Voici un nouvel article publié dans le numéro de novembre de Six Degrees, un journal finlandais écrit en anglais (article écrit par Tuula Ruskeeniemi). Un bon moyen de mieux comprendre la culture finlandaise tout en faisant travailler son anglais !
Swedes provide the world with furniture puzzles and abba-esque pop music and specialise in endless negotiations. Other than that, they do seem mostly harmless. Unless you are a Finn, when you consider them the Dear Enemy. And "Dear" is sometimes optional.
Swedes conquered us, taxed us, and required us to fight their wars for hundreds of years, after which they surrendered us to the Russians. They also left us with Swedish as the second official language. hence it is every schoolchild's duty to learn Swedish - and loathe it. As a result, it is more likely to get a Finn to sing in Urdu than to make them utter two words of Swedish.
Even if the years under Swedish rule are long past, Finns think that Swedes are still patronising towards us, and treat Finland as the "poor little brother". Actuallt, the latest news is that most of them have forgotten that Finland ever was part of the Swedish realm. How dare they?! Such a waste of good resentment, too...
Still, they have alwyas been the Gladstone Gander to our Donald Duck - they have got all the luck! We make better phones than they do and have fantastic designers, but whenever the world bothers to think about Nordic countries, Swedes hog the limelight. And nowhere is the luck more obvious than in ice hockey, the true battleground of Swedish-Finnish relations. But we do still have 1995, the year we won the championship against Sweden, and in Sweden. Oh, sweet memories!
One sometimes wonders whether the popularity of ice hockey actually lies in the fact that, win or lose, Finns get to see Swedes pummelled legitimately. Beating Sweden in anything is a high priority, though. There is a controversial view that when Finland is not playing, we would support Sweden, since they are our neighbours and not such bad hats really, aspecially Princess Victoria (1). However, to many Finns, such a sentiment equal treason.
On the whole, we like Swedes. But we loved it when American talk-show host Conan O'Brien (2) raised a sign in our Honour, stating "Sweden sucks!".
(1) Princess Victoria
(2) Conan O'Brien est un comédien, animateur et scripteur américain.
Swedes provide the world with furniture puzzles and abba-esque pop music and specialise in endless negotiations. Other than that, they do seem mostly harmless. Unless you are a Finn, when you consider them the Dear Enemy. And "Dear" is sometimes optional.
Swedes conquered us, taxed us, and required us to fight their wars for hundreds of years, after which they surrendered us to the Russians. They also left us with Swedish as the second official language. hence it is every schoolchild's duty to learn Swedish - and loathe it. As a result, it is more likely to get a Finn to sing in Urdu than to make them utter two words of Swedish.
Even if the years under Swedish rule are long past, Finns think that Swedes are still patronising towards us, and treat Finland as the "poor little brother". Actuallt, the latest news is that most of them have forgotten that Finland ever was part of the Swedish realm. How dare they?! Such a waste of good resentment, too...
Still, they have alwyas been the Gladstone Gander to our Donald Duck - they have got all the luck! We make better phones than they do and have fantastic designers, but whenever the world bothers to think about Nordic countries, Swedes hog the limelight. And nowhere is the luck more obvious than in ice hockey, the true battleground of Swedish-Finnish relations. But we do still have 1995, the year we won the championship against Sweden, and in Sweden. Oh, sweet memories!
One sometimes wonders whether the popularity of ice hockey actually lies in the fact that, win or lose, Finns get to see Swedes pummelled legitimately. Beating Sweden in anything is a high priority, though. There is a controversial view that when Finland is not playing, we would support Sweden, since they are our neighbours and not such bad hats really, aspecially Princess Victoria (1). However, to many Finns, such a sentiment equal treason.
On the whole, we like Swedes. But we loved it when American talk-show host Conan O'Brien (2) raised a sign in our Honour, stating "Sweden sucks!".
(1) Princess Victoria
(2) Conan O'Brien est un comédien, animateur et scripteur américain.
1 commentaire:
amis finlandais bonsoir !
je viens de m'apercevoir que tu as joué à FF pour moi, mon fils !
Merci !
Je n'avais pas percuté avec le match avancé des girondins !
Jamais pareil ce calendrier...
A bientôt !
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