Finland is not an intermediate form between neighbouring countries but instead of it's own kind

 Quite often foreigner guess that smaller countries are intermediate forms between neighbouring countries on either side, but at least in Finland that is not so. Finland is of it's own kind and it may be that also elsewhere in the world counties develop each into theor own direction,since if one lives in one country but is not fitted to it's culture in some respect, one starts to search for a better place for a person with such an understandable and well motivated characteristc, and usually one first searches also from the neighbouring countries, and so they have some pressure to turn to well understandable valued opposites of some characteristics of the neighbouring countries, like Finns have for example good quality rationality of one's own supported by civiliced wisdom and complete freedom of individuals inside the rules civiliced wisdom gives.