Russian girl in Finnish world

Each culture has its own system how to use time, which is extremely important to mind for intercultural communication. According to Edward Hall, American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher, cultures can be divided in terms of how this certain culture use time into two opposite types: monochronic, in which time is distributed in such a way that only one kind of activity can be performed in the same period of time and polychronic, in which several types of activity can be performed in the same period of time...

There are more than 200 countries in the world and even more nations. The world is open now and at your work, during your business trips and studies or just through the Internet you can be involves in the multicultural communication. Someone thinks that for efficient conversation good communicational skills and language proficiency (usually, in English) are enough. However, it's not is easy. Knowing and minding the specificity of another culture is very important and in this case the Lewis model comes in handy...

“The fictional world of my Moomins is a world that every one of us probably longs for in our hearts,” - Tove Marika Jansson wrote about her heroes and being here in Turku give you a possibility to wholly immerse in this world because in Naantali, which is16km from Turku, there is the Moon-world. Today Moomin-world is one of the best theme parks for children in the whole world. Back then in 2005, The British Independent Newspaper included the Moomin Country in Naantali in the list of the 10 best children's theme parks in the world...

I had to create a bank account here in Finland so I had a chance to compare Russian bank system and Finnish one. First issue I ran into was that I cannot just come to the bank an open a bank account. I should make an appointment. It seemed strange a bit because in my home country to open a bank account you only need to come to the bank, take a queue number and wait for your turn. Second point. I came to the bank in an appointed day and it took not less than 30 minutes to open a bank account. In my home-bank it takes around 15 minutes and you're done...

Movies in Russian movie theatres are always dubbed. We are used to coming to cinema and just watching the movie we have been waiting for so long. Here, in Finland the situation is opposite. Nearly all the films that are shown both in movie theatres or on TV go with subtitles, only cartoons for children are dubbed. It surprised me, so I asked my tutors why films in Finland aren't dubbed. The answer was simple. There are not a lot of people in the country, 5 millions (my city has the same number of...