Це відео не доступне.
Перепрошуємо.
American Reacts to What Are Norwegians REALLY Like?
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 вер 2023
- As an American I am familiar with how Americans act, but I have no idea what Norwegians are actually like. Today I am very excited to learn about what people from other countries say living with Norwegians is actually like, as well as interesting insights into Norwegian culture. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I think it's a big problem that when people come to Norway, they don't really understand that we're a very old and special culture. If you go to Japan, you understand that they have their culture and very strict codes of honor, etc, but when they come to Norway, they don't understand that we do as well. If more people understood the general problem with making friends in Norway, perhaps they wouldn't be so quick to think it's about their nationality or race, but understand that it's about mountains and fjords. They've kept us isolated and this has shaped our culture. All around the world, you will find that small towns are skeptical of outsiders. In Norway, that's just more extreme than most places.
Couldn't agree more. After visiting Japan several times and also traveling to a lot of other countries in the world, I would argue we have more in common with the japanese culture than the culture of USA, even though we're both western countries. The Japanese culture is way more visible and extensive than ours, but there are still many similarities. I know your intention wasn't to compare the cultures, but to make people understand the reason we're different I thought I'd mention it anyway, as an observation.
The amount of time I have read and heard Norway be called a racist country is crazy when, from what I have found, what they are referring to is not even racism.
Often its the cultural differences. Things like not wanting to talk to strangers and avoiding close contact. Things the average Norwegian do to anyone that some mistake for "subtle racism".
Avoiding eye contact, not wanting to sit with a stranger if it can be avoided, not wanting to be in a close space if it can be avoided. Coming across as cold or distant.
And I'm not saying racism do not exist in Norway, but often from what I see its often actually xenophobia. Which is also a problem.
@@kunilsen2519 I think in general when a difference of culture creates an initial barrier, a lot of people just default to call it racism or xenophobia, and it's quite unfortunate because it drives forward a conclusionist view that has no room for broadening one's understanding of the culture that is supposedly opposing them.
It's the same in Denmark, to a degree, where especially foreigners from cultures where people wear their emotions on their sleeves, have a harder time adjusting to Danish culture because on the surface people tend to mind their own business a lot more and approaching strangers often comes off as culturally weird if there is no direct reason for the approach. To Americans for example, it may come off as rude or closed-off, and be hard to "make friends" because the cultural approach of getting to know people is at its core very different. It's not that it is harder, or that people don't want to be friendly with you, it's just a difference in cultural mannerism and how emotions and socialization is carried out in public.
Like, in Denmark we have the main cultural difference when you move from east to west (broadly speaking), and in Norway it's north to south. Perhaps to an even greater extend, I can't say as I haven't personally been in touch with Norwegian high-north culture. But to foreginers who may not even realize that these very nuanced cultural differences can exist within countries that have relatively low population numbers, definitely doesn't help when they use broad-brush phrases like "racist" or "xenophobic".
When he wrote we drink a lot, it's important to note that we don't drink a lot on a daily basis, like is more common further south in Europe, but when we party, we party, and drink a lot that night, and then it can be some time until next time. That said, it's become more typical to just have a glass a wine or a bottle of beer, especially in the south, now than before. But still not that common outside of the weekends.
love to watch these videos especially when i am norwegian :) i am from the northern part and as some people said about horse c*ck and how we speak thats just normal for us. hopefully u will post more of these love it
Love the people in northern Norway. They’re so direct and badass 💪 I hate when people don’t tell me what they really think, can’t trust them. And they live in a harsh climate, five hours from the nearest hospital and they work hard and drink hard 😂 Love it!
yep, I'm not a northener but straight from levra, i live 1 hour away from oslo and Norwagien down here take a step back but people from other countries jump back almost 10 feet after asking and getting the answer i gave
As a northern Norwegian I approve of this message.
