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I guess this only applies to lonely Finns.
I have heard enough stories of Indians who get the cold shoulder and are treated unfriendly. It doesn’t matter if someone is fresh off the boat or has been there for over a decade, earned their citizenship, and truly assimilated. Finns just don’t seem interested in connecting with Indians.
I am not blaming the Finns, nor am I trying to criticise the idea of “perkele,” just offering some context.
Finns aren’t interested to connect with anyone once they have left college. They already have their own friend group they know for years or even decades by then. And aren’t interested in making new friends. This isn’t unique to the Finns though this attitude is quite common across Europe. Like I live in the Netherlands and often hear from expats how hard it is to make friends outside the expat community. And then some blame it on racism. But I also hear stories of Dutch people working abroad in Europe in those countries where the expats I know come from and it’s literally the same over there. It’s just that people don’t have the time to invest in new friendships once they enter the workforce and by then they aren’t interested in shallow friendships.
Thanks for the context.
Im unsure if youre pretending not to know this is a joke or if you really dont.
I really don’t.
Finns are infamous for disliking being physically close to each other in public with strangers. You do not intrude on anyone’s personal space, and the volume of that space is worth making jokes about. So being a foreigner is irrelevant in this context, one simply doesn’t sit next to a Finn on a bus. I don’t know what the translation is of the OP post, but I’m sure it’s rude.
Indeed. For the Finns, the hardest part of the coronavirus pandemic was adjusting to 2m of social distancing, down from their preferred distance of 5m.
I don't know that last phrase, but "perkele" is a swear word, used kind of like the F word (but different translation).
Thanks for explaining.