This marks the first time ever that a city in the United States is designated as the Capital of Culture.Hancock was invited by Fenno-Ugria and its partners to apply to be the Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture. Jim Kurtti, the Honorary Consul of Finland in the Upper Peninsula, says he wanted the title for the city.“I think it should be [the capital],” Kurtti said. “We really should be because we’ve really exhibited that even after generation and generation, we’ve maintained this identity. We’ve worked hard at keeping it authentic.”Hancock Rotary Club President Melissa Maki says Hancock is just like home for Finnish people.“Everybody knows that Hancock is the cultural hub for Finnish Americans in the United States,” Maki said. “Even the street signs here are in a different language. I tell my friends in Finland, ‘You should come visit; it’d be just like being at home,’ but the Finnish pride, particularly in the city of Hancock, is so strong and so important for so many people.”“We’re so organically Finnish,” Maki said. “So deeply Finnish. I think that includes the other Finno-Ugric regions of the world. We do it without making a spectacle of ourselves; we do it because we truly are proud of who we are and where we come from. I think it’s wonderful that its being recognized outside of this region and outside of the continent for that matter.”https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2025/06/23/hancock-named-2026-finno-ugric-capital-culture/
>>220396420>our veins SEETHE with fennomanic blood!lol
>>220396420Bro I live in the upper peninsula and have been to Hancock many times. It's as "Finnish" as New Jersey is "Italian"
>>220396441>>220396459fvcking fennomanic & nordic blood surge through my b*owncel amerimvtt yooper veins
>>220396459being finnish is easyeat your mammi, go to sauna, drink beer, shitpost
>>220396420>Capital of CultureCapital of Asian
>>220396938yes
>>220396895Sounds like the good life desu.
>>220397367Why did you say Germans 3 times?
>>220396938All of those people are 10/10 in your country ricecock
>>220397367>i hate niggers, jews and muslims
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>>220396420Michigan is our clay. Leave it alone
>>220400342The map says>south finlandRight where OP is talking about though
>>220400393But Lower Peninsula is ours. Well except Detroit area. Fukushima can take them and their negroes
>>220400230we do this
>>220400230I've never seen a maypole here
>>220396459welcome, brother
>>220400495you cannot comprehend the depths of our finnishness
>>220401964Are they pretending to be rural Swedes as a joke?
