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Greetings from Finland girl!!! You just scratched the surface with that video.. You should definitely check out from weird history channel video about deadliest sniper in history!!! "i'll be back" 😎
You should watch more videos about Finland, and also all the Nordic countries, mainly Sweden, Denmark and Norway. But remember, when you check the Norway, please don't forget the rest of us after that 😂
Here's another: Finland was the first country in Europe (and I think third in the world) to grant women the right to vote. Also, it's been ranked the happiest in the world for some years now, which makes a lot of Finns laugh in disbelief.
We have over 7 000 metal bands in our country. Second are Sweden, third is Norway. We have many super fun competitions such as the Swamp Football World Championship, the Air Guitar World Championship, the Boot Throwing Championship and just about any other competition imaginable. In summer, many festivals are organized around Finland. In the central part, the nightless night is celebrated (at these latitudes, the sun does not set behind the horizon at all. ) and in the fall on the west coast, the Venetians are organized. In Venice, the end of the cottage season is celebrated and then the cottage beaches are full of lanterns and in many cities there are either fireworks or a laser light show. Here I am linking the fireworks organized by my own city, Kalajoki Venetians ua-cam.com/video/zlamJtUJDcg/v-deo.htmlsi=zYS1sjd8J1LRZlzS
"Pretty much at war with Russia during WW2". That's a mild way of putting it. In Finland, WW2 was all about defending against Russia. Nothing else. They are still considered the only reason we have a standing army, and a pretty impressive one. They also didn't mention our language, which is pretty unique in Europe. It is not Indo-European or Slavic, it's Fenno-Ugric. Our closest language relatives are down south in Estonia and very distantly Hungary.
@@Gracking666 We did! At some point during the continuation war we controlled quite a bit of land to the east of Finland. Well, in the end Russia overpowered us, and the end result is what you can see today. Let's hope Ukraine can do at least as well as we did back in the day. (I assume you were referring to the situation today. 😉)
The wife carfying competition is not the only weird competition we have. There is an air-guitar playing world championships, cellphone throwing championship, sitting on an ant hill competetion (bare assed if I remember correctly), swamp-soccer championships, and there used to be sauna world champs too, but after a guy died in the competition it got cancelled. And those are just the ones I remember on the top of my head, there's a lot of smaller competitions out there, seems like every other town has their own spin on it.
Chili eating competition. It was on TV some years ago. Pretty tough competition, they ate Finnish grown variant of Naga Morichi (long day and greenhouse makes it hotter). That competition I saw, the winner ate 70 g..
The part about Finland and Germany in WWII was well explained, it is a subject that has nuances. Nazism was never picked up, it was not ideological alliance but purely military pact. There was a brief period of ultranationalism just before Continuation war and Operation Barbarossa which disappeared once the war actually started. It was a mistake that the army supreme command did not agree with, it was more of a political decision than tactical. The idea was to first recapture lost land and THEN capture a bit of Russia as Germany was going to invade it.. Winter war is more black and white, good vs evil and for that we can add that Finland asked help from all the western allied countries but none came. Being isolated between two forces, one that was very possibly going to invade us and destroy Finland as a nation and a concept, and one that promised a special status in the "new world order".. the choice was obvious.
Some videos about Finland: ua-cam.com/video/DxxZOsfsIUM/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/1XJEmdbgd7A/v-deo.html In old Norse (Viking era language) Finland meant land of Finns or Magic Land. For Vikings Finns were demihumans (feys) who practice powerful magic with growling voice and singing. Nowadays growling is used in heavy metal music. Tolkien's high elves are inspired by Finns and Kalevala epic story.
Nice reaction, that was quite odd video about Finland but not bad, just a very weak scratch on surface. There is plenty of videos about Finland, most happiest country in the world several years on row. (Some wierd way how they measure it, but i'll take it 😀. This one is old, but it's good and funny to watch. Geography now - Finland ua-cam.com/video/DxxZOsfsIUM/v-deo.html Btw, they mention about the top of mountain given to Finland, it did not happen because some legal restrictions. But Norway would have donated it. This one is also pretty good and interesting to watch, things changes ofcourse but it tells about finnish school system and i can guarantee that you will be suprised. ua-cam.com/video/7xCe2m0kiSg/v-deo.html Hope to see some of these from you 😀 Greetings from Finland! 🤘🎶 🖤 🎸🇫🇮
Lovely reaction, like always. As an Finn I and we thank you! There were a lot of info in this, but hopefully you´ll find even more information about Finland. We are like the happiest country in the world (sixth time?) even we are sometimes little bit gloomy and reserved. Still humane and people with the deep feelings! And like you somebody commented before, we have most heavy bands in the world when compering amount of heavy bands to our land mass. :) And we are also now part of the NATO too. I think we have also the biggest reserve of army soldiers in Europe. And so on.... You are lovely, thank you!
Declawing a cat is like taking off a human finger at the 1st knuckle. It's cruel and horrifying. My cats were trained to scratch on their posts and scent soakers... it can be done Train, don't maim! Meow!
If you treat them well, in the countryside even quite tiny female cats sometimes bring you nice little presents, such as pheasants. They may have chewed on them a little, but you still get a decent bird stew... Been there, seen that, have eaten some pheasants. :-| Mice, rats, moles... well no thank you, but a pheasant... MMM!
Compared to USA, we have more than two major parties in politics, compromising is still held as a crucial part of democracy and competing in politics is not a show of drama and comedy, but a discussion based on facts and different ideas how to tackle the problems. That being said, we do also have those with funny and controversial ideas, but that's o.k. Every village has to have it's own village fools. When it comes to the citizens of Finland, the Finns, money is important, but not as important as health and well-being, family, peace and tranquility.
Last presidential election there was several good candidates that I could be happy with. None if them was mocking others. That would be sure way to loose here. President leads foreign policy. For that the far left and right are surprisingly unanimous. At least after the Russian invasion to Ukraine. Suddenly NATO was good.
