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- Reaction To Geography Now! Finland
This is my reaction to Geography Now! Finland
In this video I react to Geography Now video about Finland where I learn not only about the geography of Finland but also Finland history and Finland culture.
#finland #geography #reaction
Original Video - • Geography Now! Finland
Finnis language is not ”slightly” different, it’s completely different from almost every european language.
It's related to some languages, like Estonian, Hungarian and some minority languages that are almost extinct in Russia. They all belong to the Finno-Ugric language group.
@@RabbitShirak anyway when you hear estonian talking it might sound finnish and even the letters are correct but it has different meaning
@@RabbitShirak True. Finnish language is related to those languages you mentioned - but Finnish language is drifted so far apart of those ancestor languages, that we might as well say, that they are not related to us anymore at all. Only exception is Estonian language, which is pretty close. But for example Hungarian...there's not a one single word which is the same, means the same or is pronounced the same way as in Finnish. Closest one I can think of is the word for "water", which in Finnish is "Vesi" and In Hungarian it is " Víz". Not very close, to be honest. To me, Hungarian is totally different language to Finnish. Totally. Might be, that once upon a time, they were similar - but they are not anymore. Not even close.
@@osemarvin2847 The fact that the languages aren't mutually intelligible doesn't matter. They are still related, they have the same roots and origin. Ofcourse they are different, time does that.
@@osemarvin2847 Okay. Go to google and type ”Hungarian language”. I found (I skipped wikipedia) more than nine sites. I found all of them mentioning Hungarian as a Finno-Ugric language. Do YOU know anything about Finnish?
To me Scotland is very similar to Finland. We have similar landscapes like fells, swamps and forests. Almost similar weather too, and strange foods that only we like. Scots are known for their grit, which is the closest translation to "Sisu". We have less castles than you but a dozen have survived from middle age and they can be visited. About saunas... all Finns have access to sauna in one way or the other. Older apartment buildings have common sauna for all the residents but in newer buildings the sauna is built in apartment or house. There are also a thousands of summer homes (cottages) around Finland and every one of them are equipped with sauna.
My favourite fish is muikku, not Miukku as it was written on the video. Nowadays kids start learning English at 7 yrs age, not 9 yrs as mentioned in the vid. Although many kids speak fluent English before that because of the world of TH-cam. My son started to speak English at 3 yrs of age due to him watching kids youtube content😊. Most of the Finns speak good English, even the older generation.
I recommend movie "Tuntematon Sotilas". There is new version of it from year 2019 I think. Also videos talking about Simo Häyhä, Lauri Törni and the Winter War. Wound concerning Russia has never healed in Finland, and now with the war in Ukraine, it is not looking any better.
Sunny nights are the norm, so it feels weird if it would be dark ion the night. So we have sun blocking curtains and sleep masks. No prob :)
Sauna is often built into apartments too. if however there is no sauna in your apartment, your apartment building will have a communal sauna. Every house in finland has a sauna. 2,5 million saunas in finland, if i remember correctly.
You might write and compose heavy metal songs during November when you haven't seen the sun in a month and you know its still dark 2 months. Sun is up during the day but usually you are at work. So you go to work when it's dark and get off when it's dark again. This is in southern Finland, at north they don't see the sun at all for many weeks. So alot of time to write metal music. :D
helsinki differs a lot from the rest of the country if you ever come here make sure to go outside of helsinki its basically a whole different culture
Yes, I live in Mikkeli and this town is worth visiting !
The Estonian and Finnish national anthems have the same tune, but obviously different lyrics. The Finnish one also repeats the chorus, whereas the Estonian doesn't.
And it's composed by a German...
About that shyness, and "mow your own lawn" type of Finnish attitude versus "In your face" Heavy metal extravaganza!!!
How can it be that we are introverts - and at the same time we are extroverts?
Well, it's quite simple :)
Usually we like to mind our business, and expect other people to do so as well - but if we are in a heavy metal band, we are there to put up a hella good show - and we expect the audience to join in :)
Even thou we like to mind our business, and expect other people to do so as well, it doesn't mean that we are in any way rude. We are very welcoming and warm hearted people. So, we like to mind our business - but we also absolutely love visitors :)
Best food in the world is "poronkäristys" - Properly made Reindeer meat with mashed potatoes. Best in the world - Hand on heart! Fried reindeer meat flakes are mind-blowingly good! All it needs is some salt and pepper. No extra fancy ingredients. Other ingredients would just mask the delicious reindeer flavor.
It's like Finnish kebab - only with reindeer, instead of sheep - and mashed potatoes, instead of french fries :) Only so, so much better...You must try it. It's pure ambrosia.
Sadly we didn't get the peak of Halti from Norway. I think it's because the law of Norway didn't allow it.
It's the tought that counts.
@@XtreeM_FaiL Absolutely! Hail Norway!
@@85DrFeelgood Best neighbour ever.
