Finland - Europe's Japan

[Haggis_McMutton]

Racing reindeers:


Sauna championship


And, of course, men either wearing makeup and dresses or completely naked playing soccer in a swamp:

[natty dread]

You forgot beer floating, Finland's favorite national pastime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_floating

[DiM]

unless you show me some finnish teen girls with octopuses then they've got nothing over those crazy japanese

[Maugena]

Was it the Danish that ventured to Japan and opened up trade with them? If so - I'm too lazy to look it up right now - I'd think that the Danish would be such, not the Finnish. But I really don't know anything about either.