How similar/different is Finnish culture to Norwegian or Swedish culture?

[Laudanum]

I like this thread.

[Motörhead Remember Me]

Lithuania was once the largest empire in Europe. Lithuanian led forces beat the Khaganate and stopped their advance into Europe.

Which for me proves the only logical; it's always the small stubborn people loaded with N1c men that defends Northern Europe from the Eastern yoke, the Mongols and the Russians.

[The Ripper]

Tero Lehterä explains the differences between Swedish and Finnish hockey culture.

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[Stars Down To Earth]

Which for me proves the only logical; it's always the small stubborn people loaded with N1c men that defends Northern Europe from the Eastern yoke, the Mongols and the Russians.

Actually, if you actually read your history, you'd see that the Russians fought off the Mongol-Tartars while the Lithuanian-Polish kingdom was prone to allying with them...

[Jerry]

Food, dances, traditional music, mindset, all of these differ, more or less.

But the biggest difference is in the attitudes towards each other. Scandinavians usually have a benevolent attitude towards the Finns, while the Finns hate the guts of the Scandinavians.

This is a load of BS. Finns don't hate Scandinavians at all! On the contrary, and I've never met a Finn who doesn't like Norwegians, and the Norwegians I've met have usually been fans of Finland as well..

Sweden relationship is a trickier one, but it's more of brotherly love which has its ups and downs It's more of just making fun of Swedes but not really meaning it, there is no real animosity. It's very different for example towards Russia, our other neigbours with who we don't really have a feeling of brotherhood at all and we don't even make fun of them because we are too scared! (or were scared).

This being said, fortunately the relationship with Russia is getting better and better. I have close Russian friends, and modern Finns don't usually have anything against Russians. But for example my grandfather had a deep hate against Russians, it wasn't really personal anything but for an America-admiring man like him the communists weren't favourites especially after the Soviets bombed our country when he was a kid, of course that had an influence.
And there is this other aspect that he was very "white" and there was still then in Finland a clear distance between whites and reds i.e. communists, after the Civil War and the victory by whites, so everything communist/socialist related was a curseword.

So Russians don't get angry about my post, we like you more and more! It's just what war does to different countries but it's all in the past now.

I just had to bring Russia here to describe the different relationship against Finland to Sweden vs. Russia. Sweden is not real dislike, but to Russia it used to be very cold relationship with fear and dislike.

[Motörhead Remember Me]

But for example my grandfather had a deep hate against Russians, it wasn't really personal anything but for an America-admiring man like him the communists weren't favourites especially after the Soviets bombed our country when he was a kid, of course that had an influence.

Allways apply the "Grandfather rule"!

[Amarantine]

I like this thread.

Me too.

One question-politness-I have impression about another standards then in the rest of Europe, what is polite and what is not.

Am I wrong?

[AinoMaria]

Finns have their own mythology, difrent from scandinavians and rather same kind with estonians