I just subscribed to your brother's UA-cam channel. You two are so different but so alike at the same time 😂 love it 👊🇳🇴
Send gjerne en lenke:)
@@oerjanmoen
ua-cam.com/video/ojFET9GK6kU/v-deo.htmlsi=XHQNOH6odohM0bVW
I had a 6-7 year relationship (??) with a girl from northern Norway...they are a different kind of breed. But she is a nice person. :)
Northerner here, yes we might be abit different than most norwegians, there are many reasons to why there is a difference but let me quote a professor in crisispsycology what he said after the Kato Air incident. He concluded that the passenger onboard the Kato Air plane survived because there was some northerners onboard, a asylum seeker attacked the pilots with an axe (this is a small plane, time where different too), instead of sitting there watching that they where about to die ... they acted.
"- The unique power of action comes from a northern Norwegian culture where people were more used to fending for themselves. Therefore, the two northerners avoided becoming passive spectators to their own death, says Weiseth, who is one of Norway's leading experts in crisis psychiatry.
He believes the act of heroism has been helpful in the therapy work afterwards."
And a another quote ...
"The veterans from the battles around Narvik and Gratangen received no medals and were not offered a war pension, as those who had fought the Germans in the south were. A public committee concluded in 1988 that e.g. The Altabataljonen "did not have exceptionally hard strains, and few fell", and furthermore "the living conditions for people in Finnmark were so hard in the 1930s, that people here had better grounds for strains than others". The Finnmarkings had simply put up with too much before, so they had to put up with a war against elite German soldiers."
At the battle of Narvik they with the help from Britain, France and Poland and ofcourse other military regiments who had managed to assemble, managed to stop the germans and also almost throw them out, this was the first time anyone had managed to stop the german warmachine.
Also in the years after the war ... northerners where often not welcomed in the south, you could find in ads about rentals that there could stand like "Not for northerners" ...
Northerners might have a higher grade of self reliance we do not really like it when government comes with too many rules.
And yes we might swear abit difference, or as we call it ... word enhancers ... 😛 the horsecock is an example of a swearword used up north, you call a guy a horsecock for example, and there where a guy who called some police that, he was arrested for insulting the police, the judge freed him saying that up north it was something police should accept that the language could be harder. Later there is a another ruling that have set that aside so ... its illegal to call police horsecock again ... 😛 even if you are from northen Norway.
We have a statue in Generalhagen in Harstad of General Carl Gustav Fleicher who led the north norwegian rebel forces against the Germans and lead to Nazi Germany's first defeat. However as the King escaped capture in Norway, the new administration told Fleicher to stand down and that resulted in Nazies capturing Narvik and the railroad to Sweden. After the war, Norway was not very nice to General Fleicher and he moved to Canada where he committed suicide. This is a stain on the Norwegian soul.
I am so sorry to hear that you no longer can call a police officer a horsecock :o
Absolutely insane bullshit.
The process of adapting to a new culture have been well studied. Most often goes through these stages: First some elation at everything different, then disilusionment and alienation, before settling in to a realistic and adapted mindset.
As a Norwegian I really went through all this moving to Australia... Wanted to just go back at some point, before learning and adapting to Australian culture....
Aussies came off to me as incredibly crude people.
Tyler, if you remember the drunk being arrested by the polite police officers video, that guy was a northener (although as a southener, and I am not great with identifying dialects, so others might correct me that he's a bit more mid-Norway than I think)
No,he said he was from Lofoten,so you are right about Northern-Norway ;)
@@elisabethpedersen7893 phew... alltid flaut når jeg kaller en "midt-lending" for en nordlending :)
@@cryptcja, det er ikke akseptabelt førr helvete! :p
I am a northern Norwegian. I live in the town of Harstad, at the start of the Lofoten Islands, at the border between Troms and Nordland counties.
The stereotypical view of the norther Norwegian is just like what he writes, but it's not true. We do not swear that much, but we have rougher humor like you cannot find in any other place of Norway. Northern Norwegians pretty similar to the Trønder (people from around the county of Trøndelag), same energy. Finnmark, Troms, Nordland and Trøndelag (4 northernmost counties) are considered to be the same breed of people, while the southerners are snobs. We are a much rougher people than the rest. Historical, how on earth would we have survived wtih a "dangit" struggeling with the fishing nets in the storms? Only the best swear words would be enough to stagger the storm. Northerners are more proud (bragging), louder and perhaps but less self reflecting and self important.