I feel like this video skipped a lot of interesting facts about Finland. Here are some important and cool facts I can think of right now: 1. Finland is the world's happiest country and consistently ranks among the top five for being the freest, safest, least corrupt etc. alongside its Nordic neighbors. 2. Finland's tax system is progressive, meaning that taxes increase with income. In general, our taxes are high compared to the US, but in return, we have free healthcare that for example includes ~three months of paid maternity leave. Your emplyer can't fire you because of your maternity leave. 3. Taxes also pay for a free nine-year education system, which is often rated the best in the world. 4. Finland is in the top ten of world's most technologically advanced countries. 5. Temperatures in Finland can reach up to 30°C (85°F) in summer and drop to -20°C (-5°F) in winter. This variation occurs not just between the south and north but even in Helsinki, the capital located on the southern coast. 6. Finland has mandatory military service, and every male must serve for six to twelve months. During service, you receive a daily allowance, the state partially covers your rent, and again, your employer cannot fire you because of your service. 7. Finland is a global leader in promoting equality. It was the first country in the world to grant women full political rights. Hope this helps!
Sauna championships (not sure if it's still kept in the same form after some weak Russian dropped dead from burns), Nokia phone throwing competition and I think there's a competition for throwing rubber boots too. I believe there are also swamp socker games too. All kinds of weird competitions. E: In Lapland temperatures can drop to -30-35°C almost every winter and lowest recorded temperature was -51,5°C.
Saunas would have been one good thing for the original video to mention. There are all kinds of saunas here in Finland. You can reserve a sauna section at some hockey stadiums, there are sauna cars, sauna ski lifts, portable saunas. And of course the classics like smoke saunas, and wood or electric saunas. Even in a lot of apartment buildings there is a sauna in each apartment, but the ones that don't usually have at least 1 communal sauna. It's a way of life for us
During the WW2, mutual pact with Germany was a must. People didn't like it, but since allied needed the Russians, they didn't do anything to stop them fighting Finland. So it literally was enemy of my enemy. Finland is one of these countries where it can be -30C during winter and +30C during summer. Also a neat(?) fact is that Finnish language isn't "pronounced". Every letter has it's own sound and you read them all. Cheers for the learning of our small place called home ❤
I need to correct the video a little bit in terms of the war history. The red guards didn't flee to Russia, that's propaganda. The red guards were poor working class Finns, the white guards were rich militarist Finns. So not only is it obvious the whites won, but they also made concentration camps to put the former reds into. It was horrific. That said, civil wars are always messy and horrible. Just pointing it out that there were some Russian soldiers supporting the red guard (because they were obviously socialists) who indeed returned to Russia when the reds lost, the red guards themselves didn't leave Finland... because they were regular Finns. And because they usually didn't have money or transport to even make a long trip like that. So no... the red guards didn't go to Russia after the civil war. In fact, once the society healed from the civil war, former red guards fought against the Soviets in the Winter War to protect the independence alongside former white guards
As a Finn, I'm proud of our nature, we have so many forests and lakes. Four seasons of the year is amazing. In summer we have days where's 24h of light and in winter we have days where's 24h of darkness - and of course good chances to see auroras on the sky, and Santa Claus because he lives in Finland :D
I think the information is pretty accurate. Our relations to Russia is pretty cold, right now. There are some things, worth to mention, if you are interested to hear. Well, first of all we have 4 seasons, meaning here you can actually see the changes. In winter time we have cold, but it’s not like a big issue. As mentioned, we have a lot of lakes and also forests, and a lot of us like to spend their free time, like vacations, nearby the nature. We enjoy that a lot. Roaming in Finland is all free for everybody, you can walk or hiking in forests as much as you like. This is actually guarded by the law, called ”every man’s right”. How ever since we are pretty much equal rights country, this of course means everybody, not just men 😁 In fact this country was actually first country, who gave women right to vote, and other equal privlidges, which some countries even still don’t have. One more important thing to mention, is that our education system is all free for all finnish citizens, no matter How high education or How many professions or degrees you want to study. In fact while you are studying, you get a small aid financially, so you don’t have to work and study at the same time. Goverment is protecting every citizen, so they would have enough money for every basic needs. How ever, we preserve this system all together, and since we don’t have rich natural resources, we accept high taxes, because it is a contribute for common good.
Finns has invented many important things. Like text massiges and heart monitors. Finns are known for their sisu. Sisu is something that starts the point when your powers are off. Then you continue with sisu. Sisu helped Finn's to fight against Soviet union / Russia, who had 300 million people against 3,5 million Finn's at that time. But we survived and kept our independent. It is something what has effect our people a lot, because Finland is so small country: everyone took a part at that war. So all of us finss are children or grandchildren some winter war soldier. What's documents about winter war. Finland is ranked happiest country in the world for seven times after 2017. And we love our country and people and we are super proud our history and unique language.
Country that gave you Nightwish and many other heavy metal bands... There was a freezing weather in Texas couple (3 - 4) yrs ago. It literally froze houses and gave you snow!
Actually we didn't get snow where I live in Texas. It frozen yes, but there was no snow. I live basically on the coast. There was ice that was bad though and really dangerous.
I've lived in Finland all my life, and I've never been to watch a wife-carrying competition. 😉 They are not very often, and not in many towns. In fact, the most popular sport in Finland is ice hockey. I live in southern Finland near Helsinki, and it's not always cold here. Sometimes in winter it may rain and there is not always much snow. But in northern Finland and Lapland it is really cold in winter.
Watching a facts video and learning about the countries your viewers are coming from sounds like an amazing idea! This video isn't the greatest to learn about Finland. While it is not the worst, he seems to be a bit biased and opinionated, but it is also getting quite outdated and contains half-truths presented as facts. Also, 90% of the video is quite "dry" and geopolitically opinionated The US does have a lot of strange and fun competitions that are baffling/bizarre to people from outside of the US. To name a few: Wrestling, monster truck events, Nascar, rodeos, eating competitions and spelling-bees
I think it's cool to live here in Finland and know near place where i live are 6000 years old rock paintings. Someone lived here that long time ago, can't be bad place to live.
Strange source video. There weren't too many mistakes, some yes, but that's understandable. But they could have chosen much more interesting and important facts.
Don't know how they managed to talk about us without even mentioning Sauna. Coffee and heavy metal bands are also pretty common talking points, not to mention our healthcare system and so much more. There's definitely more videos like this to choose from if you are interested.
