Russ. No, we are not more disciplined, yes shit happens, things do get destroyed, there is some danger involved, but it's usually within the acceptable levels of craziness. Most of us survive without harm, and usually the damage is not unfixable.
You're soon more of an expert on Norway than actual Norwegians. The Student Federation is about giving students access to democratic decisions regarding them.
----- @Henoik ----- - Back in the day during high school, I got elected class president for my senior year and each of the class presidents formed the school-board representing the interests of the student-body at my school. I guess it has grown in proportion, 'cause they now collectively come together as a union across the counties/country. A great concept through which students can air their opinions about school and education if not for themselves, but for the future. 'Cause we all know that change takes time... -----
You also have the Youth Council (Ungdomsrådet) for high school (Ungdomsskole). They are closely tied to the municipal council, and have the right to speak on council meetings, and give input on all matters that concern them. Colleges are run by the county, so they have their own Youth Council, and work with the county council in the same manner. Elevorganisasjonen is something different, and is a national organization. It's more like a trade/labour union, but for pupils and students.
@@AudunWangen Yeah, I've been an organizational man for my whole life. Most people start doing democratic work like that through Elevorganisasjonen, and I think it really shows the ease of access to democracy in Norway - which is why we're rated at the top of the democracy index year after year
@@Henoik I agree. I did almost nothing to get on the municipal council. I just decided to become a member of a political party, got invited to a few meetings and we just talked about politics. Then they asked me if I wanted to be nominated, and before I knew it I was put in the 1st spot and elected. What I really like too, is how approachable everyone is in politics. I can literally pick up the phone and call all the top politicians in my political party, and I've met all of them in person multiple times: Trine Skei Grande, Guri Melby, Sveinung Rotevatn, Abid Raja, Ingvild Thorsvik, Ola Elvestuen, Grunde Almeland, Alfred Bjørlo and of course many of the politicians in the county. I also met Audun Lysbakken in SV once, and told him about the time someone confused me for him on Twitter, and I almost bumped into Jens Stoltenberg while I was distracted finding directions on my phone. That was when he was prime minister, and I was thinking afterwards: where were the security guards? This was before the 22th July attacks, though.
The problem with nynorsk is that it's built on all the dialects and if you know quite a lot of them, it's very very confusing on what is what and how is how.
Nynorsk is a constructed language therefore not a real dialect per se. I don’t hate Nynorsk. I have relatives who lives in areas where they traditionally only wrote in Nynorsk in school, but I understand that nobody wants to be forced to have to learn and be grades in a 2nd written language besides from Bokmål. It’s annoying.
Tyler, about the "russ". If you ever get a hold of it, I would love if you could check out the fourth episode of the first season of "Dexpedition". It is about the russ-celebration. Mind you that's the brats of Norway, not the commoners. But the party is still hard wherever.
im very impressed by your learning of norway and norwegian. just the fact you rememberd "bokmål" and "nynorsk" is pretty amaizing. you should host a meet up in oslo and i bet you all of your subscriberes me included would donate for plane ticket and hotel so you could get a trip to norway and experience it for yourself :)
Bokmål is not a more standard norwegian. They're about equal. Nynorsk is based on a continuum of dialects, but a bit low emphasis on eastern norwegian dialects. Bokmål is actually danish that has been norwegianified. The spoken dialect is maybe 40% closest to nynorsk and 60% closest to bokmål. Very few, if any speaks like standard written bokmål, but a bit more speak pretty much as standard written nynorsk. Most people use side-forms of words / grammar or words from the other form. Nynorsk allows for much more variety in what words you are allowed to use while bokmål has a much narrower vocabulary. Most people who speak closer to bokmål use many non-bokmål words. Both languages have standard forms and side forms of words and grammar. The main problem with bokmål is that many with wealth and power considered it a more refined higher class language due to the extensive usage /roots during the danish occupation. The dominant dialect and language was considered low class and it was expected that you should speak closer to danish if you wanted to get somewhere in politcs, business and media. We've had examples of artists being denied to publish their music on big labels unless they sung with a dialect from the wealthier part of trhe capitol. The standard bokmål was developed from was an oral form they called refined common speech. Basically, other ways to speak the language were lower class an unrefined. Norway has a rather sad history of brutally requiring children to speak Norwegian (primarily East-Norwegian9. Sami children would be forcibly sent to boarding schools, forbidden to speak their mother tongue and taught Norwegian only. The famous Norwegian Arne Garborg was actually born Aadne Garborg, but was told at university / in Oslo that Ådne was not a proper name, and he changed it to Arne. Privately, he used the name Aadne to his family. The whole nynorsk and bokmål situation is a royal mess, with both sides having really strong points in their favor. We would never have had bokmål if we hadn't been occupied by Denmark for several hundred years.
