An old saying in Norway that is kind of rooted in our nature is a saying that goes like: ''Du skal ikke tro at du er noe.'', which means ''You shall not believe that you are something.'', but more correctly translated as ''You shall not believe that you are BETTER than someone else.'', in other countries flaunting your wealth, high standard and believing that you are somehow better than your neighbour is normal, but in Norway such behavior is often looked down upon-- Treat people with respect, treat people like you want them to treat you. Everyone is equal, and your ''success'' doesn't make you better than someone ''less successfull''.
That is part of more of the older generations. I've met people with expensive sportscars and nice villas, and they are not hated or shunned for flaunting it. Maybe by some jealous people. Atleast people i know think others who have earned their way to wealth, should be allowed to enjoy their wealth however they see fit. That's their right and freedom. I know I would buy some exclusive things and maybe a fancy car if I could.
@@loadingmikke7451 That is not my point, It's not a ''I don't like you because you are rich'' thing. It's rooted in our nature as Norwegians to not believe that your wealth or success makes you BETTER than someone less successful. What you are talking about is something completely different, I am refering to the saying, ''Du skal ikke tro at du er noe.'' Which, no matter how successfull or not one are, this old saying have been part of our culture, where success doesn't make you ''of higher worth'' than your neighbour who doesn't have a fancy sportscar, or a villa.
@@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 I think people like 'Loading Mikke' will probably never actually understand what you are saying. 🙃 I love Norway (and Finland) for the 'equality' that is felt whether you are the CEO of a mega company or a cleaner = we are all important. Plus you can't take a shiny car or flashy home with you when you die ...and we all die.
@@bambit08 I'm just writing it off as him misunderstanding the context of what I was saying; it's not a thing were people would hate or shun you because you come driving in a sportscar, or have a million dollar income because you are the boss of some corporation, what I was refering to is more a ''philosophy'' engrained into our nature were you treat others with the same respect that you want others to treat you, you treat people equally no matter of ''social standard'', In other countries, if people act like an ass towards someone less successful, that is sort of ''the norm'', because it's an ego thing where they somehow believe that their wealth and high standard of living equals that they are somehow a ''better person'', or ''person of more value'', that is what I ment with ''but in Norway such behavior is often looked down upon'', but I think 'Loading Mikke' misunderstood what I was talking about.
Merry Christmas! Or God jul as we say here in Norway! 🎄 Thanks for 50k subs 😳 Also by the way, we call today, dec 23rd, "lille juleaften" in Norwegian, meaning "little christmas eve" 😉
Based on my personal experiences and observations when I was in Norway, I kinda agree that locals can be cold towards outsiders but when you get know them (locals) they are really nice and friendly, in fact some of them are still keeping in touch with me.
@@kk440635NORWAY unless you are poor....once above a certain amount then considered not relevant..I think about $75,000 US per annum (varies per country)
No country is perfect, but with the current political climate here in the USA, I'd much rather be in Norway. I can't wait to return once the virus is under control. Jeg elsker Norge!
@@WyrdHag Most likely i wont need that, but i bet you would need those benefits your entire life though. Because you defend it, CUS YOU GOT THE REASON, sucker ;)
I lived in Norway for about 3 months but I realised that once I said where I'm from (Poland), people there were judging me as from the stereotypes like my country is poor and we're thieves and whatsoever, and how much Norway is better. Kinda hurtful, but I loved Norway anyway and wanna go back (maybe without mentioning where I'm from)
I am sorry to hear this, but not suprised. As an norwegian I am embarest of this. I like polish people. And I have been there also. In reality polish people are not primitivte, just in movies. I am sorry to say, but I think the mentality of Norway is: cold, selfish , greedy and arrogant! I feel safe in poland , and I feel polish people are western world people . They act normal, dress normal, its very clean and safe in your country, and I dont know why people think polish people drive so fast, I’v been there many times, in taxi, they drive normal. And no I do NOT think polish people drink more than Norwegians, its just in movies
@@mkmc94 I dont think any nationality is wrong. Be proud of who you are. My point was that polish people are similar to Norwegians , they are both countries in the western world. Poland is in central europe and member of EU and Schengen , and Norway is in North europe and member of EEA and Schengen . My point is that Norwegians have no right to judge poland and polish people for beeing different than Norwegians, because we’r very similar countries. I dont think that Norway have a «better» system than poland. Just more money
@@Rguhbuh thanks, yeah, I dont think we are lazy, just complaining alot. We contribute alot to the state by tax and to salary to the people. So the system is good. But when we come home from work, we are not always so kind to eachother, unfortunately. We dont give so much of our own privat money to charity, maybe the Workplace do, maybe the goverment do, but not private people, its just the system that is generous, not the mentality of people. Industries and goverment are generous, so in that way, its not greedy, system is not so greedy. But PEOPLE dont share the generosity of the system by their private economy on their leisure time. Some do of course. People are individuals here as well as in the rest of the world, but mentality among people on their leisure time is greedy. The system’s mentality dont matches the people’s mentality. Its like to different worlds , very strange but true. A woman from the phillipines say to me that in the phillipines its oposite. People care more about eachother than Norwegians do of eachother, but in the phillipines the goverment and workplaces dont care so much about the people. Mentality among people does not always correspond to the system. Many times its like «me, me, me, me» in many «good» countries, Very strange, but 100% true
Wonderful landscape. As a swede, I found the Bergen dialect easier to understand. Strange, since it is about as far away from Sweden as you can get in Norway.
