Meanwhile in Finland the Finish Government has published its set of emojis for celebrating live in Finland. This emoji is for symbolizing exactly what it means: Meanwhile in Finland (where people do all kinds of strange and funny things).
But the set also helps to understand such Finish Feelings like days without sun: Kaamos.
But there are many other funny things happening in Finland:
Again the Finish Police
After witnessing independence Day celebrations in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia and writing about them on this blog, I will continue this little series with writing about the celebration here in Finland. Nations are imagined communities, so tells us Benedict Anderson.
So I bought some supplies like Fazer Finland colored stuff and a cookie cutter from in the shape of Finland.
Turku students celebrate it with a torch parade. Actually this year the torch parade lacked torches, because it was really rainy.
The parade with the flags of all the student organization went from the University Student building, to Abo Akademie, to the Graveyard where short speeches were given in Swedish and Finish. Thanking the people who fought for the freedom of Finland. Then wraths were laid. Some somber music was played. After that we took the bus back to the student building and then had some glögi.
And of course I’m a big fan of the Finland Emoji set:
There is also a military parade, held every year in another town, this year it was Jyväskylä and Finland is so politcal correct, that one of its soldiers featured in TV was an immigrant:
Apparently in TV they re-screen every year a bloody war movie, called „The Unknown Soldier„.
Of course playing and listening to patriotic (or militarist) music, is a great part, as in this march from the 30-years war:
The snowy north is our fatherland,
there our hearth crackles on the stormy beach.
There our sinewy arm grew by the sword,
there our chest burned with faith and honour.
We watered our snorting horse in the Neva’s bath;
he swam across the Vistula as happy as to a feast,
he carried our avenging steel over the Rhine,
he drank the emperor’s toast from the Danube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54YSkW4sJU4
„Celebrating the Nation: Finisch Independance Day“ weiterlesen
In der Geislinger Zeitung gab es eine Diskussion über Kinder- und Jugendbeteilibung in Geislingen. Dazu habe ich einen Gastbeitrag in dieser veröffentlicht.
In der Geislinger Zeitung gab es eine Diskussion über Kinder- und Jugendbeteilibung in Geislingen. Dazu habe ich einen Gastbeitrag in dieser veröffentlicht.
Quelle: Gastbeitrag in der Geislinger Zeitung: Geislingen braucht den Rat von Kindern und Jugendlichen
And in 2013 the Swedes noticed that Finland beloved christmas pastry was a swastika too!
So and here is the update to the Finish Police producing funny videos. This time how to do hand-stand push ups. (Something I don’t manage to do) The video is from Sami-Jaakos instagramm feed, that also has this really nice pictures, such as this:
Which goes well with the „fit“ theme.
For all of that there is even now a Hashtag on instagram: #taukojumppa
As a „Best of“ for this tag I present these here:
Since a couple of weeks I have subscribed to the finish police forces various social media accounts. Police forces as well as individual policepersons seems to be quite active, especially on instragram, but also on Facebook and twitter.
Their messages all seem to be taken with some irony and humor. Here are the best (so far).
Obviously the strategy is to present police as people who enjoy sports and are physically fit (maybe these deters criminals) and as people who have fun at their work:
Also the humor and making fun about Halloween and stuff seems to be important:
The police school even participates with one this popular finish fish memes? Witch they explain in the commentary section: „nice blog @sbamueller! #kuhajutut-meemi is based on Finnish language so it’s pretty hard to explain 🙂 „Kuha“ is both a fish and a spoken-language version of „kunhan“ (as long as). „Voi“ is both #butter“ and the verb „can“. Here we tackled all the memes in one picture: sporting with other officers (#taukojumppa), wearing the reflective vest (#taikaviitta) and the fish/butter -thing. The text translates „One can exercise as long as one is visible“… Weird Finnish humour… 🙂„
Because there was only a shitty graphic on the German Wikipedia Article on the Finnish parliament elections I decided to do my own. Please feel free to use them when you need it. You may find more information about the Finnish Party System here. The original data is from Statistics Finnland, whose people are helpful but don’t seem to know their own website very well.
„nice graphics on the Finnish parliamentry elections“ weiterlesen
So we had to give this presentation of the finnish political party system. Something I found quite intresting.
For several causes:
But for the oversight slide: The Finnish Party System is competetive. There are currently 8 parties in parliament (excluding the Alands Coalition) in has been roughly this number for long time. There is no dominant party (example for a dominant party see Bavaria and the CSU). There are fairly elastic coaltion, even some coaltions that include Communists and Conservative Parties at the same time. The vote share of big parties is around 20 – 25%. If we use the Paul Lucardie Types most finish parties are either keepers of ideology or pragmatic power managers. There is some volaltility and high cooperation between parties.
The Parties that there are in the system are:
If you look at Stein Rokkans Theory of cleavage. Cleavages as big conflicts or fault lines of society. On this slide I clearl tried to give a representation of where which party is. (the green round flower modell in the country / periphery circle is the center party, te other the basic finns).
My professor and I are not about the same opinion where the Gree League belongs. Some of the German Literature (on the German Greens though) claims the Green Party is past cleavage modell other literature says there is new materiallist – post materialist value set and the Greens are on the post materialist value set part.
The Swedish Peopls party is liberal Party for swedish speking people and sorts of not reall representing any cleavage. Its formed aroudn „ethinic“ or linguistic lines.
More intresting, and unfortunatly we didn’t have time to show this slide. But its about the left right develoment of parties. It ist based on coding of the party programms. I think its quite an intresting project and with it you can research the development of many party systems, including the German.
What you can see for Finland is: the Party System was really most to the left in 1975 (the social democratic party beeing more left then the greens or the left league today! Even the NCP and Centre Party were much more left! With the Christian Democrats beeing an really right wing party.
Fast Forward that to 2003 and we notice a couple of things: All parties have drifted more to the right, except for the Christian Democrats. Most dramatic for National Coalition, which is now economically a really right wing party. And there seems to be hunge policy merging of the Ture Finns, Christian Democrats, Swedish Peopls Party and Centre Party. They all seem to be very close on the left ring specturm. One could ask if this is a neoliberal centre-right consensus.
Annotation: All calculations and the CMP-Code are based on Budge, Ian et al. 2001: Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Elctors, and Governments 1945-1998. Oxford: OUP and
The graphic is from the German Wikipedia Article about Finish Politics, even statistic Finland didn’t have something like that.
Correspondingly is this graphic of the finish elections results through time. I looked for this for days and then it was on the german wikipedia.
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