Unlike most European countries, we didn't give up conscription armed forces after cold war ended. We have weapons ready for 0,9 million and in urban areas nearly all houses have bomb shelters with air filters against nuclear and chemical pollution. We are training annually with more artillery shells than France or UK is capable producing. We are promoting word peace. But it's better to be prepared. We have also large storages of food, fuel, etc. stored in many small undisclosed storages. Even before NATO membership we co-operated with Norway and Sweden with military production and trained together. Now Swedish navy and air force is pretty strong, we are protecting also Sweden with strong artillery and ground force. Swedish Airforce can fly in Finnish air space if needed. We have only 63 Hornets, but combined airforces have over 250 fighter planes in Fennoscandian peninsula. We are going to have 64 F35s. Their fuselages are going to be built in Finland.
Greetings from Finland. Some might migrate to avoid the Finnish winter, but for the most parts life survives here through winter just fine. E.g. that snowy forest in the video is live and well. Houses have heating and winter clothing keeps people warm. Even the fishes are live under that ice. Some even miss winter during the summer, as seen on this video: "PERJANTAI: Summer Ice Fishing is For Real". Btw, The North American Wife Carrying Championships have taken place every year since 1999 in Newry, Maine. While most of the Finland's population do live in the southern part of Finland, there are larger cities across the country and also in the northern part of Finland. E.g. Oulu is the 5tn largest city in Finland and Rovaniemi is the 17th largest, and the latter one-where Santa Claus has his village-is located near Arctic Circle. Yes, it's a fact; Santa lives in Finland. it's probably more interesting and relatable to learn about a new country through some links to the US. E.g. speaking of that Santa's village, it was built around the Roosevelt Cabin. As a member of the UNRRA, the precursor to UNICEF, Eleanor Roosevelt visited Finland in 1950 to witness the post-war rebuilt taking place and wanted to visit the Arctic Circle during her visit. A cabin was constructed for that event. The cabin has since been visited by few statesmen, including Lyndon B. Johnson. Here's a video of that cabin and an introduction video to Santa's village: "Rooseveltin maja | Napapiirin ensimmäinen maja" and "Christmas: Santa Claus Village Rovaniemi Lapland Finland Arctic Circle home of Father Christmas". Also, as it happens, the Cola-Santa's illustrator Haddon Sundblom' has also ancestry in the Nordic region. His father was from Åland Islands, which is an autonomous part of Finland located in the archipelago between Finland and Sweden and his mother was from Sweden: "The Legend of Coca-Cola and Santa Claus". Speaking of cabins, this video might interest you: "Why is the Oldest Finnish Log Cabin in New Jersey?". Since that fact video's host is Canadian and Oulu city has been mentioned. This video shows how people cope in winter conditions: "Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)". Also, about Oulu, Finnish Immigration to the US and independence day: "Oulu - Finding Your Finnish Sisu" and "Finland is looking for Matt Damon. Has anyone seen him?". If you're going to watch more Finland videos, Sauna is probably one subject you'ill come across: "Sauna: Finnish Relaxation in Minnesota", "AVANTO HOLE IN THE ICE", "Bruce Oreck has an unusual sauna experience ", "Sauna culture in Finland" and "Rajaportti Sauna: My Fave Finnish City: Tampere & Finlands Oldest Sauna". There is a 101 facts about Finland video. Some have dared to take that on, but be warned, it took a toll on them: "101 Facts About Finland".
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Finland is our neighbour country, just like Norway and Denmark. The main difference between these countries is that Swedes, Norwegians and Danish understand each other as the language comes from the same roots. Finnish however is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. They however have two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. In the southwest part of Finland around the capital Helsinki, the island of Åland (an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland) and a big part of the westcoast around Vaasa (approx. 100 kilometers south and north of Vaasa) they speak or at least understand Swedish. This is probably an inheritance from the time Finland was a part of us (Sweden). We love/hate our neighbours in two sports events, ice hockey and athletics. There is a love/hate rivalry between us in those events. We Swedes love to take the party ferries to Finland (Turku, Helsinki or Mariehamn) to dance, eat and drink on the boat for 24 hours and then buy alcohol and beer on our way home again. We love You Finland! Rakastamme sinua Suomi!
Source video says it a bit oddly that Finland and Germany had mutual agreement after Nov30 1939, mostly because of Molotov-Ribbentrop -treaty that made them look like allies with the Soviets, but as the relations cooled down between the giants and we were quite willing to take a second round - not alone this time - Finland became slowly part of the Operation Barbarossa. If that's about all there's to comment, that's not really much. Decent source.
The snow you mentioned at the start in southern Finnish cities is just raw material for slush. it looks dreadful, and with any sanding or salting of the walkways will make your shoes pretty darn dirty.
Not a very good video about Finland, but one of the most irrelevant ones. All you need to know about my home country is that Finland has been ranked the happiest country in the world for 7 years in a row (2018 - 2024) by UN's World Happiness Index. This is most likely because e.g.: - we have free education & one of the best education systems in the world - we have extremely affordable universal healthcare - we have the cleanest air in the world - we have maternal & fraternal leave with full pay - for mothers it's 105 workdays, for fathers 54 workdays - most employees have several weeks of leave every year with full pay - our country is extremely safe & has one of the best democratic systems in the world with extremely little corruption - we have lots of lakes & clean nature to enjoy - we have 700+ metal bands per 1M citizens - no other country comes even close - e.g. the U.S has about 70/1M.
After the sauna in the winter it is customary to make snow angels, did you know? So you go on your back and with your hands and feet, it's very refreshing when you continue to sauna from it. I have memory that U do this Amerian too, Did`t I remeber wrong? I've never seen such bumps on a cat's leg, and I've never even heard of them, in all outfits where there is a cat, they have their own scratching post to climb on. Dogs I have seeingin winter time out side, mecouse some brees need those, The majority of Finns are positive about NATO and the USA, then we have a small but vocal far-left wing that hates NATO and the USA, but that group is really marginal, the majority love America and its culture.
So Lanae How many metal bands are there in Finland? The mecca of metal music - In addition to the fact that there are more than 50 metal bands per 100,000 inhabitants in Finland, metal music has a truly unique position here as part of popular culture. What music do you review?????
