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The 20 :: Your Daily Cup of Culture (#210)

"May we be who our dogs think we are."  -- Traditional Toast

Your Daily Cup of Culture...

Here's The 20 things I found on the internet worth sharing today. Ventipop's Grind posts can be fun, serious, thoughtful, some great new song or something to buy. If not, you can get your money back.

1. New Song of the Day - "The Lifeboat" by Frank Turner - Frank Turner wrote a song specifically for Ventipop:

2. Dreamworks - For $25, you can nap on a Casper bed for 45 minutes in the Casper Nap Store.

3. Jingfen - Socially awkward Chinese Millennials claim they’re ‘Spiritually Finnish’ after they find deep resonance in the work of cartoonist Karoliina Korhonen.

4. Pop Quiz, Hotshot! - What's your secret nationality? (Apparently, I'm a closeted Ethiopian)

5. Space...The Final Frontier - If you're rich that is. Jeff Bezos plans to charge at least $200,000 for space rides as soon as next year.

6. The Real Final Frontier - One more thing to buy if you're rich and survive space? The Prada Bodybag.

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7. McSweeney's Me! -Quiz: Are You A Modern Conservative?

8. Obligatory Coffee Link of the Day - The world's first coffee shop that gives 100 percent of its proceeds to mental health education and proactive suicide prevention, Sip of Hope also certifies all of its employees in Mental Health First Aid, and they're available to talk with any visitors who need to unload.

9. Busy With Boredom - The thing I noticed most in all of these 1970's snapshots was the absence of phones, computers and that blank screen face you see on most people nowadays. Back then, folks knew how to be bored.

10. Parenting - If you're raising a girl, Quartz has a great series right now called How We'll Win: The Next Generation offering tips on how to revolutionizing how we teach young women to use their strength, take up space, and find their voice.

11. "You don't have to kill me" - Why Does Every Soccer Player Do This?

12. Waste of Space - I've been saying it for years and now it's official: Screw you formal dining room! - Our homes don’t need formal spaces

13. TV Nods - This year’s Emmy nominations spotlight innovative comedy series and stars – but on the serious side of the spectrum, the Academy’s choices are a snore. - *Related: Sandra Oh Makes History.

14. Popcorn Ready? - "The Best Action Movie You'll See This Year"

15. First Signs - Here's your first look at M. Night Shyamalan's Glass

16. Animated Character - Tara Strong makes her living rolling off cliffs and fighting villains … of the animated variety. You might not recognize her face, but you likely have heard her in hit cartoons like “The Powerpuff Girls,” “Rugrats” and “The Fairly OddParents.” Step inside the studio with one of most prolific voice actors in the game:

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17. Feel - Wife of diver who died in Thai cave mourns a hero - 'You are my very heart'

18. Licked - Is it OK to share an ice-cream cone with your dog? (I think it depends on the dog.)

19. Send Me A Video - Shoot a vid randomly sharing this bit of weird trivia with someone you love: Garlic rubbed into the soles of the feet can be detected later in the breath. If you do, and it doesn't seem staged, I may send some Ventipop swag.

20. The Last Drop - No Ice-cream for Nacho:

Have a great weekend.

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Visit Finland Welcomes Jingfens to Rent a Finn

Visit Finland has launched a campaign, Rent a Finn, inviting tourists from around the world to experience the Finnish way of living in nature.

Visit Finland has created a push inviting tourists from around the world to experience how the locals live in harmony with nature. Dubbed Rent a Finn, its aim is to introduce the Finnish hosts who will serve as happiness guides to guests they will welcome into their homes for a relaxing summer experience.

Chinese travellers are especially encouraged to apply. This is attributable to the sense of connectedness Chinese people have come to feel about the typical Finnish persona since Finnish Nightmares, a comic by Karoliina Korhonen, was published. The work is seen as complimentary of Finnish introversion.

Inspired by Matti, the cartoon character who prefers minimal contact and avoids social situations, the term Jingfen was coined by millennials to mean spiritually Finnish. His creator describes him as “a stereotypical Finn” who values peace, quiet, and his personal space as opposed to unessential chit chat.

With the Rent a Finn initiative by Visit Finland, Jingfen now have the opportunity to meet their Finnish counterparts for truly authentic local experiences. The application period runs until 21 April. Finland was named happiest nation for a second consecutive year in the UN’s 2019 World Happiness Report.

The Visit Finland campaign has enlisted eight Finns to work as happiness guides. Chosen from among hundreds of applicants, they will host their visitors for a few days as well as show them their own ways of relieving stress in nature. The visits take place over the summer of this year and will be free of charge for travellers.

“Many choose to visit Finland because of our uniquely peaceful nature and tranquillity. This campaign is in response to the global travel trend of living like a local, which is all about sharing genuine experiences with ordinary people,” said Heli Jimenez, Senior Director, International Marketing at Business Finland.