The most funny of it all. Nynorsk is Norwegian 100% and Bokmål is old Dannish language. Still us Norwegians (without me) dont know that fact and also does not like to know that it is a fact. Yea thats right, Nynorsk is 100% Norwegian and Bokmål... Well put a potato in your throat and listen to yourself. =D
I was Russ back in 1993 and we had a van. I spent around 10 000 USD on that celebration. We went to a brewery and booth a pallet of beer. 48 cases and we went to The HiFi Club store and installed a huge stereo system. Plus all the other things we needed to party for a month. So even back then we used a lot of money. 😅 Today I guess people use much more
About "Russ", it's usually start mid-April, to May 17th. Our national-day is May 17th, and that is the day "Russ" go to elementary schools and kids go crazy. Throughout these weeks, we give out cards "Russekort", usually in red, some blue. Other colors are "rare" because red is traditional, and the overalls, "Russedrakt" match the card color. A little fun fact, not so fun. This year, the exam-week is in the middle of the "Russefeiring". It's May12th-May16th, so the last week before May 17th. (May 17th is a free day. No work, everything closed, no school. I think it might be similar to July 4th) And we have to be careful not to be hangover on the examdays
Another point to add to the equality point she was bringing up is that in alot of the education paths that are seen as “manly” jobs such as mechanics and generally industrial production will rather choose a woman that is searching for education on that topic rather than a man. If I’m not mistaken that also counts if the woman has worse grades, so they would rather choose a woman to get the education then a well educated man. (I am not 100% certain that this is correct or if there are any exceptions but i know for a fact that they will choose women over men) Which personally I think is the worst way to go about it because that is the complete opposite of equality
This type of semi-formal distinction between everyday, spoken language and grammatically correct, written forms, is common to many languages. Norway, Denmark, and certainly English and Welsh each see both types taught at school. "Where're ya comin' from?", as opposed to " Whence come you?", for example.
In sweden, we start sexual education in 4th grade and keep learning about it randomly all throughout our education, but we dont have a separate subject for it. Rather, it's a part of biology, which in itself is a part of nature science.
Regarding when she talked about sexual education and feminism, I think she forgot to address one important thing that’s not been talked about nearly enough compared to the ones she mentioned, and it’s something that should be taught consistently in school from a young age; as a young norwegian male, I’m feeling the effects of not putting enough focus on men’s mental health, mental health is an important subject in general regardless of gender of course, but whereas girls and women are expected to talk about everything with each other and can cry openly without any taboo, it’s not the same with us boys and men, too many of us are expected to not talk about our feelings with each other and be open and show our emotions if we’re having a hard time, god forbid should we have a friend’s shoulder we can lean or cry on, "boy friendships are only supposed to be about having fun." Thankfully Norway has been getting better at this over the last couple of years, but we aren’t there quite yet.
Well I`ll tell you what, as a man of 44, one of the most impactful things I can see, and have ever seen (apart from all the horrors of the world of course) is a grown man crying, because I know how much it takes for that to happen. When a *man* cries is fkn serious.
@@afrog2666 Yeah I can def see that. One of my biggest wishes is to be able to cry again. I’ve experienced so much pain in the last 10 years of my life (I’m 21 now) that far exceeds and justifies the "criteria" for crying, but I just can’t. Maybe all this stigma that I talked about "taught" me to suppress it and at this point I’m just so used to it that I don’t even need to think "don’t cry" for me to not do it.
You have MANY dialects lol. In the United States, there are about 30 major English dialects, and there are over 150 different English dialects spoken worldwide, Cajun Vernacular English, New England English, and Texas English being some of the most distinct types. Btw, we had sex ed in the 90`s and probably before that too, so if it`s gone now, well that`s news to me and some Gen Z`er complaining about a lack of information and knowledge is A JOKE! You have every piece of information in the world in your literal hands. Anything you WANT to learn you CAN learn, and most of it completely for free.
The reason why sex ed is so important is to make sure all the kids gets the information they need. STDs, consent from both genders, birth control, different sexualities etc. search sex online and you know where you end up. We have seen several situations going wrong because kids learn about sex from porn instead of what it’s really like In addition you have a lot of very religious parents in America that won’t talk to their kids about anything sex related. Not even the importance of being safe, like having access to condoms. They restrict their access to the computer and make sex a very shameful subject to talk about. A teacher can be that safe grown up to give them the information they need and it should not be the purely biological, reproductive information. It should be everything they want to know. The kids, growing up in what I would consider borderline cults like 7 days adventists, Mormons etc also need to get the information from somewhere and since statistics show that most teen pregnancies and abortions happens in religious families they obviously don’t get enough education on the subject. This is not new, it’s not a 2024 phenomenon. That tells me at the very least, the education on the subject is and have been subpar for quite some time and not a matter of gen z complaining. When you in addition have parents removing and burning books for having sexual content, they really go out of their way to restrict information. Books like: “the lord of the flies” and “the most dangerous game” are considered ok in schools, but books about teenagers exploring their sexuality is being banned. To a Norwegian or a European in general that’s new level insanity. As we see it, sex as a natural part of life and young adults and violence is the thing you need to protect your kids from. No one is saying you should encourage teenagers to have sex, but they deserve to have all the information they need and be to safe and ready if they choose to actually have sex in their teens and early 20s And for those in need of a t-spoon for your information intake: no, I’m not saying 5-6 year olds need to learn about having sex, Al thought even they need to learn about bodily autonomy and not letting anyone abuse them. When I talk about sex ed and kids I’m talking about teenagers, not small children. The education and information given should be properly adjusted to their age.