I've been on a big Nightwish binge lately but I react to MANY bands. I have over 120 videos so far of music reactions if you want to go check them out! 😊
Ymm... Finland has weird world championship sports like Nokia mobile throwing competition, air guitar and latest... welll lets put it this way.... it include some parts of female as air licking competition. So weird but funny stuff :)
Just move here if ya want. Human right of internet and phone connection. Freshest and cleanest air in western countries. Santa also lives here and ya can go meet him all year around. Then there's the culture, history, nature and people. I bet ya gonna love it here.
Not almost as, we have more saunas than cars. If you think about it, every home has a sauna, but then people have summer homes that also have sauna, and there is public saunas in addition. Not all families have several cars, and some families have no car at all, so that give saunas a bit of an edge. It's true that some families have two cars and only one sauna, but saunas still come ahead a bit.
I have not visit in Texas but several towns in east coast of US and also in California. Funny how states/Towns are so different, example Philadelphia was not town to my taste but Savannah was nice place and also some small towns at South and North Carolina. Well,here is some more facts concerning Finland: Wife Carrying Team Competition 2024 - Sonkajärvi, Finland.....USA Team seems to be quite fast. ua-cam.com/video/lyMBFMKivP0/v-deo.html We also Swamp Soccer World Championships here in Finland...How hard is for player to play when she or he sinks to the swamp middle of the game? This so fun. ua-cam.com/video/G5xnuRZ3jqk/v-deo.html You may no knew but here ib Finland is more metal bands per capita than any other country in the whole world....Nightwish you already know but how about something from rock-genre? Or more likely rock-sympohy...Massive live perfomance from Osmo's Cosmos,middle of the nature,at summer night. Whitewater Symphony: ua-cam.com/video/bWIOC9ii3E0/v-deo.html If having most metal bands in the whole world,must have also movies from those bands: "Heavy Trip" ua-cam.com/video/GmvZB5j-M6E/v-deo.html And for last: America First, Finland Second (OFFICIAL) ua-cam.com/video/yP9Qt-bSz40/v-deo.html
Cheese rolling - now that is a very English thing - you're not actually racing the cheese - it's the first person down the hill after the cheese gets to keep it - everyone else just nurses bruises and broken bones. From reading the comments it would be an interesting video should anyone ever compare the idiosyncratic comeptitions in England and Finland - Before reading the comments I would have thought that Enlgand would come out on top, but now I'm not too sure......
Hey Lanae, I think this would be a good video to get to know the Finnish spirit and culture: ua-cam.com/video/qY__OOcv--M/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared ”Finnish sauna culture” ☺️ Ps. Torille! 🤘🏼🇫🇮
Here comes excatly 100 and 1 facts about Finland!: ua-cam.com/video/FFom9ziEXVY/v-deo.html Please, grab a grubby plate of sausage with the classic NOKIA phone, bang yer head with HEAVY DUTY Heavy Metal Music and go to sauna afterwards.
I find the original video quite lame and very lazily put together. While heaps of snow and cats with claws are certainly real, you could find far better source material.
Your chosen youtuber has all his ducks in a row. since 1864 single 25- year old females have been independent and able to buy, own and sell property Since 1878 female and male children have had equal rights to a parent's death estate Since 1901 Finnish universities have accepted women on same conditions as men. Finnish women got the right to vote in 1906. So all of the above was decided by smart men. My cats says Hi!
If you want to know about Country I suggest a native will offer much more INFORMATION and facts rather than someone from North America. You were told virtually nothing about the country and peoples from the Land of Nightwish
Finland was not with the Germans, during the Winter war, because they had to fight the Soviets alone. Sweden sent 8000 volunteers to fight the Bolsheviks. During the winter war the Soviet Union had their non aggression pact with NAZI Germany, called Molotov /Ribbentrop pact. Stalin and Adolf Hitler was to split Europe between eachother. Soviet Union attacked Poland only 2 weeks after the Nazis had attacked it, but the west seem not to be OK with giving Soviet Union the blame of starting ww2, because it's better to blame the Nazis, because Soviet Union was part of the western allied forces.
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Greetings from Finland girl!!! You just scratched the surface with that video.. You should definitely check out from weird history channel video about deadliest sniper in history!!! "i'll be back" 😎
You should watch more videos about Finland, and also all the Nordic countries, mainly Sweden, Denmark and Norway. But remember, when you check the Norway, please don't forget the rest of us after that 😂
Here's another: Finland was the first country in Europe (and I think third in the world) to grant women the right to vote. Also, it's been ranked the happiest in the world for some years now, which makes a lot of Finns laugh in disbelief.
New Zeland was first in the world. We were first in Europe.
FINLAND remained the world's happiest country for a seventh straight year in an annual UN sponsored World Happiness Report
We're so fucking happy, you have no idea, people.
1917or18 we gave womens rights to vote
Just makes you wonder how miserable other countries must be, if Finns are supposed to be the happiest
Doesn't Finland also have the most metal bands per capita? Pretty sure I read that somewhere XD
Yes. We also have heavy metal karaoke bars. Mostly rock bars though.
We have over 7 000 metal bands in our country. Second are Sweden, third is Norway. We have many super fun competitions such as the Swamp Football World Championship, the Air Guitar World Championship, the Boot Throwing Championship and just about any other competition imaginable. In summer, many festivals are organized around Finland. In the central part, the nightless night is celebrated (at these latitudes, the sun does not set behind the horizon at all. ) and in the fall on the west coast, the Venetians are organized. In Venice, the end of the cottage season is celebrated and then the cottage beaches are full of lanterns and in many cities there are either fireworks or a laser light show. Here I am linking the fireworks organized by my own city, Kalajoki Venetians ua-cam.com/video/zlamJtUJDcg/v-deo.htmlsi=zYS1sjd8J1LRZlzS
@@paulakuljunlahti i have been four times at swamp soccer and its hard but fun :D
It's also got one of the highest concentrations of folk bands - them Finns sure do like their music (I blame the long winter nights)!
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"Pretty much at war with Russia during WW2". That's a mild way of putting it. In Finland, WW2 was all about defending against Russia. Nothing else. They are still considered the only reason we have a standing army, and a pretty impressive one. They also didn't mention our language, which is pretty unique in Europe. It is not Indo-European or Slavic, it's Fenno-Ugric. Our closest language relatives are down south in Estonia and very distantly Hungary.
