It's refreshing to have a Finn point out these issues. I found that when I lived in Finland it was quite normal to brush a lot of this "stuff" under the carpet, so to speak. Well done again, Aleksi.
I have same experience... Just put under the carpet. It is difficult to be honest in critical situations here... decided to doing same... Because payed to much...
Moro. I have made this video to raise awareness of the problems Finland has. I still think Finland is a great country, but we also have issues like everywhere else. I didn't make this video because I would hate Finland. Quite the opposite: I want that people can acknowledge the problems and understand society better. I tried to just good sources when making the video, and I have listed them in the description.
Love many of your videos, if people watch them they'll see that you are just honest and you show the beauty of your country as well and it's many other positive things too. Actually it's shows honesty and love of your country when you mention the negative things too. Countries change for better by people who want a better version of their country and have the nerve to speak loud about the negative equally with good things. I wish we had Greeks with this here,I either find 50% who hate everything but move outside of Greece and find problems and hate the country that hosts them like idiots or 50% of Greeks that find everything positive like idiots also we Greeks are super connected to each other and this goes so back in time this is our surviving way and trust me this "one for all & all for one" it can be really suffocating as it is now and Greek families have weird gender roles the father only brings money and does nothing else and the mother brings money but always less comparing to her husband so she won't hurt his manliness and look after kids, home, cooking, the economy of the family,her parents & her in laws and look after herself so naturally many modern women can't stand this and flip out! I'm very happy to hear that a man spoke openly about abuse on women! Your own parents did as I see here a good job especially your father,the respect and understanding women only a father can teach this so well to his son. Nice anyway to see someone speaks about positive and negative things of his country in beautiful manner and wants change
@@SuviTuuliAllan Finland Is better than countries such as Somalia, Yemen, Syria and Iran etc. Finland Has flaws, though is better than those countries.
Finally I came to Finland before Xmas and I live in Rovaniemi. Some of those that you say it's problems for Finland but for other countries is everyday life situations. If we compare the two countries, Finland and Greece, cause many of Finns visit Greece for holidays, the everyday problems in Greece is dramatically too high. Political corruption, justice problems, scam lawyers, suicides, drugs, bullied at workplaces etc. I agree- I studied a lot about Finnish culture before I make my relocation- that Finland must and deserves to be a better place. Your help to came here was totally true and I would like to thank you. Kiitos
Each era has its problems, when I was a child in Finland in the 1970s, my family had large plots of land in Savo, but the government increased the taxes on these plots so much that the farms disappeared, the plots were sold to build second homes, only a few have managed to keep their farm, the majority have migrated to cities or abroad.
Sometimes, in the US, things are depressing and we want to believe there's someplace in the world where things aren't so bad. This, sometimes, leads to us building an unrealistic and utopian outlook on places like Finland. We just want to believe that there's still hope for living like a human being.
First, thank you for speaking the truth about Finland. I live in the USA, but I was born in south europe. I also lived in Sweden for some time. My ex is from Finland. I cared for him very much, but he was a drunk, unemployed frequently, and living off the government. He got an apartment and food from the Finnish government unemployment pension/subsidy he collected. I didn't realize this immeditely, but when I did, I was shocked and disappointed. His family was very strange, and they often got drunk in the sauna and had real fist fights. He had children from a previous relationship, and sadly, I saw his kids following in his footsteps. Once, my ex got so drunk that he fell down a staircase and broke his head open (he already had a broken nose from falling). He had to get a lot of stiches, and was lucky to be alive. Needless to say, I had to end that relationship. What I discovered is that Finland is not all that it appears to be. There are a lot of hidden problems, mental health is one of them, people repress their feelings a lot, until they explode. I feel so sorry for the children. In Sweden it's kind of similar. I spoke to a cop in Stockholm once, I asked him what was the worst criminal problem in Sweden, and I was very surpised by his reply: bicycle theft, and drunks. He made a joke that when Swedes get mad, they get drunk and then stab their whole family. Anyway, no place in the world is perfect.
Finland is not immune to the same problems that arise elsewhere. These are problems that arise almost everywhere, it is not something that countries brag about, but these problems are there.
Exactly. In every country in the world, there will always be,,,, those that have (mostly wealthy), and those that have not(usually poor, who live from one week to the next).
Sometimes it's also, hard to tell a person in authority if they are the one causing the problem because they always say, "it's all in your head." And than they gaslight you to think it is your own fault. I had mentally and physically abusive family members or teachers that would abuse their power. For example, my grade 3 teacher, I knew she didn't like me for some reason. Kids maybe a bit gullible at times but not when it comes to things like that. They know if someone likes them or not. I wouldn't answer at first because I was shy but than when I did I was picked on all the time. I felt under pressure. She took marks off things because I didn't answer enough question but I can't if I don't know. It was a bit like "Matilda" and "Miss Trenchbull" dynamic. "I am big, and you're small. And I am right you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it!" I eventually, did though. I was like, I had it and told the principal everything! I got put on contract while she got reprimanded. I had to apologize anyway, but what I did to me was "right." Maybe next time she thought twice before treating a student like that and abusing her power of authority like she did too me!
Kiitos, Aleksi ❤️🇫🇮 For bringing some perspective. Just read an article the other day about Finland being number 1 as worlds happiest country. Denmark came in second. How could you not get 1st spot when you have a lot more saunas, a lot more heavy metal, and landscapes filled with auroras. Sometimes I think I must have grown up in the wrong country 🤔 I'm a Dane (and a metalhead) and all the issues you mention, we Danes have been dealing with as well. Particularly the mental health area stands out the most. It's getting better though. On a positive note, Finnish and Danish culture are *very* similar. More so than any other Scandianvian country. So many Danes I know, myself included, love Finland and we consider it as our second home 🏡 🇫🇮🇩🇰
This is EXACTLY what I am thinking too. I am from Germany and have never been that happy in my country. These days it becomes worse and worse, so I decided that I would like to relocate. The more I learn about Finland the more I love it and can conclude for myself that this might very well be the right country for me (nothing against Denmark, it is great too ;) )
@@Mark_Kuckerberg I feel the same about my country, the US. I’m hoping to relocate with my gf after college as well. For me at least, it definitely helps that education there is far cheaper than in America, so I was thinking about getting my master’s and maybe even a Ph.D in electrical engineering while I’m down there as well so I can avoid going into debt again (because in America, you practically have to go into debt to go to school, unlike you guys in Europe who have many programs to help students be able to afford college)
Great video und well done for not hiding the ugly parts about Finland. I've been here only 2 months but I started to notice people sipping on their Lonkero at 7am already. Alcoholism really seems to be a problem in some parts at least.
Great video. As a Polish person who never was in Finland, I was not aware of most of these problems. Thanks for showing a different perspective, it was very interesting and informative.
My primary school was in the Kiva koulu program but it did nothing. Because the teachers didn’t believe that any bullying was taking place. Unfortunately, the worst bully in my grade was a psychopath and a master manipulator with perfect superficial charm. She was called an angel by the teachers. And since they all thought WE were bullying HER because of the reports contradicting their reality, it was all a complete waste of time and only did more harm. So in the end, no anti-bullying program helps if the teachers side with the bullies.
Regarding payment defaults - just pay what's due in time and don't overcommit to financial obligations, it's really simple. People these days just think they can get away with too much and don't even try to build a safety net for themselves - that's true everywhere, not only in Finland.
I think those problems are pretty serious even on a larger scale... I am hailing from Germany and I experienced alot of those issues in my own life too. I've been bullied in school for the whole timeline due my eye disease, or being a rather shy person. I don't like talking to people about unnecessairy stuff nor about topics I am not interested in. Resulting from that my mental health took its toll, too. Poverty, declining birth rate are getting more and more severe here, too. People don't know how the economic situation develops, if it is worth to have family, etc. Nevertheless, really good video Aleksi!
no one should be "forced" to have children. Wanting to have children or not wanting any at all are both personal choices, and both are valid. Both choices must be respected. It's not wrong to not want children, some people just don't want to procreate. Accept this
Moii Aleksi, now that I see these videos now that I live in Finland it's good to know about all this information in your videos I'm an immigrant that comes to this country because I'm in danger in my country but thanks to you I learn a lot about your culture :) and as a Latin American, I want to do my best to serve and be a good citizen. Thanks bro
Aleksi ... What a great video, i have to congratulate you for your courage to do a video like this❤️. People tend to idealize a nation like Finland, me myself think that Finland is a Dreamland but i already knew all this issues, because of my finn friends. Sadly some of this stuff is not surprising for me since I live in Argentina, South America, and we are used to some of this stuff, but yet, we always find the way to get by. Somehow this shows that we all are equal, and we have to deal with the same problems, no matter where you live. Finns are awesome people with a lot of sisu and you have my respect and admiration. 🙌🏻✨ Onnea videosta taas kerran Aleksi! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Problems I've experienced in Finland: Doctors prescribing antidepressants/antipsychotics to people (particularly girls) who are under 14/15. Fucked up. Weed related crimes being punished as much if not more than sexual abuse crimes. Police can enter your home without you even being there, if they have "good" reason. I'm sure there's more but can't think right now. The first one I mentioned is the most serious one for me.
For the medication part I have to disagree. Unless the doctor is a hack they have first tried everything else and that medication is really needed. I was an adult when I got hit by depression and it took a suicide attempt to get a prescription. And even then I had to first go through a year of therapy (or trying to find the motivation for my appointments) before anyone even suggested meds
Thanks for the comment. I don't have hands-on experience so I can't really comment except the punishments. Media always reports how light punishments people get for severe stuff, like sexual offences.
@@teekoo939 IMO there is no good reason for prescribing such crap to someone who is far from fully developed. Messing up their life before its even begun
I am so very glad and relieved that you posted this. You are helping to remove the stigma heaped on victims of abuse because they reported the crime to the authorities. Can you please do a follow-up on measures being taken to resolve the issues of domestic and sexual violence in your country?
Thanks Aleksi, this might be your best or at least the most important video so far. Also I'd like to comment that "hoitotakuu" of 3 months. Just imagine having to have to wait for 3 months to get treated for depression or whatever, especially when people don't seek for help when the first symptoms appear. No, they wait until they are desperate enough to admit they have a problem and need help and then they have to wait for 3 months. Not fresh.
As a volunteer peer support at my workplace, I feel Finnish self-reliant (mentally) culture is a barrier to remedying mental health issues but I'm definitely looking forward to being wrong. Our workplace introduced a program called 'peer support' and the volunteers are trained in counselling (also meet monthly to check in). This side work of mine means I have to get to know most of the people I work and when I feel that there is something going on with them, they became sick often or they use certain words that indicate they're not 100%, I will set aside some time to have an extra long chat (over coffee, over a walk during lunchtime, etc.) for them to decompress and be a sounding board. I'm not sure if this is something possible in Finland. I'm travelling there for 2 weeks next year, and looking forward to learning more about the Finn's way of life.
