AMERICAN REACTS To 20 Weird Things Finnish People Do

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[tonikaihola]

Potatoes and strawberries are available all year round but the domestic spring potatoes and summer strawberries (no greenhouse) are prized; that’s what she’s talking about

[sket]

We don't have gender reveal parties; they are so cringe.

[sket]

The baby name being first revealed at the name/christening party is an old (Christian) tradition: it was believed that through christening the child becomes protected by God against sickness and evil spirits or the devil. When baby's name wasn't public knowledge, the devil had no way to locate the baby. That's also why some consider it a bad omen to speak the baby's name publicly before christening.

[HerFinland]

Wow, had so much fun watching you react to my video! A big, big thank you for making this video!

[tonikaihola]

“No niin” means alright/here we go/here we go again, depending on context. Acknowledgment, exhilaration, frustration.
Direct translation (the best I could come up with) would be “well, there” but the tone changes the meaning.

[JaakkoPaakkanen]

Silence is my favorite of our weird things. I guess speaking is primarily a problem-solving tool to us. Silence is the default: When everything is all right, no need to talk. Especially not in sauna. Happy small talk is often interpreted as superficial and hypocritical. We tend to take words seriously, so we use them sparingly. The flip side is that problems are easily left unspoken about and unsolved. Finland is so parsely populated that we are used to minding our own business.

[JDelwynn]

You can take "no" or "niin" and combine them in any order to mean different things. Like when you're unsure about something, you can say "no", if you agree with someone you can say "niin" or you can use "niin no" to mean "yes, but".

[birgittae]

A lot of these things are the same in Sweden. We also have name days in our year calender.

[VampiraVonGhoulscout]

Woooo, Varpu is awesome. I watch her videos all the time.

[Pyllymysli]

On the nakedness thing. Sauna is a huuuuge part of our culture and social interaction. If you are visiting a Finn, and they want to be hospitable, they will most likely offer you drinks like coffee, maybe a soft drink or beer are the popular ones. Second they will offer to heat up the Sauna. It's really common in our social events to have a sauna going, and everyone going in it. If you are going in with 5 strangers in a sauna and they just whip their dicks out, that is completely normal. Everyone does this in Finland. I guarantee that I've been butt naked in a sauna with strangers more times than I care to count. So if you run into this while visiting, try not to mind it. It's nothing sexual, no one there is interested in checking your junk and they just don't care. It's actually kinda weird if someone is wearing a bathing suit or swim trunks or something. That is the guy everyone will get suspicious of. xD "What is he hiding, is he here just check out other people naked?" kinda thing.

[bengtolsson]

Name day we have in Sweden to. It is in the calendar each day.
It's a comity who desides wich name it is each day.

[ohmp]

Greetins from Finland! You took a very good video to react. She's funny, smiling, looks like a typical Finnish young beautiful woman and tells facts.
I have a feeling that #2 is a little female thing. Men don't do that so often like women.
#3 "No niin" could be translated eg. "well, ok". That's not literal translation but equivalent.
#14 I had never thought that but it's true. When our younger son was born, my wife looked at him and said: "this baby looks like Tuomas". I said: "Yes, he really does". Then we gave him that name which is Finnish equivalent to Thomas.
#17 that's not only in Finland. That's at least in Russia and Sweden too.
18:05 you pronounced "sauna" perfectly.

[annirose]

Uusiiperunoita voikastike sipulilla ja kunnon pihvi ai että. Oli hyvä video 🎉

[Zinetha]

I think my favourite championship game in Finland is The Annual Air Guitar World Championship.

[peterarmoton]

we dont do smalltalk, we dont talk bullshit. if we have to say something, we say, no bullshit talk no smalltalk

[LitaLov]

I randomly came across this video but I think I've watched some of your other reactions before so maybe that's why. Also about name day, it's typically by first name but in my case it's the middle name that's "celebrated" because apparently my first name does not exist in the Finnish calendar so I guess it's not a very popular name here in Finland or something 🤣I was never given a gift on that specific day by the way. There was always only a "happy name day" wish from people but it's not like I actually care about it because my birthday is not really celebrated either, I just get wishes from people and that's it😅

[Niilo-ce]

"No niin" can be used in any situation, not only three

[Flupepe]

I am 52 years old dude and my mom still sends me a small gift on my nameday 😂🎉

[Idefixu]

Today I read on YLE, The Finnish Broadcasting Company, that the biggest cities are now considering whether women have the right to swim topless in public swimming halls. Some women say they have the right to be topless, as much as men. There are no clear rules againt women being topless, but common practice is against it. If a woman swims topless, they'll most likely ask her to wear a top of some sort. I think it's the same in beaches in summer time. But you can also get away with it if there are no complaints. When I was young, some decades ago, there were quite a lot of topless women on the beach I went to. (Maybe I went there because of that. Could it be?) Some of the topless women were clearly showing off. There are some nudist beaches in Finland. And at least one swimming hall in Halsinki where you can swim naked if you want to.

Finland has public indoor swimming halls, so you can swim in winter time too. You can't really swim in icy water, only dip youself in it.

(A Finnish woman swam one mile in ice water. It took her a little over 30 minutes. After that she was shivering like a leaf in high wind. She went to sauna, the temperature was, has to be, very low for a sauna, maybe around normal body temperature.

The water temperature was just under freezing point. Not many people have been able to do that. They have done some scientific studies on this woman's ability to withstand cold. She sat in icy water for 45 minutes, while they were monitoring her, untill they ordered her to stop.)

[ivylasangrienta]

You have until your baby is 3 months old to register their name officially. Also we have strict naming laws; no unisex names, no last names as first names, no crazy spelling, etc. We don't have a name party, it's just a christening party without the religious aspect, lol. I had one of those for my son.