Btw it has bin a new seson og the TV Show "Alt For Norge" Maby u can find some episodes..its americans that have ansesters in norway, compiting to get to the final. The winner will get to meet them! 😊
Bokmål is much influenced from Danish, after 400 years in union with them. Nynorsk is based on the dialects and thus more "genuine" Norwegian, although not all agree on this. But the difference is small; if you understand one you also understand the other. The whole thing is rather emotional in my opinion.
It’s not completely true that you don’t have dialects though. You do talk differently depending on where you are from. People from Boston talk differently to people in New York and people in the south talk differently than the people in the north. That’s dialects. But maybe you don’t have as many dialects as we do in Norway
The purpose of nynorsk is that when we where under Denmark we used "bokmål". Nynorsk is our own language. So that's why some people want,'s Nynorsk. Because it's our own.. But we are very close to the Danish, so it should not be a big problem. ( In my head)
02:28 That is correct, you can be exempt from learning Nynorsk in school, but that's usually under special cases. In my case, my mom convinced the school that learning Nynorsk would have a high risk of my Bokmål grades getting worse than they likely already would without Nynorsks, as I had a learning disability. 03:55 Also correct, a small percentage of regions in Norway use Nynorsk as their main language, while the rest use Bokmål. Nynorsk is also required by law to be used in, I think, 25% of all media as a method of preventing its extinction. If I'm not mistaken, some media will even be entirely in Nynorsk, though I have no idea whether this is because of a law or purposely done by the media directors. 07:07 In... 9th grade, I think it was? We were given bananas and condoms, and taught about the importance of practicing safe sex and how to apply a condom properly. I do think they talked about other contraceptives, but this is around 15 years ago, so I can't remember.
12:13 Potentially outdated information, from what I can find online, it officially starts anywhere between mid-April to May 1st and ends May 17th, when it starts apparently depends on where you are in Norway. Unofficially Russ may apparently pop up earlier, sometimes even months, which coincides with my memory of seeing Russ for months before May 17th back in 2008 and earlier. 14:14 This is not at all uncommon, we see it practically every year, Russ getting together to buy a bus, which alone I'd imagine could easily go up to 50,000 NOK to 100,000 NOK or even more. And as if that wasn't enough money to spend, they often go all in on the surround speakers - floor standing ones, not desk speakers - and subwoofers and everything. I've seen articles where a group of Russ had even completely stripped the inside of the bus clean to customize the interior from scratch to fit their liking. Then there's anything from spray painting names and slogans and such on the bus' exterior to giving it a full proper paintjob. Russ can go very crazy with their money spending, and that's putting it lightly. 14:38 Most are, but every year you'll hear about this Russ or that Russ either doing the SA or being the victim of SA either during the big Russe Concert or just at any point during the Russefeiring. Things have gotten a lot stricter and tighter over the last 10 - 15 years I've heard, especially regarding what kind of things were allowed to add as challenges or tasks that would give Russ a knot in their hat's tail, so I'd imagine it's much milder and rarer these days, but back then it was filled with lots of sexual stuff to the point that many might have felt pressured to do them to not feel like an outcast.
If you don’t know nynorsk, you won’t understand what most people outside of the cities are saying. Nynorsk are very important, and really not that hard. Bokmål is related way too much to the Danish language.
I hate the whole "Russe"-scheme. It's just an excuse for A4-kids to be "crazy" for a month and spend a shit-ton of money. I skipped the whole thing myself, and don't need a month to be crazy when I can just be bat-shit insane 24/7. It's dumb, it's costly, and it should stop.
bokmål is you talk in the way of text you see in books and also that there is different ways to speak norwigan in is kinda like there is american english and there is british english
looking at the background in her video...most likely the daughter of one of our few really wealthy ppl. here..most of the students here have to really work/study...they neither have the time or the money to post anything online...wich is one of the main reason why "we are who we are"...Norwegians...internet/modern society are killing us though...coupple of generations and we will be as sad/fucked-up/ as the rest of the world :(
The American education system is grossly underfunded and teachers are so undervalued. Its seems like they want to keep Americans poorly educated and no understanding of anything else other than America. The curriculum taught has an American bias pupils and taught nothing about anything outside of America. This from there first day to there last having to sware aligance to the flag each day. Being indoctrinated into cult America. American's live such insular lives and have zero social awareness also they never leave their bubble. The education system in Norway is there to benefit the pupils and the curriculum taught is wide ranging and helps to produce more better educated socially responsible people.
Remember, Trump said he loves the poorly educated. They are his voters, so he needs them. That's why he'll close down the Department of Education. Stupidity pays.
I'm happy about the sex education. It's more normal. I have a sixteen year old and it makes it easier for me as a parent. And the russefeiring is for more than a month. They often start on the new year and stops on the 17 of may. Some of the kids ruins their reportcard. They buy buses. My son doesn't want to be a russ, it's too expensive. It's like springbreak on steroids.
It is importen to learn about sex. And is importen to learn it is okay to say no. It is also importen to learn that you shall respect the answer no. Young people often feel this is difficult to sett the line of what they want or not. And most of all learn about how to protect them self. Why do you say that the US don't have this. And you are in 4 place in the world on the list.
