Youtuber visits a Finnish community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They havnt been to Finland, but have saunas, know finnish swear words and so on. Very interesting!
by epacsenox
Youtuber visits a Finnish community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They havnt been to Finland, but have saunas, know finnish swear words and so on. Very interesting!
by epacsenox
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Haven’t watch this episode yet, but Peter is a great YouTuber. It’s interesting to see the US through his channel.
It’s so weird that they have a hint, not even really small hint of Finnish accent being fully Americans….
We had a sauna-saturday too when I was growing up.
Jaakko Keso also did video on this. It’s on his ‘This is America’ series on YouTube and YLE Areena.
It’s odd seeing a guy, who’s never stepped foot in Finland, call himself 100% Finnish.
Who am I to dispute his identity but as a native Finn that’s a very odd concept.
The Finnish communities in the US are so interesting to me, because their perception of Finnish culture is literally a time capsule from the 19th century Finns that left in hopes of a better life in “the New World”.
Many a time in my life I’ve wondered if I should’ve gone to university to study anthropology and made my thesis on these small isolated diaspora cultures and how they evolved over time. It’s very interesting to see what aspects of their original culture stuck, for how long, and why the rest was forgotten.
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