I got bullied in Finland. Tossu, Kalliossa. At Woodshop they put me against the wall and threw knives next to my head. I took one of the knives off the wall and put it under the head bully's throat and walked him to a workbench where I left his neck squeegeed in. The Teacher said nothing, I left class. Next day I got beat up but after that, they left me alone.
@@AleksiHimself I was a year younger than the rest as I learned to read and write on my own and second tallest and a total science nerd, so I had it coming. Once I threw a Gypsy guy through a window at Kansa Talo and ran across traffic, there were a bunch of them with knives trying to rob me. And once I punched this Mexican guy in Marysville, California who turned a pressure washer on me, could have taken my eye out, he was out cold and I was afraid i killed him. He didn't show up for work for a week and then shook my hand, "Amigos" and brought me lunch the rest of the summer (I was the only Gringo there but got well respected since I punched that guy). That is all of my history of violence in my life. Growing up in Finland made me rather non violent.
Kiitos Paljon, Aleksi! The poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, and bullying part really got me... However, i'd love to highlight the bullying part as someone who's been suffering with various mental health issues including CPTSD. I'm a teetotaler tho i have never licked even a droplet of booze my whole life I do empathize with your brief backstory of being bullied for being childish and there's nothing wrong with exhibiting typically harmless childish behaviors, i can relate the bullying part to my own experience So, I'm a mixed race girl, I'm a Malaysian Chinese of Peruvian-Italian ancestry who grew up in Malaysia obviously, Singapore, Southern Part of Thailand, and Indonesia, where i spent most years of my life completing school/higher education levels due to my parents' job placements. Later on, my nightmarish experience in Indonesia had just begun unveiling..... *Not that Indonesia isnt a bad country per se and i'm not intent on spreading hate on anything related to indonesia, just like any other country, +62 has pros and cons and i hope spilling the tea on my personal experience wont make others who read on my story to start generalizing indonesia as a terrible country in its entirety🙏 These forms of atrocity happened in a small town outside Indonesia's capital. I went to indonesian elementary school at the age of 6, then i got bullied in many ways that sickened me much more than i'd love to point out, most of toxic classmates, regardless of their gender, did these to me : - Blaming me, accusing me for things i wasnt guilty of - Accusing me of faking my illness to get some attention - Threatening me not to report their actions to any teacher or principal - Slapping me in the face - Making me clean the classroom while micromanaging me, insulting me of not cleaning enough some parts of it, literally being overly bossy, eww - Playing with a row of benches so mine was getting cramped to the point of making me unable to move my body,, fck - Calling me with names even the name of a lunatic person who was psychotic and wandering around the school - Telling me stupid, insulting me for being unable to swim - Booing me for coming to the classroom later after spending some time in a toilet while the damn homeroom teacher was fucking there ugh - SPEAKING IN RUDE REGIONAL LANGUAGE TO ME EVEN THO I DID NOTHING WRONG - MAKING FUN OF MY DAD, DUBBING ME AS 'SPOILED KID' even they went overboard by asking whether my dad was really unemployed? Wtf even in their younger ages they exhibited such creepy behaviors , Heaven Forbid! - One of them sabotaged my perf exam score omg - One of them hid a book i picked up to make a resume /recap to fulfill my task on indonesian language subject and she was a fucking entitled fatty daughter of a local police officer/a cop! - Insulting me using religious/typical arabic adopted/islamic words, also to justify their wrongdoings🤬 such bad misreps of muslims to promote that deemed religion of peace should be vanished af. NOT ALL INDONESIANS ARE BAD tho... - Extorting my daily allowances that my parents had worked for omg and at that time i was financially struggling to buy foods at a canteen - Ask me to do sth their favor as if i were their lad/maid, including buying them foods back and forth - Being asked to give out my facebook password bc they wanted to take over my acc - My other former classmates remained on the safe side and chose to protect those fuckheads instead of put me in their defense (my former high school classmates did this to me, they invalidated my sufferings and told me to better shut up so i didnt finish high school and opted for obtaining an A level diploma). - I used to be religious and even converted to islam only to be mocked by my fellow muslim classmates at high school just bc i took islamic teachings too far as i kept my distance or interactions with the opposite genders to a minimum * i've also been dealing w toxic fam members - On the way back home from school, as a mere 7 year old kid, i got sexually harassed by some creepy random local dudes, as if enduring bullying at school was never hellish enough. Nice indonesia (: - Y all know, my indonesian mom VICTIM-BLAMED me for being unable to stand up for myself so she dubbed me as an imbecile🤬 * due to those points above, i've started setting boundaries with anything related to indonesia despite the fact that i used to be raised there, i dont hate the country tho, but excuse me, the standard indonesian accent spoken in Java Island and that regional dialect have been one of my trauma triggers that i had to put up with hearing the folks speak in that CPTSD-triggering way Living in indonesia is NOT for me, thanks, Malaysia, particularly the Sarawak region is better, as i could stick to English and nobody would make fun of me for not speaking enough Malay and oozing too much of English.
I was kind of bullied for the same reasons, good grades and childish but also, for different reasons like, liking Anime, J-Pop, horror. I know, some of these are the trend nowadays but if you liked that stuff back then you were an "outsider." Also, I had a bit of a superiority complex back then. However, in most cases we used are words and our fists. Now, you have to worry about some disgruntled student bringing in a weapon. I think over a month ago on Afonbladet in Malmo Sweden someone brought a knife to school and stabbed another student. I hated that too! I was forced to apologize to the bullies that would pick me on me. It was just for "show" though. My school, didn't really address it. They were good at giving out punishment and turning a blind eye. It is like, "I hear what you are saying." But why are you not doing anything about it! I know, I wasn't the only one though.
I used to abuse alcohol a lot when, I was in my late teens and early 20's. I lost my mom the end of high school, changing lifestyle, and my dad was physically, and mental abusive for many years. It wasn't because "it's Friday!" Anymore thing, it was an I need it to function thing. I didn't tell my family how bad it was because of the stigma but ironically, school was the thing that actually, made me stop. I had to choose whether to drink my money away or get my degree to try and get a job. It was getting close where I couldn't afford both anymore so, I choose option two but for the next 2 years, I felt mentally tortured. That voice in my head going, "Have a drink already!" From the time I woke up until the time I went to sleep. It went away though and I barely drink anymore.
@@higordomingos1930 Thanks! I have had a few slips in the past decade though but I figured, I can cry about my problems all I want but no change will happen unless, I put the work in. I lost my mom over ten years ago. I know, she wouldn't have wanted me to be like that. But for this past few months, it has been my grandfather, I lost him in October but resisted alcohol. I tried going back to school this semester but my mind wasn't in the right place. I am feeling slightly, more stable so, I am going to try again in Spring Semester coming up. I am going to start with 2 courses instead of the normal 3. Also, because, I started learning Russian again and Swedish for ten months so, I want to make language learning a priority this decade.
I'm sorry these things are happening in Finland, Aleksi. These problems unfortunately happen everywhere - we all have a lot of work to do to try to fix them. You are a legend for being so honest🙏👍
@KickSledge the two party systems wasn't built for the US, we were never intended to have political parties. They just sort of evolved and politicians have been taking advantage of it for their own agendas ever since. That's the problem.
@@teekoo939 I can't help you with the two party system, it just sort of happened. However, the electoral college is because we're a republic, not a democracy. We are citizens of our individual states, and those states are then members of the United States. When we vote for our president we vote based on our individual state's laws, however, each state then gives its weighted vote (the weight is based on the state population) to the presidential candidate who win's the majority of that state's citizen's votes or however their state's constitution awards their state's vote
@KickSledge that’s largely just a detailed elaboration on my point. I mean if you’re looking to start an argument, nothing you said was wrong nor was anything you said in contradiction to what I said.
I'm pretty sure 100% of all children, in all countries, at all times in history, have experienced at least verbal bullying from their peers at some point or another. Of course bullying only happens in school, if your children are going to school, so in that sense school bullying is a modern problem; but honestly changing the venue doesn't really change the bullying all that much. Treating other people with respect is a learned skill that has to be taught; nobody is born knowing how to do it.
Finn here: I would like to add my two cents to some of these points. This will be a heavy read, so please do not read if you aren't in the proper headspace to face very, very heavy topics. On bullying, The KiVA koulu system is more or less in my experience a hypocritical shield for schools to hide behind so they don't need to owe up to bullying happening.. I faced nine years of bullying, which has aspects of physical, mental, as well as sexual violence. Most of it was known, and yet the school couldn't be bothered to do much because the principal was retiring soon, so he had not a single crud to give. I also was pretty much cut with some nailclippers during recess under the "watchful eye" of the school, so to this day, my body is not similar in certain parts of it. Only when my mother lowkey threatened him to tip off the cops as well as local media he got off his behind, proving if he just bothered it was possible to do something, though whatever he did, it far too late, as I was robbed my childhood due to the monsters I had to march off to be humiliated and hurt by day after day. To this day, I have not gotten a single apology, and am still dealing with all of this. It has been twelve years since I got out of that hellscape. My crime for becoming public enemy number one to the point I had thousands of people wanting to line up to make my life miserable, with the clear goal of trying to force me to destroy myself (a more youtube friendly term here), was simply that I was "different" or "weird." KivA koulu was for me only there to cover the school's rear, and in my honest opinion is a heap of flaming trash that needs to really be burnt at the stake to embers which are scattered into a river never to return, for how it's so many times just there to shield hypocrisy, rather than protect victims from genuine monsters among their peers. I would much rather have the power to get legal justice and consequences on schools for lazying around than this waste of space and time, because I am less upset by my bullies to this day than the lazy, irresponsible schools which ran the torture chambers I had to walk into daily. But sadly, the schools are too sacred to touch, and the laws piss poorly made, so not going to happen. Especially because of... On poverty: Due to me being a person with a disability, I've had to face hunger monthly for years, while in very bad health (which nearly got me killed at one point). My issue was the doctors didn't give a single crud, or take me serious, and I was basically tossed around like an empty beer can with my health just declining and declining, and because there was no diagnosis (besides my twelve-year turning chronic nerve pain condition: Worth practically nothing to the powers that be) I got zero help from the system. This was not at all helped by the laws controlling the bureaucracy of the social security service (which I personally like to call the "social danger service"; because it more or less seemed about as good as a hole filled boot is at holding water due to being under resources and truly abysmally ran) being absolute rubbish, and made by very incompetent people who knows when, judging on their sheer stupidity. It was clear to me that the more help I needed, the less of it I got, to the point I was treated like a pest for merely asking for help when I genuinely was so weak it one summer nearly got me killed - and no, the doctors didn't care, and neither did this infernal system that almost feels like it was cooked up by monsters trying to act like humans than genuine emphatic people with good hearts. Because to this system, papers are more important than people, period. It was a very traumatic experience (of which I have had more than enough), to the point I am now going to mental healthcare to deal with the traumas this all left me with. Oh, and poverty means that fancy little justice system is very out of your reach, because if you lose a case you pay every single expense, which for someone already struggling to just survive would be tantamount to playing with explosives. I would love to add to this one more big thing, which is an issue everywhere: Ableism - hate for disabled people. I face daily hatred as a person with a disability, and a shocking amount of people don't really care that people with disabilities don't have our human rights met. Most don't even know about it, and people with disabilities have so little voice, or say in things, that it's a massive uphill battle to chip away at this systemized, fully internalized, and accepted as ok by the majority form of hate. I maintain bullying, ableism, as well as the rubbish heap of a system that's decaying from age with little will to fix it, would be easy to fix/eliminate, but it's just there is too much apathy to get on with it and sort it out, plus the approaches are all wrong. Add to that poor people are treated with hostility a lot of the times, and there is a very constant myth that is treated like reality that there is a legion of people abusing social security benefits, so they need to be made impossible to go, and it's yet another case of attitudes being the main obstacle. With a lot of issues, attitudes are the main issue. That, and not calling out hypocrisy when it manifests. At the very least really need to stop believing schools when they claim they got no bullying there, because that's a load of garbage, and they know it too, merely just being too cowardly to admit they have horrendous horrors happening there that they are powerless to do anything about due to it being way above their level of knowing, caring, or ability to control dealing with over a thousand students who, much as in my case, don't think of themselves as bullies, or care about KiVa Koulu. I don't much care whatever the science says, in practice it's a hypocrites shield.
