Swedish schoolbooks say Finns are good at sports and some other stuff

[Pekka]

CO, no the video wasn't about the war IMO, it was about the guys playing table tennis and jumping on trampoline that was the funny part

[Pekka]

But to be serious for a while, I don't think this is a problem. I found the article surprising, yes, but it's only one article and even if it's completely true, I think they should revise those books again but it's not like I care enough to not know better.

The fact is, Swedish minorities in here are not often thought as minority. Others like Russians, Estonians and everyone else are thought as minorities but Swedes are not. I don't know why, I guess we think they are more part of our nation than the rest, in a way that we don't consider them minority in that traditional sense. Same goes for Finns in Sweden.

The model of thinking that was .. "lowering" was in the past though.. but then again our nation was kind of backwards and they had the REAL Kingdoms and stuff.. so that wouldn't be out of the norm considering the days.

There are always rivalries and sometimes they are even heated but it's never bad blood, I've never seen anyone actually being seriously anti-sweden/finland like a true racist and hater. Not once.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Sava
WHO IS THE DOOFUS NOW, DOOFUS?!!?

In a doofusness competition, the internet always wins. Always.

[Sava]

internet

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Sava




link: http://goeurope.about.com/library/gr..._relief_sm.jpg

search for "scandinavia map" and let me know what comes up

WHO IS THE DOOFUS NOW, DOOFUS?!!?

They forgot Iceland, Greenland, and the Foroese islands.

[Dinner]

http://www.mobilkusak.com/articles/detail/detail15.asp?id=1721&prev_place=

Some guys at a university in Helsinki came up with a computer program which allows you to play the air guitar.

[Gangerolf]

Well, let me try and clarify. This is how I think it is:


In the English speaking world Scandinavia = the countries on that map plus the "colonies" Oerdsin mentioned.

However, people from those countries call that "the Nordic countries", while Scandinavia is just DK, NO and SE.

So you're both right

[Footie Mad]

My understanding of Scandinavia is that it's countries in contact with the mountain chain The Scands or whatever you say in english.

[Gangerolf]

But that just Norway and Sweden. And maybe that little piece of Finland jammed in between up north.

[Chemical Ollie]

Scandinavia = Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

The Nordic countries = Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the archipelagos belonging to those countries (Färöarna & Åland).

[Chemical Ollie]

Oh, and I sent the Finnish dance lesson video to my boss. He forwarded it to his boss (a Finn). I guess it's only a question of time before everyone of the 45000 employees in my company (partly owned by the Finnish State) have seen it.

[Az]

Originally posted by duke o' york


So do the same people say that Finns are more like Emile Buetrageno than Swedes?

(edited for decency, and to add the relatively obscure reference that only people who've read other threads will get - or at least until the pic/entire thread is "modded". )

Man, that's obscure.

Btw, Beutrageno has the excuse of getting smaller during excercise.