Brother continuation war was about Finland actually attacking Soviet Union to redeem ares "and beyond".
yeah, we have very special and unique languages. greetings from hungary!
@@Gracking666 We did! At some point during the continuation war we controlled quite a bit of land to the east of Finland. Well, in the end Russia overpowered us, and the end result is what you can see today. Let's hope Ukraine can do at least as well as we did back in the day. (I assume you were referring to the situation today. 😉)
The wife carfying competition is not the only weird competition we have. There is an air-guitar playing world championships, cellphone throwing championship, sitting on an ant hill competetion (bare assed if I remember correctly), swamp-soccer championships, and there used to be sauna world champs too, but after a guy died in the competition it got cancelled. And those are just the ones I remember on the top of my head, there's a lot of smaller competitions out there, seems like every other town has their own spin on it.
Chili eating competition. It was on TV some years ago. Pretty tough competition, they ate Finnish grown variant of Naga Morichi (long day and greenhouse makes it hotter). That competition I saw, the winner ate 70 g..
The part about Finland and Germany in WWII was well explained, it is a subject that has nuances. Nazism was never picked up, it was not ideological alliance but purely military pact. There was a brief period of ultranationalism just before Continuation war and Operation Barbarossa which disappeared once the war actually started. It was a mistake that the army supreme command did not agree with, it was more of a political decision than tactical. The idea was to first recapture lost land and THEN capture a bit of Russia as Germany was going to invade it..
Winter war is more black and white, good vs evil and for that we can add that Finland asked help from all the western allied countries but none came. Being isolated between two forces, one that was very possibly going to invade us and destroy Finland as a nation and a concept, and one that promised a special status in the "new world order".. the choice was obvious.
Very well put! (As far as I know of, I'm Finnish after all.) Good, critical and objective summarization.
"City of Sonkajärvi" is a grandiose name for the wife carrying capital of Sonkajärvi with a population of 3,600.
I live in Sonkajärvi.
I'll take the city moniker.
Some videos about Finland: ua-cam.com/video/DxxZOsfsIUM/v-deo.html
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In old Norse (Viking era language) Finland meant land of Finns or Magic Land. For Vikings Finns were demihumans (feys) who practice powerful magic with growling voice and singing. Nowadays growling is used in heavy metal music. Tolkien's high elves are inspired by Finns and Kalevala epic story.
Nice reaction, that was quite odd video about Finland but not bad, just a very weak scratch on surface.
There is plenty of videos about Finland, most happiest country in the world several years on row. (Some wierd way how they measure it, but i'll take it 😀.
This one is old, but it's good and funny to watch. Geography now - Finland ua-cam.com/video/DxxZOsfsIUM/v-deo.html
Btw, they mention about the top of mountain given to Finland, it did not happen because some legal restrictions. But Norway would have donated it.
This one is also pretty good and interesting to watch, things changes ofcourse but it tells about finnish school system and i can guarantee that you will be suprised.
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Hope to see some of these from you 😀
Greetings from Finland! 🤘🎶 🖤 🎸🇫🇮
Lovely reaction, like always. As an Finn I and we thank you! There were a lot of info in this, but hopefully you´ll find even more information about Finland. We are like the happiest country in the world (sixth time?) even we are sometimes little bit gloomy and reserved. Still humane and people with the deep feelings! And like you somebody commented before, we have most heavy bands in the world when compering amount of heavy bands to our land mass. :) And we are also now part of the NATO too. I think we have also the biggest reserve of army soldiers in Europe. And so on.... You are lovely, thank you!
Älä kerro kaikkee kerralla mut joo😝👍🏻
Declawing a cat is like taking off a human finger at the 1st knuckle. It's cruel and horrifying. My cats were trained to scratch on their posts and scent soakers... it can be done Train, don't maim! Meow!
Yeah, if you don't want the hassle or expense of a whole cat, don't have a cat at all!
If you treat them well, in the countryside even quite tiny female cats sometimes bring you nice little presents, such as pheasants. They may have chewed on them a little, but you still get a decent bird stew...
Been there, seen that, have eaten some pheasants. :-|
Mice, rats, moles... well no thank you, but a pheasant... MMM!
Compared to USA, we have more than two major parties in politics, compromising is still held as a crucial part of democracy and competing in politics is not a show of drama and comedy, but a discussion based on facts and different ideas how to tackle the problems. That being said, we do also have those with funny and controversial ideas, but that's o.k. Every village has to have it's own village fools. When it comes to the citizens of Finland, the Finns, money is important, but not as important as health and well-being, family, peace and tranquility.
Perfectly said 🤗
Last presidential election there was several good candidates that I could be happy with. None if them was mocking others. That would be sure way to loose here.
President leads foreign policy. For that the far left and right are surprisingly unanimous. At least after the Russian invasion to Ukraine. Suddenly NATO was good.
I feel like this video skipped a lot of interesting facts about Finland. Here are some important and cool facts I can think of right now:
1. Finland is the world's happiest country and consistently ranks among the top five for being the freest, safest, least corrupt etc. alongside its Nordic neighbors.
2. Finland's tax system is progressive, meaning that taxes increase with income. In general, our taxes are high compared to the US, but in return, we have free healthcare that for example includes ~three months of paid maternity leave. Your emplyer can't fire you because of your maternity leave.
3. Taxes also pay for a free nine-year education system, which is often rated the best in the world.
4. Finland is in the top ten of world's most technologically advanced countries.
5. Temperatures in Finland can reach up to 30°C (85°F) in summer and drop to -20°C (-5°F) in winter. This variation occurs not just between the south and north but even in Helsinki, the capital located on the southern coast.
6. Finland has mandatory military service, and every male must serve for six to twelve months. During service, you receive a daily allowance, the state partially covers your rent, and again, your employer cannot fire you because of your service.
7. Finland is a global leader in promoting equality. It was the first country in the world to grant women full political rights.
Hope this helps!
Sauna championships (not sure if it's still kept in the same form after some weak Russian dropped dead from burns), Nokia phone throwing competition and I think there's a competition for throwing rubber boots too. I believe there are also swamp socker games too. All kinds of weird competitions.