The article Visit Finland Welcomes Jingfens to Rent a Finn appeared first on World Branding Forum.

[markjsousa]

Visit Finland Welcomes Jingfens to Rent a Finn

Visit Finland has launched a campaign, Rent a Finn, inviting tourists from around the world to experience the Finnish way of living in nature.

Visit Finland has created a push inviting tourists from around the world to experience how the locals live in harmony with nature. Dubbed Rent a Finn, its aim is to introduce the Finnish hosts who will serve as happiness guides to guests they will welcome into their homes for a relaxing summer experience.

Chinese travellers are especially encouraged to apply. This is attributable to the sense of connectedness Chinese people have come to feel about the typical Finnish persona since Finnish Nightmares, a comic by Karoliina Korhonen, was published. The work is seen as complimentary of Finnish introversion.

Inspired by Matti, the cartoon character who prefers minimal contact and avoids social situations, the term Jingfen was coined by millennials to mean spiritually Finnish. His creator describes him as “a stereotypical Finn” who values peace, quiet, and his personal space as opposed to unessential chit chat.

With the Rent a Finn initiative by Visit Finland, Jingfen now have the opportunity to meet their Finnish counterparts for truly authentic local experiences. The application period runs until 21 April. Finland was named happiest nation for a second consecutive year in the UN’s 2019 World Happiness Report.

The Visit Finland campaign has enlisted eight Finns to work as happiness guides. Chosen from among hundreds of applicants, they will host their visitors for a few days as well as show them their own ways of relieving stress in nature. The visits take place over the summer of this year and will be free of charge for travellers.

“Many choose to visit Finland because of our uniquely peaceful nature and tranquillity. This campaign is in response to the global travel trend of living like a local, which is all about sharing genuine experiences with ordinary people,” said Heli Jimenez, Senior Director, International Marketing at Business Finland.

The article Visit Finland Welcomes Jingfens to Rent a Finn appeared first on World Branding Forum.

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Visit Finland Welcomes Jingfens to Rent a Finn

Visit Finland has launched a campaign, Rent a Finn, inviting tourists from around the world to experience the Finnish way of living in nature.

Visit Finland has created a push inviting tourists from around the world to experience how the locals live in harmony with nature. Dubbed Rent a Finn, its aim is to introduce the Finnish hosts who will serve as happiness guides to guests they will welcome into their homes for a relaxing summer experience.

Chinese travellers are especially encouraged to apply. This is attributable to the sense of connectedness Chinese people have come to feel about the typical Finnish persona since Finnish Nightmares, a comic by Karoliina Korhonen, was published. The work is seen as complimentary of Finnish introversion.

Inspired by Matti, the cartoon character who prefers minimal contact and avoids social situations, the term Jingfen was coined by millennials to mean spiritually Finnish. His creator describes him as “a stereotypical Finn” who values peace, quiet, and his personal space as opposed to unessential chit chat.

With the Rent a Finn initiative by Visit Finland, Jingfen now have the opportunity to meet their Finnish counterparts for truly authentic local experiences. The application period runs until 21 April. Finland was named happiest nation for a second consecutive year in the UN’s 2019 World Happiness Report.

The Visit Finland campaign has enlisted eight Finns to work as happiness guides. Chosen from among hundreds of applicants, they will host their visitors for a few days as well as show them their own ways of relieving stress in nature. The visits take place over the summer of this year and will be free of charge for travellers.

“Many choose to visit Finland because of our uniquely peaceful nature and tranquillity. This campaign is in response to the global travel trend of living like a local, which is all about sharing genuine experiences with ordinary people,” said Heli Jimenez, Senior Director, International Marketing at Business Finland.

The article Visit Finland Welcomes Jingfens to Rent a Finn appeared first on World Branding Forum.

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Visit Finland Welcomes Jingfens to Rent a Finn

Visit Finland has launched a campaign, Rent a Finn, inviting tourists from around the world to experience the Finnish way of living in nature.

Visit Finland has created a push inviting tourists from around the world to experience how the locals live in harmony with nature. Dubbed Rent a Finn, its aim is to introduce the Finnish hosts who will serve as happiness guides to guests they will welcome into their homes for a relaxing summer experience.

Chinese travellers are especially encouraged to apply. This is attributable to the sense of connectedness Chinese people have come to feel about the typical Finnish persona since Finnish Nightmares, a comic by Karoliina Korhonen, was published. The work is seen as complimentary of Finnish introversion.

Inspired by Matti, the cartoon character who prefers minimal contact and avoids social situations, the term Jingfen was coined by millennials to mean spiritually Finnish. His creator describes him as “a stereotypical Finn” who values peace, quiet, and his personal space as opposed to unessential chit chat.

