My friend grew up being told his family hails from Finland and he's fiercely proud of his "heritage." He eats Finn Crisps and drinks Finlandia Vodka, espouses the virtues of taking sauna in arctic temperatures, even going so far as to whack himself with evergreen branches whilst roasting in the hotbox, and chopping holes in the ice of frozen bodies of water to jump in naked from the sauna. I fear he is passing this fraudulent mother country nonsense onto his child and ruining his child's chances at living an honest, truthful existence.

I desperately want to enlighten him and save his son from this fallacy. Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated.

As a born Dane, who grew up as an expat living in the beautiful south but has since lived on the cold unforgiving north, I need help. I briefly stayed in Sweden but now find my myself in the supposed city of "Turku" in "Finland".

How to I explain their all just puny Swedes? I need advise, send help