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I once worked at a school that closed due to low enrollment. Well, they combined four schools with low enrollment into a single school. They decided this process should take two years, which was stupid, because once they announced it, half of the faculty and about 30% of the students didn’t return for the second year.They hired two outside consultants to help set up the new school. These consultants were stuck on making the school a special type of “academy” with a focus in something that no one really cared about: “global citizenship.” These consultants, who were former public school principals, were convinced that private school families sent their kids to private schools because they cared about things like “global citizenship.”FYI, the #1 reason people send their children to private schools in Chicago is for safety. They’re trying to get their kids away from the riff-raff in the public schools. The #2 reason is for small class sizes. Other popular reasons are for less bureaucracy, a more community-like atmosphere, they like the religious aspect of the curriculum, or the school is physically closer to their house. The consultants apparently didn’t know any of that. They thought parents really cared about the latest education buzz words, like “global citizenship.”The consultants let us know we would all be fired, but given the first chance to apply for positions with the new school.Then they gave us a huge book (written by them, of course) about the type of school they were trying to set up, and had us go to a series of professional development workshops throughout that final year, wherein we were supposed to discuss sections of the book we were supposed to read on our own time, and demonstrate how we would teach a class with those methods.So, you had a bunch of unmotivated private school teachers (who get paid a fraction of what public school teachers make), basically doing busy work in the hopes of getting a job with the new school.About a quarter of the teachers didn’t bother to show up for the professional development. They weren’t planning on applying at the new school anyway. Of those who showed up, it was obvious at every meeting that no one actually read the section we were supposed to read. There was a lot of looking around, hoping someone else would say something when they asked us questions.I’ve never been in a room full of people with such low morale.In the end, they only took a handful of teachers from each school, let the rest go, and hired some new teachers to fill in the gaps. They expected an enrollment of 800 students that first year. Once word got around that most of the teachers the parents knew and liked wouldn’t be working at the new school, a lot of the families who remained finally gave up. They opened with barely 500 students that first year. Over 30% of the students from the closing schools decided to go elsewhere… not to the school their school was being combined with.One of my coworkers made the cut and went to the new school. He hated it and quit at the end of the year. He said the morale was abysmal, and the consultants had taken to shouting at teachers during meetings for not “teaching the right way.”That was a few years ago now. The last I heard was that the consultants are long gone, the principal has been replaced, most of the original teachers are gone, the school is still hovering around 500 students, and they’ve cut a lot of faculty positions to make up for the shortcoming in tuition.

The thing is that Foreign members in the Group are never the “least-popular” since those Foreign Members in the Group are technically the group and companies' success in where They come from.The Popularity would be divided by 3 of the members in the Group. For Example a Group with 6 members, I will only a foreign member in this list if they are in the Top 2.These are According to their current popularity in their Group.BLACKPINK Lisa -Born Pranpriya Manoban (ปราณปริยา มโนบาล) but changed to Lalisa Manoban (ลลิสา มโนบาล) on March 27, 1997, in Bangkok, Thailand. Became a Trainee for YG Entertainment in 2011 April after passing the YG Thai Audition in 2010. Trained for 5 Years and 4 Months before debuting in BLACKPINK in August 2016.Popularity Ranking in Group: 1st out of 4Citizenship: ThaiReason: Promoted Well.TWICE Mina -Born Myoui Mina (名井 南) in San Antonio, Texas to Japanese Parents on March 24, 1997. Her Family Moved to Kobe, Japan when she was a Toddler. She began Training in Jan 2014 for JYP Entertainment after being Cast in Japan. She Debuted in TWICE in October 2015.Popularity Ranking: 1st out of 9Citizenship: American and JapaneseReason: She is Back!!!!TWICE Tzuyu -Born Chou Tzuyu (周子瑜) on June 14, 1999, in Tainan, Taiwan. She was Discovered by JYP Entertainment in a Performing Arts workshop in 2012 and Began Training on November 2012. She Debuted in TWICE in October 2015.Popularity Ranking: 3rd out of 9Citizenship: Taiwanese.Reason: Always been a FavouriteNCT 127 Yuta -Born Nakamoto Yuta (中本悠太) on October 26, 1995, in Osaka, Japan. He began Training for SM entertainment in 2012(??? that date needs confirmation). He Debuted in July 2016 in NCT and NCT 127.Popularity Ranking: 3rd out of 10.Citizenship: JapaneseGot7 Jackson -Born 王嘉爾 Wong Ka Yee (Cantonese Pronunciation) or Wang Jia Er (Mandarin Pronunciation) on March 28, 1994, in Hong Kong to Chinese Parents. He Passed the JYP Auditions in Hong Kong in December 2010 and Moved to Korea to Begin Training in July 2011. After about 2 and a Half Years of Training, He Debuted in Jan 2014 with Got7.Popularity Ranking: 1 out of 7Reason: His MAMA Reactions to JYP has got him trendingBefore People come After me, These Numbers fluctuate from time to time so it is just a current one.

It’s quite obvious that a tourist’s Finland is a different place than a Finn’s FInland, but it’s not easy to tell what we Finns associate ourselves with as a nationwide group.Even in a small country like Finland, there are different realities, ethnicities and identities and it’s hard to form a common ground without using most general stereotypes. That’s what I have to do though, even if it doesn’t fit many Finns’ esperience as such.I do imagine, that we find our common ground in the forest and a small sauna on the lake shore. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Cityfinn from the big cities in the South, an Ostrobothnian welder in a small machine workshop or a dairy farmer in the North-East forests.The prevailing mental image of being a Finn and the cultural traits to attach oneself to is still connected with our nature and the iconic and hugely important sauna culture. Many have their dearest memories attached to those, no matter how old fashioned it may sound and how remote it might be from one’s everyday life.Simple and decent life among the woods and long evenings to stare over the lake. Killing mosquitoes in the summer and burning a fire in the winter.Another way to see it is the citizenship: we value our civil society and see ourselves as parts of this home country. This feeling is connected with democracy and equality that are big trends of the Finnish thinking, what ever forms they may find.It’s striking, how unanimous all political parties are about the key values of the civil society, even if they tend to interpret them and develop them into opposite directions.This isn’t something that a foreigner might notice and it isn’t spoken in big words. It’s just something we live. Or imagine that other Finns live it too.These are things that come to my mind and yet, as I write them here, I know that they are not really common to all, there are Finns that will paint a very different picture. But I tried to find the most basic features that as many Finns as possible could share.