I'm terribly sorry for those atrocities you've endured 💔🙏 you've gone through a lot and i'm tryna put myself in your shoes.... i can relate the bullying part to my own experience So, I'm a mixed race girl, I'm a Malaysian Chinese of Peruvian-Italian ancestry who grew up in Malaysia obviously, Singapore, Southern Part of Thailand, and Indonesia, where i spent most years of my life completing school/higher education levels due to my parents' job placements. Later on, my nightmarish experience in Indonesia had just begun unveiling..... *Not that Indonesia isnt a bad country per se and i'm not intent on spreading hate on anything related to indonesia, just like any other country, +62 has pros and cons and i hope spilling the tea on my personal experience wont make others who read on my story to start generalizing indonesia as a terrible country in its entirety🙏 These forms of atrocity happened in a small town outside Indonesia's capital. I went to indonesian elementary school at the age of 6, then i got bullied in many ways that sickened me much more than i'd love to point out, most of toxic classmates, regardless of their gender, did these to me : - Blaming me, accusing me for things i wasnt guilty of - Accusing me of faking my illness to get some attention - Threatening me not to report their actions to any teacher or principal - Slapping me in the face - Making me clean the classroom while micromanaging me, insulting me of not cleaning enough some parts of it, literally being overly bossy, eww - Playing with a row of benches so mine was getting cramped to the point of making me unable to move my body,, fck - Calling me with names even the name of a lunatic person who was psychotic and wandering around the school - Telling me stupid, insulting me for being unable to swim - Booing me for coming to the classroom later after spending some time in a toilet while the damn homeroom teacher was fucking there ugh - SPEAKING IN RUDE REGIONAL LANGUAGE TO ME EVEN THO I DID NOTHING WRONG - MAKING FUN OF MY DAD, DUBBING ME AS 'SPOILED KID' even they went overboard by asking whether my dad was really unemployed? Wtf even in their younger ages they exhibited such creepy behaviors , Heaven Forbid! - One of them sabotaged my perf exam score omg - One of them hid a book i picked up to make a resume /recap to fulfill my task on indonesian language subject and she was a fucking entitled fatty daughter of a local police officer/a cop! - Insulting me using religious/typical arabic adopted/islamic words, also to justify their wrongdoings🤬 such bad misreps of muslims to promote that deemed religion of peace should be vanished af. NOT ALL INDONESIANS ARE BAD tho... - Extorting my daily allowances that my parents had worked for omg and at that time i was financially struggling to buy foods at a canteen - Ask me to do sth their favor as if i were their lad/maid, including buying them foods back and forth - Being asked to give out my facebook password bc they wanted to take over my acc - My other former classmates remained on the safe side and chose to protect those fuckheads instead of put me in their defense (my former high school classmates did this to me, they invalidated my sufferings and told me to better shut up so i didnt finish high school and opted for obtaining an A level diploma). - I used to be religious and even converted to islam only to be mocked by my fellow muslim classmates at high school just bc i took islamic teachings too far as i kept my distance or interactions with the opposite genders to a minimum * i've also been dealing w toxic fam members - On the way back home from school, as a mere 7 year old kid, i got sexually harassed by some creepy random local dudes, as if enduring bullying at school was never hellish enough. Nice indonesia (: - Y all know, my indonesian mom VICTIM-BLAMED me for being unable to stand up for myself so she dubbed me as an imbecile🤬 * due to those points above, i've started setting boundaries with anything related to indonesia despite the fact that i used to be raised there, i dont hate the country tho, but excuse me, the standard indonesian accent spoken in Java Island and that regional dialect have been one of my trauma triggers that i had to put up with hearing the folks speak in those CPTSD-triggering dialect.. Living in indonesia is NOT for me, thanks, Malaysia, particularly the Sarawak region is better, as i could stick to English and nobody would make fun of me for not speaking enough Malay and oozing too much of English.
@@yrslvy That all sounds like a very horrible set of experiences to have to endure. I'm very sorry to hear that you've had to deal with any of that, as it's just plain wrong on so many levels. The fact no adults decided to intervene and when finally they did get involved instead did the all too familiar sounding thing of siding with bullies is just extra awful. A lot of what you described, while my experiences in many ways are different, carries that all too familiar ring of apathy, hypocrisy, a lack of understanding and empathy, as well as a whole host of deeply rooted systemic issues that lead to this kind of suffering nobody should have to endure. This kind of song and dance that repeats ad nauseam every single day around the world has got to just stop. And that means change is the only way forward.
I heard about that a lot of domestic violence in Finland behind closed doors and Canada to apparently. Maybe too living in a colder country and in the seasons where the weather is not nice people get on each other's nerves more because you are mostly together and can't go anywhere for long periods of time.
When in Rome..... Great video, I love to learn about cultures and I do ask about my Finnish friends but they tend to brush off the excessive immature drinking culture. Drinking a beer at lunch :( Vs drinking a bottle or 3 of Koskenkorva on the weekend :) is normal. The other issues are global problems but we have to remember not every is utopia for everyone, we all share these issues as humans.
Hei, you're doing a great job. Finnish society is completely closed to any expats and it takes many years to become aware of the social structure without being in it. I am from Belarus, I have lived for more than 4 years and only now I am beginning to understand reality. Thank you for your work, it really helps 👍💯
Finland's society is very open. Omg. How an earth can anybody think it is closed. It is closed in Russia and in eastern Europian countries not in Finland. Finland is a Nordic and western country and very open.
When you been bullied you get kicked out of school not the bullies and you go to new school not the bullies. To get psychiatry appointment as a new patient you can expect to wait 8 months, and when you get there you wait your time what they delay for hours, I only have bad experience of living in Finland.
I've always thought its difficult to measure an intrinsic value such as happiness. You prove that point. It's more of a personal disposition. the study equates wealth with happiness. Social welfare with happiness. Life is a game of poker. You can win with a bad set of cards, you can lose with an awesome set of cards.
As you mentioned kids, in Brazil many people are asked, when they decide to live with their partners or get married “when will you have kids?”. There’s something cultural about having kids as a kind of “obligation” (abortion is, unfortunately, prohibited if it’s not a situation of rape/sexual abuse or high risk to the mother). I guess in Finland you never heard this kind of question... but it seems the appreciation of silence has a dark side of causing people not to talk much about many important things like money, mental health, etc (well, brazilians are talkative and most people don’t talk about these themes either).
That's very interesting. It is exactly like here in Quebec (I dunno about the stats 🤔 but the issues are the same). Do you have any video explaining how to move to Suomi? I tried looking it up but all I found was that it was slightly impossible 😅 I know I should probably listen to that video "why I'll hate life in Finland" first, but oh well🤷🏻♀️🤣
If you are from outside of the EU, you need a residence permit: th-cam.com/video/oCgoTLZVWtI/w-d-xo.html If you are from the EU, you can move here if you have enough money to cover your living costs.
good video, nice job. I've looked at demographic studies in the past and one conclusion they came to was that as the females of a population become more educated, the birthrates drop. so the solution is to import foreigners from cultures that have a traditional gender role. Yeah, do you see the irony of this especially from a country that pushes feminism as the answer to all problems. I hope you can see I am half joking here ;) Another comment I have is about child welfare. I know that since corporal punishment is 'banned', that the national child welfare agency has the power to remove children from their parents and put them into foster homes. I saw that as a big problem in the nordics because many parents or cultures still believe in those types of behaviours. Barnevernet has a pretty bad reputation amongst expat communities for 'kidnapping' children, separating siblings in foster homes, and recall reading several stories about parents who haven't seen their children in over 10 years for things like a teacher reporting the suspicion of being 'smacked' for bad behaviour by their parents. One other thing, considering your relationship to Sweden and their relationship with immigration and correlation with crime, gangs, etc - isn't that already being observed in Helsinki? Most people talk about Somalian gangs and random violence being a problem there already.
I live in Latvia. Watching this video i see there are a lot of similarities between our countries. We also have High taxes,bullying problems, problems with alcohol,domestic violence,low income and low birth rates,high rent and aparntment prices.
Just curious, what will happen to you as the victim of bullying if you take matters into your own hands instead of relying on external authority, and so beat up the bullies? Will punishment be aimed at you or will the whole matter be ignored?
I have always wanted to visit Finland and I have heard so many good things about your country. Your video made me see Finland in a different light and I thank you for that. It brings up many important issues. That being said, I would still love to visit and perhaps I will live there one day.
Hi Sir, I am outside of Finland, Is there unethical practices, toward employees in term delay wages, unpaid wages or verbal and physical abused in existence in Finland if yes, how does Finland handle such situations.
being poor in Finland is easy as social security pays well, you get enough money for rent and other expenses, if you use that money wisely you will manage well. Maybe your life is not luxurious but that does not prevent you being happy.
