What are similarities between the culture and language of Hungary and Finland?
The languages are related (both being Finno-Ugric), but not more closely than English and Persian (both being Indo-European). There are very few words that show an obvious similarity, and also the grammatical structures are very different. The same applies to the cultures: the differences and similarities has virtually nothing to do with the linguistic relationship, but rather with general similarities and differences within the European community in general, Finland being a large, sparsely populated, Nordic, mainly Lutheran country, eavily influenced by many centuries as a part of Sweden and quite uniformly Finnish (except the Swedish-speaking minority), while Hungary is a small, East-Central-European mainly Catholic country at the crossroads of many different peoples and cultures (Slavic, Germanic, Latin influences, and also sizeable Jewish and Gypsie minorities), near the cultural centres of Austria, Bohemia, the Balcans, and so on. In short, very different cultures, although of cou
