By tarazkp on Skatehive
We are the most American. I remember when I first came to Finland as a business English trainer, it was common to hear my clients say "Finland is the most American country in Europe" or similar. There was a certain amount of pride in it, as if it was a marker of how far Finland had advanced from the past and distanced itself from Russia all those many decades ago. It is something I found peculiar in many respects., one being that I don't think that Finns are very American at all, quite the opposite. But I later learned that many countries in Europe had similar sentiments, each claiming to be the most American. Have times changed? Shy, quiet and trustworthy. Finns are known to be trustworthy people in general, and it is one of the first things they will say to describe themselves as a culture. It would be something like Finns are "shy, quiet and trustworthy". According to a recent survey though, the "We are the most American" might have changed a bit, where only 4% of Finns trust the US