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Support is offered, from work life to helped in many areas, and Finland is
some personal daily matters such as taking care of this matter. Students
cheap student lunches. Also profes- are not only people that could be in
sors feel equal and this creates a very a very early stage of their life defining
flourishing environment that allows themselves in the short and long run
a non-hierarchical communication but also people that might not have
between parties. In addition, the fact the opportunity to afford education
that Finnish is a complex language and are trying to break the poverty’s
to learn in the short run, serves as a cycle, and the Finnish system is there-
double-edged sword, because the fore very much appreciated.
language barrier makes people just
more willing to communicate in Eng-
lish and this is comfortable for the in-
ternational audiences that might not
be proficient in the local language.

In other countries, students could
be second-class citizens, simply be-
cause they need to be subsidized and

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