FINLAND CULTUREYağız Fırat BORAN

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About Finland• Finland culture combines Nordic, Uralic, Russian and European culture.

• Sauna comes from there. It means finnish bath. It is like Turkish bath.

• Finland has been influenced by the adjacent areas' various Finnic and Baltic peoples as well as the former dominant powers Sweden and Russia.

Language of Finland• Subculture of Swedish-speaking Finns.

Architecture of Finland• Finnish architecture is famous around the world.

 • Among the top of the 20th century Finnish architects to win international recognition are Eliel Saarinen.

Music culture of Finland

• A famous music of Finland.• Folk music• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4om1rQKPijI

Music culture of Finland

• Popular music in Finland is heavy metal in common with other Nordic countries.

• 2006 eurovision winner was Finland.

• The first time that a heavy metal group won the eurovision.

• Mr. Lordi -“hallelujah”

Music culture of Finland

• Some popular heavy metal groups from Finland

• HIM, Apocalyptica, the Rasmus, etc.

Media and communications in Finland

• Finland is one of the most advanced information societies in the world. There are 200 newspapers; 320 popular magazines, 2,100 professional magazines and 67 commercial radio stations, with one nationwide, five national public service radio channels (three in Finnish, two in Swedish, one in Sami); digital radio has three channels.

• Each year around 15–20 feature films are produced,12,000 book titles published and 12 million records sold. 79 percent of the population use the Internet.

Media and communication in Finland

• Finnish spends  the most time in the world reading newspapers.

• The most popular television channel MTV3.

• The number of cellular phone subscribers as well as the number of Internet connections per capita in Finland are among the highest in the world.

Media and communication in Finland

•  All Finnish schools and public libraries have for years been connected to the Internet. Finland is the country with the fastest internet connection in the world, with speeds averaging around 40 Mbs.

Cuisine• Reindeer is really important for Finland.

• Fish also important for Finland. Specially salmon.

Sasu Laukkonen is a famous chef from Finland.

Sport • Ice hockey, racing, football, winter sports, athletism are really popular.

• Although the population of Finland, there are many atlhlete in there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-Du74e_hUoM

İnteresting cultural facts about Finland

• Ice swimming

• Koskenkorva (Traditional vodka)

• Sahti (Traditional beer)

• Kalakukko (Traditional food)

Resources• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Finland

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4om1rQKPijI

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-Du74e_hUoM

• https://www.google.com.tr/search?biw=1366&bih=643&q=finland&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.53217764,d.Yms,pv.xjs.s.en_US.6PYzwk9faGo.O&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=tr&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=-MVJUpOaMpDIsgbt-YC4DQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=veECFsMPFkVrvM%3A%3Bso4JknoOIeLh8M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252F0%252F0e%252FPopulation_map_of_Finland.svg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FDemographics_of_Finland%3B1371%3B2006