Geography Now! Estonia REACTION
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🇫🇮Suomi❤Eesti🇪🇪
I see Estonia as Nordic. I live in Norway, I've visited Estonia, and it is just gorgeous. The people are western like us, they have strong ties with Finland and more. The only thing missing is the Nordic cross on their flag.
Thank you! I think so too! Historically Northern Estonia and islands (especially Saaremaa, also called Ösel, and Hiiumaa, Also called Dagö) have stronger cultural and genetic connections with our Nordic neighbors than Southern Estonia. People living in South Estonia are more likely to see themselves as Baltic and on the other hand Northern Estonians see themselves as Nordic. We have Finnic language but Nordic culture.
There was a flad same as Finlands but the blue was black instead, but in the end the corrent wan was chosen instead of the other cos of the meanings of the colors.
Kes on eestlased pange like!
Tra ära küsi like
mina olen eestlane:)
Ma olen üsnagi kindel, et mingi 60% vaatajatest on eestlased
Olen kindlasti. :)
Valge mersu valge mersu
I live in Estonia. Estonia is beautiful.
Tere
@Keito Kuur No ikka
Ter jah ma nõustun
and I hate it here (I am Estonian)
LõpuksEestlased
In 1989 my parents were involved in the Balti kett (or Baltic Chain) where approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres (419.7 mi) across the three Baltic states
No such thing as 45 min ferry from Finland to Estonia. The fastest you can do is 2h.
Linda line managed to sale in 1:40 if weather is good. Windy weather slowed down those ship a lot.
Well, there were those semi-large sized catamaran type ships that would cross the baltic sea to finland in less than an hour in the late 90's early 2000's, which could carry a dozen small cars, but they weren't in action for long. The traditional RoRo ferries indeed take longer than 45 minutes though.
The chopper was 15 minutes
Armand Sukles haha indeed... We all know how that ended 😂
Maybe 1,5 hours on summertime with catamaran, but yep no 45 minutes.
Many scholars believe that some of the Nordic/Scandinavian origin myths have to do with the meteorites that hit Saaremaa island in Estonian because they include the sun falling, darkness, and a great fire. Kaali crater lake is still considered a sacred site (hiis) to the Estonians.
I think the Nordic countries accept the fact that Estonia has a Nordic past (it was once part of Sweden and Denmark) but also note was heavily influenced by other countries outside of them. If anything, Estonia and Finland should have their own social/cultural/ethnic region together, as they're more alike than say Norway is to Finland, etc. The other Baltic states are mostly ethnically Baltic and speak a Baltic language, whereas Estonia is not ethnically Baltic or speak a Baltic language. They're a Finnic people.
I highly recommend reading up on Saaremaa though. Saaremaa is just absolutely gorgeous and has a pretty amazing history. It's on my bucket list - I want to spend a couple of weeks just living on the island (I'm going to making more than one trip to Estonia, that's for sure lol).
Interesting fact: as Estonia is also part of NATO, other NATO planes do occasionally training here. In the summer Spanish fighter jet "lost" a misile during excercise in Southern Estonia. Missile was never found and it is a miracle that no one got hit as there are other fighter jets in the sky not to mention several passenger airplanes.
@Random Estonian yep if it would reach russia
I'm from Estonia!!!! Everything is god damn true in this video 😂😂
🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪
Yeah
while swinging upside down your feet are fixed to the swing. About the Baltic vs Nordic topic, we know that we are Baltic but deep inside we want to be Nordic.
Also there is some acceptance to allow Estonia be Nordic because in some sports Estonians are allowed to participate in Nordic Championships.
By today, Estonian natives have more hereditary ties to the Nordic contries than the baltic, even our physical appearance is leaning more to nordic than slavic and our language base is nordic. We were lumped into the baltic because of our land-based connection and situation, but our DNA and culture, all though having influences from the baltic/slavic cultures, is still closer to our nordic neighbours.