Glad I watched at least the first one. I don't like to borrow money from parents anymore because I was having a great time with my summer earnings. Now they are gone, and I have only one regret which happened before the summer, and I pretty much ask for fifties sometimes to get another summer job later next month. So, I started to notice for example, Spotify didn't take my subscription payment because there just wasn't any money in that card. Money problem will be solved next month, but glad I noticed right now to at least acknowledge this "pay later" thing. TL;DR: broke
Hi! This was an interesting but at the same time sad video. When I checked out the statistic about the amount of alcohol that people drink each year, in the first place was Latvia (where I come from😄). So maybe the situation in Finland is not the worst one. I wanted to ask one thing - people in Finland start to live separately from their parents at a young age (~ 16, 18 something about that), isn't it? And the question - is that possible to earn enough money at this young age to live alone? Or there is something about this thing, what foreigns don't know?
Hi. That is true. Many move out at young age for studies or work. We have student financial aid that pays around 500e/month for students. That makes it easy to move out.
@@AleksiHimself don't they need to graduate from high school first? That is interesting here in the US kids don't move out until the age of 18 for university/ college. Unless the parents kicks them out but that's a different story.
Looking at WHO statistics, Finland has about the same level of alcohol consumption as Sweden, Denmark, and US, and less than UK, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, and Portugal. Czech Republic has the highest level. Just a few examples. By observation, I know that US, UK, and France have a problem with binge drinking.
there are a lot of foreigners in Finland with a decent life style without even speaking the language, meaning that as long as you are willing to work there is no reason to be poor. Finland is a great country and i m grateful to live here, it is not perfect but is better than many other places
As a hard working American, currently leaning finnish, whil planning to be with my fiance in Finland. I am interested in knowing more about this topic from your perspective. Do you mind sharing information about this? Thanks in advance :-)
This is such an important topic to talk about! While Finland is a great country, its super important that we talk honestly about these topics Otherwise, how can we every improve as a society. Great work Aleksi!
05:06 I find it sad, that the data doesn't even mention adult male victims of domestic violence, even though it clearly implies they exist, if you add up the numbers. I bet that if this wasn't such a taboo, men would report abuse more often and we'd get closer to the true data.
I kind of don’t see too many differences to other counties. I mean I’m here in Germany we have the same problems mentioned above and definitely some more…
You should pay your bills. They're also always negotiable and you can ask more time for payment. If you end up loosing your payment credibility, you can only blame yourself. I mean now, not in the 90's when we had this deep economic depression which pushed way too many people out of the track.
@@AleksiHimself I know. I have lived without this "payment credibility" from 1999 to 2020. Now, when i am 43, I can finally live like a "normal" citizen. Still my first message applies.
Finland 🇫🇮 is definitely not the happiest / best country in the world. And yes, I feel that I definitely know enough about this matter, having been born here, but having backpacked around this Earth (in Russia, India, the United States, Greece, Spain, France, Bulgaria, Sweden, Estonia, Switzerland where I also worked etc, in many countries to several different times) .
Can we talk about how men have to waste at least half a year in a mandatory military service while women simply dont? Gotta love being 1-2 years older than every female in my class.
@@AleksiHimself Well that is true but mandatory service for men is BS. There should be similar training for women, if not military, something like medical training.
i appreciate this video bro. you were spitting some hard facts here. the thing with the alcohol i seriously doubt finland stands out with alcoholism because there are countries where alcoholism is a much bigger problem. also i think drinking alcohol makes people happy and more relaxed and thats how i imagine fins to be drinking, socially and when they party, not to be violent and harm the family members or something. also i think domestic violence seems high because its not taboo to talk in finland, i am sure some countries in the middle east or southern europe have way worse domestic violence statistics but they are not being reported or counted. so i wouldn't bet on all these statistics. i think finland is very progressive in all aspects of society and people are in fact happier than in other countries in the world
Aleksi, thank you for making this vid, and exposing some dark statistics about Finland. Some of them were generally known, prolly because of some unfair stereotypes like alcoholism and mental problems inc depression. What actually surprised me is the poverty (isnt that related to where a person does live, i. e. south vs north?) or... domestic violence. I thought that each of nordic country has strong secure system (as from polish pov the social care system might be even too strict and some decisions regarding taking kids away from parents are made too hastily), that statistics with high % of domestic violence, including rape and other crimes related, are waaaay bigger in i. e. Sweden, not because of migrants (which is simply awful fake spread by racists), but because of well educated society, that they know that they have to raise those problem and can count on free support system. Nevertheless, I believe that those issues will be less and less happening, I wish all citizens living in your country a life they deserve.
Your y-DNA can be tested by a good company (CRI Genetics) to tell you about your genetic haplogroup, where you came from, the countries your fathers of the past married into, etc. From my y-DNA - We left Africa after 5 noteable marriages/families in Africa. We went across the land bridge at that time that was southern Saudi Arabia and arrived in India. I have 8 different marriages/families with Indian women in my Y-DNA. We left India to go to SE Asia for another marriage/family who then traveled north to China (near Beijing). The marriage/family there was a distinctive DNA change that also appears in 80% of ALL Finns in Finland! Next, from China back to India for several more marriages/families. (The Finnish language is Indo-Iranian.) When our people were finally planning to migrate North, my great-great said the equivalent of "I'll catch up with you later" and left for Rome, Italy for a marriage/family. A child from that family also married an Italian woman. Their child traveled to near Madrid, Spain - And he married a Spaniard. Their child traveled from Spain to Puerto Rico where he found a wife/family. His child also married/family with a P.R. lady. Their child traveled from P.R. to a small town south of Mexico City for a marriage/family. Their child traveled to Colombia for a marriage/family. Their child traveled to Chile for a family/marriage. Their child traveled to Peru for a marriage family. Their child decided it was time to finally leave the nice weather/food/etc. and rejoin the migrating Finns of more than 8 generations before. He eventually arrived in Finland. With one wife/family from NorthCentral Sweden, I have "at least 26 generations" of Finns in my blood line! - And now, I wish I had at least 1 son to carry on my Finnish Ancestry DNA into the future.
@@AleksiHimself Bro, I'm not gonna try to convince anybody here ok, I just wanna make sure I expose the real facts about my claim. I'm an obeying EU citizen respectful of the law but honestly tho, I mean how much effort has the world health organization invested into making the world's notice about the importance of people's health was for our leaders. I mean, our leaders have been "obligating" us to wear mask, or even worst, to get vaccinated with multiple doses just to protect us from a virus than is less inoffensive than alcoholism and tobacco combined. It's ok bro I got vaccinated, I followed the rules and even if they ask us to get more doses I'll do it. My point is, why to obligate people to get vaccinated stating that they care for our health if they sell alcohol and tobacco everywhere. That kills thousands of people every minute outta cirrhosis and lung cancer.. I mean if you care about population's health so much as you state (governments) to the point that you enforced a massive vaccination policy. Why don't you force people to go outside and exercise 1 hour every morning?? Not everybody smokes tobacco nor drink alcohol. So it's not about people health, it's about taxes, control and obsolete rules. So if cannabis is prohibited then I want alcohol and tobacco prohibited as well. Fair enough? Peace
Is it really in the country where people drink much less booze and have a large tax and duty on alcohol and cigarettes, upset by this. if dry law, it's happiness, isn't it? In any case, you do not consider barbarism and savagery swimming in the lakes and fry sausages and kebabs on the open air. For this in England heavy fines apply. And what?? I work still on 3 jobs in UK and digging into trash wheely bin to find food or still available go to something as your red cross to get for same food and dress. Not bad!! if I come to Finland knowing a little Finnish and speaking English, I can also count on the opportunity to dig into trash, but at the same time have job!? May I hope that I will be than happy in the happiest country?😄
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It's refreshing to have a Finn point out these issues. I found that when I lived in Finland it was quite normal to brush a lot of this "stuff" under the carpet, so to speak. Well done again, Aleksi.
I have same experience... Just put under the carpet. It is difficult to be honest in critical situations here... decided to doing same... Because payed to much...
Thanks! Finns are not very open when it comes down to problems.
@@AleksiHimself but it makes a sense...
I usually try to tell the truth. The good the bad and the ugly. I can be proud of my country and still point out the problems we still have to work on
Just don’t assume that all or even most Finns brush it off. I have to say this because too many people just loooove to generalize about everyone...
Moro. I have made this video to raise awareness of the problems Finland has. I still think Finland is a great country, but we also have issues like everywhere else. I didn't make this video because I would hate Finland. Quite the opposite: I want that people can acknowledge the problems and understand society better.
I tried to just good sources when making the video, and I have listed them in the description.
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@@dessappy Good stuff!
@@dessappy Wow, you're fast. Now go take Krypto out for a walk.
Love many of your videos, if people watch them they'll see that you are just honest and you show the beauty of your country as well and it's many other positive things too. Actually it's shows honesty and love of your country when you mention the negative things too. Countries change for better by people who want a better version of their country and have the nerve to speak loud about the negative equally with good things. I wish we had Greeks with this here,I either find 50% who hate everything but move outside of Greece and find problems and hate the country that hosts them like idiots or 50% of Greeks that find everything positive like idiots also we Greeks are super connected to each other and this goes so back in time this is our surviving way and trust me this "one for all & all for one" it can be really suffocating as it is now and Greek families have weird gender roles the father only brings money and does nothing else and the mother brings money but always less comparing to her husband so she won't hurt his manliness and look after kids, home, cooking, the economy of the family,her parents & her in laws and look after herself so naturally many modern women can't stand this and flip out! I'm very happy to hear that a man spoke openly about abuse on women! Your own parents did as I see here a good job especially your father,the respect and understanding women only a father can teach this so well to his son. Nice anyway to see someone speaks about positive and negative things of his country in beautiful manner and wants change
@@SuviTuuliAllan Finland Is better than countries such as Somalia, Yemen, Syria and Iran etc. Finland Has flaws, though is better than those countries.
Finally I came to Finland before Xmas and I live in Rovaniemi. Some of those that you say it's problems for Finland but for other countries is everyday life situations. If we compare the two countries, Finland and Greece, cause many of Finns visit Greece for holidays, the everyday problems in Greece is dramatically too high. Political corruption, justice problems, scam lawyers, suicides, drugs, bullied at workplaces etc. I agree- I studied a lot about Finnish culture before I make my relocation- that Finland must and deserves to be a better place. Your help to came here was totally true and I would like to thank you. Kiitos
Thanks for the comment. I agree that in many other countries the issues I talked about are worse than in Finland.
Each era has its problems, when I was a child in Finland in the 1970s,
my family had large plots of land in Savo, but the government increased the taxes
on these plots so much that the farms disappeared, the plots were sold to build
second homes, only a few have managed to keep their farm, the majority have
migrated to cities or abroad.
Sorry to hear that. Didn't know that kind of stuff happened back then.
Sometimes, in the US, things are depressing and we want to believe there's someplace in the world where things aren't so bad. This, sometimes, leads to us building an unrealistic and utopian outlook on places like Finland. We just want to believe that there's still hope for living like a human being.
You’ll find that peace in hell
@@Azrael1st lmaoooo 😂
If things are bad in the U.S. imagine how things are doing in developing countries like mine, meh.
