Ashamed of Home

A dual citizen's reckoning with Finland's retreat

I’m a Finnish-Australian dual citizen. For most of my life, that first part has been a quiet source of pride. Not chest-beating nationalism - Finns don’t do that - but a steady confidence that my other home country punched above its weight.

Education. Design. Technology.

A society that worked.

I feel a little bit less of all that now; and I also feel shame.