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I was just curios to know does anybody know anything about Finland.
On my vacation in USA i found out that hardly nobody knew about Finland. Also Finland made a study what children in Europe know about Finland, and it seems Brittish think we live in the Ice Age

I've went out with a Finnish girl before so I know a little bit about it... especially your liking of salted liquorice and ammonium bicarbonate sweets.. yeck! :X

I was just curios to know does anybody know anything about Finland.
On my vacation in USA i found out that hardly nobody knew about Finland. Also Finland made a study what children in Europe know about Finland, and it seems Brittish think we live in the Ice Age

I think this belongs in the general Forum.

Dont feel too bad poms think doing it on a telephone book is a form of contraception and the Yanks think New Zealand is next to Austria not Australia hmmm

I'm finnish. Quite funny that some americans think that we have polar bears roamin on the streets.

Well, I've been to Finland with a schoolexchange (we visited Finland and a few weeks later they visited Holland). I think Finland is a great country which is quite High Tech (Nokia is Finnish). For the rest its quite the same as any western country in my opinion. (weird language though) :D

Thx for asking

What i really wanted to know was does anybody konw of Finlands role in World War 2?


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Thx for asking

What i really wanted to know was does anybody konw of Finlands role in World War 2?




I'm in Sweden, so know a bit about Finland!!! Hello next door neighbours! I've been a few times, especially to Helsingfors-Helsinki and Åbo-Turku. And I know that we beat you in the annual athletics match between our countries this year ;) ! Although, you did better that us in the Ice Hockey World Cup... !

Anyway, regarding the Winter War in Finland, I don't think that Sweden did enough to help you... although I understand why we didn't want to get an enemy of the Soviet Union!

Thx for asking

What i really wanted to know was does anybody konw of Finlands role in World War 2?


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There's another thread here in the General forum about WW2. Finland is discussed in many posts.

Ok, I'm from Mexico and I know this (correct me if i'm wrong):

It is not a branch of the northern-german European a.k.a Viking people as some americans think they are. Finnish people are Suomi, which are somehow related to Estonian people (you can see that by the language, both are members of the fino-ugrian languages branch) and even also related to the Magyars (Hungarians), but I think the relationship is less closer than with the Estonians. Finland was once part of Sweden, and then they acquired independence. Then Russia invaded and it was part of it for a while... (And I think that's when it got a little bit of jewish immigrants called "The Nicolayevski's" or something like that, which were russian soldiers). In the Second World War, it was for a little while allied with the Nazis to avoid a Russian invasion, although they didn't let the germans take a sinlge Jew from their country (And it is said that Germans and Finnish jews fought together in finnish territory against Russia). Also, of what I remember, I think that the Finnish people adopted Christianism thanks to Swedish influence (Also Estonia). I think that was around the age of the Teutonic Knights, and when Germany was fighting with sweden for territories in the Baltic Sea or something like that...

Finlands Capital is Helsinki, the currency is the Euro, it has like a few 5 or 6 million population, with Swedish (like 8%), Tatar, Lap, arabic, jewish, russian ethnic minorities. The tax rate is about 60%, but education is free, the life level is really high, and in Helsinki police isn't needed (At least I saw none, and perhaps that's how the Russian Mafia got away with all what they did or do).

Although Suomis are the main inhabitants of Finland, the first inhabitants of all Scandinavia were the Lapes, an Oriental Tribe which established there during the Ice Age, and they live more in rural areas than in Cities (They preserve some of their eldest lifestyles). They still live there, and I think they're also emparented with the Huns, the Mongols, etc. but I'm not exactly sure.

I may know more, but that's all that I remembered right now... Finish guys, correct me please if I had any mistake. (And don't mind correcting me on my unperfect english)

I was just curios to know does anybody know anything about Finland.
On my vacation in USA i found out that hardly nobody knew about Finland. Also Finland made a study what children in Europe know about Finland, and it seems Brittish think we live in the Ice Age

I know there's a lot of snow and deer, and I've been following the demoscene since the days of Cascada, Future Crew and Fidonet - but don't ask me about Finnish history. Sorry.

Isn't Finland the country that isn't part of scandinavia for some strange reason?

And I also know we beat their asses in the Hockey World Cup this year.
I seem to recall they are tough to beat at curling.

Isn't Finland the country that isn't part of scandinavia for some strange reason?

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It's always beenj debatable to what Scandinavia actually is. Taken in a strict geographical way, you could say it just means Sweden and Norway, as we are the only two wholly on the Scandinavian penisular. Often it includes Sweden, Norway and Danmark, as our languages are alike etc. Then sometimes Finland is also included in the term due to its history and similar politics. And then sometimes even Iceland is included. It's better to use the term "Norden" or Nordic countries, because this includes all of these!

I generally regard Finland as another vaguely prosperous yet inoffensive European nation. Helsinki and Tallinn are two of the closest capital cities in the world, I think, although there are other pairs that are closer. The only thing that I can think of that Finland is really famous for is the Winter War. Aside from that, it hasn't really done much to draw attention to itself.

Also, I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that Finnish is more closely related to Estonian and Hungarian, than the North Germanic languages (Norwegian, Swedish, etc). Maybe that's why it isn't included as part of Scandinavia.

I generally regard Finland as another vaguely prosperous yet inoffensive European nation. Helsinki and Tallinn are two of the closest capital cities in the world, I think, although there are other pairs that are closer. The only thing that I can think of that Finland is really famous for is the Winter War. Aside from that, it hasn't really done much to draw attention to itself.

Also, I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that Finnish is more closely related to Estonian and Hungarian, than the North Germanic languages (Norwegian, Swedish, etc). Maybe that's why it isn't included as part of Scandinavia.

Absolutely, Finnish is totally different language... here's an example:

English language:
The purpose of Nordic co-operation is to achieve more together than the individual countries are capable of on their own. We call this "Nordic synergy".

Swedish language:
Genom nordiskt samarbete vill vi uppnå mer än vad länderna kan var för sig. Vi kallar detta för "nordisk nytta".

Norwegian language:
Gennem det nordiske samarbejde vil vi opnå mere end landene er i stand til hver for sig. Vi kalder det "nordisk nytte".

and Finnish language (totally different!!):
Pohjoismaat yltävät yhteistyöllä enempään kuin kukin maa erikseen. Sitä kutsutaan pohjoismaiseksi hyödyksi.

My best friend is 1/4 Finnish

My best friend is 1/4 Finnish
Cool... both of one my best friend's are Finnish. They moved to Sweden some years back, that's why I've visited Finland quite a lot. They are Finlandssvenskar so speak Swedish anyway as their mother language... so I guess this was a good place to migrate to!

I'm Swedish and just wanted to tip about Finnish Minttu (ecepecially 50%). Taste just like peppermint and you get a nice breath and also the normal effects of 50% alcholics.