Me myself, I’m very proud of being a Finn. Sometimes it’s not that easy, especially during big sport events like football European or World Championships in soccer or during big ice hockey tournaments when Finland loses against Sweden. However, when someone wins something under flag of Finland, doesn’t matter if it was World Championship in ice hockey or big tournament win in E-sports, the whole nation takes some kind of an pride of the success of it’s citizen, “TORILLA TAVATAAN”. Very often in big events of Finn’s beloved sports, the nation seems to know the result in advance, but everytime they say it only after a win or a lose. For example, when Team Finland won ice hockey championships 2011, there were a lot of speculation that this team ain’t going nowhere. After the 6-1 win against Sweden in the finals, apparently everyone seemed to count on the team during the whole tournament (including me). So why the whole nation was spectating the tournament than if everyone was so sure about that there won’t be any success to expect? Well because Finns love ice hockey obviously, but I reckon “hoping for the best and expecting the worst” to be big stereotypical part of Finnishness. At least that is something that I can relate on doing all the time. I’m not saying it’s a good or a bad feature, but I would argue that it tells something about us Finns. I would say that it’s because Finns are well aware, that nothing should be taken for granted. When looking 80 years backwards, it feels surreal to think about the fact, that how great our country is doing at the moment. I guess that all happened because our nation has noticed from the first years of it’s independence, that nothing comes without hard work and nothing should be taken for granted.
So why to hire a win? A Finn will respect the win or any type of reason for celebration because he knows it’s not something that happens everyday and you will have a great party. However, when losing… well the Finn already knew it!
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