Scandinavia and Finland, because it arrived there with the agricultural people, who had higher birth rates than the older hunter-gathering people. Also, as I in previous comment told, haplogroups doesn't tell much of a person's genome. Much better indications are given by genome-wide admixture maps.

[@mr.strugglesnuggle6668]

@@Aurinkohirvi Central Russia borders the Uralic region. That's why you can see the Asiatic features in Sami. Because their ancestors intermixed with the locals from both sides. Nothing wrong with borealized eyes and high cheekbones, only people who get mad about it are white supremacists. Also in no part did I claim that Finns or Sami are Asian. I said that some of the Finnish tribes had Asiatic features, which they had and can still be seen on some Finns. Native Americans for an example have Asiatic features yet aren't Asian. Sami, and all the Finnish tribes have their roots in Europe and are 100% European.

[@felixedwall8920]

Jag bor också i nacka Saltsjöbaden

[@shakejuntti]

Did you know that there is an original Finnish speaking minority in Norrbotten, Sweden as well. They invented a new name, Meänkieli (Vårtspråk) for the language and you can study it as a major in uni. Umeå. The difference between those minorities is that Finland Swedes were officials and they even used Swedish in politics after Sweden lost Finland to Russia (mandatory area) in 1809 war. History of Meänkieli people is different. It was illegal even to speak Finnish in school and during the Nazi time Swedish nationalists made skull measurements to Finnish speaking people trying to prove that they belong to lower races. That’s were the Finnish-Asian question comes from. Finnish people don't know this. The current research is different now.

[@fridasoderberg3732]

Spännande video

[@felixedwall8920]

Frida Söderberg tja

[@fridasoderberg3732]

@@felixedwall8920 eeh hej

[@eldakka2163]

Jännittävä video

[@user-ld3bl3lp7r]

Spärdäri

[@suomesta192]

You shoud go in finnish sauna with aleksi himself and see if you have sisu to last there.

[@sanataissick]

The Asian thing was at least at some point a theory that Finns had some Asian roots. I'm not sure how much the scientific community now days thinks that Finns would have any more Asian blood than other Europeans. It's more like a small "underground" weird internet Finnish meme.

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

Not true.

[@Nina-qo1et]

I wonder if finns can understand Norwegian because thats pretty similar to swedish..?

[@FinDi90]

I'm a finn, speak average swedish, and I've tried that! Sometimes it's down right easy, other times... not so much. But just a little practice goes a long way! When I listened to some songs in norwegian I suddenly started hearing the differencies and learning new words, in norwegian. And knowing english helps too, because sometimes norwegian is like a combination of swedish and english. For examble: nor: "helt alene blant flere" eng: "all alone among many", swe: "helt ensam bland många" (but "flera" is also a word for "many")

[@franklinclinton4539]

Finnish and estonian have many simular words but some with other meanings.

[@juliushakala5148]

I was in Power Park once and some Swede came to where can he go to eat in Swedish, so I straight away in English said that English please most of us Finns can't understand you, okay?

[@suvioutinen9300]

"..siiinää haiset perunalle ja makkaralle, perunalle ja makkaralle..🎶"😂

[@franklinclinton4539]

In Åland like 98% speak swedish as a native language.

[@leevikv]

Swediah only in vasa

[@טובחבר]

Also Åland!

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

The whole western coast.

[@auroralovise691]

hallo jeg er fra norge og jeg elskere vidioene dine

[@user-mb6oc6dc9r]

Pickle Rick jag är fron finland jag talar inte norge och svergie

[@jaeger233]

our ancestors came from mongolia area. thats why we have those kind of eyes:)

[@Struudeli]

This was so amazingly awkward :''D

[@NutsS9]

acually the swedish language doesnt come from the time when we were under swedish rule its because we have åland

[@jonnaskarpman1000]

Försökte förklara för min spanska vän vad en finlandssvensk är för något. Lättare sagt än gjort hahah

[@girgenti42]

How do Finnish people feel when they run into English speaking people who cannot speak Finnish (at all)--and they are forced to use English?

[@Zuuppa]

Normal.

