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With a completely empty head and lack of time now during the summer I am finding myself sitting at my computer and writing this text – or to be exact, I am thinking what should I write here. My head is empty, but I’m sure I’ll get something soon.

I wake up every morning either at 6:10AM or 5:10AM and go to work, I get home around 5-6PM and head directly to the gym. By the time I get home after all the “must do” activities I am hungry as a Lion and there is no way I can sit down and put my mind into a school task which tells me to write about a Finnish culture – which I still do not understand till this very day, even after me living in Finland for the past 24 years.

And to make it even more harder, the Euro 2016 and daily football games are killing the lovely vibe and thoughts of the school task we were given – the task I obviously would do if I had the time…….. and motivation 😉

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Nevertheless, I can say a word or two about the things I became familiar with during my long life in Finland – if you can call 24 years a long enough period of course.

  1. Rallienglanti. Yes, this is something we “Finns” know very well. Translated it means: Rallyenglish or to describe it differently it means: broken English with twisted pronouncing. It is common, it sounds funny and it is a big part this country.
  1. Sisu is the reason why Finnish people complaint day after another about an issue, but still never do anything about the actual problem, because let’s face it, complaining is easy behind the backs. The meaning of Sisu = gut.

Source for the Sisu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu

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However, do not mix it with this sh**! This is one of the “traditional” Finnish “candy/sweet” and boy is it lovely! This is one of the most horrible things you can eat on the planet and it is a huge part of the Finnish culture. (yes it looks like it says Gifu, but that’s just the bad font on the package).


Now, there is many more and I am sure many of you already know a few odd things and are familiar with Finnish habits and ways of functioning. The most common ones are probably already mentioned or will be written about sooner or later.

I will make a quick memo on the things that comes into my mind about Finnish culture during the next minute.. Yes, I will time it.

Here we go…

Olut, Viina, Perkele, Smalltalk or lack of it, Smiling is out of the question, because people might think you are an idiot, complaining, food is expensive, jopo, Tarja Halonen looks like Conan O’Brien, Forests and Lakes, Nokia is kaput (and has been for the past 8 years) but people still buy it to support Finnish products…

And of course the next winters weather prediction by Kummeli (another Finnish popularity)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPmeXtUnchI

“Hello! Next winters weather . . . . . . snowing and everybody is pissed off . . . .”

 

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