You are maybe more used to the amish' "romspringa" where they are expected to do things they don't normally are allowed to. Put the word extreme in front of it, and you have russefeiring :P
Here is an example of Russebuss in Norway. ua-cam.com/video/On4zWyMf-GY/v-deo.htmlsi=Z9SPXdJEZX0fTSDF There is manny more if you sertch for "russebuss"
@okklidokkli yes I know, I have one of them 😉 my point was that the difference between bokmål and nynorsk is similar to the difference between modern day American English and old English with regards to the different pronunciation of words between the two.
Yes! Nynorsk is a lot closer to authentic Norwegian whereas Bokmål is Danish with a twist. Nynorsk is what we all should consider our Norwegian language.
@ Our old language was destroyed by danish influence. Icelandic is very close to old Norse, and there’s no reason why we shouldn’t adopt our old language again. Nynorsk is a good compromise though, and infinitely better than Bokmål which is half danish. Don’t accept the destruction that happened to our language! Every true Norwegian with brains would choose Nynorsk over Bokmål.
If people consider it such a big problem to learn two written languages, I think (as someone who learned Bokmål myself) that we should focus on Nynorsk, and drop Bokmål. As you know, Nynorsk is based on Norwegian, not Danish, and as an independent nation we should protect what is our own. If all children learned Nynorsk from first grade, within a few decades it would be natural for all people to read Nynorsk. Those who learned Bokmål could have the right to write it out their lives, and public administration had to approve both languages for 80-100 years - as we actually do today. The statistic she pointed to when talking about student participation, the Human Capital Index, actually has the US in fourth place that year, which is very good. The US is doing something right in this area.
I have watched your videos/reactions to different Norwegian-stuff for some time now...and enjoyed it all..(even those that dont really flatter us Norwegians)...so..just Wondering why the f..k are u paying attention to a painted up/wannabe/frustrated/16-year old /wannabe-youtube-star??
As far as Nynorsk/Bokmål goes you'd have to be completely linguistically inept to have issues learning one if you already grew up with the other. Some would even call such people stupid. Mostly I only see people from and around Oslo cry about it, but we all know what they're like...
Oh please. Nynorsk is just a made up language by Ivar Aasen. Most people will never use the nynorsk they have learned. Schools should just get rid of it and focus on learning bokmål or another language that is actually useful.
@@DocProctor Most people understand it, they just never need to write nynorsk. If you believe bokmål is a danish invention, you do not know anything about the history of the language.
@@miloe436 Tror kanskje du burde sette deg ned og lese litt om hvordan bokmål ble til istedenfor å projisere din uvitenhet utover hele internettet, lille vennen... Foreslår du begynner med å lese deg opp på hva dansk-norsk var for no'
@@DocProctor Bokmål derived from danish but was developed by people like Henrik Wergeland, Asbjørnsen and Moe, at not at least the father of Bokmål, Knud Knudsen. None of these were danish. I wouldn't talk so much about who is ignorant here.
You only need to watch Teen Mom to understand how “good” Sex Ed is in the US🤣🤣🤣 They don’t even know what birth control is let alone a condom nor do they use them. Yet they wonder why many of their kids have kids themselves post 18🙄🫣🫠
American: "This could not work, things would be destroyed"
Norwegian:"Yes, that is kind of the point"
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I'am a Norwegian and i subed because your learning about norway and i respect you :)
Russ. No, we are not more disciplined, yes shit happens, things do get destroyed, there is some danger involved, but it's usually within the acceptable levels of craziness. Most of us survive without harm, and usually the damage is not unfixable.
Think about the student organizations as the school's version of a workplace union.
You're soon more of an expert on Norway than actual Norwegians. The Student Federation is about giving students access to democratic decisions regarding them.
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- Back in the day during high school, I got elected class president for my senior year and each of the class presidents formed the school-board representing the interests of the student-body at my school.
I guess it has grown in proportion, 'cause they now collectively come together as a union across the counties/country.
A great concept through which students can air their opinions about school and education if not for themselves, but for the future.
'Cause we all know that change takes time...
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You also have the Youth Council (Ungdomsrådet) for high school (Ungdomsskole). They are closely tied to the municipal council, and have the right to speak on council meetings, and give input on all matters that concern them.
Colleges are run by the county, so they have their own Youth Council, and work with the county council in the same manner.
Elevorganisasjonen is something different, and is a national organization. It's more like a trade/labour union, but for pupils and students.
@@AudunWangen Yeah, I've been an organizational man for my whole life. Most people start doing democratic work like that through Elevorganisasjonen, and I think it really shows the ease of access to democracy in Norway - which is why we're rated at the top of the democracy index year after year
@@Henoik I agree. I did almost nothing to get on the municipal council. I just decided to become a member of a political party, got invited to a few meetings and we just talked about politics. Then they asked me if I wanted to be nominated, and before I knew it I was put in the 1st spot and elected.
What I really like too, is how approachable everyone is in politics. I can literally pick up the phone and call all the top politicians in my political party, and I've met all of them in person multiple times: Trine Skei Grande, Guri Melby, Sveinung Rotevatn, Abid Raja, Ingvild Thorsvik, Ola Elvestuen, Grunde Almeland, Alfred Bjørlo and of course many of the politicians in the county.
