In Saturday\u2019s Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, Ville Bl\u00e5field<\/i> compared two political cultures through speeches by two presidents, Sauli Niinist\u00f6<\/i> of Finland and Barack Obama<\/i>. Citing Antti Mustakallio<\/i> and Jussi L\u00e4hde<\/i>, he states that Niinist\u00f6 uses a highly formal style laden with Finnish officialese. Niinist\u00f6 presents issues abstractly and impersonally, while Obama frequently uses “I” and “me”. Why do Finnish politicians think they have to hide themselves? The former MP Rosa Meril\u00e4inen<\/i> writes in The Researcher’s Book<\/a> that in Finland politicians imitate the style of experts, because we Finns have very rigid ideas about the speaking style that a politician should use. In order to be credible, a politician must not only speak like a technocrat but also mask his intentions with a coating of facts and neutral language. This kind of rhetorical posing should not, however, add to someone’s apparent trustworthiness. Instead, credibility comes from openly stating what you think and what you propose to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Saturday\u2019s Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, Ville Bl\u00e5field compared two political cultures through speeches by two presidents, Sauli Niinist\u00f6 of Finland and Barack Obama. Citing Antti Mustakallio and Jussi L\u00e4hde, he states that Niinist\u00f6 uses a highly formal style laden with Finnish officialese. Niinist\u00f6 presents issues abstractly and impersonally, while Obama frequently uses “I” and “me”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}