...self-sufficiency. hand, Finns have been compelled to forge state institutions and a national identity despite an austere climate, meager natural resources, Swedish and Russian dominance, and internal linguistic difference. Such challenges have caused Finns to privilege resourcefulness, consensus, the law, and obedience, maintains Kirby. This aspect of the dialectic is evident from J.L. Runeberg's Pavo [sic] of Saarijarvi to Finland's scores in the OECD's PISA test, which has since 2000 ranked Finnish pupils as the best among the OECD states at math and reading. In contrast, the country's large size, scattered population, and meager resources have also fostered a frontier mentality, which ignores the law, regards elites with disdain...

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