Yes he/she is hän. Google translate will suggest he but also she. As a programmer I have played with the idea of writing a program that would run through the text trying to find out if it's he or she. You would try to find the name of the person or something about the hän to help you decide, Quite a task for a computer and no problem for a human being if you know Finnish. When the Finnish woman was able beat the he or she out of the language we don't know. There is a certain democracy in "hän" I think. Not surprisingly the Finnish women where the first to grab a complete right to vote according to the Wikipedia:
"Finland was the first country to have universal suffrage. First country to give the right to vote and right to stand for elections to everyone of age regardless of wealth, race or social class."
To understand the Nordic countries you have to understand that they are four season countries and that you had to provide for the winter during the summer or you had severe problems. Compare that to the southern part of Europe. About 200 years ago 1/3 of the Finnish population died due to a long winter and the short summer. Some of the "social" in Nordic countries I think is due to the four seasons.
And no, my American friends, a social cat is not a socialist.
An Arctic country, the Arctic circle cuts through northern Finland, Sweden and Norway. But i still find it a bit difficult to consider Helsinki or Stockholm arctic towns, not that it matters. Helsinki is at 60N like northern Canada.
Light summers and a dark winter are the same round the globe N and S at that latitude.
Nice article.
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