E: In Lapland temperatures can drop to -30-35°C almost every winter and lowest recorded temperature was -51,5°C.
@@olwynskye417 Yeah the Sauna championships got the ban hammer.
@@frogslayer6981Chilli eating competition is good substitute 😂.
New Zealand gave women voting right before Finland's independence.
@@jounisaari9471 We all make mistakes that we regret.
Saunas would have been one good thing for the original video to mention. There are all kinds of saunas here in Finland. You can reserve a sauna section at some hockey stadiums, there are sauna cars, sauna ski lifts, portable saunas. And of course the classics like smoke saunas, and wood or electric saunas. Even in a lot of apartment buildings there is a sauna in each apartment, but the ones that don't usually have at least 1 communal sauna. It's a way of life for us
Great reaction to my beloved home country ♥ Keep going, there's much more to learn about Finland❣
During the WW2, mutual pact with Germany was a must. People didn't like it, but since allied needed the Russians, they didn't do anything to stop them fighting Finland. So it literally was enemy of my enemy.
Finland is one of these countries where it can be -30C during winter and +30C during summer. Also a neat(?) fact is that Finnish language isn't "pronounced". Every letter has it's own sound and you read them all. Cheers for the learning of our small place called home ❤
I need to correct the video a little bit in terms of the war history.
The red guards didn't flee to Russia, that's propaganda. The red guards were poor working class Finns, the white guards were rich militarist Finns. So not only is it obvious the whites won, but they also made concentration camps to put the former reds into. It was horrific.
That said, civil wars are always messy and horrible.
Just pointing it out that there were some Russian soldiers supporting the red guard (because they were obviously socialists) who indeed returned to Russia when the reds lost, the red guards themselves didn't leave Finland... because they were regular Finns. And because they usually didn't have money or transport to even make a long trip like that. So no... the red guards didn't go to Russia after the civil war.
In fact, once the society healed from the civil war, former red guards fought against the Soviets in the Winter War to protect the independence alongside former white guards
As a Finn, I'm proud of our nature, we have so many forests and lakes. Four seasons of the year is amazing. In summer we have days where's 24h of light and in winter we have days where's 24h of darkness - and of course good chances to see auroras on the sky, and Santa Claus because he lives in Finland :D
IMO this video is very meh. Just few random details.
Geography Now! Finland tells much better about Finland:
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Yeah, you should check that video out!
I think the information is pretty accurate. Our relations to Russia is pretty cold, right now. There are some things, worth to mention, if you are interested to hear. Well, first of all we have 4 seasons, meaning here you can actually see the changes. In winter time we have cold, but it’s not like a big issue. As mentioned, we have a lot of lakes and also forests, and a lot of us like to spend their free time, like vacations, nearby the nature. We enjoy that a lot. Roaming in Finland is all free for everybody, you can walk or hiking in forests as much as you like. This is actually guarded by the law, called ”every man’s right”. How ever since we are pretty much equal rights country, this of course means everybody, not just men 😁 In fact this country was actually first country, who gave women right to vote, and other equal privlidges, which some countries even still don’t have. One more important thing to mention, is that our education system is all free for all finnish citizens, no matter How high education or How many professions or degrees you want to study. In fact while you are studying, you get a small aid financially, so you don’t have to work and study at the same time. Goverment is protecting every citizen, so they would have enough money for every basic needs. How ever, we preserve this system all together, and since we don’t have rich natural resources, we accept high taxes, because it is a contribute for common good.
Finland has more saunas than cars. 3 million saunas and 2 million cars
I have two cars and two saunas 😂😂😂 🇫🇮
@@infernalstormrider 0 cars and 2 saunas :)
Cabin and my house.
@@lintu25 😀🤣🤣
@@lintu25 My kind of person.
Some of those saunas are in cars so there's some overlap
Finns has invented many important things. Like text massiges and heart monitors. Finns are known for their sisu. Sisu is something that starts the point when your powers are off. Then you continue with sisu. Sisu helped Finn's to fight against Soviet union / Russia, who had 300 million people against 3,5 million Finn's at that time. But we survived and kept our independent. It is something what has effect our people a lot, because Finland is so small country: everyone took a part at that war. So all of us finss are children or grandchildren some winter war soldier. What's documents about winter war.
Finland is ranked happiest country in the world for seven times after 2017. And we love our country and people and we are super proud our history and unique language.
Hard monitor = heart monitor?
@@thejjzz my fast written mistake
They also have the best band in the world!!
Country that gave you Nightwish and many other heavy metal bands... There was a freezing weather in Texas couple (3 - 4) yrs ago. It literally froze houses and gave you snow!
Actually we didn't get snow where I live in Texas. It frozen yes, but there was no snow. I live basically on the coast. There was ice that was bad though and really dangerous.
@@lanaeshonestopinion I live in southern part of Finland and we have sometimes -25 Celsius and half a meter of snow, no danger at all.😊
@@lanaeshonestopinion It's what you are used to. Live in North Europe, I use spiked shoes in some weathers. Live in Texas -
no need for those
I've lived in Finland all my life, and I've never been to watch a wife-carrying competition. 😉 They are not very often, and not in many towns. In fact, the most popular sport in Finland is ice hockey. I live in southern Finland near Helsinki, and it's not always cold here. Sometimes in winter it may rain and there is not always much snow. But in northern Finland and Lapland it is really cold in winter.
Watching a facts video and learning about the countries your viewers are coming from sounds like an amazing idea!
This video isn't the greatest to learn about Finland. While it is not the worst, he seems to be a bit biased and opinionated, but it is also getting quite outdated and contains half-truths presented as facts. Also, 90% of the video is quite "dry" and geopolitically opinionated
The US does have a lot of strange and fun competitions that are baffling/bizarre to people from outside of the US. To name a few: Wrestling, monster truck events, Nascar, rodeos, eating competitions and spelling-bees
I think it's cool to live here in Finland and know near place where i live are 6000 years old rock paintings. Someone lived here that long time ago, can't be bad place to live.
My grandfather was a war veteran. Also many of my paternal and maternal uncles.