I’ll tell you what tho: I’d rather be living in Finland than the US, especially now
First, thank you for speaking the truth about Finland. I live in the USA, but I was born in south europe. I also lived in Sweden for some time. My ex is from Finland. I cared for him very much, but he was a drunk, unemployed frequently, and living off the government. He got an apartment and food from the Finnish government unemployment pension/subsidy he collected. I didn't realize this immeditely, but when I did, I was shocked and disappointed. His family was very strange, and they often got drunk in the sauna and had real fist fights. He had children from a previous relationship, and sadly, I saw his kids following in his footsteps. Once, my ex got so drunk that he fell down a staircase and broke his head open (he already had a broken nose from falling). He had to get a lot of stiches, and was lucky to be alive. Needless to say, I had to end that relationship. What I discovered is that Finland is not all that it appears to be. There are a lot of hidden problems, mental health is one of them, people repress their feelings a lot, until they explode. I feel so sorry for the children. In Sweden it's kind of similar. I spoke to a cop in Stockholm once, I asked him what was the worst criminal problem in Sweden, and I was very surpised by his reply: bicycle theft, and drunks. He made a joke that when Swedes get mad, they get drunk and then stab their whole family. Anyway, no place in the world is perfect.
Finland is not immune to the same problems that arise elsewhere.
These are problems that arise almost everywhere, it is not something
that countries brag about, but these problems are there.
Exactly. It's good to acknowledge Finland has its own share of challenges.
Exactly. In every country in the world, there will always be,,,, those that have (mostly wealthy), and those that have not(usually poor, who live from one week to the next).
Sometimes it's also, hard to tell a person in authority if they are the one causing the problem because they always say, "it's all in your head." And than they gaslight you to think it is your own fault. I had mentally and physically abusive family members or teachers that would abuse their power. For example, my grade 3 teacher, I knew she didn't like me for some reason. Kids maybe a bit gullible at times but not when it comes to things like that. They know if someone likes them or not. I wouldn't answer at first because I was shy but than when I did I was picked on all the time. I felt under pressure. She took marks off things because I didn't answer enough question but I can't if I don't know. It was a bit like "Matilda" and "Miss Trenchbull" dynamic. "I am big, and you're small. And I am right you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it!" I eventually, did though. I was like, I had it and told the principal everything! I got put on contract while she got reprimanded. I had to apologize anyway, but what I did to me was "right." Maybe next time she thought twice before treating a student like that and abusing her power of authority like she did too me!
Thanks for sharing this. Sorry to hear about what happened.
Kiitos, Aleksi ❤️🇫🇮 For bringing some perspective. Just read an article the other day about Finland being number 1 as worlds happiest country. Denmark came in second. How could you not get 1st spot when you have a lot more saunas, a lot more heavy metal, and landscapes filled with auroras. Sometimes I think I must have grown up in the wrong country 🤔
I'm a Dane (and a metalhead) and all the issues you mention, we Danes have been dealing with as well. Particularly the mental health area stands out the most. It's getting better though.
On a positive note, Finnish and Danish culture are *very* similar. More so than any other Scandianvian country. So many Danes I know, myself included, love Finland and we consider it as our second home 🏡 🇫🇮🇩🇰
Thanks Aurora! Nordic countries are very similar and I'm sure we also share the same problems.
This is EXACTLY what I am thinking too. I am from Germany and have never been that happy in my country. These days it becomes worse and worse, so I decided that I would like to relocate. The more I learn about Finland the more I love it and can conclude for myself that this might very well be the right country for me (nothing against Denmark, it is great too ;) )
@@Mark_Kuckerberg I feel the same about my country, the US. I’m hoping to relocate with my gf after college as well. For me at least, it definitely helps that education there is far cheaper than in America, so I was thinking about getting my master’s and maybe even a Ph.D in electrical engineering while I’m down there as well so I can avoid going into debt again (because in America, you practically have to go into debt to go to school, unlike you guys in Europe who have many programs to help students be able to afford college)
Great video und well done for not hiding the ugly parts about Finland. I've been here only 2 months but I started to notice people sipping on their Lonkero at 7am already. Alcoholism really seems to be a problem in some parts at least.
Thanks E V!
Great video. As a Polish person who never was in Finland, I was not aware of most of these problems. Thanks for showing a different perspective, it was very interesting and informative.
Glad it was helpful!
My primary school was in the Kiva koulu program but it did nothing. Because the teachers didn’t believe that any bullying was taking place. Unfortunately, the worst bully in my grade was a psychopath and a master manipulator with perfect superficial charm. She was called an angel by the teachers. And since they all thought WE were bullying HER because of the reports contradicting their reality, it was all a complete waste of time and only did more harm.
So in the end, no anti-bullying program helps if the teachers side with the bullies.
It's always good to create an open environment to talk about the shortcomings, that help to work on the issues and find solutions to the problems.
Exactly!
Regarding payment defaults - just pay what's due in time and don't overcommit to financial obligations, it's really simple. People these days just think they can get away with too much and don't even try to build a safety net for themselves - that's true everywhere, not only in Finland.
I think those problems are pretty serious even on a larger scale... I am hailing from Germany and I experienced alot of those issues in my own life too.
I've been bullied in school for the whole timeline due my eye disease, or being a rather shy person. I don't like talking to people about unnecessairy stuff nor about topics I am not interested in.
Resulting from that my mental health took its toll, too. Poverty, declining birth rate are getting more and more severe here, too. People don't know how the economic situation develops, if it is worth to have family, etc.
Nevertheless, really good video Aleksi!
no one should be "forced" to have children. Wanting to have children or not wanting any at all are both personal choices, and both are valid. Both choices must be respected. It's not wrong to not want children, some people just don't want to procreate. Accept this
Thank you for the honest useful information!
My pleasure!
It's good to be aware than Finland has the same problems than every other country. Good video!
Thanks!
Moii Aleksi, now that I see these videos now that I live in Finland it's good to know about all this information in your videos I'm an immigrant that comes to this country because I'm in danger in my country but thanks to you I learn a lot about your culture :) and as a Latin American, I want to do my best to serve and be a good citizen. Thanks bro
Aleksi ... What a great video, i have to congratulate you for your courage to do a video like this❤️. People tend to idealize a nation like Finland, me myself think that Finland is a Dreamland but i already knew all this issues, because of my finn friends. Sadly some of this stuff is not surprising for me since I live in Argentina, South America, and we are used to some of this stuff, but yet, we always find the way to get by. Somehow this shows that we all are equal, and we have to deal with the same problems, no matter where you live. Finns are awesome people with a lot of sisu and you have my respect and admiration. 🙌🏻✨ Onnea videosta taas kerran Aleksi! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you Romina!
Finns have the highly praisworthy honesty and ability of self criticism, which is rather rare in other countries, or even completely absent.
Problems I've experienced in Finland:
Doctors prescribing antidepressants/antipsychotics to people (particularly girls) who are under 14/15. Fucked up.
Weed related crimes being punished as much if not more than sexual abuse crimes.
Police can enter your home without you even being there, if they have "good" reason.
I'm sure there's more but can't think right now. The first one I mentioned is the most serious one for me.
For the medication part I have to disagree. Unless the doctor is a hack they have first tried everything else and that medication is really needed. I was an adult when I got hit by depression and it took a suicide attempt to get a prescription. And even then I had to first go through a year of therapy (or trying to find the motivation for my appointments) before anyone even suggested meds
@@teekoo939 disagree all you like, doesn't change anything
Just saying that they dont hand those over like candy. If an underage kid gets a prescription theres quite likely a good reason for it
Thanks for the comment. I don't have hands-on experience so I can't really comment except the punishments. Media always reports how light punishments people get for severe stuff, like sexual offences.
@@teekoo939 IMO there is no good reason for prescribing such crap to someone who is far from fully developed. Messing up their life before its even begun
I personally enjoy seeing the data behind the statement, it gives more credibility. Well done!
I am so very glad and relieved that you posted this. You are helping to remove the stigma heaped on victims of abuse because they reported the crime to the authorities. Can you please do a follow-up on measures being taken to resolve the issues of domestic and sexual violence in your country?
Thanks Mary!
Thank you Aleksi… you have made a very valuable video… 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Aleksi, this might be your best or at least the most important video so far. Also I'd like to comment that "hoitotakuu" of 3 months. Just imagine having to have to wait for 3 months to get treated for depression or whatever, especially when people don't seek for help when the first symptoms appear. No, they wait until they are desperate enough to admit they have a problem and need help and then they have to wait for 3 months. Not fresh.
Oh and I bet this will be your most down-voted video also
Thanks Slindi! I agree with both of your points. I am expecting hate comments. :D
As a volunteer peer support at my workplace, I feel Finnish self-reliant (mentally) culture is a barrier to remedying mental health issues but I'm definitely looking forward to being wrong. Our workplace introduced a program called 'peer support' and the volunteers are trained in counselling (also meet monthly to check in). This side work of mine means I have to get to know most of the people I work and when I feel that there is something going on with them, they became sick often or they use certain words that indicate they're not 100%, I will set aside some time to have an extra long chat (over coffee, over a walk during lunchtime, etc.) for them to decompress and be a sounding board. I'm not sure if this is something possible in Finland.
I'm travelling there for 2 weeks next year, and looking forward to learning more about the Finn's way of life.
I got bullied in Finland. Tossu, Kalliossa. At Woodshop they put me against the wall and threw knives next to my head. I took one of the knives off the wall and put it under the head bully's throat and walked him to a workbench where I left his neck squeegeed in. The Teacher said nothing, I left class. Next day I got beat up but after that, they left me alone.
Sorry to hear that. :/
@@AleksiHimself I was a year younger than the rest as I learned to read and write on my own and second tallest and a total science nerd, so I had it coming. Once I threw a Gypsy guy through a window at Kansa Talo and ran across traffic, there were a bunch of them with knives trying to rob me. And once I punched this Mexican guy in Marysville, California who turned a pressure washer on me, could have taken my eye out, he was out cold and I was afraid i killed him. He didn't show up for work for a week and then shook my hand, "Amigos" and brought me lunch the rest of the summer (I was the only Gringo there but got well respected since I punched that guy). That is all of my history of violence in my life. Growing up in Finland made me rather non violent.
That's heinous😢🤬 my heart breaks for you💔
Highly appreciate the honesty! Every country has its issues Finland is not exempt.
Thanks Rac! Definitely true.
So interesting. Thanks for this video, Aleksi!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Soo true
Kiitos Paljon, Aleksi! The poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, and bullying part really got me...
