The Washington Post has sent a correspondent and a photographer to Finland for three weeks to “figure the place out.”
“Finland just might be the world’s most interesting country that Americans know least about. It has the best school system in the world, some of the most liberated women (the president is female), more cell phones per capita than anyone else, one of the world’s best high-tech companies (Nokia), remarkable information technology of many kinds, …”
Their report is bloglike and relatively interesting. The photos are great. The whole enterprise is a little odd, but hey, why not Finland?
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May 24th, 2005 at 10:27 am
Not bloglike, it’s a blog.
May 24th, 2005 at 10:45 am
And that site just killed my browser.
May 24th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
Nice series so far, even if it ignores a certain central Finnish reality, namely winter. I really like Finland (it’s literally in my genes) and would consider moving there myself, if it weren’t for the weather thing.
May 24th, 2005 at 3:30 pm
Looking at it from finland, the reports (which are few) about the country tend to take a vaguely amusing zoo-like quality (..and here we have one of those wacky finns engaging in typical daily activities).
Sort of rotating cliche of the year, looks like it’s education year this time (instead of,say, nokia,linux,e/i-whatever)
May 24th, 2005 at 4:27 pm
TL, that is the daily experience of reading the international press on America. Obscurity may be preferable…
May 24th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
All that and good vodka too
May 26th, 2005 at 12:32 am
As usual, the story casts a blind eye on the Finnish plan for world conquest (at my URL).