Strange source video. There weren't too many mistakes, some yes, but that's understandable. But they could have chosen much more interesting and important facts.
Don't know how they managed to talk about us without even mentioning Sauna. Coffee and heavy metal bands are also pretty common talking points, not to mention our healthcare system and so much more. There's definitely more videos like this to choose from if you are interested.
Thank you❤
Greetings from Finland
Unlike most European countries, we didn't give up conscription armed forces after cold war ended. We have weapons ready for 0,9 million and in urban areas nearly all houses have bomb shelters with air filters against nuclear and chemical pollution.
We are training annually with more artillery shells than France or UK is capable producing.
We are promoting word peace. But it's better to be prepared. We have also large storages of food, fuel, etc. stored in many small undisclosed storages.
Even before NATO membership we co-operated with Norway and Sweden with military production and trained together. Now Swedish navy and air force is pretty strong, we are protecting also Sweden with strong artillery and ground force. Swedish Airforce can fly in Finnish air space if needed. We have only 63 Hornets, but combined airforces have over 250 fighter planes in Fennoscandian peninsula. We are going to have 64 F35s. Their fuselages are going to be built in Finland.
Greetings from Finland. Some might migrate to avoid the Finnish winter, but for the most parts life survives here through winter just fine. E.g. that snowy forest in the video is live and well. Houses have heating and winter clothing keeps people warm. Even the fishes are live under that ice. Some even miss winter during the summer, as seen on this video: "PERJANTAI: Summer Ice Fishing is For Real". Btw, The North American Wife Carrying Championships have taken place every year since 1999 in Newry, Maine.
While most of the Finland's population do live in the southern part of Finland, there are larger cities across the country and also in the northern part of Finland. E.g. Oulu is the 5tn largest city in Finland and Rovaniemi is the 17th largest, and the latter one-where Santa Claus has his village-is located near Arctic Circle. Yes, it's a fact; Santa lives in Finland.
it's probably more interesting and relatable to learn about a new country through some links to the US. E.g. speaking of that Santa's village, it was built around the Roosevelt Cabin. As a member of the UNRRA, the precursor to UNICEF, Eleanor Roosevelt visited Finland in 1950 to witness the post-war rebuilt taking place and wanted to visit the Arctic Circle during her visit. A cabin was constructed for that event. The cabin has since been visited by few statesmen, including Lyndon B. Johnson. Here's a video of that cabin and an introduction video to Santa's village: "Rooseveltin maja | Napapiirin ensimmäinen maja" and "Christmas: Santa Claus Village Rovaniemi Lapland Finland Arctic Circle home of Father Christmas".
Also, as it happens, the Cola-Santa's illustrator Haddon Sundblom' has also ancestry in the Nordic region. His father was from Åland Islands, which is an autonomous part of Finland located in the archipelago between Finland and Sweden and his mother was from Sweden: "The Legend of Coca-Cola and Santa Claus".
Speaking of cabins, this video might interest you: "Why is the Oldest Finnish Log Cabin in New Jersey?".
Since that fact video's host is Canadian and Oulu city has been mentioned. This video shows how people cope in winter conditions: "Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)".
Also, about Oulu, Finnish Immigration to the US and independence day: "Oulu - Finding Your Finnish Sisu" and "Finland is looking for Matt Damon. Has anyone seen him?".
If you're going to watch more Finland videos, Sauna is probably one subject you'ill come across: "Sauna: Finnish Relaxation in Minnesota", "AVANTO HOLE IN THE ICE", "Bruce Oreck has an unusual sauna experience ", "Sauna culture in Finland" and "Rajaportti Sauna: My Fave Finnish City: Tampere & Finlands Oldest Sauna".
There is a 101 facts about Finland video. Some have dared to take that on, but be warned, it took a toll on them: "101 Facts About Finland".
Finland is our neighbour country, just like Norway and Denmark. The main difference between these countries is that Swedes, Norwegians and Danish understand each other as the language comes from the same roots. Finnish however is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. They however have two official languages, Finnish and Swedish.
In the southwest part of Finland around the capital Helsinki, the island of Åland (an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland) and a big part of the westcoast around Vaasa (approx. 100 kilometers south and north of Vaasa) they speak or at least understand Swedish. This is probably an inheritance from the time Finland was a part of us (Sweden).
We love/hate our neighbours in two sports events, ice hockey and athletics. There is a love/hate rivalry between us in those events.
We Swedes love to take the party ferries to Finland (Turku, Helsinki or Mariehamn) to dance, eat and drink on the boat for 24 hours and then buy alcohol and beer on our way home again.
We love You Finland! Rakastamme sinua Suomi!
My cats have same condition chair. They like to scratch that man made leather. They seem to own the chair.
Source video says it a bit oddly that Finland and Germany had mutual agreement after Nov30 1939, mostly because of Molotov-Ribbentrop -treaty that made them look like allies with the Soviets, but as the relations cooled down between the giants and we were quite willing to take a second round - not alone this time - Finland became slowly part of the Operation Barbarossa. If that's about all there's to comment, that's not really much. Decent source.
Not "like a". It is the independence day.
In 2024 the population is 5,6 million.
Finland loves you Lanae 😍
The snow you mentioned at the start in southern Finnish cities is just raw material for slush. it looks dreadful, and with any sanding or salting of the walkways will make your shoes pretty darn dirty.
Not a very good video about Finland, but one of the most irrelevant ones. All you need to know about my home country is that Finland has been ranked the happiest country in the world for 7 years in a row (2018 - 2024) by UN's World Happiness Index. This is most likely because e.g.:
- we have free education & one of the best education systems in the world
- we have extremely affordable universal healthcare
- we have the cleanest air in the world
- we have maternal & fraternal leave with full pay - for mothers it's 105 workdays, for fathers 54 workdays
- most employees have several weeks of leave every year with full pay
- our country is extremely safe & has one of the best democratic systems in the world with extremely little corruption
- we have lots of lakes & clean nature to enjoy
- we have 700+ metal bands per 1M citizens - no other country comes even close - e.g. the U.S has about 70/1M.
After the sauna in the winter it is customary to make snow angels, did you know? So you go on your back and with your hands and feet, it's very refreshing when you continue to sauna from it. I have memory that U do this Amerian too, Did`t I remeber wrong?