It should be mentioned that it was the constitution, not a standard law. Had it just been a regular law, they'd have changed it, but changing constitution isn't that simple.
Fun fact about Urho Kekkonen National Park. It has the largest consentration of thorium in the EU. If you manage to find a map of thorium consentration of Finland (took me 10 hours to find one so good luck), you can see that the National Park is a large blob of (in my map's case) pink. Too bad thorium isn't particularly useful, yet.
Watch a movie called Sisu, you will get an idea of the nature of Finns.
It's funny that you're from Scotland and interested in Finland, because I'm Finnish and I absolutely love Scotland. 😁
sweden and Finland good friends for sure 🥰only he hockey games hate love 🤣we have allways been togheter sweden love Finland in the world war 2 sweden help Finland against Russia we are friends in the end they are scandinavia today in the end we gonna be united 🥰
And yeah, most houses definitely have saunas, and most apartment buildings have shared ones (you either book a time slot or go during the communal time slot, usually separated by sex). And some apartments even have their own saunas in the bathroom, but those tend to be a bit more expensive or harder to find.
Some great metal bands: Nightwish, Amorphis, Insomnium
Finns got ahead after hype of Lordi. many new bands come and try after that. its really small community nowdays, but still active. actually most metal bands in finland stuck in to same culture, ”we come to mosh” and made only fast moneys out, like children of bobom, and many more promising bands just drink their moneys to head, and got nothing to continue. nightwish did same, even they tryed change tarja to another, it was never anymore nightwish. its quite trash no1 listen anymore. other genres in finland do much better than metal. maybe best is Kalmah! Those brothers done good music, and changed figure from first album to last very succesful.
@@hilihali3552 Lordi didn't change anything.
Ok. Something, but nothing really noticeable.
With the sunlight, just get darkening drapes and it will be completely dark in your bedroom anyway.
I don't find it very useful to separate Finland from Scandinavia. Yes Scandinavia is an area that consists of the Scandinavian mountains, and those mountains do not reach to Finland. But to say "there is a HUGE" difference between Finland and Scandinavia is just weird. There is not so much of a difference. The difference is the sea between the lands.
Yes it is correct to call Fin, Nor, Swe, Denmark as the Nordics and not Scandinavian when Finland is included, because of the geography...
But usually the term Scandinavian is used to discribe a cultural region and there Finland should be included.
Finland can not be separated from Sweden and Norway. Culturally, historically and geographically we are very much the same, with some different nyancés.
Finland and Sweden were the same country for 1000 years and in that timeline part of Norway and Denmark too.
Our politicians still do lot of co-operation. We have our own political agreements apart from the rest of the Europe.
We as people share the same mindset in many ways.
Best Finnish food, in my opinion, is either mashed potatoes with elk meat balls or fish soup made of hauki or other lake fish. Sun blocking blinds during summertime and wake-up-light during winter+D-vitamin, with those I have no major issues with sleeping. Finnish school has testing but teachers have created the formats to their "test bank" online and students have to write answers (and know them really) instead of multi-choice questions.
Lake pikes are nearly unedible. Sea pikes are ok(ish).
Perch is the best, imo.
Norway was supposed to donate the mountain to Finland, but abandoned its plans because it found the border transfer too difficult
You will probably realize that You'll gain the interest of a lot of Finns. We are sort of self-conscious that way in that we so desperately want to know how we're perceived in the world.
Wow, this video taught me some things that even I did not know, even though I'm a Finn. However, there was also a couple mistakes that should be corrected:
1) The ownership of Åland was not decided by UN - which didn't exist in 1920's - but League of Nations.
2) The commonly known home of Santa Claus in Finland is not Rovaniemi but Korvatunturi, a fell on the northern border of Finland and Russia.
3) Speaking of which, Halti is also a fell, not a mountain. There are no mountains in Finland.
And yes, I knew that the land on the western coast rises each year. I learned that during the fourth class of comprehensive school.
//EDIT: The Finnish name of that forth fish mentioned in the video is not spelt "miukku" but "muikku". Apparently, its English name is "vendace".
5:21 Savonlinna is the city and olavinlinna is the castle in the city of savonlinaa. Those pictures of those two castles are the same castle.
I'm from northern Finland but not all the way to the top (around same Longitude as Oulu), and I can definitely say that the midnight sun affects me in weird ways. It can make it harder for me to fall asleep and stay asleep, which of course can cause issues with fatigue or even cause a bit of mania for some people (basically feeling like you don't even need to sleep since the sun is up). And during the winter when it's dark all day long, I'm also fatigued and just feel like sleeping all day. 🤣
Yeah being from finland and northern part. I hate time when there is too much light. Interferes whit sleeping.
I recommend 'Häiriötekijä'- movie , Makkosen lauantai-ilta, etc !