I also met Audun Lysbakken in SV once, and told him about the time someone confused me for him on Twitter, and I almost bumped into Jens Stoltenberg while I was distracted finding directions on my phone. That was when he was prime minister, and I was thinking afterwards: where were the security guards? This was before the 22th July attacks, though.
The problem with nynorsk is that it's built on all the dialects and if you know quite a lot of them, it's very very confusing on what is what and how is how.
Nynorsk is a constructed language therefore not a real dialect per se. I don’t hate Nynorsk. I have relatives who lives in areas where they traditionally only wrote in Nynorsk in school, but I understand that nobody wants to be forced to have to learn and be grades in a 2nd written language besides from Bokmål. It’s annoying.
In America you have religious parents groups banning books instead, so there is that...
Tyler, about the "russ". If you ever get a hold of it, I would love if you could check out the fourth episode of the first season of "Dexpedition". It is about the russ-celebration. Mind you that's the brats of Norway, not the commoners. But the party is still hard wherever.
im very impressed by your learning of norway and norwegian. just the fact you rememberd "bokmål" and "nynorsk" is pretty amaizing. you should host a meet up in oslo and i bet you all of your subscriberes me included would donate for plane ticket and hotel so you could get a trip to norway and experience it for yourself :)
Yes, I'm in.
Bokmål is not a more standard norwegian. They're about equal. Nynorsk is based on a continuum of dialects, but a bit low emphasis on eastern norwegian dialects. Bokmål is actually danish that has been norwegianified. The spoken dialect is maybe 40% closest to nynorsk and 60% closest to bokmål. Very few, if any speaks like standard written bokmål, but a bit more speak pretty much as standard written nynorsk. Most people use side-forms of words / grammar or words from the other form. Nynorsk allows for much more variety in what words you are allowed to use while bokmål has a much narrower vocabulary. Most people who speak closer to bokmål use many non-bokmål words. Both languages have standard forms and side forms of words and grammar.
The main problem with bokmål is that many with wealth and power considered it a more refined higher class language due to the extensive usage /roots during the danish occupation. The dominant dialect and language was considered low class and it was expected that you should speak closer to danish if you wanted to get somewhere in politcs, business and media.
We've had examples of artists being denied to publish their music on big labels unless they sung with a dialect from the wealthier part of trhe capitol. The standard bokmål was developed from was an oral form they called refined common speech. Basically, other ways to speak the language were lower class an unrefined. Norway has a rather sad history of brutally requiring children to speak Norwegian (primarily East-Norwegian9. Sami children would be forcibly sent to boarding schools, forbidden to speak their mother tongue and taught Norwegian only.
The famous Norwegian Arne Garborg was actually born Aadne Garborg, but was told at university / in Oslo that Ådne was not a proper name, and he changed it to Arne. Privately, he used the name Aadne to his family.
The whole nynorsk and bokmål situation is a royal mess, with both sides having really strong points in their favor. We would never have had bokmål if we hadn't been occupied by Denmark for several hundred years.
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The most funny of it all. Nynorsk is Norwegian 100% and Bokmål is old Dannish language. Still us Norwegians (without me) dont know that fact and also does not like to know that it is a fact. Yea thats right, Nynorsk is 100% Norwegian and Bokmål... Well put a potato in your throat and listen to yourself. =D
I love watching your videos and being absolutely shocked about how different American school is.
I was Russ back in 1993 and we had a van. I spent around 10 000 USD on that celebration. We went to a brewery and booth a pallet of beer. 48 cases and we went to The HiFi Club store and installed a huge stereo system. Plus all the other things we needed to party for a month. So even back then we used a lot of money. 😅 Today I guess people use much more
About "Russ", it's usually start mid-April, to May 17th. Our national-day is May 17th, and that is the day "Russ" go to elementary schools and kids go crazy. Throughout these weeks, we give out cards "Russekort", usually in red, some blue. Other colors are "rare" because red is traditional, and the overalls, "Russedrakt" match the card color.
A little fun fact, not so fun. This year, the exam-week is in the middle of the "Russefeiring". It's May12th-May16th, so the last week before May 17th. (May 17th is a free day. No work, everything closed, no school. I think it might be similar to July 4th)
And we have to be careful not to be hangover on the examdays
we in norway learns 2 written norwegians as you know (bokmål & nynorsk) but we also learn the differences between american and british written english
Another point to add to the equality point she was bringing up is that in alot of the education paths that are seen as “manly” jobs such as mechanics and generally industrial production will rather choose a woman that is searching for education on that topic rather than a man.
If I’m not mistaken that also counts if the woman has worse grades, so they would rather choose a woman to get the education then a well educated man.
(I am not 100% certain that this is correct or if there are any exceptions but i know for a fact that they will choose women over men)
Which personally I think is the worst way to go about it because that is the complete opposite of equality
You should watch Norwegian “jule kalender” (Christmas calendar) I recommend jul I svingen!
