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Pequ : Suomalainen rehellisyys on samanlainen tuulesta temmattu myytti kuin suomalainen sisukin. Juuri julkaistiin tutkimus, että Suomessa näpistellään kaupoista ylivoimaisesti eniten Euroopassa. Suomalaiset ovat epäsosiaalisia, kateellisia ja ahneita. Tuossa vähän kohdilleen osuvampaa luonnehdintaa.
http://keskustelut.iltasanomat.fi/thread.jspa?threadID=5064
Voikin olla, että totuudesta ja moraalisista selkärangoista puhuvat poliitikot ovat turhaan huolissaan. Ehkä äänestäjät tyytyvät hiljaisesti siihen, että kansaa edustavat poliitikot ovat yhtä rehellisiä kuin urheilijat, yritysjohtajat tai kansa itse. Eli eivät niin kovin rehellisiä.
http://www.suomenkuvalehti.fi/sk-netti/uutiset-ja-politiikka/politiikka/politiikan-pinokkiot.aspx
Honesty: the Arab is honest when, in addition to the true facts, one discusses feelings and personal opinions. For Arabs, a person’s own honesty and openness are visible when he or she talks about personal matters and opinions, expressing his or her political and moral views. When a Finn says that it is not necessary to reveal one’s political stance in conversation, it sounds to an Arab both cowardly and dishonest as well as malicious. What does an honest and sincere person who has, through long thought, found his own conception of morality, have to fear?
http://www.finlit.fi/booksfromfinland/407/abu-hanna_whodoyouthinkyouare.html
Some statistics:
retail theft in shops in 2007:Average Western Europe 1,25% Finland 1,32% Germany:1,1% Average Europe: 1,26%
http://www.retailresearch.org/theft_barometer/index.php
Homicide:Greece:127=11,86 per million people. Athens per 100.000 people = 1,01 Germany:804=9,75 per million people. Berlin per 100.000 people = 1,92 Finland:114=21,76 per million people. Helsinki per 100.000 people =2,32
Crimes recorded by the police: Violent crimes: Germany:212.832 =2,58 per million people Greece:10.271 =0,95 per million people Finland:37.105 =7,08 per million people
Crimes recorded by the police: RobberyGermany:54.841 Greece:2.383 Finland:1.814
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-07-015/EN/KS-SF-07-015-EN.PDF
All above figures are from 2005 ( calculated with population statistics of 2007 ) population ( 2007 ) Germany:82,401,000 Greece:10,706,000 Finland:5,238,000
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm
As they say in Germany: Selbstlob stinkt!
I just got fed up of hearing over and over again how " honest " Finnish people are when they broke in 11 times in my studio, so called working friends stole from me, 10 bicycles were stolen from my family, Finnish shop owners cheated me and I don't even want to mention the law enforcement or the Finnish ombudsman.
According to the Finnish radio: one out of 5 Fins is a racist. 17% of the Fins are open minded about Foreigners and the rest are " conservative ". According to foreigners I have been talking with at least every third Fin is a racist and almost half of the cops. Then the Finnish claim that Fins are just and fair. That reminds me the time how the news papers and the media reacted when they had to take some 2000 Somali refugees but this page is about the Finnish " honesty "only.