This presenter makes the most common mistake in pronunciation of Helsinki🙁
The easiest part of Finnish language is that the stress is always on the first syllable. 🤔😁
So it’s HELsinki 👌 not HelSINki!😖
And that delicious little fish is muikku👍- not miukku!😖
Aside from what other's have pointed out, the history and relationship with Åland isn't as rosy as depicted. Åland actually wanted to be part of Sweden, for which we finns naturally said no to (though didn't know there was a suggested exchange of land). The dispute was taken to the League of Nations (replaced later by UN), which ruled that Åland would be part of Finland if it was allowed to keep the Swedish language and was given high autonomy. The people of Åland are still bitter about this, and as someone who lived a couple years there some of them might even be openly hateful to "mainland Finns" (though most of them don't care).
Regarding the daylight hours during summer and winter, summertime it's difficult to sleep (at least for me), while in winter we might experience something called "kaamosmasennus" (kaamosdepression, kaamos= the period during winter with no sun). Because the constant darkness might get to you, making you feel tired more than usual.
Geat metal bands: Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Apocalyptica…
There is no huge difference between Nordic and Scandinavia. Also Scandinavian countries are Nordic countries and they are all members of the Nordic council. Finland 🇫🇮 is culturally, politically, economically, religiously and geographically a Nordic country with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇮🇸
Also there are no post Soviet buildings in Finland. Finland was never a part of the Soviet union. Never under communism and never an eastern bloc country. A german architect Carl Ludvig Engel designed a lot of buildings for Helsinki and St Petersburg. He lived in Finland when Finland was an autonomous Grand Duchy of Russia's Empire of tsar.
Non stop sunlight means nonstop party! For all ages! And we have castles in every "major" city.
Tampere?
@@TheArseen OP said "major". ;)
13:37 Nightwish and Korpiklaani and many others oki Battle beast to.
Nightwish
Oldest castles in Finland are over 700 years old.
Hattulan vanha kirkko rakennettiin 1400-luvulla.
There have always been prejudices between Helsinki and the countryside, which have softened over time, but the starting point is that the people of Helsinki consider the people from the countryside to be yokels, and the people from the countryside consider the people from Helsinki to be arrogant and alienated from nature.
We know it's not true, but we still like to joke about it every now and then.
well leftist politics lately have made the ravine between helsinki and the ''countryside'' deeper.
That's a pretty common way of thinking in almost EVERY country in the world.
I wouldn't say the prejudices have softened over time, or if they did, they have strengthened again. Black and white thinking is getting more common, and people are arguing and calling each other names like children on social media. I'm not really seeing people joke about it any more, it all seems very serious these days.
@@ihanba Really? I'm not really in any social media except this one. Do people on social media really think that country people are yokels and people from Helsinki are arrogant and alienated from nature? Today, everbody should understand that's not the case.
Russian people: OK. Putin: Shovel to the head.
I have a sauna in my house and always will! :D
Norway didn't give the peak. It was deemed legally too complicated or something.
it is no home if there is no sauna.
Salmiac= ammonium chloride, if my memory serves me right .........
Your memory?
"Salmari" is well know reason for memory losses, but not pure ammonium chloride.
Finnish detective shows are the best🤩
u should watch tuntematon sotilas in english unknown soldier. its realistic war movie/mini series. its based of off a book written by a soldier who fought in the winter war and the continuation war. it doesn't glorify war at all, its fucking horrifying
My favourite Finnish metal band is Moonsorrow. To be honest, I don't listen to heavy metal that much.
Slightly different language 😂
As a Finn, mostly I feel bad for the average Russian citizens and all the minorities that live there (the LGBTQ+ community is especially under threat right now). And ofc the whole war thing has been scary and unnerving.
If you want to learn more about the education system, ABC News Australia has a video on their youtube channel :)
🇫🇮 Antti Niemi, isn't him Scottish? 🏴 😅 m.th-cam.com/video/tvreCDC61Zw/w-d-xo.html
Finnish perch and zander look like foreign zander and perch.
Opinnot of Russia. We ever trust them.
sisu means "fuck you" im keepingn busines in my own
Törni soldier 3armys
Finns and Russians have an equally long shared history as Russians and Ukrainians do, and that's for one simple reason.
What is now the heartleand of Russia was originally inhabited by Finnic and Finno-Ugric peoples. As the Slavic expansion took place over the centuries, more and more of this Finnic land became part of different Russian states. Even Moscow was originally a Finnic town belonging to the Merya people called "Mustajoki", which in Finnic languages means "black river." Many of these Finnic peoples like the Merya, Meshchera and Muroma went extinct due to Russian expansion, with other Finnic peoples like Mari, Erzya and Moksha still existing in Russia but being highly endangered due to ongoing russification.
Then of course between Finns and Russians in particular we've had 1000 years of war, slavery, genocides and the like. The one beautiful exception would be from 1809 onwards for about a century when Finland was part of the Russian Empire as an autonomous grand duchy. The Finnish nobility wanted independence from Sweden and Russia helped us get it. Russia got to give a final knockout blow to Sweden and Finland got to retain its laws, religion and government. That century was an exceptional stretch of mutual benefit,