A guide to typical Swedish Behaviour
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- Опубліковано 15 лют 2012
- We made a commercial for Stockholm, on the subject "typical Swedish behaviour".
This was a school assignment for Sp2C in Blackebergs Gymnasium, Stockholm 2012.
I don't own any of the music in the video.
The Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby
Piotr Tchaikovksy - The Waltz of the Flowers - Розваги
Guy Cuts in Line in Sweden: annoyed glances
Guy Cuts in Line in USA: he gets his ass thrown out
It's about mutual understanding though XD Most people know not to cut in, and won't.
actually two taps in the torso with a 9mm.
No! Fnord, that is just a sad coincidence, the reason so many foreigners(refugees) immigrate to Sweden is because we are industrious and we have welfare benefits that people can claim. The Swedish model is incompatible with mass-immigration.
Sweden needs to get rid of all that socialism and their pushover mentality and then maybe they'll become a significant nation...
@@krezzie7420 Despite all the entrepreneurism that gave us IKEA, Spotify, Volvo, and many more? Not to mention the creator of the Nobel Peace Prize [and dynamite] was a Swede? Just how few nations do you deem 'significant' and how did *you* get to be gatekeeper?
I understand being polite, but letting your friend run around looking like a fool is just mean.
This is a bit exaggerated x) I live in Sweden and I to make fools of people x)
But since noone will point it out, who cares right? XD
Thats a thing they get rong
Yeah, that's messed up. If you let me walk around with toilet paper on my shoe all day, you're not really my friend. 😆
Haha! Seems in Sweden they wouldn't mention it out of politeness; here in England we probably wouldn't mention it just for the comedy!
Swedes seem so indirect and non-confrontational. That's unnatural.
varun jadwani half europe is like that tbh :D
varun jadwani Well natural is screaming and being threetening towards intruders. but we dont have to live in that world anymore, so i say fuck human nature.
+Maya Illusion lol indeed xD Nature is if not non-confrontational 99% of the time.
John Cass You need help.
LOL...I was in Sweden, and laughing a lot after seeing this. Its damn true, man!!! Swedes are too cold like their climate, but have beautiful city and architecture.
Is it that they're cold, or just more reserved?
51MontyPython Well it depends on the comparison, with whom you are comparing them. More reserved means towards cold!
topherh33 yeah may be, bcoz Europeans had tendency to invade other foreign countries, now they are afraid of their country!! What a logic....crap!!!
topherh33
It goes back to the logic of, "If everyone is guilty of _something_ then no one is guilty of _anything."_
--"Two wrongs make a 'right,'" sort of thing.
Last time us Swedes invaded anything was back in the Viking era lol. And we are a very warm and loving people but yes we dont tend to approach people but we would never be rude when approached. And if people were cold against you its probably cause you look like the people destroying and raping our country
I was in Stockholm recently & I was surprised at how wonderful & friendly Swedish people are. Of course personal privacy was respected in public but most people were very nice when asked for help or directions.
Even in hell if you ask for directions they answer
I have laughed to this so hard hahahaha@@astridcyanistescaeruleus4126
A rather private introverted culture, just like the Belgians and Germans.
Germans will yell at you and they don't have a problem showing they are mad or irritated. LOL At least in Berlin anyways.
***** Germany is a finy country, and germans are fine people.
SoundBlackRecordings Berliners are known for their candidness, other parts of Germany seem more conservative - I'd definitely say Belgians and southern Germans are conservative.
***** I know it's ridiculous. It's been difficult for me to adjust to.
I ride the train here in the US and there are often Swedes that come from the airport in the train, and people start talking to them (like we always do) and having these long conversations til they leave the train, they must think we are nuts.
latengocomoburro Well if we do come to a conversation we stick it out, but in our day to day life we try to avoid it so we dont get stuck in a conversation+fika for 4 hours everyday. It's a defense mechanism we have produced so we can actually do stuff during the day.
+latengocomoburro I think the rule is more like "don't iniate conversation" rather than it's people not wanting to talk. It's kind of a "mind your own bussiness" thing I think. A lot of people here (in Sweden, I'm a swede) would probably be happy to talk, it's just that people don't iniate conversation in case that would bother the other person. Since nobody does it, it is seen as kind of weird thing to do, striking up a conversation with a random stranger. I've had random people talk to me on the bus and stuff before but they were mostly weirdos.
As a swede I've got to say though, when I'm in the US, the openness is one of the things I appreciate the most.
+pappaOfswe This is also quite accurate I guess :P
My god...I think I'm Swedish!
