I made this video just before i heard I had been charged with an assault 3 years earlier. I went to a shop, where the security followed behind me, clerk insulted me and called security to remove me and because of this I hit her once in the face. I got fined in September 2009 and two weeks later I showed an Airsoft to my old friends in a happy way, and got jailed and prosecuted for a school threat with made up evidence. My life looks so happy back then.
Vaasa? I enjoyed the bike ride over the bridge and along the highway. The beach looks good but I bet the water is very cold!
Too bad Finns do not know how to enjoy life, because from your videos of the countryside, Finland looks pretty nice. I guess its the notion that the grass is always greener elsewhere If you are tired of the Finnish people, the unfairnes, the daily fight for yourself, and the fear of becoming a tyrant like the other Finns, is it not the time to leave Finland?
I had to invent a travel motto for Virtual Tourist forum. It's as follows. Every place is better in some ways and worse in some. It means that all places are the result of irrational social rituals. But I claim that some rituals are worse than others. All Finns fear of being abused by dictators, and that's why they become one themselves. Leaving your home country is not easy nor will it set you free from cultural threats to your individuality. But some place has better weather than Finland.
"Leaving your home country is not easy nor will it set you free from cultural threats to your individuality."
Of course not, but the more you travel the more you realize that no matter how very different the people are, we all share essential commonalities.
I'm still very interested in your analysis of Finnish society, I only see it from the outside, and I always wanted to visit Finland, but now I don't know.
For you as an outsider it is probably as fantastic as Alicante was for me in 2006. Maybe you can enjoy some thing that is better than in the UK (guess). It is a good question that would you enjoy in Finland. When I moved to Vaasa last May for my three month summer job, I noticed no problem in people's attitudes in the first week. Maybe the normative attitudes and hierarchy depends on them seeing you interested in becoming part of the community, knowing the norms. Tourists are blissfully ignorant
When I came here in May, I first came to work for 4 days and then I went back to Rovaniemi. Maybe I didn't have a problem with the Finnish attitudes, because I didn't display interest to the local people. When I came back with the intention to stay for three months, everybody saw I had a disposition concurrent with a resident and not a tourist, and there we go. Soon I became the target of partiarchal intimidation.
Your symbolic position also affects on which attitudes the community and its members will confront you with. If you are 29 years and a man, you get different treatment compared to 14 years old girl or 55 year old man. People follow the code of tradition, assume that you will respond in a way that is habitual to a person of your appearance, by solidarity to another male or by submitting to an older male.
The relevant norm of social interaction here is the Finnish norm of displaying the tough and ashamed disposition. That is what people expect from you most often.
@waladghazali Everybody probably wonder now am I planning to hurt others or something by this talk of becoming a tyrant. I'm not talking about myself, I'm talking about how the other Finnish spread the attitudes by starting to bully other people as to not appear an easy target. I am a critical observer and not inclined to brake my own moral codes.
I made this video just before i heard I had been charged with an assault 3 years earlier. I went to a shop, where the security followed behind me, clerk insulted me and called security to remove me and because of this I hit her once in the face. I got fined in September 2009 and two weeks later I showed an Airsoft to my old friends in a happy way, and got jailed and prosecuted for a school threat with made up evidence. My life looks so happy back then.
teemuruskeepaa 1 year ago
omg look at them go
5pinkprincess5 2 years ago
<3 finnish summer. short and less snow than normally :)
cemregr 2 years ago
That's an underestimation, sir =)
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
dance is excellent on the sand....
au1947 2 years ago
that which is hot...
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
Vaasa? I enjoyed the bike ride over the bridge and along the highway. The beach looks good but I bet the water is very cold!
Too bad Finns do not know how to enjoy life, because from your videos of the countryside, Finland looks pretty nice. I guess its the notion that the grass is always greener elsewhere If you are tired of the Finnish people, the unfairnes, the daily fight for yourself, and the fear of becoming a tyrant like the other Finns, is it not the time to leave Finland?
agent9752 2 years ago
I had to invent a travel motto for Virtual Tourist forum. It's as follows. Every place is better in some ways and worse in some. It means that all places are the result of irrational social rituals. But I claim that some rituals are worse than others. All Finns fear of being abused by dictators, and that's why they become one themselves. Leaving your home country is not easy nor will it set you free from cultural threats to your individuality. But some place has better weather than Finland.
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
Your Virtual Tourist motto is spot on.
Some rituals are worse than others, yes.
"Leaving your home country is not easy nor will it set you free from cultural threats to your individuality."
Of course not, but the more you travel the more you realize that no matter how very different the people are, we all share essential commonalities.
I'm still very interested in your analysis of Finnish society, I only see it from the outside, and I always wanted to visit Finland, but now I don't know.
agent9752 2 years ago
For you as an outsider it is probably as fantastic as Alicante was for me in 2006. Maybe you can enjoy some thing that is better than in the UK (guess). It is a good question that would you enjoy in Finland. When I moved to Vaasa last May for my three month summer job, I noticed no problem in people's attitudes in the first week. Maybe the normative attitudes and hierarchy depends on them seeing you interested in becoming part of the community, knowing the norms. Tourists are blissfully ignorant
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
When I came here in May, I first came to work for 4 days and then I went back to Rovaniemi. Maybe I didn't have a problem with the Finnish attitudes, because I didn't display interest to the local people. When I came back with the intention to stay for three months, everybody saw I had a disposition concurrent with a resident and not a tourist, and there we go. Soon I became the target of partiarchal intimidation.
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
Your symbolic position also affects on which attitudes the community and its members will confront you with. If you are 29 years and a man, you get different treatment compared to 14 years old girl or 55 year old man. People follow the code of tradition, assume that you will respond in a way that is habitual to a person of your appearance, by solidarity to another male or by submitting to an older male.
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
The relevant norm of social interaction here is the Finnish norm of displaying the tough and ashamed disposition. That is what people expect from you most often.
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
Your comments (inside the video) are very interesting! ;)
waladghazali 2 years ago
I live in a strictly unfair country where you have fight for yourself constantly, or become a tyrant against other persons. It's not fun at all.
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago
@waladghazali Everybody probably wonder now am I planning to hurt others or something by this talk of becoming a tyrant. I'm not talking about myself, I'm talking about how the other Finnish spread the attitudes by starting to bully other people as to not appear an easy target. I am a critical observer and not inclined to brake my own moral codes.
teemuruskeepaa 2 years ago