The reason we feel deep inside that we should be nordic because we have such good connection with Finland. Like the video said, Finland is like our big brother who we look up to 😊 I know that Estonia is considered Baltic but in my heart i would love Estonia to be nordic
You should react to ,,why are estonians so smart'' it is a video created by our ministery of education explaining our school system. It is in english so you can understand it
Yes brian u should
Please react to that
As Estonian capital is named by Danish country some half a century ago and Vikings were invincible for centuries in the Baltic Sea we have more common with Nordic then we have with Slavic or Baltic
One of the key events that helped to get our independence was the Baltic Chain where lithuanians, latvians and estonians came together and formed a human hand holding chain across the three countries to show we want freedom. My dad stood in the chain with others, he said it was an extraordinary experience and they sang the most beautiful and freeing songs.
I’m Estonian and it was funny to watch, because you reacted so surprised sometimes😂😂
Hey Brian. I was still a kid, about 7 years old, at the time, but i was out there when we (the baltic countries) formed the "baltic chain" or "the baltic way" when hundreds of thousands of people joined hands and stood in a human chain spanning the baltic countries as a political protest to gain our freedom. Shortly after that we gained our independence. I remember little of it, except driving on a bus with my sister and mom, passing people who stood by the road hand in hand, miles and miles. We linked up near the capital city, a few miles out. It was pretty awe inspiring for a child, even though i didn't really understand what was going on or why.
Both of my parents and all 4 of my grandparents took part in the Singing Revolution (The Singing Revolution is a commonly used name for events between 1987 and 1991 that led to the restoration of the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union). My mother has told me about the Baltic Way / Baltic Chain ( also Chain of Freedom; Estonian: Balti
kett; Latvian: Baltijas ceļš; Lithuanian: Baltijos kelias; Russian: Балтийский путь).
EDIT: I hope I didn't make any mistakes in the (...) spots.
Brian: "Finland and Estonia are so cute together!"
The whole CountryHumans community: *We know*
when you said that you like blood sausage, i smashed like
I Got ad and watched it fully just for you Brian!🍓🍓💕
The Nordic thing is simple. When people hear Nordic they will rather think of countries like Sweden and Finland and others, but when (personally has happened to me) you say Baltic or Eastern, people associate it with Russia. You should take a look at the country balls video about Estonian history :)
Hahaahaha!I Know!LOL😂😂
We sound Little bit like russians with Our r-prounoucing.We don't really hear it ourselfes but We sound like
russians sometimes.
Saying Baltic won’t make us sound Russian, only eastern does.
@@edifththth you would think so, right? But more people don't know what even Baltic means and if they do, the question I have been asked quite a few times is: *Oh, so it's like...Russia?*. I personally always say Baltic (I love the term Baltic sisters) and then explain if people don't know, but I do get why some people I know call us Nordic instead.
Guess I’ve never met people that stupid 🤷🏼♀️
@@bonnieaprillollipoptrigger6516 Estonian sounds nothing like Russian . .. listen to it side by side with proper accent .
Eestlased ruulivad!!!pane like kui nii arvad!!!💕💕🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪
Pane like kui oled Eestlane!!🇪🇪
Good video! I like the way you speak and react. I like the way you get subscribers and you literally grew from 4000 to 22000
This was hella good!!!
brian thx for new video from us. and so positiv. :)
I actually drove the ice-road last winter :) thou they did not open the long one only short one as winter was not cold enough. And also had the luxury to be part of Baltic way (still remember that despite i was only 8 years old)
98% of the comments are estonian🇪🇪
Estonian squad!!!!
Hello from Estonia, we were apart of the thing called “Plati kett” it was made ot of people who was holding fands it was 7,4 km long.
Why is estonia so small i think estonia is the only place in the world that is more beautiful than latvia
@Random Estonian "six toes" that's what Estonians think about Latvians, right? As i have heard that Latvians think that Estonians are slow, maybe Lithuanians thinks that too, i don't know. But then Lithuanians call Latvians a horse heads. ... But then what Estonians think of Lithuanians?
@Random Estonian oh :< . then maybe something for Finns?
@@enemy1191 finns are moose. põdrad in estonian.
My great grandfather was in the war and he got shot into the heart, but he lived. Now he has been ded for 4 years
One skipped fact - Estonia and Finland share the same national anthem.
Great. I like it :)
Live in Estonia :)
Hi. Im from etionia and I love your videos
So everything is correct about my country Estonia. Nice video
Estonians made Taxify aka Bolt too
Honestly, kinda surprised that the Baltic Chain wasn't mentioned. Lmfao (BTW, olen Eestlane nii et nagu, ignoge seda.)