I am born in Norway and lived in Norway until the year I turned 30. I left Norway to start working in Ireland, lived there for almost a little over 1 year before I moved to Portugal. This is what my thoughts are about Norway. Positives: - It is a country with an amazing nature - In comparison to some other countries we do have a lot of help available when we need it. - The freedom in regards to it being a peaceful country Negatives: - A little bit to busy with their own lives to really care about others - Looks down on others that are going through a hard time and often hear things like get over it, get up and keep moving, without them even listening to peoples stories. - If you loose your job and have to go to NAV to get help financially and to get a job or if you get ill and need help from NAV, then people will put you in the pile with those who just likes to be on welfare. No understanding for peoples individual situations - Your life has to be perfect, you have no right to complain because others have it worse even before anyone has cared to listen to you. - You have to fit the mold or else you will be very lonely - You have freedom of speech but you should agree with most people if you do not want to be viewed as the opinionated one and be left out - Shy in regards to confrontations so you will be talked about a lot behind your back and if they confront they will come with full force as its normally when someone is so fed up they will burst - If someone cannot change your mind about something then you can easy get accused of trying to push your opinions on to them, when in reality its the other way around. - Not easy to make friends in Norway, people are shy, skeptical and some very judgmental. Good friends hard to come by, people that will actually allow you to be exactly who you are and not have to fit into the mold. - The new generations are a bit colder as they have less empathy and very self involved. It was better even before my generation when people actually invited the Nabors for coffee and had parties in the condominiums, now people half of the time do not even know who lives in the building. - We are to busy saving the world and looking perfect and completely ignore the ones in Norway that struggle. There are children that do not eat all meals per day because there is no money to buy food, kids that are abused, elders that cannot have on heat in the winter because they do not afford the bills and have to eat very little to get by every month, etc etc. But the attitude in Norway is that we have no poor people, which is a denial, lie and complete BS. We do not get any stars in the ceiling for sending food to Africa and then ignore the poor boy at school that might only have an apple to eat and next meal might be at night. - We want the world to believe we are perfect and trash everyone that complains. The fact is, that if we are to always use the excuse that other people got it worse then nothing of what is actually wrong in our society and systems will ever be fixed. - Very judgmental in regards to mental health, people generally will tell you to just get up and be strong and again not really listen to you. The health care for mental health needs to get better. - I could honestly write a long long list and this is me as Norwegian saying all of this because honestly the only thing I liked about living in Norway was the nature and the peace (freedom). In many ways you have the right to be who you are but if who you are does not fit a certain mold expect to be alone a lot and for people to not be very helpful if you need help. Now this is based on my experience but also what I have seen while growing up in Norway and being an adult in Norway. I never felt I belonged there, so I left and probably will never return other than for visits.
@@Rimrock300 "A little bit to busy with their own lives to really care about others" , i get the same impression of many yanks. Im going to be blunt : i dont give a rats ass whether someone dislikes Norway so it doesnt affect me personally , no country is perfect either imo.
I'm American and have been really looking into Norway and it definitely seems really awesome, but after reading this I'll have to look into it more. What part did you grow up in, I've heard people from the north tend to be warmer socially, is that true?
I like the Vestlandet (does that mean west land?) accent. It's pausing and thoughtful, with interesting brr and ghh sounds. Also the dude seems righteous and inflecting. He could be a possible friend.
