For one of your journeys, make a trip to Finland some day and report back to us. I’ve never forgotten a particular video from years ago that showed how people in Finland treated strangers - and perhaps everyone.. Very cold weather and cold shoulder to EVERYONE.. This is a good example so I guess the video I remember wasn’t far off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d54KE01wH0
Where I grew up, there were a lot of Finnish people and never a problem - only thing that I recall when hearing the “oldsters” discuss them were the “steam baths” they built on their farms. Several of their kids were in school and as normal as any of us were - LOL!
Finns are a special case…. They’re not really Scandies like the Swedes / Danes / Norwegians nor are they Slavs. and Finnish is actually related to modern Turkish.
They do make some very nice firearms too.