True Swedes hate their native heritage and want the massive immigration to someday make them go extinct. Real Swedes are self-destructing and they love the traitors in government who are designing the systematic genocide.
1Fireskull -___- Do you know what the word "genocide" means? Apparently not. I find it hilarious that *_the melanin content of hominid epidermal tissue_* is so incredibly important to determining how you judge another human being's character. Are you _really_ that stupid, or are you just trying to get attention by whining about people who aren't identical to yourself?
avedic Genocide is appropriate term to describe the attack against all of indigenous Europeans thru the system of means to sell Europe on the open international market for all comers.
No whining is happening but the beginnings of revolution against the traitors and their invader pawns.
Jill Noble I definitely know I’m swedish
I was in sweden a few weeks ago and met a lot of swedes, and i found them to be very respectful people, i loved them! Swedish people for me are really fun and outgoing, i never met someone shy, i think most of them are very kind.
There are now quite a few of this "How to live in Sweden" video's on youtube. And unless whole thing is a prank, it seems like actual Swedeish society is made out of sociopaths with a serious communication breakdown... I still hope that whole thing is a joke, but the horrifying thing are the comments from actual Swedish people, who say things like "ja,ja, this is how you should behave when you are in Sweden"...
Just shut the hell up
Swedish act like canadians according to this video
Haha this is so funny... altough you forgot the "do not ever take the last piece of food"-unspoken rule
+Vendela Thunberg ohmygod! the most important one too!
Most awkward people on earth!
Nowadays we arent that ugly or awkward
+Christoffer Hjärtström not ugly but still very awkward!
That would be us, the Finns.
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...perkele.
Nej.
Ja.
This is really funny, I laughed so hard! :) greetings from the Philippines Swedes!
While I do no disagree with most of this, some of it is rather specific to Stockholm rather then Sweden.
Especially that escalator thing. That's only for the big three cities of Sweden as far as I've experienced.
stoffni
My experience is that the twats keep to the right :p
stoffni I live in a small town where people generally don't rush, but I tend to walk up the escalators in the middle since it's never crowded.
I live in Sweden and most of this is actually true in most places.
Actually it pretty much only applies to large southern cities as far as I've experienced. In the north people are like Swedes used to be, open and polite. Used to be you didn't need to lock your door when leaving home because everyone trusted eachother and had eachothers' backs. And the cutting in line is bs, I know very few people that'd remain silent and just glare.
This sounds like paradise.
I spent 5 weeks in Finland last summer and this also rings true for Finns. For me, an American, some of these "unspoken rules" were REALLY hard to get used to!!
busted out laughing from the first example and all the way through the video! this is pretty spot on! xD
I'm not sure how I ended up on this video, with no real intention to visit Sweden, or being swedish. But I laughed the whole video.
***** I love that about youtube, you start on a video of cats, a few hours go by and then you wonder why you're suddenly here (or somewhere way worse;))
cleanest subway I've ever seen. if only we all had the respect for places such as the Scandies!
This was very helpful! About to do a show in Stockholm!!!
This is actually... spot on.
I see that Sweden and/or Stockholm is quite similar to Helsinki. People hate if you stand on the left side of the escalator here as well and generally speaking don't care if someone was being mugged in front of your eyes or had passed out on the street when it's autumn and cold outside. The only exception is that Swedes don't usually like us Finns. Although the feeling is rather mutual - we don't usually like Swedes either.
Strange, to me it seems we get along a lot better than with Denmark or norway except during the hockey season.
Anton Nyström
vad jag har märkt är att ingen egentligen tycker om svenskar i Skandinavien. Danskar är de som är mest utåtriktade om det. Vi angränsar till alla dessa länder och, likt killen som alla känner, får stå ut med mycket trash-talk :P
Anton Nyström Really? I always thought you got along better with Danish and Norwegian people cause you all share a similar Germanic language. Thanks for the remark.
Man with No Name
I'm not sure Danes and Swedes are less close than the rest, but we have a long history of warring with the Danes. Some say we've had the most wars between us than anywhere else in Europe.
It's possible. Or fighting against the Russians and/or Germans when Finland was still a part of Sweden.
If it is true, it surely hurts the psycology of a person, to live in such a way and in such a society. :( One should express himself, in other way it can lead to depressions etc.
Bellamy Catherine that’s why people start acting like robots
I love the video! :D
XD if someone falls in Portugal everyone starts laughing and some come to help you, when it happens to me i start laughing too and when someone is in a awnkard situation we discretly tell it to the person. Now i love my country even more!