With the Rent a Finn initiative by Visit Finland, Jingfen now have the opportunity to meet their Finnish counterparts for truly authentic local experiences. The application period runs until 21 April. Finland was named happiest nation for a second consecutive year in the UN’s 2019 World Happiness Report.

The Visit Finland campaign has enlisted eight Finns to work as happiness guides. Chosen from among hundreds of applicants, they will host their visitors for a few days as well as show them their own ways of relieving stress in nature. The visits take place over the summer of this year and will be free of charge for travellers.

���Many choose to visit Finland because of our uniquely peaceful nature and tranquillity. This campaign is in response to the global travel trend of living like a local, which is all about sharing genuine experiences with ordinary people,” said Heli Jimenez, Senior Director, International Marketing at Business Finland.

The article Visit Finland Welcomes Jingfens to Rent a Finn appeared first on World Branding Forum.

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Opinion: China's introverts find a kindred spirit: A stick figure from Finland

Now a growing number of them identify with a Finnish cartoon character who channels their urban anxieties, albeit in a different cultural context.

HONG KONG — People who live in China’s crowded cities are used to having their personal space invaded — in schools, malls, restaurants, bus stations, dormitories and even bathrooms. But that doesn’t mean they like it.

Now a growing number of them identify with a Finnish cartoon character who channels their urban anxieties, albeit in a different cultural context.

The “Finnish Nightmares” comic series documents the social challenges faced by Matti, a mild-mannered stick figure who abhors small talk. The series has been trending on Chinese social media, and it even spawned a new word for social awkwardness in Mandarin: jingfen, or “spiritually Finnish.”

“As an anthropophobic, I love this series so much,” Li Xin, a college student in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, wrote recently on Sina Weibo, one of China’s most popular social media sites, where a “Finnish Nightmares” hashtag has gotten about 240,000 clicks.

“China has a huge population, and Chinese people usually congregate in large groups, but there are still a lot of introverts, like me,” Li, 22, said in an interview conducted via Weibo messages. “In a society like China’s, we are considered hard to deal with and thought of as weirdos. But the truth is we just don’t enjoy unnecessary socializing that much. It’s too tiring.”

Matti, the cartoon’s exceedingly humble protagonist, constantly faces decisions that test his social awkwardness — whether to sing his own praises in a job interview, say, or take a free food sample if it means having to talk with a salesperson. He blushes easily.

Matti fears drawing attention to himself, but also the mere possibility that he might offend someone, even a stranger. He feels obliged to board a bus that he flagged by accident, for example, and is reluctant to ask a person standing in his way to move.

Matti is a “stereotypical Finn” who “tries his best to do unto others as he wishes to be done unto him: to give space, be polite and not bother with unnecessary chitchat,” according to a description on the official website of “Finnish Nightmares.”

“As you might’ve guessed,” the description adds, “it can’t always go that way.”

Karoliina Korhonen, the graphic designer who created the series in 2015, said that she drew the first scenes as a joke for her non-Finnish friends. Two books later, “Finnish Nightmares” has nearly 181,000 Facebook followers and 34,000 more on Instagram. Korhonen said the series had fan bases in the United States, Germany, Britain and beyond.

Korhonen, 28, who lives in the central Finnish city of Oulu, said in an email that she was surprised by the cartoon’s popularity in general, and in China in particular. “This makes me think I should take Chinese classes or something so I could understand better what’s happening, haha!” she wrote.

News of the cartoon’s Chinese fan base was first reported in English by the news site Sixth Tone.

In some ways, Matti’s gently caricatured Finnish environment is the antithesis of China’s acquisitive, in-your-face public life — and that may explain why “Finnish Nightmares” has touched a nerve among some Chinese readers.

Yang Yixin, a professor of Finnish language and culture at Beijing Foreign Studies University, said the series resonates in China ���because essentially Chinese people do have a shy, introverted and bashful side, like the Finnish.”

“Moreover, modern technology has changed our way of communication,” Yang added. “It estranges us from each other, especially young people. They might become a little anthropophobic, just like Matti.”

Song Zhengyao, a student in the university’s Finnish program, said that Chinese fans like the series because it presents an “authenticity” that is lacking in their day-to-day lives.

“People have to meet their clients and their superiors for work, they have to be hypocritical even though they don’t want to be,” he said of life in China. “When they read ‘Finnish Nightmares’ they see the frank and sincere life they want to live.”

David Wu, director of the China office for Visit Finland, a tourism-promotion outfit that is funded by the Finnish government, said that he was working on a marketing campaign based on “Finnish Nightmares,” the details of which were still a secret.

China ranks fifth among countries sending tourists for overnight stays in Finland, and the 362,100 Chinese travelers who stayed there last year represented a 33 percent increase over 2016, official data show.