We have much more winter than in the south and we are more spread out and isolated (smaller towns and more villages). While you drive hours to get from town to town up north, you only drive minutes down south. Excluding the Fjords of the Western part of Norway, Northern of Norway is where you go to find the amazing scenery. Look up Lofoten in 4k on youtube. Check out Borg Viking Museum, Lofotr, and look up the Viking Chieftain Thorir the hound (he was from my home place).
Watch the latest video from "Wild Viking Travels", it's called "Is Lofoten Islands in Norway Actually Worth Visiting". He is a foreigner that is visiting Norway with his girl friend. Enjoy!
Another good channel that is well reflected on the Norwegian society is "Anna Goldman", a Russian/British video blogger that documents herself living in Norway.
As a person from Finnmark who has lived in many places in the country, I agree with you that Northerners are actually very nice people. I also agree with most other things you write, but I think you are being a little unfair to many people from the south of Norway. They are not very different from northerners, but are less direct. Especially in the counties far South, there is a culture of not showing emotions.
In a book from one of the towns in the area there is a story about a man who found his wife in bed with a stranger. He got so angry that he went out into the hall and broke the stranger's umbrella. This is of course an example of a stereotype of southerners, and the locals laugh of the story. They know themselves.
I myself live in a marriage with a man from the south. There are undoubtedly cultural differences between the cultures, but the differences can be greater between two southerners than between a northerner and a southerner. I will also admit that being so direct in my statements has caused problems for me. Now I have learned to moderate myself, but my impression is that the employer appreciates that there is someone who dares to put things into words. Northerners are therefore respected here in the south, but at the same time infamous. Without us, the problems could have become bigger than they were, precisely because we spoke up.
You are correct@@ahkkariq7406, but I'm not sure how I am unfair to the southerners? It's a well known fact that they are more of a snob than any other region. Hence why we sent Sophie Elise to Oslo, hehe! Jokes aside, we are one people, but we tend to band together with our regional type of people. Perhaps it's because of distance. It's a well known saying that the easterners also regard everything north of "Sinsenkrysset" (crossroads just on the northern outskirts of Oslo) as "Utkantnorge" (the outskirts of Norway), so I guess the "unfairness" or brotherly teasing goes both ways :)
How a person perceives the truth, and what is the true, are not the same. If someone says it racism, its never racism, never. Its always something else, like the neglect of personal bubbles, or not understanding when to sacrifice 1 seconds of your time, to give someone else 10 seconds of there's.
I wouldn't say there is never racism involved, but racist/racism is without a doubt overused. Very often it is about a lack of understanding of other people's culture, as well as their own pursuit of everything that can be interpreted as racist. When you arrive new to a country, you will always feel like a stranger. It says itself. I don't think Norwegians were particularly racist 25 years ago. We just hadn't learned that immigrants couldn't deal with our direct way.
I am pretty sure that 22 July, which was a terrible crime committed by a madman, but for which Norwegians were indirectly blamed precisely because we are direct, is the main reason why Norwegians have stopped speaking their minds to foreigners. We have stopped treating them as equals and instead we treat them as children who cannot stand the truth.
Instead of foreigners learning to live with Norwegian culture and integrate, an insurmountable gap was created between Norwegians and foreigners belonging to a certain religion.
As a Norwegian I once got curious and asked someone I knew from America who at that time had been In Norway for a couple of years to describe Norwegians. Here is what he said:
They are direct but at the same time they dont like conflicts. They dont like loud people. At first I thought they were rude. Then I realized my politeness was seen as intrusive.
On greeting Norwegians advice to others: Dont greet strangers or people you barely know with hugs. Some are okay with it but those who are not are really not okay with it.
Pointed look at me who called our first meeting a full bodycontact tackle. 😅
Norwegians dont seem to be comfortable with bodycontact with most People.