It's mostly because we are calm, if we get angry we do often express it
1. Everybody in the whole World gets angry when you get in front of the queue. 2. That horrible habit of staring at the cellphone instead of socializing is common in young people worldwide. 3. That escalator habit also happens here in Buenos Aires. There are simply some hurried people who need to get up faster.
agormanvideos there is alot more to it than that. for example people that hurrys through the escelator could have RLS(restless leg syndrome) and standing still will make them go crazy. Noone is the same.
+agormanvideos the thing with no 1 is Swedes typically say nothing when it happens, just give annoyed stares.
20Unbelievable06 The same happens here in Buenos Aires most of the time.
Is it really like this? I'm going in June for 5 nights and just wondering is there any good night clubs or pubs? I'm pretty confused after this video... LoL
I am swedish and i don't think all of these true and i don't think say swedish people cause everyone is not like that.
832d not all of them are like that but I’d say 50 precent are (I live in Sweden so I know how they can be)
Hahahaha, this is so hilarious! :D :D It seems like all Swedes are introverts. 😱
thank you found it helpful but would still love to see all that and more for myself
that was cute at the end that they befriended the guy who stepped infront of the que and all sat down for coffee... :D
On the escalator: Stand to the right walk on the left, it's pretty damn simple people...
Not gonna lie, the highlight of this video was The Human League at the beginning
When we started to go to London a few years ago people did that on the escalators too.
Oh my god I got chill when she stood on the wrong side of the escalator!
the voice sounds like a hostess before the flight :DDD
They are very kind people. In Austria, If somebody stands in wrong side of the esclator stairs, people are going to run and bump into that person intentionally. LOL.
I watched this video at 4:18 am while drinking my goodnight milk. No regrets.
The reason why people stare when you're in pain is because they get upset and care,and wants to say something but doesn't dare to.
that was a really funny and interesting video.... I've been to stockholm twice, but never realised those things....well the part with the toilet paper...please say something!!! ahhaha
So if I were inside the metro train with Bazooka on my shoulder would they ignore me or scream and run ?
Honestly, they would probably just glance weirdly at you and back of a bit. The potential horror in acting scared when there wasn't any threat after all is just to strong... At least I think I would react in such a way, and I'm from Sweden
*too strong
The escalator situation happened to me at a tunnelbana station when I visited Stockholm three years ago! A girl behind me spoke to me in Swedish, I didn't understand a word but I understood that she wanted to overtake me. ;-)
You are now sufficiently fortified to be called a Swedish citizen :)
It's interesting to me, the Swedish culture, because in some ways I feel I relate more to them (personality wise/socially), though, in other ways, it's QUITE the opposite (like my beliefs and convictions, for example), which I know is odd.
cuz you suck
Ik that but for me I just get annoyed when people say I'm too polite and think it's weird it's just the way I am haha
It looks like I've been living like a Swede my entire life.
I am going to study abroad there in spring and I think I will fit right in
If you think they are private and introverted, In 2004 in some suburb in Osaka Japan at a train station I politely asked an older lady for directions (during the day) and she literally started to run away from me lol 😂...
Straight up my friends didn't tell me my hair looked funny because it got tangled in my glasses. I wanted to die.
You got it!
Swedes have an enormous amount of social codes and do's and don'ts. But this video is humoristic
I agree with you but as a typical Swede I can honestly say that i do the same thing.
The reason is that Sweden are extremely proud and hates getting embarrassed more than almost anything, the reaction also usually depends on the situation.
For example, if i fall and i think that at the most 1-3 people saw i will stand up as quickly as possible and keep on as if nothing happened and ignore the pain, if 5+ people saw i will laugh it of so that i will feel less embarrassed(and ignore the pain) XD
The train thing is 100% me but i top it up a notch doing it Swede202 style and never even try to catch the train so i wont look stupid when i miss it by a split second ^^
Good job, ladies! I would hate to be the recipient of those icy stares. Brrrr!
I have to say, the "going out for coffee and not being that social" part is pretty much the norm here in Australia too :P.
That was a funny vid.
Most people are self conscious around others so nothing new there. The toilet paper scene was extraordinary, I think friends would hint at the problem, even in Sweden.
The phone thing is true in some cases but it is usually just the one guy in the corner that plays on his phone.
this explains alot
Went to stokholm straight from Ethiopia when I was 17, went on an small plane ride +Tivoli ride, God I'm now 36 I wanna go back take me😭😭
Jag håller inte riktigt med denna videon. Den är lustig att se på, men den har fel på så många punkter.
motivera är du snäll
I will remember that when i'm in sweden :D .. Thaaanks
Icy and grounded people match the weather they are around
but doesn't every country wait in the line or q?
