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I know... Many of you will reject all stereotypes of people from a certain country because it is not true 100% of the time.
But after spending a significant amount of time in Scandinavia (Especially Sweden and Finland) and then in Ireland I felt like I was in a different world. My ancestry is Swedish, and experienced the outgrowth of the Swedish culture growing up in Iowa and Minnesota. But I could not get over the differences in the social culture between the various Scandinavian Countries and that of Ireland.
Any feedback? Or will you reject my conclusions because you know someone from Ireland is not so friendly and a super friendly person from Finland.
I'll tell you what makes the Irish so friendly in a word, booze.
Talk in moderate tones and do not do anything to call attention to yourself.
The basic business style is formal - i.e. there is relatively little small talk and Finns prefer people to speak succinctly and to focus purely on business.
Talk in moderate tones and do not do anything to call attention to yourself.
The basic business style is formal - i.e. there is relatively little small talk and Finns prefer people to speak succinctly and to focus purely on business.
From Wikipedia:
Scandinavia is a historical and cultural-linguistic region in Northern Europe characterized by a common ethno-cultural Germanic heritage and related languages, which includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
The term Scandinavia is usually used as a cultural term, but in English usage, it is occasionally confused with the purely geographical term Scandinavian Peninsula, which took its name from the cultural-linguistic concept.
Talk in moderate tones and do not do anything to call attention to yourself.
The basic business style is formal - i.e. there is relatively little small talk and Finns prefer people to speak succinctly and to focus purely on business.
Finland really isn't part of Scandinavia but that's not an important point, what is important is that small talk, or the lack thereof, is not an indicator of how friendly people are.
Nonsense. The Fins came from Russia originally. The Portuguese are Latin and have no border with the UK.
So from where did the English come from then?
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