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I feel very uncomfortable when people I don't know come up to my face, talk loud and gesticulate wildly, making physical contact.
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I think many North Europeans feel the same way.
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The east-baltid comment was also surprising, because the stoic, silent type is more associated with Western Finns, who are less east-baltid and have been more influenced by Swedish sources, while Eastern Finns, like Karelians and Savonians, are more talkative and extraverted.
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I don't really think it has to do with East-Baltid. I think a lot is nurture. Don't Karelians have more influence from Russians?
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I think we are steering rather off-topic, to be honest.
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We did steer off-topic earlier in the thread. Finns and Estonians turn threads about Russians into something about them.