+summer2011leggo the thing with that one is, if someone cuts in front of you, typical Swedish behaviour is to just stare at them, but NOT say a word.
after the train the girl at the table says i looooove brocoli
Thanks ,I just may visit sweden once my parents let me.
Once a friend went shopping with the biggest bird-shit on his shoulder and everyone just looked at him like he was naked or something. He noticed it when he got home lol
I am so glad that I am not a typical swede =)
but my goodness just can not stand, and laughs after you have fallen so it does not mean that Swedes are uncomfortable or do not have any friends (ps so much better in Sweden one in usa)
Elin Wallman eh, care if you've fallen or not =) oh yes, I agree with you =)
You are not a typical Swede? That must mean that you do not support the self-destruction of native Swedes through massive immigration. You do not support the systematic genocide of native Europeans which is made by traitors.
I live in sweden but I don't remeber the toilet paper thing if u someone have it I would just tell them
1Fireskull I find it hilarious that *_the melanin content of hominid epidermal tissue_* is so incredibly important to determining how you judge another human being's character. Are you _really_ that stupid, or are you just trying to get attention by whining about people who aren't identical to yourself?
I thought Stockholm was fantastic - a charming, beautiful and progressive city. I did not get to Malmö so cannot comment. I did get the opportunity to visit Göteborg as well as Darlana which was wonderful! I try and see the positive in all the places I visit and make up my own mind! :)
my boyfriend is swede...it's rough at first,but now he start to absorb my asian culture
the vienna and stockholm metro looks very similar !
Missing the train, or Metro in Budapest, Hungary. During rush hour is no big deal. They come every minute, how ever they only run just a little past 11 at night. If you miss the last one, you can scream and throw things to the wall, there is no shame in that. You will have to go up to the surface, to take one of the night buses, that only comes every hour, but on a positive note, you may end up in a nearby pub (they are everywhere) and have agood time, and you may not make it home 'till morning.
3:23 First time I have seen subtitles translate clear swearwords like "fan" and "helvete" without spamming profanity.
I am so happy to live in Texas. We are friendly & well mannered. The warm weather is great too.
very informative :)
What I get from this is: Don't superglue toilet paper to your shoes, don't rub blueberry sauce all over your face in Sweden, and ice is slippery even in Stockholm.
i guess it won "swedish humour award"
such as?
i live in south sweden and it is nothing like the video, or if you miss the train and if you slip, it would be like the video ;)
i've heard that swedish girls are so timid and odd is that true ?
I can relate to the crowd thing but to stand on the right side of the escalator is something that is more important in Stockholm cause it is more people there and many people in hurry. But something very important to know when you go to Sweden is that everybody have there personal sphere which you can't get into cause then it would be awkward. So no kisses on the cheek, hugs is ok if you are friends and don't stand to close to people.
As a swedish american who has never visited sweden -- I can identify with these behaviors.
where u from urself?
Guy Cuts in Line in Indonesia,all people behind will scold u w/ angry face LOL
You don't say??
Thx for this video cause i need to learn swedish ppl because my bf is swedish
and you're indian
Yeah, I really don't get that either. I've seen it in a lot of videos, described as something apparently weird. What do the rest of the world do? Stay down, until someone comes along and gives them a pat on the back and a cookie?
...Sweden is in the center though?
Norway to the left,Denmark underneath and Finland to the right...
Australia is almost the same. Except for the food on face part. If that happens here, we don't care if we laugh because they have food on their face, it's hilarious. They laugh too XD
We'll also help them clean it.
It's good to see that Australia and Sweden are alike in some way :)
G'day från Australien!
in indonesia we don't really use a toilet paper.
***** be gentle bruh use your bare hand.
***** yess thats right,, asian style
Der Kommandant Australians do have manners. Just not on the Eastern coast. I live in the country-side.
Us countrysiders like to take the piss out on the Americanisation in other aussies :)
Jag är från australien också :)
Haha, I think the phone thing with friends is something all younger people in any 1st world country does. It happens here in the good ol' states more than I would like to admit though.
why wouldn't you get up and walk away as fast as possible?
Well it's kind of common sense in Sweden that you always stand on the right side of the escalator, walk on the right side of that rode and that people getting of the subway should go before those getting on.
haha! i got coffee coming out my nose from laughing!
Very interesting. Are these really true?
Jian Chen Nooo
Hahaha how funny, good video. Ah! I so want to go to Sweden.
Solbergaskolan?
I'm loving Sweden
check 2:53, the kid eating muffin is hilarious! LMAO
Why do I feel like this is satire?