"Maybe norwegian highschoolers are more disciplined" No, theyre really not🤣🤣🤣 They get as crazy and wild and drunk as anyone else would
This type of semi-formal distinction between everyday, spoken language and grammatically correct, written forms, is common to many languages. Norway, Denmark, and certainly English and Welsh each see both types taught at school. "Where're ya comin' from?", as opposed to " Whence come you?", for example.
In sweden, we start sexual education in 4th grade and keep learning about it randomly all throughout our education, but we dont have a separate subject for it. Rather, it's a part of biology, which in itself is a part of nature science.
Regarding when she talked about sexual education and feminism, I think she forgot to address one important thing that’s not been talked about nearly enough compared to the ones she mentioned, and it’s something that should be taught consistently in school from a young age; as a young norwegian male, I’m feeling the effects of not putting enough focus on men’s mental health, mental health is an important subject in general regardless of gender of course, but whereas girls and women are expected to talk about everything with each other and can cry openly without any taboo, it’s not the same with us boys and men, too many of us are expected to not talk about our feelings with each other and be open and show our emotions if we’re having a hard time, god forbid should we have a friend’s shoulder we can lean or cry on, "boy friendships are only supposed to be about having fun." Thankfully Norway has been getting better at this over the last couple of years, but we aren’t there quite yet.
Well I`ll tell you what, as a man of 44, one of the most impactful things I can see, and have ever seen (apart from all the horrors of the world of course) is a grown man crying, because I know how much it takes for that to happen.
When a *man* cries is fkn serious.
@@afrog2666 Yeah I can def see that. One of my biggest wishes is to be able to cry again. I’ve experienced so much pain in the last 10 years of my life (I’m 21 now) that far exceeds and justifies the "criteria" for crying, but I just can’t. Maybe all this stigma that I talked about "taught" me to suppress it and at this point I’m just so used to it that I don’t even need to think "don’t cry" for me to not do it.
We also have "highschools" focusing extra on skiing , football, chess a.s.o. For talents.
You have MANY dialects lol.
In the United States, there are about 30 major English dialects, and there are over 150 different English dialects spoken worldwide, Cajun Vernacular English, New England English, and Texas English being some of the most distinct types.
Btw, we had sex ed in the 90`s and probably before that too, so if it`s gone now, well that`s news to me and some Gen Z`er complaining about a lack of information and knowledge is A JOKE!
You have every piece of information in the world in your literal hands.
Anything you WANT to learn you CAN learn, and most of it completely for free.
No such thing as English dialects. It’s called an accent!
@@kilipaki87oritahiti Cheers :D Mate, we have 175.000 US dialects. but it is still ENGLISH :DDD
The reason why sex ed is so important is to make sure all the kids gets the information they need.
STDs, consent from both genders, birth control, different sexualities etc. search sex online and you know where you end up. We have seen several situations going wrong because kids learn about sex from porn instead of what it’s really like
In addition you have a lot of very religious parents in America that won’t talk to their kids about anything sex related. Not even the importance of being safe, like having access to condoms. They restrict their access to the computer and make sex a very shameful subject to talk about. A teacher can be that safe grown up to give them the information they need and it should not be the purely biological, reproductive information. It should be everything they want to know.
The kids, growing up in what I would consider borderline cults like 7 days adventists, Mormons etc also need to get the information from somewhere and since statistics show that most teen pregnancies and abortions happens in religious families they obviously don’t get enough education on the subject.
This is not new, it’s not a 2024 phenomenon.
That tells me at the very least, the education on the subject is and have been subpar for quite some time and not a matter of gen z complaining.
When you in addition have parents removing and burning books for having sexual content, they really go out of their way to restrict information.
Books like: “the lord of the flies” and “the most dangerous game” are considered ok in schools, but books about teenagers exploring their sexuality is being banned.
To a Norwegian or a European in general that’s new level insanity.
As we see it, sex as a natural part of life and young adults and violence is the thing you need to protect your kids from.
No one is saying you should encourage teenagers to have sex, but they deserve to have all the information they need and be to safe and ready if they choose to actually have sex in their teens and early 20s
And for those in need of a t-spoon for your information intake: no, I’m not saying 5-6 year olds need to learn about having sex, Al thought even they need to learn about bodily autonomy and not letting anyone abuse them.
When I talk about sex ed and kids I’m talking about teenagers, not small children. The education and information given should be properly adjusted to their age.
I never used nynorsk, but it was fun to learn...
About the Russ celebration, yes it’s a month long, but they also still have to go to school during that time and prepare for exams.
Btw it has bin a new seson og the TV Show "Alt For Norge"
Maby u can find some episodes..its americans that have ansesters in norway, compiting to get to the final. The winner will get to meet them! 😊
The student organisation (elevorganisasjonen) is sort of like a labour union for students
Bokmål is much influenced from Danish, after 400 years in union with them. Nynorsk is based on the dialects and thus more "genuine" Norwegian, although not all agree on this. But the difference is small; if you understand one you also understand the other. The whole thing is rather emotional in my opinion.
Watching from norway
It's a month of what you would call spring break? Which lasts a week or two?
