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Why Finnish people tell the truth – in Finland, people are assumed to be honest all the time, and trust is implicit unless proven otherwise

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  1. GhostHardware
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    Is the way Finns value honesty and directness that radically different from other north(west)ern European high-trust societies though? While reading the article, I recognized a lot of things that...

    Is the way Finns value honesty and directness that radically different from other north(west)ern European high-trust societies though? While reading the article, I recognized a lot of things that are also true for the Netherlands, my home country: stuff like directness to the point of bluntness, a certain intolerance for exaggeration, a generally positive view of the government and its actions, those are all things that are also very important in Dutch society -- and I think that is also true for Germany, and all of the Nordic countries.

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