Another look at me who said to the Italian girl who kissed my cheek that I have only ever done that with my mom,my aunt, my grandmother or the person I was currently sleeping with.
He also said Norwegians dont talk much so they will get offended if you dont remember what they said later. 😮
06:00 I looked up family traditions in Kosovo, from what little I read, it seems it's only recently (some time after WW2) that their family customs have become more westernized, in that before they used to have large groups of family members living in close proximity to each other, with one of the men being the leader of something. I'm not certain whether this all means that a house would often be filled with multiple generations or not, but I'm guessing it wasn't uncommon for a traditional Kosovo house to have grand kids, parents, and grand parents living together in the same house. If this is the case, then the way Norwegians do things would definitely be considered "weak family connections." as Norwegians have - for as long as I am aware of - been a people that tend to move out from their family home starting as early as 16 years old in some cases, to maybe as old as 28, with the majority of them moving out between 21 and 24 years old. They move out for a variety of reasons, to establish their own families, focus on education or work, get away from their family home, or any number of other reasons, and the amount of times that the kids will visit their parents' house honestly varies a lot from person to person.
If someone is from a country where it's not unlikely for several generations of a family to live under the same roof, it's not surprising that they'd look at our arrangement as "weak family connnections", but don't mix "don't live together" with "has no good relstionship with your relatives". I might not live with my mom anymore, but I'll still drop everything and visit her to help if she asks me for anything.
As far as racism goes; I'm glad people aren't so outwardly racist anymore, but there's definitely still people like that around. Most of them tend to complain about immigration in internet newspapers and such (usually about people from Africa or the middle east), and would rather we not accept ANYONE. (The other hot topic being, of course, the war.)
Oh, also: the way Tyler pronouned "bare min" sounded like "(the) bare minimum". XD The whole sentence actually reads "my Anna, just mine" (which sounds vastly less possessive in Norwegian. ^^;; ) "dyrebareste kjæreste" is.... "my most valued girlfriend", which also isn't as much about any monetary value. It's just a bit tough to translate as it was intended to sound like. I guess "invaluable" would work better, it's just that "dyr" means "expensive" in this context (but it can also mean "animal"), but when you couple it with "bareste", it means more like "invaluable", as in you can't really put a monetary value on it.
I love the direct way we speak here up north, often you will understand what person you are dealing with, it becomes more true and authentic, and when it is needed i can tell someone to fuck off in a way that makes them look forward to it. I know lots of people south in norway, and i often get the feedback that they like that i am honest with them, even if it sounds brutal, they know that i have said what needed to be said.
Dear handsome Tyler Walker🤩 You are very very welcome to visit Norway, so cool that you would learn about our county👍🇧🇻 LOVE IT😍 I live in Northern Norway, we are the happyest, kindest, funny and badass one🤗🌐🌌🤭 Take care hugs and love from Hege😁❤
Northerners, far north are actually a different breed. Even if many of them will say they are Norwegians, most of them are either ethnic Sámi, or a mixture of Sámi, Norwegian and Kven (Finnish immigrants over several hundred years). Due to an intense Norwegianization policy over several hundred years, many people today do not know that they have Sámi ancestry on the northern coast. People living in the mountains were never Norwegianized to the same extent, although attempts were made there as well. I myself am from Finnmark, Norway's northernmost county, and I didn't know I was Sámi myself, even if all my grandparents could speak Sámi, and spoke Norwegian with an accent. I didn't realize it actually was their mother tongue until I was in my late thirties. When I was young I moved south to study, and when I was going home, and got to the departure hall, I could tell immediately that I was in the right place, just by looking at the people's faces.
Today, Sámi language and culture have had a renaissance, and many are taking back as much as they can of what they have lost in terms of identity and cultural expression. The invisible aspects of culture has always been there, but it has been redefined to be Norwegian. Norwegianized Sámi who take back a Sámi identity will usually see themselves as both Norwegian and Sámi. The Sámi I know who come from the mountain range do not consider themselves Norwegian, other than that they are Norwegian citizens.