It’s not completely true that you don’t have dialects though. You do talk differently depending on where you are from. People from Boston talk differently to people in New York and people in the south talk differently than the people in the north. That’s dialects. But maybe you don’t have as many dialects as we do in Norway
The purpose of nynorsk is that when we where under Denmark we used "bokmål". Nynorsk is our own language. So that's why some people want,'s Nynorsk. Because it's our own.. But we are very close to the Danish, so it should not be a big problem. ( In my head)
Yes, you need to find your own style and stick with it, but it takes a lot of effort.
I almost had a stroke reading that title
Almost every person who doesn't speak nynorsk, hate to have to learn it.
When I call my friend in Alabama we tease each other about who has the dialect. I live in Norway now.
I am Norwegian and have never used Nynorsk in my 45 years, so I think that most Norwegians never get to use Nynorsk.
English, yes there are differences. Just ask the Brits, they would say Americans get it wrong with spelling and all sorts...
02:28 That is correct, you can be exempt from learning Nynorsk in school, but that's usually under special cases. In my case, my mom convinced the school that learning Nynorsk would have a high risk of my Bokmål grades getting worse than they likely already would without Nynorsks, as I had a learning disability.
03:55 Also correct, a small percentage of regions in Norway use Nynorsk as their main language, while the rest use Bokmål. Nynorsk is also required by law to be used in, I think, 25% of all media as a method of preventing its extinction. If I'm not mistaken, some media will even be entirely in Nynorsk, though I have no idea whether this is because of a law or purposely done by the media directors.
07:07 In... 9th grade, I think it was? We were given bananas and condoms, and taught about the importance of practicing safe sex and how to apply a condom properly. I do think they talked about other contraceptives, but this is around 15 years ago, so I can't remember.
12:13 Potentially outdated information, from what I can find online, it officially starts anywhere between mid-April to May 1st and ends May 17th, when it starts apparently depends on where you are in Norway. Unofficially Russ may apparently pop up earlier, sometimes even months, which coincides with my memory of seeing Russ for months before May 17th back in 2008 and earlier.
14:14 This is not at all uncommon, we see it practically every year, Russ getting together to buy a bus, which alone I'd imagine could easily go up to 50,000 NOK to 100,000 NOK or even more. And as if that wasn't enough money to spend, they often go all in on the surround speakers - floor standing ones, not desk speakers - and subwoofers and everything. I've seen articles where a group of Russ had even completely stripped the inside of the bus clean to customize the interior from scratch to fit their liking. Then there's anything from spray painting names and slogans and such on the bus' exterior to giving it a full proper paintjob. Russ can go very crazy with their money spending, and that's putting it lightly.
14:38 Most are, but every year you'll hear about this Russ or that Russ either doing the SA or being the victim of SA either during the big Russe Concert or just at any point during the Russefeiring. Things have gotten a lot stricter and tighter over the last 10 - 15 years I've heard, especially regarding what kind of things were allowed to add as challenges or tasks that would give Russ a knot in their hat's tail, so I'd imagine it's much milder and rarer these days, but back then it was filled with lots of sexual stuff to the point that many might have felt pressured to do them to not feel like an outcast.
We like democracy in Norway. Even studends voice will be heard. Of course.
The shock you had in part 1 was amazing😂😂
there are different ways of typing English ... US / UK English as example in text books
Nynorsk = Direct translate: New Norwegian. But is is actually old Norwegian dialect. 😂😂
No, it's just a made up language based on many dialects. Mostly from west norway since Ivar Aasen was born in Sunnmøre.
@ You could say that… a mixed of dialects. But it is not «new».. 🤭
If you don’t know nynorsk, you won’t understand what most people outside of the cities are saying. Nynorsk are very important, and really not that hard. Bokmål is related way too much to the Danish language.
I hate the whole "Russe"-scheme. It's just an excuse for A4-kids to be "crazy" for a month and spend a shit-ton of money. I skipped the whole thing myself, and don't need a month to be crazy when I can just be bat-shit insane 24/7. It's dumb, it's costly, and it should stop.
2:51 no british
It's like a union for the students
You should go and visit Norway 😂❤
where is part 1````?
bokmål is you talk in the way of text you see in books
and also that there is different ways to speak norwigan in is kinda like there is american english and there is british english
We started our russefeiring in september :D
looking at the background in her video...most likely the daughter of one of our few really wealthy ppl. here..most of the students here have to really work/study...they neither have the time or the money to post anything online...wich is one of the main reason why "we are who we are"...Norwegians...internet/modern society are killing us though...coupple of generations and we will be as sad/fucked-up/ as the rest of the world :(
The American education system is grossly underfunded and teachers are so undervalued. Its seems like they want to keep Americans poorly educated and no understanding of anything else other than America. The curriculum taught has an American bias pupils and taught nothing about anything outside of America. This from there first day to there last having to sware aligance to the flag each day. Being indoctrinated into cult America. American's live such insular lives and have zero social awareness also they never leave their bubble. The education system in Norway is there to benefit the pupils and the curriculum taught is wide ranging and helps to produce more better educated socially responsible people.
Remember, Trump said he loves the poorly educated. They are his voters, so he needs them. That's why he'll close down the Department of Education. Stupidity pays.
Norway is silly. 😉 🇸🇪
I'm happy about the sex education. It's more normal. I have a sixteen year old and it makes it easier for me as a parent.