However, i'd love to highlight the bullying part as someone who's been suffering with various mental health issues including CPTSD. I'm a teetotaler tho i have never licked even a droplet of booze my whole life
I do empathize with your brief backstory of being bullied for being childish and there's nothing wrong with exhibiting typically harmless childish behaviors, i can relate the bullying part to my own experience
So, I'm a mixed race girl, I'm a Malaysian Chinese of Peruvian-Italian ancestry who grew up in Malaysia obviously, Singapore, Southern Part of Thailand, and Indonesia, where i spent most years of my life completing school/higher education levels due to my parents' job placements. Later on, my nightmarish experience in Indonesia had just begun unveiling.....
*Not that Indonesia isnt a bad country per se and i'm not intent on spreading hate on anything related to indonesia, just like any other country, +62 has pros and cons and i hope spilling the tea on my personal experience wont make others who read on my story to start generalizing indonesia as a terrible country in its entirety🙏
These forms of atrocity happened in a small town outside Indonesia's capital.
I went to indonesian elementary school at the age of 6, then i got bullied in many ways that sickened me much more than i'd love to point out, most of toxic classmates, regardless of their gender, did these to me :
- Blaming me, accusing me for things i wasnt guilty of
- Accusing me of faking my illness to get some attention
- Threatening me not to report their actions to any teacher or principal
- Slapping me in the face
- Making me clean the classroom while micromanaging me, insulting me of not cleaning enough some parts of it, literally being overly bossy, eww
- Playing with a row of benches so mine was getting cramped to the point of making me unable to move my body,, fck
- Calling me with names even the name of a lunatic person who was psychotic and wandering around the school
- Telling me stupid, insulting me for being unable to swim
- Booing me for coming to the classroom later after spending some time in a toilet while the damn homeroom teacher was fucking there ugh
- SPEAKING IN RUDE REGIONAL LANGUAGE TO ME EVEN THO I DID NOTHING WRONG
- MAKING FUN OF MY DAD, DUBBING ME AS 'SPOILED KID' even they went overboard by asking whether my dad was really unemployed? Wtf even in their younger ages they exhibited such creepy behaviors , Heaven Forbid!
- One of them sabotaged my perf exam score omg
- One of them hid a book i picked up to make a resume /recap to fulfill my task on indonesian language subject and she was a fucking entitled fatty daughter of a local police officer/a cop!
- Insulting me using religious/typical arabic adopted/islamic words, also to justify their wrongdoings🤬 such bad misreps of muslims to promote that deemed religion of peace should be vanished af. NOT ALL INDONESIANS ARE BAD tho...
- Extorting my daily allowances that my parents had worked for omg and at that time i was financially struggling to buy foods at a canteen
- Ask me to do sth their favor as if i were their lad/maid, including buying them foods back and forth
- Being asked to give out my facebook password bc they wanted to take over my acc
- My other former classmates remained on the safe side and chose to protect those fuckheads instead of put me in their defense (my former high school classmates did this to me, they invalidated my sufferings and told me to better shut up so i didnt finish high school and opted for obtaining an A level diploma).
- I used to be religious and even converted to islam only to be mocked by my fellow muslim classmates at high school just bc i took islamic teachings too far as i kept my distance or interactions with the opposite genders to a minimum
* i've also been dealing w toxic fam members
- On the way back home from school, as a mere 7 year old kid, i got sexually harassed by some creepy random local dudes, as if enduring bullying at school was never hellish enough. Nice indonesia (:
- Y all know, my indonesian mom VICTIM-BLAMED me for being unable to stand up for myself so she dubbed me as an imbecile🤬
* due to those points above, i've started setting boundaries with anything related to indonesia despite the fact that i used to be raised there, i dont hate the country tho, but excuse me, the standard indonesian accent spoken in Java Island and that regional dialect have been one of my trauma triggers that i had to put up with hearing the folks speak in that CPTSD-triggering way
Living in indonesia is NOT for me, thanks, Malaysia, particularly the Sarawak region is better, as i could stick to English and nobody would make fun of me for not speaking enough Malay and oozing too much of English.
I was kind of bullied for the same reasons, good grades and childish but also, for different reasons like, liking Anime, J-Pop, horror. I know, some of these are the trend nowadays but if you liked that stuff back then you were an "outsider." Also, I had a bit of a superiority complex back then. However, in most cases we used are words and our fists. Now, you have to worry about some disgruntled student bringing in a weapon. I think over a month ago on Afonbladet in Malmo Sweden someone brought a knife to school and stabbed another student.
I hated that too! I was forced to apologize to the bullies that would pick me on me. It was just for "show" though. My school, didn't really address it. They were good at giving out punishment and turning a blind eye. It is like, "I hear what you are saying." But why are you not doing anything about it! I know, I wasn't the only one though.
Thanks Dobri
I used to abuse alcohol a lot when, I was in my late teens and early 20's. I lost my mom the end of high school, changing lifestyle, and my dad was physically, and mental abusive for many years. It wasn't because "it's Friday!" Anymore thing, it was an I need it to function thing. I didn't tell my family how bad it was because of the stigma but ironically, school was the thing that actually, made me stop. I had to choose whether to drink my money away or get my degree to try and get a job. It was getting close where I couldn't afford both anymore so, I choose option two but for the next 2 years, I felt mentally tortured. That voice in my head going, "Have a drink already!" From the time I woke up until the time I went to sleep. It went away though and I barely drink anymore.
Thanks for sharing this. Sorry to hear about what happened.
Sorry for your loss. You have great discipline
@@higordomingos1930 Thanks! I have had a few slips in the past decade though but I figured, I can cry about my problems all I want but no change will happen unless, I put the work in. I lost my mom over ten years ago. I know, she wouldn't have wanted me to be like that. But for this past few months, it has been my grandfather, I lost him in October but resisted alcohol. I tried going back to school this semester but my mind wasn't in the right place. I am feeling slightly, more stable so, I am going to try again in Spring Semester coming up. I am going to start with 2 courses instead of the normal 3. Also, because, I started learning Russian again and Swedish for ten months so, I want to make language learning a priority this decade.
I'm sorry these things are happening in Finland, Aleksi. These problems unfortunately happen everywhere - we all have a lot of work to do to try to fix them.
You are a legend for being so honest🙏👍
Thanks Nat! I agree that these are global issues.
I think America would rank much happier if we could get rid of our politicians.
@KickSledge the two party systems wasn't built for the US, we were never intended to have political parties. They just sort of evolved and politicians have been taking advantage of it for their own agendas ever since. That's the problem.
The two party system and electoral college still baffles me to this day
@@teekoo939 I can't help you with the two party system, it just sort of happened. However, the electoral college is because we're a republic, not a democracy. We are citizens of our individual states, and those states are then members of the United States. When we vote for our president we vote based on our individual state's laws, however, each state then gives its weighted vote (the weight is based on the state population) to the presidential candidate who win's the majority of that state's citizen's votes or however their state's constitution awards their state's vote
@KickSledge that’s largely just a detailed elaboration on my point. I mean if you’re looking to start an argument, nothing you said was wrong nor was anything you said in contradiction to what I said.
Thanks King for the input and for being such a long-time commenter on this channel.
I'm pretty sure 100% of all children, in all countries, at all times in history, have experienced at least verbal bullying from their peers at some point or another. Of course bullying only happens in school, if your children are going to school, so in that sense school bullying is a modern problem; but honestly changing the venue doesn't really change the bullying all that much. Treating other people with respect is a learned skill that has to be taught; nobody is born knowing how to do it.
Finn here: I would like to add my two cents to some of these points. This will be a heavy read, so please do not read if you aren't in the proper headspace to face very, very heavy topics.
On bullying, The KiVA koulu system is more or less in my experience a hypocritical shield for schools to hide behind so they don't need to owe up to bullying happening.. I faced nine years of bullying, which has aspects of physical, mental, as well as sexual violence. Most of it was known, and yet the school couldn't be bothered to do much because the principal was retiring soon, so he had not a single crud to give. I also was pretty much cut with some nailclippers during recess under the "watchful eye" of the school, so to this day, my body is not similar in certain parts of it. Only when my mother lowkey threatened him to tip off the cops as well as local media he got off his behind, proving if he just bothered it was possible to do something, though whatever he did, it far too late, as I was robbed my childhood due to the monsters I had to march off to be humiliated and hurt by day after day. To this day, I have not gotten a single apology, and am still dealing with all of this. It has been twelve years since I got out of that hellscape. My crime for becoming public enemy number one to the point I had thousands of people wanting to line up to make my life miserable, with the clear goal of trying to force me to destroy myself (a more youtube friendly term here), was simply that I was "different" or "weird." KivA koulu was for me only there to cover the school's rear, and in my honest opinion is a heap of flaming trash that needs to really be burnt at the stake to embers which are scattered into a river never to return, for how it's so many times just there to shield hypocrisy, rather than protect victims from genuine monsters among their peers. I would much rather have the power to get legal justice and consequences on schools for lazying around than this waste of space and time, because I am less upset by my bullies to this day than the lazy, irresponsible schools which ran the torture chambers I had to walk into daily. But sadly, the schools are too sacred to touch, and the laws piss poorly made, so not going to happen. Especially because of...
On poverty: Due to me being a person with a disability, I've had to face hunger monthly for years, while in very bad health (which nearly got me killed at one point). My issue was the doctors didn't give a single crud, or take me serious, and I was basically tossed around like an empty beer can with my health just declining and declining, and because there was no diagnosis (besides my twelve-year turning chronic nerve pain condition: Worth practically nothing to the powers that be) I got zero help from the system. This was not at all helped by the laws controlling the bureaucracy of the social security service (which I personally like to call the "social danger service"; because it more or less seemed about as good as a hole filled boot is at holding water due to being under resources and truly abysmally ran) being absolute rubbish, and made by very incompetent people who knows when, judging on their sheer stupidity. It was clear to me that the more help I needed, the less of it I got, to the point I was treated like a pest for merely asking for help when I genuinely was so weak it one summer nearly got me killed - and no, the doctors didn't care, and neither did this infernal system that almost feels like it was cooked up by monsters trying to act like humans than genuine emphatic people with good hearts. Because to this system, papers are more important than people, period. It was a very traumatic experience (of which I have had more than enough), to the point I am now going to mental healthcare to deal with the traumas this all left me with. Oh, and poverty means that fancy little justice system is very out of your reach, because if you lose a case you pay every single expense, which for someone already struggling to just survive would be tantamount to playing with explosives.
I would love to add to this one more big thing, which is an issue everywhere: Ableism - hate for disabled people. I face daily hatred as a person with a disability, and a shocking amount of people don't really care that people with disabilities don't have our human rights met. Most don't even know about it, and people with disabilities have so little voice, or say in things, that it's a massive uphill battle to chip away at this systemized, fully internalized, and accepted as ok by the majority form of hate.
