Sights in Vaasa Part 3

Sunday, 9th of August, 2009. There was an event in town, a walking competition called Vaasan Marssi, which roughly translates into Vaasa's march. It attracted people from Japan, Australia and Germany.

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[teemuruskeepaa]

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.

[cemregr]

<3 finnish summer. short and less snow than normally :)

[teemuruskeepaa]

That's an underestimation, sir  =)

[au1947]

dance is excellent on the sand....

[teemuruskeepaa]

that which is hot...

[waladghazali]

Your comments (inside the video) are very interesting! ;)

[teemuruskeepaa]

@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.

[5pinkprincess5]

omg look at them go

[teemuruskeepaa]

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]

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]

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.