Does the
typical Finn still
exist?
Kalle, Eemeli, Saku & Carla
The typical Finn
 Forest
 Sauna
life
 Quiet
 Honest
 Hermit
 Booze
loving
 Stubborn
 No sense of fashion
 Nationalism
 Wintersports
How valid is this image?
 This
is a stereotype of a Finnish person and
invalid
 Finns do love nature and value privacy,
but this doesn’t include everybody
 Nowadays Finns are well educated and
the globalisation affects us
Are Finns losing their national
identity?
 Things
such as the internet and the IB are
changing the Finns
 Finns still have these features that are
known globally e.g. being silent and
heavy drinking
 Honesty is in someways fading away
especially in politics and business world
e.g. Finnair paying its leaders and the
Greece situation
conclusion
 Some
features of a
typical Finn can still
be seen in our society
 The stereotype is
changed
 There is no such thing
as a typical Finn
because every single
invidual is unique.