Hõimu (Hõim)

Tribe, kith and kin, relative, clan. Estonians cannot effusively be described as the most extrovert or other-person-oriented nation on earth (and how do you tell an Estonian extrovert? It’s the one looking at your shoes). As macadam evidence of this: only three (perhaps four) family type street names in the whole of Tallinn. Along with Sõbra, and Lemmiku, this is the closest they get to relational intimacy and, without any intersection at all, a very socially distant ménage à trois (or quatre) it is too. Being the first country in the world to succeed in avoiding any form of social intercourse during elections by e-voting, one wonders how they reproduce. See Nõo.