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Yeah, well... What do Finland, Norway and Denmark have in common? - We all hate Sweden.
The norwegians sure do fool me as they invade Sweden every summer.
To me the swedish finnish love/hate relationship is most apparent when it comes to sports, specially hockey and Finnkampen.
The people in Haparanda and Tornio goes absolutely haywire every year during the world championships in hockey.
Yeah, well... What do Finland, Norway and Denmark have in common? - We all hate Sweden.
I'm quite sure Greece hates us. At least Israel does. Uruguay used to hate us, they even burned our flags, but I'm not sure if they do that anymore.
The former Romanian president and Berlusconi used to hate us, if you count them as official representatives of their countries. But Berlusconi is probably the most hated foreign citizen in Finland, so...
But yes, our worst 'enemies' are our neighbors, even if Sweden is our best friend as well.
Iceland... get rid of your volcanoes, pay your debts and buy some own fighter planes!
Uruguay 2006:
Why Uruguay hates you? I sincerely don't understand...
The image of Finland here in Brazil is the best possible. Although most of people doesn't know the aspects of the finnish culture, the first thing which comes into the mind of a brazilian when one talk about Finland is the excellent schools, which many of us often use as an example for what our government should do, the Formula 1 drivers such as Hakkinen, Räikkönen and Kovalainen, and the blonde girls with blue eyes. Brazilian men love blonde women. And also as the home country of Papai Noel (our equivalent to Father Christmas).
Trivia: the small town of Penedo, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, was founded by finns. There are many descendants there and all of the tourist features are about Finland: cuisine, dances, architecture, and even bilingual street signs in Finnish and Portuguese.
If the tasmanian have not been exterminated by the australian,they would have a lot to say about Australia.
Actually, Australia didn't even exist at the time. Tasmania was then a British penal colony directly administered out of the UK, with a local governor. It was pretty brutal for the convicts sent there as well.
There are a lot of current day Tasmanians of (at least part) Tasmanian indigenous ancestry. You'll get quite a reaction if you tell them Tasmanian Aboriginals have all died out. They are quite distinct from mainland aboriginals.
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The most hated countries are by far USA, Russia, and China, followed by Israel.
In Chinese, there are racist terms for Russians, Koreans, Japanese, Mongols, Indians and so on. Within China, of course many ethnic groups have derogatory terms for ethnic Chinese too, and ethnic Chinese return the same favor.
I know people who hate Canada because it's cold and it's America's little brother.
It's unspeakably stupid...
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What do Finland, Norway and Denmark have in common? - We all hate Sweden. 