I think that Estonia is baltic too, but also a bit nordic if we speak about the similarities between Finland and Estonia. Also can you react to Geography now! Finland? I would be very interested to see you react to it. Good video by the way, clearly shows you are a fan of Estonia.
Now you totally have to do same for Finland as well!
There is so many things what "Geography now" dont talk.
3:23 its NOT ONLY your own safety. If you are not wearing reflector and some kind of driver kills you, then he/she has to live their whole life with knowledge that he/she killed a man. Even though it wasnt actually their fault it may lead to psychiatric disorders...
Growing up, I never even considered that we could be anything other than Nordic. It was not something I actively thought about, it was just something I thought was a simple self-evident fact. I was surprised to learn later as an adult that some people don't view us that. Why I thought so might have something to do that we have several songs about being Nordic (none about being Baltic or something else). Our capital is literally Danish town in translation. We used to be part of Sweden and Denmark. Some of our islands and coastlines were originally inhabited by Swedes who left only in the run up to the WWII. Still at least those of us from the coasts or islands probably have some Swedes in our family histories. Our history before the northern crusade was pretty much shared. Our national epic is interlinked with the Finnish national epic. The historical pre-Christian national gods are almost the same (which is not true if you go to Latvia or Russia). Today we carry mostly Lutheran tradition. If you look at the bookshelf of any home there are probably as many Finnish and Swedish author's children's books as there are Estonian authors. There a number of other cultural icons that are shared between Finland and Estonia - Sofi Oksanen, Aino Kallas and Hella Wuolijoki are some examples, but hardly the only ones. Our economy is intertwined with Finland and Sweden. It also used to be that pretty much everyone in northern Estonia spoke also Finnish, but this unfortunately is no longer the case.
Of course there is also a question what exactly do we mean by the term Nordic. The literal translation of our word for it - põhjamaa - is northern land. You may want to say it only means Northern European - but that doesn't really convey the same meaning as põhjamaa as it includes for example UK, but also Latvia and Lithuania which we haven't usually thought of as põhjamaa (and to my knowledge neither have they thought it like that). The specific word Nordic and the group of countries identified by that word is a much more recent invention than our põhjamaa word. So when I say we are part of the põhjamaa, I mean that we are part of the group of countries that happen to include us and what in English is termed Nordic countries, but the term I am using in Estonian predates the English term.
It would be very inconvenient for us to suddenly start not calling ourselves põhjamaa as that would mean we have to scrap a bunch of very old and dear songs about ourselves.
But those few points kind a doesn't matter.
Because You were part of Sweden because they conquered your land. They even conquered Latvia too for some time, even Danish did that. And that's why there were some Swedes or other Nordic people at Estonia.
And your economy intertwines with Swedes or Finns because those are one of closest country to You and one of the riches ones.
Btw i'm not saying that You are not Nordic. You are. But You are Baltic too, kind a, but mostly because of place on map and shared history, mostly bad one, and maybe becase of few other small things.
So in some ways You are both ;d
We usually say we are northeners 'cause we're so similar to the Fins, but every time we need to act tough or joke about how we're "a part of russia" we lt out our inner slav xD
Hello!I am Estonian And I Want To Say A Famous ( in Estonia) Writter Made A Movie Named "Seltsimees laps" And In The Movie A Stranger Comes In Do The House And Almost Kidnapps The Writter (he had to live trhu the soviet union)
Great video again. Just watched other youtubers reacting to that video also. Information flow is too fast(speaks too fast) in my mind there, but it's good.
Have posted that in some other video comments as well. What about reacts to estonian music 5?????
Some song ideas here:
Dagö- muusik
Kerli -feral hearts
Greip - Vihma Loits
Tõnis mägi -Koit
Jmke-tere perestroika
Jaan Tätte ja Marko Matvere - Silveri laul
Omg yes! He should totally react to Kerli, Greip and Tõnis Mägi 😍
If he's going to react to Kerli, I hope he reacts to Iiris too.
Tõnis Mägi "Koit" Laulupidu 2014 😂😍❤
Ma arvasin, et se viimane oli Selveri laul 😂
Arthur rehi is actually in the estonian military right now. (Me) goes to see my cousin in the military sees arthur rehi talking about guns.
