Disclaimer: It's not just Americans who think it's annoying, but it's funny when it's JUST them

[yvannairie]

It's always amusing to hear that someone American thinks me being very Loudly Finnish is annoying and self-involved

:D

Yeah it's less cute when it's done at you, ain't it?

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[yvannairie]

Yeah and Finland is... so strange, culturally, b/c we're a prosperous Nordic country with some fucked-up cultural trauma that we haven't quite processed in the scant hundred years we've been independent, and I always get interesting responses when I bring up stuff like Russophobia and our relationship to Sweden, Germany and the United States.

[cimorene]

Yeah, there are some highly unusual features of Finnish culture relating to Finland's geopolitical position between the so-called East and West. Even just the legal status of Swedish is pretty unusual (although there are plenty of countries with multiple official languages in the world of course, but the scale of the minority and the types of protections on the minority language - I took a course on it and read a really fascinating textbook that compares it in a million tiny ways to French in Canada).