I'm American and I just visited Norway for the first time last weekend. I was only in Oslo, so my perception might be a bit skewed, but I thought it was great. I didn't think people were cold at all, in fact, I found them to be very friendly. The people also seemed pretty easy going and not stressing the small stuff. I will definitely visit again. I'd retire there and just spend my time volunteering, but as my understanding goes you have to be a Norwegian citizen first, and that is difficult to get.
I'll have my MAs in Norway and lately I have been studying Norwegian with ntnu course and på vei. I was feeling the need of this video exactly. It includes anything and everything I could ask for: visual cue, authentic use of language, simutaneous subtitles both in english and in norwegian, natural situation... thank you so much. I really appreciate the work you're doing. Love from Turkey
I have been in Norway for like 10 months now and I should confess I have gotten totally captivated by the beautiful language and the vast variety of charming dialects
I absolutely love Norway and Norwegians. Been there twice, and I was blown away by the beautiful and pristine landscape. People are great as well, and are actually quite approachable.
I'm brazilian, and I really want to live in a country like norway, it seems like a wonderful place to live a relaxed and fair life, without having to worry about things that I cannot change, like safety, good public transport, quality of life in general I would say. Currently I'm 18, I hope in the future I can fulfill this dream or something like that
Rogério Junior I would like to see millions of Brazilians, suddenly move to Norway' mountains, build "favelas" everywhere, pollute it visually, the water, air, traffic and disturb the neighbors. Remember, where they go, they bring their culture, education and thinking. Not saying that they have a habit to check many times other people, like they have a coil in their neck, that keep bouncing their head. It will be something ... a horror!
I find as a Canadian there seems to be a lot of similarities between Norway and Canada in terms of what people say they like and dislike about their own countries. We both admire our nature, we both complain that things are expensive in our lands, and we both admit that we're not as warm to each other as we would like. I know what you're thinking "isn't Canada one of those most friendly and open places?" yes, sort of, in a somewhat fake non-confrontational way. I'd prefer it if our kindness was genuine and not just a way to get through the day easier Regardless, I'm very excited to start my education in Norway soon and to hopefully one day become a Norwegian myself; I'd consider it the absolute best place to live and grow on the planet
Same here, being from Norway, I really love my country, its beautiful, its safe, it has alot to offer.. but some people I just dont like. Especially the cocky ones or those who must argue about anything. F.ex. there was this woman that said I was walking on the wrong side of the sidewalk, (it doesent matter where u walk on the sidewalk), but she made a big deal about it.
I Hope you can make a new segment about universities in norway. Maybe you can ask the students about their university, the pro and cons of studying there or A little bit of campus tour. That will be helpful 😁
ja, og veldig treige når det kommer til nye trender... hvis noe blir "mainstream" internasjonalt eller i USA så kan du vedde på at det tar nok minst 5 år før det begynner å bli akseptert i Norge... Jeg mener hvor lenge er det siden K-Pop eksploderte med BTS og Blackpink internasjonalt, mens her i lille Norge hører du aldri noe om det og det er først nå i nyere tid at jeg har begynt å se noen tegn til at det har "nådd" Norge. Og jeg ville nok satset på at hvis du som barn i norsk skole eller nordmann generelt liker dette åpent så vil du nok bli dømt en del enda...
im surprised they say very cold and introverted only thinking of them selfes is what they think of some of eachother :O im from Denmark and have been in Norway and i havent forgotten every single moment i had with the people i met and i got them on facebook still writing to them after 5 years i only saw them for like 3 weeks max XD they where so kind and nice always ready to help funny happy and loved to talk i met an old couple as well and we talked about christmas trees (i was selling trees by the way) :D sometimes i had to switch to english because of dialect so i dident understand also it was my first time talking to Norwegians everyday XD :D imagine me looking like the big question mark alot XD also there was a woman that was so happy about her purchase she came again to buy one more for her friend and let me pick some sort of a spiritual card it was magical and a norwegian chocolate bar Troika :D i have been stunned over the hospitality i got ever since i have wanted to explore norway even more and interact with the people ofcause that is a key point for me last time i was in Sørlandscenteret and Kristianssand Mostly work tho :D
I dislike the arroganse and selfishness and the cold mentality. I love the nature and my friends and family. But other than that I dont think Norway is a good place to live. Money and system is not the key to happiness. Im not more or less lucky than anyone else just for beeing born here, and for living here.