Im 11 and im estonian girl i like to watch your videos and we have english lesson every day in school but its very easy even estonian lesson is harder than english😂 in christmas we open the present in 24th december
Merry Christmas !!
(Sorry for my english😂)
Merry Christmas to You too from Latvia.
@@enemy1191 Thanks!☺😃
Yess geagraphy now and historry of places, new series = content = moneyyy
Well my mum was in Baltic way and singing revolution and in our family we always take part of song festivals, one is coming up this year ;). Also my grandfather still remebers some world war II stories and he always talks that russians and germans did same things to us only different was that germans said 'please' and 'thank you'. And like some comments said you should really watch video 'why are estonians so smart' done by our coverment.
I would be stupid if i didnt commwnt on EVERY AMAZING Estonian vid!
❤
Please if u do Reacting to Estonian music 5, listen to "Sind surmani", it is the best folk song ever!!!
And "Sinise leegiga".
@Random Estonian no u
Do Geography now reaction to Latvia and have ur gf react as well.
The first pic of Tartu is actually a shot of Tallinn, capital city
kiiking is pretty safe actually you are strapped down on the board
⚠ It is not how people feel that defines the status of a country, it is the culture and history that defines if it is a Nordic country and if you look at the facts then the north part (with Saremaa and Hiiumaa) is as nordic as anithing can be.
We had Vikings (the oldest finds in the world too) our most known belifes named "Taara" belife is based on Thor, our region mostly Reval the corrent Tallinn was one of the most importand Nordic trading hubs, most of our history it was occupied by close to all the Nordic countries and so on.
Estonian here on the NORDIC topic - northern european and nordic are 2 different things. We don't have a problem being called "baltic". I think the nordic thing is kinda like the mentality of wanting to sit at the "cool kids" table (even though Latvia and Lithuania are cool kids too! ❤). It is also fueled by the fact that we ARE "northern european" country as classified by the UN and our relation to finns. What we don't like is being called "eastern european" country due to being occupied by the USSR.
Omg another Estonian video😃
In Estonia is 54 cities/towns . Smalest is Kilingi -Nõmme 810 population.
Estonian government raised alcohol taxes a lot(especially strong alcohol like vodka, rum etc.). So now we (Estonians) and Finnish go to the Latvian border to buy some cheap alcohol from there. Shops are by the border of Latvia, and on Latvian land. Latvia has a lot lower taxes, for example 0.5L Mernaya costs at Latvia 6.5€, in Estonia 10€. Geography now video is just little bit expired.
I as a finn suppose that they wanna see them self as nordic cuz of their culture and they wanna see them self more like finnish, swedish or norwigian than russian
True that
Im an estonian and i agree :)
@@soolakringel tbh kes tahaks relateda russidega
We do not want to be "more like finnish". Trust me, finns are no role model for us. We just feel Norhern (not Nordic), already because of natural conditions.And we are extremely tender and touchy about us being related to Russians. Many obvious reasons there. Some have to do with identity. If you are constantly mixed up with someone else, doesn"t feel good. W are really very diffrenet from Russians. Linguistically, psychologically, socially etc etc etc
@@helengolovin7443 yeah i didn't meen like that and for sure u have ur own national identity
My grandpa was involved with the reindependencing (idk if thats right word lol, im estonian so) and he is still alive. He talks storys about it to me too, its pretty intresting.
You should react to kiiking videos, best sport everrr :D
One time I stopped my car near border in the forest to take a pee, and then two people (border “keepers”???) came to check on me :D that was fun :D
I hav took part of the last summers dancing festival i was a dancer
Some people also find it interesting that there are courier robots in Estonia: Check out @sotsmees’s Tweet: twitter.com/sotsmees/status/1074312829921095680?s=09
when i saw the first real- life video of swinging... btw im estonian... that looked like my mom
Have you reacted to tujurikkuja? If not you gotta
For the border with Russia. Yes, I just imagined, say, a mexican crossing the border without a visa stopped to pee, and the american border guard told him - of course bro, take your time, I'm not rushing you.
And really? Forbidden songs? There was no song and dance festival in Estonia only in 1943. Because hello, the second world war. Since then, this festival was held regularly. Like every 5 years regularly.
And yes, with Finland, we are not cute together. In fact, we don't like each other that much. Finns think that we complain too much, and we think that they drink too much.
