"Oh how often I have been asked by Estonians, “Where is Estonia? We’re a Nordic country too!”

Problem is, the other Nordics doesn’t think so. :XD:

I asked around what the stereotypes for the Baltic countries were, and the overall answer was, “Very depressed people who wear grey and live in grey houses”

Estonia have a good relationship with Finland, which is why he doesn’t hide, but he doesn’t consider her a Nordic either which is why he doesn’t let her in. The Finland’ish hat is because Estonians are seen as being very much like Finns by the other Baltics."

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  • whaleross@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    More context: Many moons ago, whenever Nordic countries were mentioned on Reddit - there would always pop up at least one Estonian trying to shoehorn themselves in and argue Estonia being a Nordic country.

    It became a joke eventually with redditors from the Nordic countries.

  • SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org
    12·
    18 hours ago

    Fun fact: Finnish and Estonian are both Finnic languages. Meanwhile, the other Nordic countries mostly speak Scandinavian languages an the other Baltic countries speak Baltic languages, which are part of the broader Balto-Slavic group. So really, from a linguistic perspective at least, Finns and Estonians are more similar to each-other than to any of their neighbors. And also pretty similar to Hungary (Magyar being a Finno-Ugric language).