Wu said Finland’s top attractions for Chinese travelers include reindeer safaris and an area near the Arctic Circle that is promoted as the home of Santa Claus (and which Xi Jinping visited a few years before he became president of China).

Li, the college student in Shenzhen, a subtropical megacity near Hong Kong, said that she would consider moving to Finland, with one caveat.

“I am not sure whether I can deal with the cold weather,” she said.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Mike Ives and Zoe Mou © 2018 The New York Times

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Now a growing number of them identify with a Finnish cartoon character who channels their urban anxieties, albeit in a different cultural context.

HONG KONG — People who live in China’s crowded cities are used to having their personal space invaded — in schools, malls, restaurants, bus stations, dormitories and even bathrooms. But that doesn’t mean they like it.

Now a growing number of them identify with a Finnish cartoon character who channels their urban anxieties, albeit in a different cultural context.

The “Finnish Nightmares” comic series documents the social challenges faced by Matti, a mild-mannered stick figure who abhors small talk. The series has been trending on Chinese social media, and it even spawned a new word for social awkwardness in Mandarin: jingfen, or “spiritually Finnish.”

“As an anthropophobic, I love this series so much,” Li Xin, a college student in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, wrote recently on Sina Weibo, one of China’s most popular social media sites, where a “Finnish Nightmares” hashtag has gotten about 240,000 clicks.

“China has a huge population, and Chinese people usually congregate in large groups, but there are still a lot of introverts, like me,” Li, 22, said in an interview conducted via Weibo messages. “In a society like China’s, we are considered hard to deal with and thought of as weirdos. But the truth is we just don’t enjoy unnecessary socializing that much. It’s too tiring.”

Matti, the cartoon’s exceedingly humble protagonist, constantly faces decisions that test his social awkwardness — whether to sing his own praises in a job interview, say, or take a free food sample if it means having to talk with a salesperson. He blushes easily.

Matti fears drawing attention to himself, but also the mere possibility that he might offend someone, even a stranger. He feels obliged to board a bus that he flagged by accident, for example, and is reluctant to ask a person standing in his way to move.

Matti is a “stereotypical Finn” who “tries his best to do unto others as he wishes to be done unto him: to give space, be polite and not bother with unnecessary chitchat,” according to a description on the official website of “Finnish Nightmares.”

“As you might’ve guessed,” the description adds, “it can’t always go that way.”

Karoliina Korhonen, the graphic designer who created the series in 2015, said that she drew the first scenes as a joke for her non-Finnish friends. Two books later, “Finnish Nightmares” has nearly 181,000 Facebook followers and 34,000 more on Instagram. Korhonen said the series had fan bases in the United States, Germany, Britain and beyond.

Korhonen, 28, who lives in the central Finnish city of Oulu, said in an email that she was surprised by the cartoon’s popularity in general, and in China in particular. “This makes me think I should take Chinese classes or something so I could understand better what’s happening, haha!” she wrote.

News of the cartoon’s Chinese fan base was first reported in English by the news site Sixth Tone.

In some ways, Matti’s gently caricatured Finnish environment is the antithesis of China’s acquisitive, in-your-face public life — and that may explain why “Finnish Nightmares” has touched a nerve among some Chinese readers.

Yang Yixin, a professor of Finnish language and culture at Beijing Foreign Studies University, said the series resonates in China “because essentially Chinese people do have a shy, introverted and bashful side, like the Finnish.”

“Moreover, modern technology has changed our way of communication,” Yang added. “It estranges us from each other, especially young people. They might become a little anthropophobic, just like Matti.”

Song Zhengyao, a student in the university’s Finnish program, said that Chinese fans like the series because it presents an “authenticity” that is lacking in their day-to-day lives.

“People have to meet their clients and their superiors for work, they have to be hypocritical even though they don’t want to be,” he said of life in China. “When they read ‘Finnish Nightmares’ they see the frank and sincere life they want to live.”

David Wu, director of the China office for Visit Finland, a tourism-promotion outfit that is funded by the Finnish government, said that he was working on a marketing campaign based on “Finnish Nightmares,” the details of which were still a secret.

China ranks fifth among countries sending tourists for overnight stays in Finland, and the 362,100 Chinese travelers who stayed there last year represented a 33 percent increase over 2016, official data show.

Wu said Finland’s top attractions for Chinese travelers include reindeer safaris and an area near the Arctic Circle that is promoted as the home of Santa Claus (and which Xi Jinping visited a few years before he became president of China).

Li, the college student in Shenzhen, a subtropical megacity near Hong Kong, said that she would consider moving to Finland, with one caveat.

“I am not sure whether I can deal with the cold weather,” she said.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Mike Ives and Zoe Mou © 2018 The New York Times

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