10K views · 519 reactions | Contrast is the main ingredient in Finnish cultural life, probably because everything looks and sounds different from our northern perspective. This may explain heavy metal music played on cellos and films almost completely without dialogue. | I wish I was in Finland | Facebook

16 reactions | In Finnish the word for both bachelor and bachelorette party is the gender neutral ’polttarit’. You can't have polttarit without some elements of sauna and birch whisk*. #language #culture #FinlandEmoji *...the nation is torn over whether a sauna whisk is called ‘vihta’ or ‘vasta’. You know you are fully integrated to Finland when you have a strong feeling about this. | This is Finland | Facebook