Fuck Putler
The "Moomin Boom" only really began in the 90's although the original characters are from like the 1930's and the author died in 2001.
So only later in her life was it really more commercialised. The original art being rather political. She drew lots criticising Hitler and Stalin among others.
There's also comic strips of the Moomins doing drugs etc.
But I didn't know any of that until later in my life. I still reaaaally vividly remember how epic it was when my dad took me to see "Muumipeikko ja pyrstötähti" — "Comet in Moominland", although that's a poor translation imo, the direct being "Moomintroll and the tailed star" where "Moomintroll" is not just a description but the main character, who is named Muumipeikko. So like a Finnish person named Finn, essentially. And "tailed star" is just what comets are called in Finnish "pyrstö" = tail (but like that of a fish, not a cat's tail, not a mammalian whisky tail) and "tähti" = star.
I was very much into moomins as a kid and the themepark is kinda nearby, just 30km from where we lived. Later in life dad actually drove a sort of road-train for them (which takes customers from the parkin lot to the park or the hotel).
But as a kid apparently I got insanely scared in some part of the theme park and just like ran out of a maze, but actually went below a fence, where a kid could fit. And my god mother who was supposed to take me through it came out looking rather scared when I was already standing with my mom. She looked kinda elated when she saw me. Or I may be imagining that I remember that idk, mom having told me the story so many times.
You guys didn't have Asterix and Obelix either? Oh man.
Basically the Finnish/Nordic equivalent of Mickey Mouse.
But instead of the writer being a racist white guy, it was a radical leftist lesbian who openly criticised Hitler and Stalin as the ridiculous little men they were.
https://www.huckmag.com/article/how-the-moomins-became-an-anti-fascist-symbol
Nowadays it's become a banal family thing and some criticise it as it leaves out the very clear political messaging of the early comics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomins
The coffee pot isn't set properly.
Put it back put it back put it back
That's a nice comment, good information.
But like, the reason he generalises is probably because of the massive destruction of indigenous American culture that was perpetuated by European colonialism.
Thus we are very ignorant of all of the cultures. Which saddens me greatly. (I love shows and movies which use the native languages and portray the cultures when they're actually done well. I wonder how right they got the Kanien'kéha language that they're supposedly speaking as Mohawks, you can hear some in This clip - weirdly to me it sounds sort of like garbled and nasal Estonian being spoken for some reason)
You make a perfectly reasonable comparison that people rarely generalise to such a degree when it comes to Europe. But had like 95% of the culture and people's been erased and forcefully surpressed, then I think people would generalise to an extent. Not that it makes it okay in any way, just saying that ignorance is the cause of such generalisations usually.
Which is why comments like yours are so great, bringing the info that we haven't found (or even looked for.)
So keep up the good work! Thanks
Ah yes, salt, pepper, wine, coffee and a traditional photo stand to look at an actual photograph.
Mmm yes
You can now do secondary schools in English in Finland.
Except if you speak Finnish or Swedish as a native language.
Fucking stupid addition. Some right-wingers afraid of Finnish dying must've added it to the legislation but it's beyond silly and not having it would promote integration of non-Finnish speaking immigrants with Finnish/Swedish speaking natives. And there definitely isn't a lot of people who would prefer doing secondary school in English. Probably more from the newer generations but still a tiny minority.
Yup, there's literally no connotations such as what the literal Jim Crows had in Disney films.
There's no implication or connotation or anything of the sort.
If anything I think it's at most referring to like bearded drunken Finns, Stinky being sort of 100% beard and he's not exactly evil but he is sort of self-centered and very moody.
But yeah there's absolutely nothing racist about him.
This monologue originally had the last line be different.
It wasn't "fight the Empire".
It was originally "fuck the Empire", but Disney stepped in.
https://youtube.com/shorts/XMLVCPctYRY
I can't find a short with the audio but in that clip you can clearly see her mouthing "fuck" in front of the green screen and the face is a bit sterner as well.
Shran uses a set from a Finnish designer, called "Ultima Thule". It's also featured as a world on the show, iirc. (I'm midway through rewatch, but Ultima Thule is definitely a world in the ST universe.)
The name come from ancient times, meaning roughly "Ultimate North", and referring to various places that no-one can really agree on.
Anyways, the other glass is also Finnish, and also used in ST: Enterprise. Whenever Archer has dinner in his quarters or they're having cake at Malcolm's bday, therr these glasses are: https://star-trek.design/glassware/tapio-goblets-by-tapio-wirkkala-for-iittala
(I wonder if this is related to my alcoholism flaring up anytime the episodes with the glasses come up.)
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I mean ofc they do, and Lordi doesn't represent the best metal Finland has, but like in general, Sweden and Denmark are the happier half of the Nordics in comparison to Finland and Norway.