@@kk440635NORWAY you might be right about what you said but being born in norway is always a good thing. not having a concern for the future (as money) must be some kind of a heaven that i probably will never reach😰
@@jane-il3qs Don't mistake their opinions of money as meaning it's not important here. While we have an economical security meaning you will never be desperately poor (like being homeless. homeless people are usually ones with deep mental issues). But people's personal finances are still a matter of great importance to most. An example is people's personal debts are getting higher, finding affordable property can be hard, society expenses are rising especially in the health sector and the burden will fall more and more on the younger generations, etc
After visiting for only one week, I agree with all of these points. Although half of my DNA is from Norway, I could never belong there. I was a fisk out of water! 😆
What is the best way to make Norwegain friends as a foreigner (for example as a student, tourist or immigrant)? It scares me a little that in the video everyone said that Norwegains are cold. Tussn takk for making such interessting videos :D Greetings from Germany
You are German. You'll be fine. When we have Portugal, Spain and Italy in the comparison among European countries, it's hard not to be taken as colder.
As a norwegian this is true, we can appere cold. but I think the first reason why we behave like this is because we don't want to bother people, and the other reason I think we are not so social types. But I think most of us is honest and thrustworthy people. hope that in some way compensate for you guys not from here.
I'd advice looking out for some sort of interest groups or clubs. I know there are groups like that that advertise their presence at the beginning of the school year on student campuses and such.
Just when I think I have figured out how people from Bergen pronounce Bergen, this guy says it in a way I've never heard. :D In some ways, I get it that people who live in Norway are protective about their way of life. The "coldness" could also be a bit of that. What is great about living in Norway could so easily be upset by people not appreciating it. Norway is a jewel, imo. Beautiful Nature, a great standard of living, mutually cared for and agreed upon by the people who live there.
I'm a foreigner and have been living in Trondheim for more than a year now. I like your videos a lot, the subtitles in both languages help and especially the "where's your dialect from?" question at the end. So thank you for them! ---> Honestly, all the Norwegians I met were very kind. The only thing I don't like about Norway is the shortage of international products. More stuff, larger selection and bigger supermarkets! :D
I have talked/still talk to people from Sweden, Norway, Finland, and in the past Denmark. I find most to be a bit closed off but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sure, some people are more introverted and relationships take more effort but they seem to value connections a lot more. I found way more colder people then ones from Nordic countries.
As a Norwegian I agree that there's a lot to like about Norway, wealth, standard of living, safety, freedom and so on makes it a great place to live. However my biggest gripe with Norway and this honestly is pretty petty in some sense, is that it's boring and it's not particularly great when it comes to accepting new ideas, cultures and it feels like we're pretty far behind the times on trends etc. That's not to say we aren't progressive and accepting of people etc. but it's more about smaller niche cultures within entertainment, etc. You may see certain cultures and trends start hitting the mainstream internationally and in the US especially and then it'll take literal years before it even becomes halfway acceptable to admit to liking it in Norway. for example, K-Pop has blown up internationally, yet if you were to say you liked K-Pop in Norway you'd probably get judged and seen as a weirdo by most, I can't even imagine anyone ever putting on something that wasn't in Norwegian or English when at a party or with friends here. And what makes it worse is that when you compare to the US where you may have alot of conventions etc. even for more fringe cultures that allow you to meet and connect with others who share your interest, Norway being a small and long country doesn't really have that. Result is that it's really hard to find others who share your interests, be it k-pop, anime, e-sport or whatnot. Fun fact I was at "The Gathering" which is a big LAN party in Norway a few years back and there was a cosplay competition, and even in that crowd, full of gamers, people were like "wtf is that?" when some of the cosplays were of anime characters...
