Interesting facts - Finland Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Every year in Finland there's this thing called the annual wife-carrying race and in this race the participants have their wives on their back and give their wives a piggyback ride and they run a race and the winner of the race wins their wife's weight in beer. So I never actually saw this but I heard a lot about it and I thought it was a pretty unique competition. The Finnish culture is kind of weird. They really love some weird stuff. They also love swamp soccer. I heard a lot about a tournament each summer where they play all through the night because the sun never goes down and they play soccer in swamps and there's just a lot of cool weird sports that they play in Finland.
Video 2 Transcript
Finland is a capitalistic society. They have heavy social programs, but very, very capitalist-friendly. Starting a business is easy there, but taxes are pretty high. I've met people who have moved here because they couldn't afford to pay the business taxes and brought their business here. But, you know, people complain about taxes everywhere, so you get what you pay for, I guess. Allocation matters. The other thing is not political or economic at all. It's just the sport of Pesopolo is something that you need to get to know while you're there. It's like baseball, but it's way faster, way more interesting, and I wish we played it here in the United States. I wish we could watch it constantly. It's very fast-moving, and there's an element of danger because the pitcher is standing right next to the batter. And that sounds crazy a little bit, right? But it's a really interesting game. I hope you have a chance to see it when you're there.
Video 3 Transcript
An interesting fact is that in Finland, Sweden tried to take over Finland and they destroyed all of the records of Finnish history to make it so that Finns would believe that the Swedes had saved them and that they had no government, no structure, and that the Swedes came and brought them in and changed the world forever and so they'd be grateful for the Swedes. But the Finns, although their records were destroyed, they saved a lot of their history in songs that they would sing to their children. And over many generations, tons of their history was lost, but some of it was kept. And someone went through and listened to every song that they could find and wrote it down and put it into a book and it's called the Kalevala. And you can go read it. A crazy thing is that J.R.R. Tolkien went and learned Finnish when he was 18 years old to read that book and then based a lot of the Lord of the Rings off of what he found in that.
Video 4 Transcript
Finland is known for having the best education system in the world. They also have an open border policy and they have free college because they're a socialist country. You'll also run into a lot of immigrants. I have met people from all over the Middle East. I've gotten to know African culture a little bit. I've gotten to know people from all over Europe because there's so many immigrants in Finland.
