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Replying to @hbdchick
I'm fine with it. But you wouldn't believe the triggerings I provoked writing about it in the context of corruption. http://www.unz.com/akarlin/roving-bandits-in-wild-fields/ …pic.twitter.com/m1z4ZJQkio
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Your commenters are right. Finland lay east of the Hajnal Line and today ranks as less corrupt than Sweden or Norway.
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Replying to @hbdchick
Virolahtis is in SE FInland and Beatrice Moring say the marriage system was East European: http://sci-hub.cc/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1081602X99000123 …
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Replying to @crimkadid @hbdchick
She also claims SW FInland fits the same pattern: https://sci-hub.cc/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/continuity-and-change/article/marriage-and-social-change-in-south-western-finland-17001870/27C7831B8FDBFB9C746CDD369CADDA2D … Their family system, genes, and language link them to E. Europe.
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Replying to @crimkadid
yes. but the western marriage system doesn't appear here until 18th c, you'll note. very diff from core europe - already there by 800s.
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Replying to @hbdchick
So there doesn't seem to be much dispute that Finland was east of the Line and yet today corruption is very low.
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Replying to @crimkadid
right. my guess is swedish settlement made the difference.
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It would have to be cultural/religious (plausible), because Swedes didn't leave large genetic impact.
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