I've never seen such bumps on a cat's leg, and I've never even heard of them, in all outfits where there is a cat, they have their own scratching post to climb on. Dogs I have seeingin winter time out side, mecouse some brees need those,
The majority of Finns are positive about NATO and the USA, then we have a small but vocal far-left wing that hates NATO and the USA, but that group is really marginal, the majority love America and its culture.
Hello from Finland.😊
😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰
Most disc golf courses per capita in the world.
cats de WHAAAT!
Texas had snow just few years ago. I, a Finn, happen to remember so.
@PekkaSiltala northern Texas snows semi often but I'm right on the coast so we very very rarely see snow sadly.
Small amount of general knowledge to start, keep on reacting and learning!
The video took bits and parts, here and there.. True but important info missing as well
So Lanae
How many metal bands are there in Finland?
The mecca of metal music
- In addition to the fact that there are more than 50 metal bands per 100,000 inhabitants in Finland, metal music has a truly unique position here as part of popular culture. What music do you review?????
Kiitos kuitenkin videostasi
I've been on a big Nightwish binge lately but I react to MANY bands. I have over 120 videos so far of music reactions if you want to go check them out! 😊
Ymm... Finland has weird world championship sports like Nokia mobile throwing competition, air guitar and latest... welll lets put it this way.... it include some parts of female as air licking competition. So weird but funny stuff :)
I like how youtube always suggests these type of videos to me 😅
Just move here if ya want. Human right of internet and phone connection. Freshest and cleanest air in western countries. Santa also lives here and ya can go meet him all year around. Then there's the culture, history, nature and people. I bet ya gonna love it here.
you should check the Georgaphy NOW Finland! :)
Here is 3 million saunas,almost as much as cars. We had female president,Tarja Halonen
Not almost as, we have more saunas than cars. If you think about it, every home has a sauna, but then people have summer homes that also have sauna, and there is public saunas in addition. Not all families have several cars, and some families have no car at all, so that give saunas a bit of an edge. It's true that some families have two cars and only one sauna, but saunas still come ahead a bit.
@@Tyrisalthan didnt want to lie,my info based on old info so wasnt sure. But that i know,we have alot of saunas
I have not visit in Texas but several towns in east coast of US and also in California.
Funny how states/Towns are so different, example Philadelphia was not town to my taste but Savannah was nice place and also some small towns at South and North Carolina.
Well,here is some more facts concerning Finland:
Wife Carrying Team Competition 2024 - Sonkajärvi, Finland.....USA Team seems to be quite fast.
ua-cam.com/video/lyMBFMKivP0/v-deo.html
We also Swamp Soccer World Championships here in Finland...How hard is for player to play when she or he sinks to the swamp middle of the game?
This so fun. ua-cam.com/video/G5xnuRZ3jqk/v-deo.html
You may no knew but here ib Finland is more metal bands per capita than any other country in the whole world....Nightwish you already know but how about
something from rock-genre? Or more likely rock-sympohy...Massive live perfomance from Osmo's Cosmos,middle of the nature,at summer night.
Whitewater Symphony: ua-cam.com/video/bWIOC9ii3E0/v-deo.html
If having most metal bands in the whole world,must have also movies from those bands: "Heavy Trip" ua-cam.com/video/GmvZB5j-M6E/v-deo.html
And for last: America First, Finland Second (OFFICIAL) ua-cam.com/video/yP9Qt-bSz40/v-deo.html
Google, what is The Capital of Northern Scandinavia? 🤔🇫🇮
A few random facts. Many good ideas here already to react to, but one more (I don't have the link), finnish sauna culture.
Cheese rolling - now that is a very English thing - you're not actually racing the cheese - it's the first person down the hill after the cheese gets to keep it - everyone else just nurses bruises and broken bones. From reading the comments it would be an interesting video should anyone ever compare the idiosyncratic comeptitions in England and Finland - Before reading the comments I would have thought that Enlgand would come out on top, but now I'm not too sure......
Kinda boring video but must agree as a Finn..
Hey Lanae, I think this would be a good video to get to know the Finnish spirit and culture: ua-cam.com/video/qY__OOcv--M/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared ”Finnish sauna culture” ☺️
Ps. Torille! 🤘🏼🇫🇮
Here comes excatly 100 and 1 facts about Finland!: ua-cam.com/video/FFom9ziEXVY/v-deo.html
Please, grab a grubby plate of sausage with the classic NOKIA phone, bang yer head with HEAVY DUTY Heavy Metal Music and go to sauna afterwards.
Flight data recorder (black box) was a Finnish invention.
Suomi mainittu. Torille!
I find the original video quite lame and very lazily put together. While heaps of snow and cats with claws are certainly real, you could find far better source material.
This very old!
Your chosen youtuber has all his ducks in a row.
since 1864 single 25- year old females have been independent and able to buy, own and sell property
Since 1878 female and male children have had equal rights to a parent's death estate
Since 1901 Finnish universities have accepted women on same conditions as men.
Finnish women got the right to vote in 1906. So all of the above was decided by smart men.
My cats says Hi!
Yeah, awful AI-generated subtititles. Otherwise pretty accurate.
If you want to know about Country I suggest a native will offer much more INFORMATION and facts rather than someone from North America. You were told virtually nothing about the country and peoples from the Land of Nightwish
y can make that reaction window smaller and your face bigger ..just saying
A bit stupid to have an unaware person commenting surficial video -from somebody else... -please keep me out of this, no harm still 👍
The video was quite boring even for a Finn..React to Simo Häyhä (deadliest sniper in history)
Yes, Simo’s story from his time during the winter war is amazing.
Finland was not with the Germans, during the Winter war, because they had to fight the Soviets alone. Sweden sent 8000 volunteers to fight the Bolsheviks.
During the winter war the Soviet Union had their non aggression pact with NAZI Germany, called Molotov /Ribbentrop pact.
Stalin and Adolf Hitler was to split Europe between eachother. Soviet Union attacked Poland only 2 weeks after the Nazis had attacked it, but the west seem not to be OK with giving Soviet Union the blame of starting ww2, because it's better to blame the Nazis, because Soviet Union was part of the western allied forces.