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Support is offered, from work life to   helped in many areas, and Finland is   fore very much appreciated.
            some personal daily matters such as   taking care of this matter. Students
            cheap student lunches. Also profess-  are not only people that could be in
            ors 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
            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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