Any time pikey. I’m glad to help you (and everyone else too) :D
@pikey wrote:
I’m always interested in questions of national identity and whether it is ever possible to draw general sketches about the people of different countries. Are the Germans really cold and humourless? Are the Italians really more passionate than the rest of us?
Those are very interesting questions indeed. It’s funny to see how different general sketches people from other countries draw too. Like you apparently think that Germans are cold and humourless but most of us Finns see them as organised but rather “cheerful” nation (drinking beer in leather pants).
Italians I think just happen to have much more open culture than some others. They show their passion very freely.
My JC time hasn’t really brought up anything new. I’ve been so much in touch with your culture all my life (what I mean is that TV teaches a lot 8-[ ). Maybe some assumption have only become stronger. Like now I really do believe in you being football and weather central people :lol: :wink: But what I think is relevant is that mostly Finns have only positive thoughts of you Brits.
We Finns are extremely interested in what other people think of us and our country. We just can’t see that mostly people don’t even know we exist :roll:.