That being said, genetic research shows that Norwegians and Sámi have a common gene mass of more than 90%. We are therefore strongly related, but differences in industry, culture and language have created an ethnic divide. Historically Norwegians were farmers, hunters and fishermen. The Sámi were hunters, fishermen and trappers. After the Norwegians became Christians, the divide between the two peoples became greater. In the Viking Age, Norwegians and Sámi had great respect for each other. Sámi were skilled boat builders, bow makers and shamans. Those were qualities that were valued at the time.
I'm from Northern Norway, and everyone is so used to us cursing that it is actually legal to call a police officer a horse co**, or a wooden co** without getting fined.
Southerners however can be fined.
Calling someone a horse co** can even be kind of positive to call someone if said in a friendly tone. Like teasing a bit.
God dag fra Norge
Hmmm, not sure about this person from Kosovo, but it’s quite normal now these day with mixed racial marriages and friend groups with person from all over, but I’m from Stavanger in Norway, my husband is from Chile and he has had some heartbreaking experiences when he first came as a 10 year old.
@Don_Coyote It was definitely a big problem back in the day, but im not sure if it was racism or a problem with foringers. But the country was pretty fast at adapting and embracing change.
Northern norway and south is very different in behavior. I would say the swearing like a sailor is more a northern thing than what i see herr in the south but that might be my town not all of the south so not sure. I live in stavanger and that is down westside. We have less snow, don't swear like sailors every few seconds.
When someone from Kosovo says Norwegians have week family connections.. this isn't a surprise. To western Europeans people from Kosovo seem to have a very strongly family based culture, like they do in the Middle East. Not weird since they technically are a remnant population from the Ottoman (Turkish) invasion of 1362. To them ofc we seem to have week family connection, like they seem overly family centered to us.
I'm sorry people feel like "Norwegians" would attack them back in '97. Ofc it happened, not the point I'm making, just that.. in my experience there is a portion of our population that are assholes or bullies. These idiots may attack any type of newcomers or loners. Please don't perceive that as an attack by "Norwegians"... it is an attack by insecure, worthless pieces of shit, who probably will end up in jail as criminals. Most of us would never raise a hand against somone unless it is in self defense.
Me myself, I've been on the receiving end for being the newcomer, even though I'm ethnically Norwegian. Most common among kids, but there are some idiots who never mature. People have however grown more civil in general over the past couple of decades, yeah.
This is very individual and depends on the individual their personality and upbringing as well as environment…
Northern norway is the alabama of norway without the heat
What the Connecticut person wrote in Norwegian about (or to) his girlfriend or fiancee or whatever, could be translated to "(my Anna, only mine) my most precious darling". Sounds like he was seriously in ❤.
I'm Norwegian, So I'm very open and direct, but I have ADHD also, so I have no filter because of that also. lol
So I'm doubly direct.. I offend people all the time, but I never intend to. I'm just happy go lucky and very friendly.
But don't ask me a question you don't want an honest answer to. ;)
Well, I tend to volunteer to help people that didn't ask for help here in Norway, and I often get diffewrent reactions ranging from :*I'll be fine, thank you' to *Id on't remember asking for help', bit not all the time, but these reactions og course dampens your will to volunteer. But I never learn...
However, I like the American culture at busstops, in lines and everywhere, it is smalltalk all over, I am fine with that.
in Norway this barely happens if at least one of the parts enganging in smalltalk is not drunk, or at least tipsy.
Northerners are disliked in Norway, when I grew up, people here in the south wouldn't rent to them, ads for properties to let would be like: ' Nice house for rent , Northerners need not apply.' as one of them said: I came to Oslo i 1964, I could't find a place to rent, so I had to buy a house, but nowadays it is better, with all the foreigners coming in (more than 2.2 million are either born outside Norway, or have at least one parent or two grandparents born outsiode Norway, out of a population of 5.5 million)
Of course, Norwegians see this attitude of Americans being hugely superficial, And I remember being disappointed with Americans this way som 50 years ago, because I had met my American relatives, which must have been not average Americans, same things with my fathers collegues in the American AirForce, they were not at all like the ones I had met in Norway, but you get used to it.