[@Caldera01]

I'd say that it's pretty inaccurate to say that Sweden conquered Finland since there was no government, or anykind of establishment to conquer. You have to understand that pretty much the ENTIRETY of finnish culture is made, created and compiled by Finnic-Swedes. From a centralised government to the very languange itself. You can look at ANY single aspect of finnish culture and there's a finnic swede at the heart of it. Standardized finnish languange - Micael Agricola Finnish literature - Aleksis Stenvall (Aleksis Kivi) / Runeberg Finnish politics - Svinhufvud National songs - Pacius / Jean Sibelius National epic Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot And so, so, so much more. Sweden didn't conquer Finland. Sweden CREATED Finland. While sure, not actual Swedes, but finnic-swede roots do go to Sweden, nobody can deny that. That's why it's so cringy to me when national finns try to get rid of finnic swedes.If finns had done all this work themselves, then they'd have some kind of leg to stand on, but when literally the entire concept of being a finn is created by finnic swedes, it really makes no sense to try and get rid of it. The finnish nationalism is deeply rooted with finnic swedes. It's not unlike how science keeps using latin as its languange rather than english, or something. It's just an integral part of the history.

[@Khargash85]

Perse and Persze, you actually pronounce it the same way with S, you don't use C in the Hungarian word. :)

[@dragoncore7376]

it is actually incorrect that Sweden conquered Finland... They just took over a space that was not controlled by another empire. There was no such thing as Finland... Until The old Russian empire took over and made it an autonomous state... from there Finland became what it is today.

[@cynthiaquintana9660]

I agree. They look Asian. The eyes 👀, you can t3ll is a Finn because if their eyes. I'm an American and that's an interesting topic.

[@miro697]

Why do finns look like asian? Its because we have some similar facial features for example this is probably the biggest similarity. Finns have high cheekbones which is similar to asians.

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

Omg! A lot of high Cheek bones in other countries as well.

[@toinenosoite3173]

An excellent video - and funny too. Kudos! Just two comments: Estonian does not have hard consonants. It is actually the reverse: Estonian does not have any voiced consonants, e.g. 'd' is pronounced as a short 't' in Estonian. Finnish on the other hand does (e.g. pubi) - not that much though. So the feeling you got about the difference between Finnish and Estonian has to come from something else. Sweden conquered Finland. This is not true or, if you want to nit-pick, at least the first inroads were about alliances, not invasion at all. Think about it - how strong and big was Sweden in the 13th C? At that time Sweden was a piss poor and tiny state. Also, there was no Finland as a state or nation at that time, and there would not be one before 1809. I would really hope that people would not perpetuate this falsehood.

[@joshi3334]

5:15 Dutch? U mean Danish. Dutch is the language u speak in the Netherlands.

[@raunorepomies8621]

Fun fact: Finns have the most Asian genes in Europe. That's because the real original "Finnish people" came to here form Mongolian areas. (Source: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJvEloZ-m7OHq7M)

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

Fun fact it is not true. It is a big myth.

[@raunorepomies8621]

@@blackcoffeebeans6100 Why do you think that it's not true? I'm not 100% sure about the Mongolian area, but 95% sure about western Siberia area.

[@_elina_7350]

The ending music :D

[@luci-fer2029]

you look like my history teacher

[@Luciolai0622]

Can Finns understand Karelian?

[@urhoreina3608]

Hungary is like iceland estonian is like denmark and finland is like sweeden

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

Hungarians are very very different ppl.

[@jelena2710]

Awesome

[@AleksiHimself]

Good stuff!

[@simmysims9209]

No coffee? Wtf? 😮

[@Rafael-hh2eb]

Jag hetter Rafael, jag bor i Helsingrors. Everything what I can say.

[@franklinclinton4539]

I have studied swedish for 4 years and this is what i can say. Jag heter Franklin clinton Jag bor i Finland

[@Lalakaarina]

Hejssan jag heter Homo Peter

[@jerejarvi813]

We drink lot of coffee becouse we get addicted easier than others 😂

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

Not true. Finns do not get addicted easier than others. That is a myth.

[@lunatictuna4599]

Is estonian the Norway of Finland?

[@tonttuadhd3492]

Lunatic Tuna More like a relationship between US and Mexico

[@andrasiboti]

Do you like perse? Persze!

[@punasipuli9278]

Reaction to EQUO - Jättebra

[@progeda666]

the finns = asian thing is a meme

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

Take a look at the video " 10+ surprising facts about Denmark- Part 2". This danish girl under the thumbnail has got slanted eyes and far apart.

[@vanukas8783]

Wait... He's a Man!? Also he's so fabulous

[@captainspurdo2641]

MFW, when finland is an opressor in history SMH

[@tapanilofving4741]

Finglish is strong in this one!

[@cindynguyen9324]

Well im half Finnish And vietnamese So I have asian eyes But no Finnish people Dont have asian eyes

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

Somebody got a good eyesight.

[@vitunjonne6885]

Vhy would you think finns are asian i mean just look at them they are so blonde

[@todesos]

Kirkkonummi,"Sjundeå?" has millions of swedish people.

[@juustinkanava5844]

suomi