Not only Japanese people remove their shoes when they walk into a home: Finnish people do so too. To everyone who isn’t used to remove their shoes at the entrances of the houses – like me – this is quite shocking. I went to Finland at the end of a summer, and it was then when I learned about this tradition. I must admit that…
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Last week we had the day of the Finnish culture and Kalevala, and in a month or so (9th of April) there will be the day of the Finnish language. Let’s celebrate these days with some Finnish words – but some that are a bit polemic: swearwords in Finnish. This porcupine swears a lot in Finnish: it is a character in a Finnish comic strip….
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I am spoiled in this aspect and I think many other people throughout Europe are as well. In most EU countries – that is, every country that isn’t a Nordic (or Scandinavian) country – beer and wine have low(er) taxes. Finland, on the other hand, is a bit different. And you will want to know how the Finnish Beer is different. In some places like…
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Yes, that’s right. The Finnish armed forces used the swastika as a symbol up to 2020. There was of course an explanation: they adopted it before the Nazi regime and for that reason they had never believed they had to change it. This reason seems insufficient to us in this blog. There is simply no reason to wear it today because they need to spend…
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Pyryttää and tuiskuttaa are both verbs and mean snowing.
I am American, but I live in Estonia, and I agree with you: Estonia is solidly Nordic. I tell everyone…
the picture of a tar "candy bar" is actaully a box of tar candies
Not true. These human figures have teeth, which are actually dentures, that Rönkkönen got from a local dentist and later…
"for no particular reason" yea, sure