Posted on 05/02/2019 6:13:19 AM PDT by Thistooshallpass9
Yeah this episode gets into all of that. Less than 3.5% of the population are foreigners, and only about 1 percent of them are 3rd world immigrants. That definately factors into the stability they enjoy.
Step 1: change your first name to Mickey.
Disclaimers: This ranking is a UN thing, so you know it rewards the socialist-oriented.
Finland has a relatively high suicide rate — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate — and the long winters of course are tough. Also, alcohol consumption is pretty high: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption_per_capita
But the 7 “steps” (derived from anecdotal observation):
1) Spend time in nature
2) Slow your pace of life
3) Saunas and heat (or heat and cold)
4) Respect the old ways
5) Respect the laws of the land and abide by them (got to by the stretch of noting how ethnically and culturally united they are with less third-world immigration, especially, and less crime, than almost anywhere else)
6) “Sisu(sp?)”, a Finnish word for stoic determination that let them fight off the Soviet Union
7) Following God’s law—got to in a real twist from Finland, particularly considering that Finland is among the most irreligious countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irreligion)
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Help me find a way to eat sardines (ugh)...please... (and my Finnish husband)...can I hide them in something?
For a soi-disant lurker, you make some valuable contributions. This is a solid synopsis/critique.
Well, I like ‘em plain, so that’s just the way I eat them. You could try sardine tacos. :)
I do sometimes add mayo...
Ha—thank you!
Kind of tough to hide your husband in something — unless you have a good imagination!
I’m convinced.
Does anyone remember a Sixty Minutes segment probably in the 70’s, maybe early 80’s that was about Finland and the Finnish people? It was an absolute riot. The person with the mic couldn’t get a reaction or emotion from one single person who was interviewed. I remember just a bit about someone sitting next to someone on a bus and trying to strike up a conversation - it could have been a bus bench - and no recognition at all that there was anyone within miles of them. Cold, stand-offish people...We had quite a few Finnish families where I was raised in upstate NY and they were as normal as the rest of us - HA! EXCEPT for the steam baths and something to do with snow that I don’t recall. They rolled in it or something?
It should be on the internet. Maybe they were afraid of the mic and camera but that didn’t seem to be part of it as it wasn’t explained as such.
Was that the one that would show Finns doing a tango on the side of the road?
Haha...bad sentence structure
“”Was that the one that would show Finns doing a tango on the side of the road?””
It could have but I don’t recall that - I can’t imagine the people on that segment being animated enough (or at all) to do something like that. It was really something to see.
I must have been distracted as I just found my reply that I wrote hours ago and hadn’t posted....
I remember that from a documentary I saw, that Finns love to do the tango, because it fits in with their melancholic nature.
Also, Finns do tend to love themselves some Death Metal, it’s probably the Death Metal Capital of the World.
Kinky ...
So no progressives who want to destroy history and rewrite it.
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