And the russefeiring is for more than a month. They often start on the new year and stops on the 17 of may. Some of the kids ruins their reportcard. They buy buses. My son doesn't want to be a russ, it's too expensive. It's like springbreak on steroids.
It is importen to learn about sex. And is importen to learn it is okay to say no. It is also importen to learn that you shall respect the answer no. Young people often feel this is difficult to sett the line of what they want or not. And most of all learn about how to protect them self. Why do you say that the US don't have this. And you are in 4 place in the world on the list.
Sex education is pretty lacking in US. The human capital index list shown is about educational foundation for work.
You are maybe more used to the amish' "romspringa" where they are expected to do things they don't normally are allowed to. Put the word extreme in front of it, and you have russefeiring :P
She must be from Oslo, to say nynorsk doesn't make sense. It's based on dialects😅
Even the kings has been russ 🤓
About time he watches skam
Because the Russ is an important part of celebrating 17 mai🇳🇴
Bro, it's time to learn norsk
Im from norwey
Here is an example of Russebuss in Norway. ua-cam.com/video/On4zWyMf-GY/v-deo.htmlsi=Z9SPXdJEZX0fTSDF
There is manny more if you sertch for "russebuss"
Its 20% the same😂
YAY I AM NORWEGIAN HALLLOOOOO TYLER WALKER hallooooooooo
It's foolish to get drunk and party three weeks before exams. Can't the Russians celebrate when they're done with all of school?
Nynorsk would translate to if Americans were to learn to talk old English, like the bits talked in like the 1800
Not really. A huge part of Norways population speak dialects close to the written Nynorsk.
@okklidokkli yes I know, I have one of them 😉 my point was that the difference between bokmål and nynorsk is similar to the difference between modern day American English and old English with regards to the different pronunciation of words between the two.
drop bokmål 🥰
NEINEINEI PLS IKKE😭
Yes! Nynorsk is a lot closer to authentic Norwegian whereas Bokmål is Danish with a twist. Nynorsk is what we all should consider our Norwegian language.
@@fr3238 In that case we should all speak old norse, Norrønt or Icelandic... language is ALWAYS evolving.. deal with it.
@ Our old language was destroyed by danish influence. Icelandic is very close to old Norse, and there’s no reason why we shouldn’t adopt our old language again. Nynorsk is a good compromise though, and infinitely better than Bokmål which is half danish. Don’t accept the destruction that happened to our language! Every true Norwegian with brains would choose Nynorsk over Bokmål.
You have spring break...
Not everything that she ses is true. For real people in norway does not have that. Not every bodey have that same experiens with norwigien schools.
If people consider it such a big problem to learn two written languages, I think (as someone who learned Bokmål myself) that we should focus on Nynorsk, and drop Bokmål. As you know, Nynorsk is based on Norwegian, not Danish, and as an independent nation we should protect what is our own. If all children learned Nynorsk from first grade, within a few decades it would be natural for all people to read Nynorsk. Those who learned Bokmål could have the right to write it out their lives, and public administration had to approve both languages for 80-100 years - as we actually do today.
The statistic she pointed to when talking about student participation, the Human Capital Index, actually has the US in fourth place that year, which is very good. The US is doing something right in this area.
Well I’ll just say I am not a big fan of russefeiring. Honestly think we’d be better off without it.
Det er norge i rødt vit og blåååååt
I have watched your videos/reactions to different Norwegian-stuff for some time now...and enjoyed it all..(even those that dont really flatter us Norwegians)...so..just Wondering why the f..k are u paying attention to a painted up/wannabe/frustrated/16-year old /wannabe-youtube-star??
As far as Nynorsk/Bokmål goes you'd have to be completely linguistically inept to have issues learning one if you already grew up with the other. Some would even call such people stupid.
Mostly I only see people from and around Oslo cry about it, but we all know what they're like...
Oh please. Nynorsk is just a made up language by Ivar Aasen. Most people will never use the nynorsk they have learned. Schools should just get rid of it and focus on learning bokmål or another language that is actually useful.
@@miloe436 Because Bokmål isn't just a Danish invention... lmfao
Have fun not understanding a simple written language 😙
@@DocProctor Most people understand it, they just never need to write nynorsk.
If you believe bokmål is a danish invention, you do not know anything about the history of the language.
@@miloe436 Tror kanskje du burde sette deg ned og lese litt om hvordan bokmål ble til istedenfor å projisere din uvitenhet utover hele internettet, lille vennen...
Foreslår du begynner med å lese deg opp på hva dansk-norsk var for no'
@@DocProctor Bokmål derived from danish but was developed by people like Henrik Wergeland, Asbjørnsen and Moe, at not at least the father of Bokmål, Knud Knudsen. None of these were danish. I wouldn't talk so much about who is ignorant here.
I hate it
OMG 3 min
nynorsk sucks. i hate it.
Sorry to say, unless you are going to work for NRK or be a bureaucrat for the state, you will never use it when you are finished with school. 😆
Boring video
You only need to watch Teen Mom to understand how “good” Sex Ed is in the US🤣🤣🤣 They don’t even know what birth control is let alone a condom nor do they use them. Yet they wonder why many of their kids have kids themselves post 18🙄🫣🫠