'Safe' will in many cases also mean 'boring'. One can not always have it all. With money one can always visit other, more 'unsafe' countries for some more exitement. I like 'boring') Yeah, get your point. I'm abit off topic, but not totally)
@@Rimrock300 Most Norwegians can not travle all the time, and we need visa to alot of countries. I dont know where its better or whorse, because I have only lived in Norway . I guess something is better in Norway , and something is better in an other country. There are many factors that will make you lucky, unlucky, happy or unhappy. Economy and system is not all to get lucky and happy. In a big puzzle economy is just one of more than tousands pieces to be happy and lucky . We are lucky in some ways, and unlucky in other ways. We are unlucky with mentality, weather, suicide statistics, alcohol problems , drug problems. So in many ways it is NOT a good country to live in, but in other ways it is a good country to live in. It depends how you see life. Many foreiners ones had an idea that materalism could make them happy. Than came to Norway , and than discover that there are many other values than just money and political systems, and then regret comming here, and than moving back to theirs own country, and than live on a low wage in their native country. Sometimes having enough to survive is enough to be lucky and happy. Someone from the phillipines told me, they where moving back, because in the phillipines they are surrounded by a warm and caring mentality, and hot weather all the time, and that was a better thing than the economy in Norway , and the mentality of Norwegians . If one feel sorry for them self for NOT having enough money for traveling around the world, having a large TV screen, staying at luxary hotels, than I do not feel sorry for them. Beeing a millionary is not a human right . Beeing rich is not a human right . I am not a rich norwegian , I am like most norwegian a middleclass norwegian, most Norwegians are middleclass, we do not have VERY LITTLE poverty compared to many other countries, but at the same time most are not millionaries either , many people are millionaries in Norway , but its still LESS than the majority of the population , And I do not complane about this, because the millionaries don’t look happy at all. I will just disprove the myth that «most Norwegians are millionaries and can afford whatever they want, whenever they want» Some people in other countries tell me «you should be thankfull for living in Norway , in my country you don’t know about tomorrow, in Norway you have predictability» and then I tell them, no, I have not, I don’t know what will happend with my economy the next day or the next week. Someones Workplace can be bankrot the next day in Norway as well as everywhere else. And not everyone have a buffer of money in their account. I have 20 years of loan on my apartment, its small, and it is on the countryside , and its not new, the bank interest rates can shoot in the air anytime. Live day by day, wherever you live, because you can’t tell what will happen the next day no matter where you live. Don’t believe that we have no concerns in Norway . At the moment the The currency is very volatile, and there are great opportunities for extreme interest rate changes and inflation. And fuel, and taxes and food and electricity have become MUCH MUCH MUCH more expensive in just a few months, but the wage have not become any higher , so life is now more expensive and more uncertain than just a few months ago. But live in the moment, and live day by day, thats my advice. I will not be worried in advance , I take it when applicable Life is unpredictable in all countries. I have no guarantee that I will sleep in my own bed next week. I work in a professional laundry. We wash clothes for health care, and uniforms for many other private companies. We also wash bed linen and towels for crisis institutions. In recent months, we have received increased orders for towels and bed linen rent from crises institutions, it is because people lose their jobs, and then they also lose their place of residence, and are therefore evicted from their place of residence, and then they have to live in a crisis institution It's might mean to say, but if we had not received increased orders from crisis institutions for the rental of towels and bed linen, we MAY have gone bankrupt. Because many companies have canceled contracts for washing uniforms that we rent to companies, because some of the companies we wash uniforms for have now gone bankrupt
@@Rimrock300 and also I reflect about something…. Often people abroad say that if I discover a tragedy, its «better» for me than it is for «them» because I live in Norway…. So «lucky me, Im from Norway , if someone I know die, its «less» of a tragedy» I have some reflections from my own life *If you loose your father in a young age, is it than less painful for me than it is for a person in a second or third world country? No the pain is still the same *I was molested when I was younger by a monster, he was a norwegian , this happened in Norway , should I be thankful that it didn’t happened in africa ? Are there less trauma because it happened here in Norway, no. *I was bullied in school, it happened in Norway , the ones who bullied me where Norwegians, is it a good thing that these actions happened in Norway rather than in africa? Would it make any differents? No!!! *I sometimes struggle with depression and trauma, you can not always choose to not be depressed, in the same way that you can not choose to not have physical pain, you can’t either choose to not have mental pain. It can happen to anyone, just like cancer can happen to anyone, sometimes its caused by a chronic mental condition, like bipolar disorder as an example. This one is hard to answer what country its better or whorse. In my personal life it can be hard to live in a country with cold weather, almost no sun, surrounded by cold people, however I have my family and friends here. And even Norway have a good healthcare system, its still not a good mental-healthcare system. Its hard to get professional help. And expensive , and its bad capisity, and many psycologist don’t know what to say to motivate you, and just give you anti-depression medicine, and say «Now Everything will be good». Sometimes people ask me if I wanna live in an other country. Than I say «no» because I have few friends, but they are still good friends, and I have a good family and good co-workers, thats what holds me back. If I didnt have this, I don’t know if I would have been living here, maybe, maybe