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by jdkee 1581 days ago
Finland is a homogenous society. The US is very heterogenous in class and race.
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This is something americans tell themselves as a coping method.
Finland doesn't have the obscenity that is homeless kids coming to school tired because they couldn't sleep, hungry, scared because of violence and instability in their life circumstances, and otherwise with so many strikes against them it would take a miracle for them just to graduate, let alone thrive.