I maintain bullying, ableism, as well as the rubbish heap of a system that's decaying from age with little will to fix it, would be easy to fix/eliminate, but it's just there is too much apathy to get on with it and sort it out, plus the approaches are all wrong. Add to that poor people are treated with hostility a lot of the times, and there is a very constant myth that is treated like reality that there is a legion of people abusing social security benefits, so they need to be made impossible to go, and it's yet another case of attitudes being the main obstacle. With a lot of issues, attitudes are the main issue. That, and not calling out hypocrisy when it manifests. At the very least really need to stop believing schools when they claim they got no bullying there, because that's a load of garbage, and they know it too, merely just being too cowardly to admit they have horrendous horrors happening there that they are powerless to do anything about due to it being way above their level of knowing, caring, or ability to control dealing with over a thousand students who, much as in my case, don't think of themselves as bullies, or care about KiVa Koulu. I don't much care whatever the science says, in practice it's a hypocrites shield.
I'm terribly sorry for those atrocities you've endured 💔🙏 you've gone through a lot and i'm tryna put myself in your shoes.... i can relate the bullying part to my own experience
So, I'm a mixed race girl, I'm a Malaysian Chinese of Peruvian-Italian ancestry who grew up in Malaysia obviously, Singapore, Southern Part of Thailand, and Indonesia, where i spent most years of my life completing school/higher education levels due to my parents' job placements. Later on, my nightmarish experience in Indonesia had just begun unveiling.....
*Not that Indonesia isnt a bad country per se and i'm not intent on spreading hate on anything related to indonesia, just like any other country, +62 has pros and cons and i hope spilling the tea on my personal experience wont make others who read on my story to start generalizing indonesia as a terrible country in its entirety🙏
These forms of atrocity happened in a small town outside Indonesia's capital.
I went to indonesian elementary school at the age of 6, then i got bullied in many ways that sickened me much more than i'd love to point out, most of toxic classmates, regardless of their gender, did these to me :
- Blaming me, accusing me for things i wasnt guilty of
- Accusing me of faking my illness to get some attention
- Threatening me not to report their actions to any teacher or principal
- Slapping me in the face
- Making me clean the classroom while micromanaging me, insulting me of not cleaning enough some parts of it, literally being overly bossy, eww
- Playing with a row of benches so mine was getting cramped to the point of making me unable to move my body,, fck
- Calling me with names even the name of a lunatic person who was psychotic and wandering around the school
- Telling me stupid, insulting me for being unable to swim
- Booing me for coming to the classroom later after spending some time in a toilet while the damn homeroom teacher was fucking there ugh
- SPEAKING IN RUDE REGIONAL LANGUAGE TO ME EVEN THO I DID NOTHING WRONG
- MAKING FUN OF MY DAD, DUBBING ME AS 'SPOILED KID' even they went overboard by asking whether my dad was really unemployed? Wtf even in their younger ages they exhibited such creepy behaviors , Heaven Forbid!
- One of them sabotaged my perf exam score omg
- One of them hid a book i picked up to make a resume /recap to fulfill my task on indonesian language subject and she was a fucking entitled fatty daughter of a local police officer/a cop!
- Insulting me using religious/typical arabic adopted/islamic words, also to justify their wrongdoings🤬 such bad misreps of muslims to promote that deemed religion of peace should be vanished af. NOT ALL INDONESIANS ARE BAD tho...
- Extorting my daily allowances that my parents had worked for omg and at that time i was financially struggling to buy foods at a canteen
- Ask me to do sth their favor as if i were their lad/maid, including buying them foods back and forth
- Being asked to give out my facebook password bc they wanted to take over my acc
- My other former classmates remained on the safe side and chose to protect those fuckheads instead of put me in their defense (my former high school classmates did this to me, they invalidated my sufferings and told me to better shut up so i didnt finish high school and opted for obtaining an A level diploma).
- I used to be religious and even converted to islam only to be mocked by my fellow muslim classmates at high school just bc i took islamic teachings too far as i kept my distance or interactions with the opposite genders to a minimum
* i've also been dealing w toxic fam members
- On the way back home from school, as a mere 7 year old kid, i got sexually harassed by some creepy random local dudes, as if enduring bullying at school was never hellish enough. Nice indonesia (:
- Y all know, my indonesian mom VICTIM-BLAMED me for being unable to stand up for myself so she dubbed me as an imbecile🤬
* due to those points above, i've started setting boundaries with anything related to indonesia despite the fact that i used to be raised there, i dont hate the country tho, but excuse me, the standard indonesian accent spoken in Java Island and that regional dialect have been one of my trauma triggers that i had to put up with hearing the folks speak in those CPTSD-triggering dialect..
Living in indonesia is NOT for me, thanks, Malaysia, particularly the Sarawak region is better, as i could stick to English and nobody would make fun of me for not speaking enough Malay and oozing too much of English.
@@yrslvy That all sounds like a very horrible set of experiences to have to endure. I'm very sorry to hear that you've had to deal with any of that, as it's just plain wrong on so many levels. The fact no adults decided to intervene and when finally they did get involved instead did the all too familiar sounding thing of siding with bullies is just extra awful. A lot of what you described, while my experiences in many ways are different, carries that all too familiar ring of apathy, hypocrisy, a lack of understanding and empathy, as well as a whole host of deeply rooted systemic issues that lead to this kind of suffering nobody should have to endure.
This kind of song and dance that repeats ad nauseam every single day around the world has got to just stop. And that means change is the only way forward.
I heard about that a lot of domestic violence in Finland behind closed doors and Canada to apparently. Maybe too living in a colder country and in the seasons where the weather is not nice people get on each other's nerves more because you are mostly together and can't go anywhere for long periods of time.
Definitely happens behind closed doors.
Globally domestic violence is not so bad in Finland. You can google of it. Finland is far from the top.
Thanks for your video
So nice of you!
Fabulous! Excellent! God bless you!
When in Rome.....
Great video, I love to learn about cultures and I do ask about my Finnish friends but they tend to brush off the excessive immature drinking culture. Drinking a beer at lunch :( Vs drinking a bottle or 3 of Koskenkorva on the weekend :) is normal.
The other issues are global problems but we have to remember not every is utopia for everyone, we all share these issues as humans.
So true!
Hei, you're doing a great job. Finnish society is completely closed to any expats and it takes many years to become aware of the social structure without being in it. I am from Belarus, I have lived for more than 4 years and only now I am beginning to understand reality. Thank you for your work, it really helps 👍💯
Thanks!
Finland's society is very open. Omg. How an earth can anybody think it is closed. It is closed in Russia and in eastern Europian countries not in Finland. Finland is a Nordic and western country and very open.
Ahahahahahahaaaa!!! Fcken aye mate...tel us some more jokes about your open finnish society! Fck me, you should have your own stand up old boy!
When you been bullied you get kicked out of school not the bullies and you go to new school not the bullies. To get psychiatry appointment as a new patient you can expect to wait 8 months, and when you get there you wait your time what they delay for hours, I only have bad experience of living in Finland.
Yeah it's tough shit. Sorry to hear that.
I've always thought its difficult to measure an intrinsic value such as happiness. You prove that point. It's more of a personal disposition. the study equates wealth with happiness. Social welfare with happiness. Life is a game of poker. You can win with a bad set of cards, you can lose with an awesome set of cards.
As you mentioned kids, in Brazil many people are asked, when they decide to live with their partners or get married “when will you have kids?”. There’s something cultural about having kids as a kind of “obligation” (abortion is, unfortunately, prohibited if it’s not a situation of rape/sexual abuse or high risk to the mother). I guess in Finland you never heard this kind of question... but it seems the appreciation of silence has a dark side of causing people not to talk much about many important things like money, mental health, etc (well, brazilians are talkative and most people don’t talk about these themes either).
There is some social pressure about getting married, having kids etc. but I'd believe it's not as bad as in Brazil.
That's very interesting. It is exactly like here in Quebec (I dunno about the stats 🤔 but the issues are the same). Do you have any video explaining how to move to Suomi? I tried looking it up but all I found was that it was slightly impossible 😅 I know I should probably listen to that video "why I'll hate life in Finland" first, but oh well🤷🏻♀️🤣
If you are from outside of the EU, you need a residence permit: th-cam.com/video/oCgoTLZVWtI/w-d-xo.html
If you are from the EU, you can move here if you have enough money to cover your living costs.
Kiitos paljon for the input 🙌🏻
good video, nice job. I've looked at demographic studies in the past and one conclusion they came to was that as the females of a population become more educated, the birthrates drop. so the solution is to import foreigners from cultures that have a traditional gender role. Yeah, do you see the irony of this especially from a country that pushes feminism as the answer to all problems. I hope you can see I am half joking here ;) Another comment I have is about child welfare. I know that since corporal punishment is 'banned', that the national child welfare agency has the power to remove children from their parents and put them into foster homes. I saw that as a big problem in the nordics because many parents or cultures still believe in those types of behaviours. Barnevernet has a pretty bad reputation amongst expat communities for 'kidnapping' children, separating siblings in foster homes, and recall reading several stories about parents who haven't seen their children in over 10 years for things like a teacher reporting the suspicion of being 'smacked' for bad behaviour by their parents. One other thing, considering your relationship to Sweden and their relationship with immigration and correlation with crime, gangs, etc - isn't that already being observed in Helsinki? Most people talk about Somalian gangs and random violence being a problem there already.
Kiitti kommentista Darkhorse!
I live in Latvia. Watching this video i see there are a lot of similarities between our countries. We also have High taxes,bullying problems, problems with alcohol,domestic violence,low income and low birth rates,high rent and aparntment prices.
Thanks Gints for sharing this.
Bullying is why I think its better for children to be home schooled. My heart breaks for kids who go through this.
Yes im one of them, thanks ❤
Just curious, what will happen to you as the victim of bullying if you take matters into your own hands instead of relying on external authority, and so beat up the bullies? Will punishment be aimed at you or will the whole matter be ignored?
I don't know really. I guess most bullied can't stand up for themselves but I think that happens too.
Suomi on todella kaunis maa!!! Well, I learnt this statement from Duolingo.
Good stuff! 😃🙌
I have always wanted to visit Finland and I have heard so many good things about your country. Your video made me see Finland in a different light and I thank you for that. It brings up many important issues. That being said, I would still love to visit and perhaps I will live there one day.
Happy Easter.
Same to you!
Sun videot on kyllä ihan omassa luokassaan. Kiitos
Hi Sir,
I am outside of Finland, Is there unethical practices, toward employees in term delay wages, unpaid wages or verbal and physical abused in existence in Finland if yes, how does Finland handle such situations.
Any nation is perfect Aleksi. Onko sähköposti? Tarvitsen yksi suomalainen ystava koska haluan opoiakelen. Kiitos.
being poor in Finland is easy as social security pays well, you get enough money for rent and other expenses, if you use that money wisely you will manage well. Maybe your life is not luxurious but that does not prevent you being happy.