Hi Brian i am from Estonia and i live Tallinn. = Tere Brain ma olen pärit Eesits ja elan Tallinnas.
I helped you learn Estonian:DD
Yes, we are more Baltic - geographically and with Latvia we share common history for centuries. We are even genetically close to Latvians. Only thing that is different from Latvia and Lithuania is language. Me, personally I do not like identifying us as Nordic people, because we are not. Yes, we have culturally lots of common things, but this is it.
The video is a bit outdated now about the "free wifi in the forest" thing. It was an ambitious idea that didn't work out. Estonia now has free wifi in malls and cafes and thats pretty much it. Helsinki has a city center wide free wifi that actually works pretty well, and its better than anything we have.
I didn´t even know that about Helsinki and I live in Espoo ;)
@@Aurinkohelmi I mean helsinki center. There's great wifi there. We dont have such a quality connection over a wide range anywhere in estonia, let alone in forests.
@@allaraaver8432 Yeah, I get that was what you meant. Just saying that I didn´t know that one. Always used just mobile-data in Helsinki centrum also :)
Maakonnad :Pärnu,Tartu,Valga,Võru ,Saaremaa,Hiiumaa,Läänemaa ,Ida Virumaa,Lääne virumaa,Viljandimaa,Järvamaa,Jõgevamaa ,Põlvamaa,Raplamaa,Harjumaa/Tallinn
Nice
I ahve donr the kiikingu on 11 years old when i first went on the kiikiik i was like 9 years old
Geography now Finland next
Me from Estonia lol
Its cool to live here
Yeah, it's a slight misconception, that only singing brought us indipendence. Gathering to song festivals to sing patriotic songs was a mean of peaceful protest. As singing ethnically patriotic songs was prohibited, it was still a ballsy move. The term "singing revolution" slightly downgrades the effort and contribution of our politicians pressuring Kremlin to give us more and more economic and cultural freedom. One of the best examples of that was getting Gorbachev to agree in mid 80's with the program called "isemajandav Eesti" or shortly "IME" which basically meant self-governing Estonia (a symbolyc word, as "ime" translates into English as "miracle"), which gave Estonia more autonomy. Geographically, Estonia is Baltic, yes, but linguistically and ethnically, the Estonians are Finno-Ugric and the language is quite similare to Finnish and differs a lot from the Baltic Lithuanian and Latvian. Still, I should add, that we have coexisted side by side with Latvians and Lithuanians for so many centuries, that as people, there are only a few differences between us.
Now I know more about estonia (I'm from estonia)
Come to Estonia :)
2:45 my grandmother lives at saatse village
Thank you for doing this video because im estonian
Hello-tere
Bye-headaega
Good night-head ööd
Good morning-tere hommikust
Haha im estonian and my grandfather and grandmother had to sing aswell if u ever have any questions then u can type to me.
Lol . My grandma lives in saatse😂
Well.... I don't know But my parents WERE alive at the time of the singing revolustion
Hey Brian! look up Baltic chain!
Estonia, huh.. Amazing country where to live. Like I live in there
Finally
At the 8:55 when you sed thats dangerous then I was like 🤣 I am only 10 years old and I am not afraid from that I can do the railing
I am from Estonia
Estonia is the Baltic state as well as Sweden, Germany and Poland, but only in Latvia and Lithuania speak the baltic language.
Baltic states means only Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It doesn't mean every country around the Baltic Sea.
Wikipedia says that Estonia is in Northern Europe
Nobody comes to Estonia anymore to buy alcohol :D
And Brian I live in Kuressaare that is town and a municipality on Saaremaa island
Both Kazaa and Skype were made by the same guys, "Bluemoon Software" later "Bluemoon Interactive".
Yes he, Estonian🇪🇪, Earned 100 million dollars when he sold hotmail.com back in the day.
Why didnt he talk about animals in estonia there only one venom snake im think and no big spiders
2:23 Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't it be Ivangorod not "Ivanograd"
I littary live in estonia and i am shocked
basically hotmail(a.k.a outlook today) before was develop by estonian and unfortunately windows bought it along with skype.
You should watch a movie called "singing revolution" . Its talks in detail about how estonia regained independence. If you do please do a react to video :)
Yes, I wanted also to recommend that movie - it explains a lot about the history of Estonia and the power of singing tradition:) But take napkins with you ;)