InFact, I was so disappointed with it that I decided not to move there as I had planned when I turned 18, one of my relatives was a general in the US Army that sais he would sponsor my immigration after I had got a bachelors degree at an American university. I decided not to, though I've have visited the US almost 40 times throughout the years, at the longest 6 months, but nowadays it is only 90 days on the vis waiver program. And one strange thing, though I have dated a couple of American girls, all of my girlfriends here in Norway, with one exception, has spent a year at an American high-school, in the USA... strange
04:13 I'm not going to deny or confirm anything about racism in Norway, as I'm not exactly in a position to speak for others in Norway, but I'd like to point something out that has been touched upon in an earlier video. A lot of Norwegians will look down on foreigners living in Norway if they aren't at the very least trying to speak Norwegian while they are living in Norway, this would most likely be because it feels as if they aren't respecting our culture and country as much as we feel that they should. Meanwhile, in countries that expects women to wear face or head coverings Norwegian women would probably get in trouble if they didn't follow those country's laws or expectations of women. So I think it's probably more a feeling of lack of respect for our country and its culture than actual racism, but then again, I could definitely be wrong here.
I hate that you skipped the part in the last post where he called about norwegians drinking a lot, but would never (unlike americans) even think about driving in that state. Big difference between Norway and the US. The drinking limit is much lower and there are very few instances of drunk drivers causing accidents.
We Norwegians are standoffish and independent to a fault. I have missed words equivalent to "sir" and "madam", because its a bit too egalitarian to say "hey, you", instead of "excuse me sir/madam" 😂
In Northern Norway we do not decorate our sentences , God and other conspiracies does not fly well in either ,but we have a "bible belt" down west. and me like most other i know does not drink a lot .quite the opposite
😮
Pietismen står like sterkt i deler av Nord-Norge som på Sørlandet. Læstadianismen har sterke røtter i nord, men nettopp fordi folk nordpå er så direkte i sine uttalelser holder kristne avstand til de verste. Jeg kommer selv fra en kristen familie, og er fra finnmarkskysten, så jeg vet. I dag er jeg faktisk glad for at jeg bor i en del av landet som har litt større rom for personlige valg. Ellers er det rart at folk nordpå er så glade i innvandrere hvis de forakter religion så mye.
Gudhelvete is a common swear word here
The guy from Kosovo probably came here as a refugee after the war.
A Norwagian rule, do not put your nose in places it doesn't belong.
There are Many "things" you shouldnt put where it doesnt belong.
Ultimate Tule
I love that Norwegians are more reserved and quiet. In the US just the constant nagging of "have a nice day" and "is it anything more I can do for you" kind of babbel really annoy me.
💛
Ha ha :-) on spot .
Greetings from Norway ❤ Live in Trondheim ❤ Don't be fake, make it real 😁
I dont understand why so many foreigners when they move to norway they seem to end up in tiny towns in the darkest bottom of some fjord. I have lived in norway all my life. And i would hate living in those places. Even if they look idyllic.
Before even watching the video I will say (as a norwegian) that we have a HORRIBLE drinking culture. Just ask danes or sweds. When a scandinavian get drunk in another country, you will know at a glance if he/she is from Norway.
Direct, allergic to B S.
Norwegians dont like FAKE.
@tyler whalker serch for drunken norwegian man taken by police
Skål.
first
A la Tyler: "Americans from different parts of the country are somewhat different, but *all* of America is a corn field like Evansville, Indiana."
Have you made it your life mission to make these comments the second these videos are published?
go to bed!
Funny how you're hiding behind a cryptic username without a proper profile picture. I bet you're one of those overweight keyboard warriors. Fr, get a life. He is genuinely enthusiastic about us Norwegians and our country
How could we survive without your enlightened and intelligent comments 🤔 You’re so smart and a great representative for the American people. You should be so proud 🤴🏻
I loooooooove corn ♥♥🌽🌽♥♥