This is what I've heard too. I could make another video about this topic specifically.
Finland’s education has no any examinations . It is absolutely opposite our’s education system
Good stuff! 😃🙌
Glad I watched at least the first one.
I don't like to borrow money from parents anymore because I was having a great time with my summer earnings. Now they are gone, and I have only one regret which happened before the summer, and I pretty much ask for fifties sometimes to get another summer job later next month.
So, I started to notice for example, Spotify didn't take my subscription payment because there just wasn't any money in that card. Money problem will be solved next month, but glad I noticed right now to at least acknowledge this "pay later" thing.
TL;DR: broke
Thanks for sharing this.
Good Stuff!
Thanks!
Hi! This was an interesting but at the same time sad video. When I checked out the statistic about the amount of alcohol that people drink each year, in the first place was Latvia (where I come from😄). So maybe the situation in Finland is not the worst one. I wanted to ask one thing - people in Finland start to live separately from their parents at a young age (~ 16, 18 something about that), isn't it? And the question - is that possible to earn enough money at this young age to live alone? Or there is something about this thing, what foreigns don't know?
Hi. That is true. Many move out at young age for studies or work. We have student financial aid that pays around 500e/month for students. That makes it easy to move out.
@@AleksiHimself don't they need to graduate from high school first?
That is interesting here in the US kids don't move out until the age of 18 for university/ college. Unless the parents kicks them out but that's a different story.
Looking at WHO statistics, Finland has about the same level of alcohol consumption as Sweden, Denmark, and US, and less than UK, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, and Portugal. Czech Republic has the highest level. Just a few examples. By observation, I know that US, UK, and France have a problem with binge drinking.
there are a lot of foreigners in Finland with a decent life style without even speaking the language, meaning that as long as you are willing to work there is no reason to be poor. Finland is a great country and i m grateful to live here, it is not perfect but is better than many other places
I agree. Of course as a foreigner things are a bit more challenging but definitely possible.
As a hard working American, currently leaning finnish, whil planning to be with my fiance in Finland. I am interested in knowing more about this topic from your perspective. Do you mind sharing information about this?
Thanks in advance :-)
@@VikktorVampiir can you be more specific? what exactly do you want to know? i m happy to help if i can
This is such an important topic to talk about! While Finland is a great country, its super important that we talk honestly about these topics Otherwise, how can we every improve as a society. Great work Aleksi!
Thanks Oliver!
"If YoU DoN't LiKe FiNlAnD tHeN jUsT lEaVe... duhhhhhhh" 🤡
I was expecting this comment. :D
@@AleksiHimself I get to hear it everytime I complain and want to improve things.
@@darookmezd Ahh yes I thought you were a troll but you are just saying it in a sarcastic fashion.... that old chestnut "If you don't like it leave".
@@Noddingdog63 it's an American saying too lol. It baffles me when some say that 🤦♂️
@@kar460 It baffles, as you say. Think darookmezd was being sarcastic in this case, though.
What are your thoughts on "Pahanhautoja" film?
Haven't seen it
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05:06 I find it sad, that the data doesn't even mention adult male victims of domestic violence, even though it clearly implies they exist, if you add up the numbers. I bet that if this wasn't such a taboo, men would report abuse more often and we'd get closer to the true data.
So basically there is 50% Finns that are on antidepresants and 50% that resolve their mental problems with alcohol, got it!
I kind of don’t see too many differences to other counties. I mean I’m here in Germany we have the same problems mentioned above and definitely some more…
I'm sure these problems are everywhere.
@@AleksiHimself yeah and I love Finland for solving problems like inequality and absolute poorness 😌
Than why Finland is on top
You should pay your bills. They're also always negotiable and you can ask more time for payment. If you end up loosing your payment credibility, you can only blame yourself. I mean now, not in the 90's when we had this deep economic depression which pushed way too many people out of the track.
There are many things people should do but won't because of problems in life. It's always not that easy when problems pile up.
@@AleksiHimself I know. I have lived without this "payment credibility" from 1999 to 2020. Now, when i am 43, I can finally live like a "normal" citizen. Still my first message applies.
@@hextatik_sound yes I agree that fucker been in Finland he tanish the image of country
Finland 🇫🇮 is definitely not the happiest / best country in the world.
And yes, I feel that I definitely know enough about this matter, having been born here, but having backpacked around this Earth (in Russia, India, the United States, Greece, Spain, France, Bulgaria, Sweden, Estonia, Switzerland where I also worked etc, in many countries to several different times) .
Which country did you like the most and why?
Can we talk about how men have to waste at least half a year in a mandatory military service while women simply dont? Gotta love being 1-2 years older than every female in my class.
Women like older men.
@@AleksiHimself Well that is true but mandatory service for men is BS. There should be similar training for women, if not military, something like medical training.
Alcoholism is also a problem in Norway 🇳🇴
Sorry to hear that
It is not as much problem in Finland as ppl think. Watch the statistics in video "Country alcohol consumption comparison."
i appreciate this video bro. you were spitting some hard facts here. the thing with the alcohol i seriously doubt finland stands out with alcoholism because there are countries where alcoholism is a much bigger problem. also i think drinking alcohol makes people happy and more relaxed and thats how i imagine fins to be drinking, socially and when they party, not to be violent and harm the family members or something. also i think domestic violence seems high because its not taboo to talk in finland, i am sure some countries in the middle east or southern europe have way worse domestic violence statistics but they are not being reported or counted. so i wouldn't bet on all these statistics. i think finland is very progressive in all aspects of society and people are in fact happier than in other countries in the world
Truth is that alcoholism is over exaggerated but happinesses is also over exaggerated
Makes sense
I am not sure how to score happiness. I am guessing that Finland exiled all the unhappy people.
The fact that the whole contest is Finnish origin + the largest age group being wealthy boomers helps.
I want to learn the language
Go for it!
Im bit suprised rasism and xenophobia werent mentioned. Otherwise accurate and interesting video.
I've talked about them on other videos.
Aleksi, thank you for making this vid, and exposing some dark statistics about Finland. Some of them were generally known, prolly because of some unfair stereotypes like alcoholism and mental problems inc depression. What actually surprised me is the poverty (isnt that related to where a person does live, i. e. south vs north?) or... domestic violence. I thought that each of nordic country has strong secure system (as from polish pov the social care system might be even too strict and some decisions regarding taking kids away from parents are made too hastily), that statistics with high % of domestic violence, including rape and other crimes related, are waaaay bigger in i. e. Sweden, not because of migrants (which is simply awful fake spread by racists), but because of well educated society, that they know that they have to raise those problem and can count on free support system. Nevertheless, I believe that those issues will be less and less happening, I wish all citizens living in your country a life they deserve.
The alcoholism and deppression in Finland is not as bad as ppl think. Google the statistics.
Finns don't have fairly low inequality compared to many other places.
Yep
Your y-DNA can be tested by a good company (CRI Genetics) to tell you about your genetic haplogroup, where you came from, the countries your fathers of the past married into, etc. From my y-DNA - We left Africa after 5 noteable marriages/families in Africa. We went across the land bridge at that time that was southern Saudi Arabia and arrived in India. I have 8 different marriages/families with Indian women in my Y-DNA. We left India to go to SE Asia for another marriage/family who then traveled north to China (near Beijing). The marriage/family there was a distinctive DNA change that also appears in 80% of ALL Finns in Finland! Next, from China back to India for several more marriages/families. (The Finnish language is Indo-Iranian.) When our people were finally planning to migrate North, my great-great said the equivalent of "I'll catch up with you later" and left for Rome, Italy for a marriage/family. A child from that family also married an Italian woman. Their child traveled to near Madrid, Spain - And he married a Spaniard. Their child traveled from Spain to Puerto Rico where he found a wife/family. His child also married/family with a P.R. lady. Their child traveled from P.R. to a small town south of Mexico City for a marriage/family. Their child traveled to Colombia for a marriage/family. Their child traveled to Chile for a family/marriage. Their child traveled to Peru for a marriage family. Their child decided it was time to finally leave the nice weather/food/etc. and rejoin the migrating Finns of more than 8 generations before. He eventually arrived in Finland. With one wife/family from NorthCentral Sweden, I have "at least 26 generations" of Finns in my blood line! - And now, I wish I had at least 1 son to carry on my Finnish Ancestry DNA into the future.
I’m Latvian and I love Finland 🇫🇮
Good stuff! 😃🙌
I think we need to fully legalize cannabis in EU. It's the solution to everything man. Peace!
Not sure if that would work but thanks for sharing.
@@AleksiHimself Bro, I'm not gonna try to convince anybody here ok, I just wanna make sure I expose the real facts about my claim. I'm an obeying EU citizen respectful of the law but honestly tho, I mean how much effort has the world health organization invested into making the world's notice about the importance of people's health was for our leaders. I mean, our leaders have been "obligating" us to wear mask, or even worst, to get vaccinated with multiple doses just to protect us from a virus than is less inoffensive than alcoholism and tobacco combined. It's ok bro I got vaccinated, I followed the rules and even if they ask us to get more doses I'll do it. My point is, why to obligate people to get vaccinated stating that they care for our health if they sell alcohol and tobacco everywhere. That kills thousands of people every minute outta cirrhosis and lung cancer.. I mean if you care about population's health so much as you state (governments) to the point that you enforced a massive vaccination policy. Why don't you force people to go outside and exercise 1 hour every morning?? Not everybody smokes tobacco nor drink alcohol. So it's not about people health, it's about taxes, control and obsolete rules. So if cannabis is prohibited then I want alcohol and tobacco prohibited as well. Fair enough? Peace
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We have a problem 😂
A few problems 😂
These are all common problems in “happy” western countries
I'm sure of it. Not only in Finland.
@@AleksiHimself you better to leave from Finland
@@MD-wh7ns huh? :D
@@AleksiHimself iam demotivated from your vedios to come Finland
@@MD-wh7ns Don't forget to watch my other videos, too. I just want to cover different aspects of Finland. Have a nice day!
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Domestic violence is by immigrants or finns ?
Obviously could be by any person, no nationality is free from having aggressive people.
Srsly i question the point of humanity countless times
Is it really in the country where people drink much less booze and have a large tax and duty on alcohol and cigarettes, upset by this. if dry law, it's happiness, isn't it? In any case, you do not consider barbarism and savagery swimming in the lakes and fry sausages and kebabs on the open air. For this in England heavy fines apply. And what?? I work still on 3 jobs in UK and digging into trash wheely bin to find food or still available go to something as your red cross to get for same food and dress. Not bad!! if I come to Finland knowing a little Finnish and speaking English, I can also count on the opportunity to dig into trash, but at the same time have job!? May I hope that I will be than happy in the happiest country?😄
A country culture based on jalousy , alkoholism and narcism.... visit Finland and you ll see the most dark society in the world..