ABSTRACT
In current day discussion and especially in the media definition the North has been approached from two different general views. Foremost, the North has been related to problems around the Northern Dimension, questions simply and solely based on European and global politics. When the Cold War came to an end the whole question of limits and boundaries in the northern context changed. New kinds of questions and new kinds of answers were needed and the Northern Dimension was this required answer. The Northern Dimension was a new, hazier version of those strictly delimited northern borderlines.1 Secondly, the North has been approached, as if it was a sort of battlefield for economic contradictions, mainly because of its still not completely conquered natural resources. The alternative view from which the concept of the North has, now and then, been approached is associated with the continually changing characteristic features of the northern culture. Although the position of the cultural North has partly risen in recent discussions in the media, its importance can still be considered to be marginal rather than general.
