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Steve Jackson, Markkinointi ja Mainonta, 3.12.2009, 8:49Comment: Is Finland Anti-Social?
Finnish people are often described internationally as being anti-social,
stoic, reserved or shy and being imported meat myself I would have agreed in
the first few months of my life in Finland back in 2002. I found it very
difficult for instance to start a pointless conversation with a stranger,
something quite ordinary in my native territory of Sunderland in the UK.
Small talk is not common in Finland.
I pretty quickly found myself looking at my feet in a lift full of people, saying nothing to taxi drivers and believing that if a stranger smiled at me he was a) drunk b) insane c) foreign or d) drunk, insane and foreign!
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Toivon, että tässä on tarkoitettu sanaa "asocial" eikä "antisocial". Toisin kuin monet kuvittelevat, merkitysero on valtava. Antisocial tarkoittaa lähinnä psykopaattia.
This gentleman is from Sunderland of all the places and so unfortunetely his analysis about social behaviour could not be more biased. I only ask what have Sunderland and a three pin plug got in common? Well, their both useless in Europe...
Steve - I hope you don't mind if I ask this - in those first months of your life in Finland back in 2002, how many times did you try to crack up a conversation with a stranger in Finnish? Did you know any Finnish back then?
While the stereotype of Finns being shy and asocial does hold some truth, I find that many immigrants in Finland forget that the situation would be different if they spoke the language. When I lived in Finland, I had no trouble at all starting casual conversations with complete strangers (and the strangers weren't drunk, insane, or foreigners) when I did it in Finnish. If you tried to start a conversation with a stranger in the UK in German, what do you think would be the response? ;)
However, if we go with the assumption that in the "offline world" Finns are often of the asocial type, then I would think that the adoption rate of social tools online could actually be higher there than in other places, because it's in some ways easier to "get social" online.
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