not, hard to tell. Where is it better or whorse? You only know if you have try more than one country, and to emigrate its not an easy thing. Its alot of paperwork , and you dont automaticly get a residence permit to live in an other country either. you must apply for residence, and apply for a new job, and find a new place to live, and you must apply for beeing a part of the system (healtcare, tax office, public service) in the country where you wanna go and live. Some people say «if you don’t like Norway, than emigrate» , it isnt that simple. The process of emigration is not free, and its alot of bureaucracy, even for Norwegians that wanna go live abroad. People think that Everything is so easy for us, but is not. We are in avarage much more rich people than africans, latin americans and asians, that makes its easier for some people to move when it comes to airplane ticet, and to buy or rent a place to live. But the bureaucracy process is all the same . Its easy to get tourist visa to other countries, but getting a visa live permanently somewhere else is not more or less easy for Norwegians who wanna move out of Norway , than it is for foreiners that wanna move in to Norway , foreiners that wanna go and live in Norway must apply visa to the autorities of Norway for premission to live in Norway, BUT Norwegians must also apply for visa to live in an other country , so its not more easy for a norwegian to leave Norway than it is for a foreiner to enter Norway . We have not more freedom of movement than most other countries have, just better economy, and than some of us can afford the emigration process to move. I believe that all countries have something that is whorse than Norway , and all countries have something thats better than Norway , because most countries have plusses and minuses. There are however some exception, if you live in war , or hunger or in North-Korea, or a place with similar dictatorship system as North-Korea have. On an other hand, there are countries with alot of hunger , where people starving, but in poor countries where people starve too death , there are many poor people there who have enough food also, not all poor people are starving-poor, some people have plenty of food, but not so many other things apart from food, and many of them are happy and appriciate what they have. So I don’t know if I am more lucky than they are. Its impossible for me to tell, because I have never try to live as they live, and they have never try to like I do. I don’t feel lucky for beeing a norwegian, but not unlucky either, Im just neutral about it. But I do feel lucky that I am not from Afganistan or Ukraine or Russia or North-Korea, but I do not feel lucky/unlucky that I am not (as a hypothetical example) from Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, Phillipines, India , thats more about personal life and life situation, not about system in my opinion , because I have seen alot of example’s of this from foreiners that lives or use to live in Norway . I have all tho never been outside Europe myself. Money play a very small role of having a good life, but it is important in the sense to survive, but apart from that, its not a very important thing. I am a lucky person because of friends and family and co-workers, but not for living in Norway. I had a lower position in my previous job, but a much higher salary, but I hated the job that I had before , but the job I have now, I love it. I think that having one profession you like is more valuable than one profession that makes us rich, and good co-workers. If I stay in my old job, I could travle more, having a higher standard apartment , and less than 20 years of loan, but its not important. Traveling on holliday is something you do ones in a while, going to work is something you do year around, you spend more time on your Workplace than you do on holliday, so its most important to have a good place to spend time year around, than a place you are just ones in a while. So having a job with a good athmosphare is better than beeing able to travel , because a year have 52 weeks, and in Norway you have 5 week’s paied holliday. And you are going to spend your time at work in 47 week’s (Norwegian law) a year . you dispose 5 weeks you can use wherever you want (as long as you can afford it), the 47 other week’s you have to spend at work. In my last job I was able to travel abroad on high standard hotel every year for a week or two and sometimes more. Now if I save some money I might can afford a trip to somewhere low-standard hotel every second year, but life is better. Traveling is not a human right . I admit that I like to travle, but I think of the long-term effect in a large perspective , I will try to be happy the 47 other week’s too. So too me its better to have a job that I like and not a job that make me rich , so money is not what makes me happy in life, that is just a small part of what is important in a humans life. Its important to provide for yourself and your loved ones, having enough to pay your bills, but having more than this things is in my opinion not a human right , and it shouldnt be a human right either. Its not inhuman to be poor as long as you are not poor on a crises level . As long as you have access on hygiene, enough food, having a bed and roof over your head and can pay the mandatory bills, it should be good . Not having money for a television or an expensive telephone is not a human right
@@kk440635NORWAY Thanks for sharing your points of views, which are relevant. Most YT viewers are aware that people got their issues in life, ups and downs, whatever country they live in, even if they make comments like 'Norway must be perfect, with all the richdom from oil'. You let yourself might get a bit too provoked by these more or less superficial statements from foreginers and feel strongly for telling the world that Norway is not perfect. I see this is much about self-theraphy from your side, when this much time is put into it. I mean not to be negative at all, it's good and fully allowed to share one points of view, but honestly got a bit worried for you. Maybe better take some time off youtube, spend more time talk to the neighbour, family, friends, not sitting up all night writing here. On the other hand, if you feel it's good theraphy, helps and is worth the time, of course continue. Anyway, take care and good luck.
The world's most beautiful country is home to the nicest people in the world. You can write that Norway is an adorable country with adorable people which has in the ears of Swedes the world most beautiful language. Anyone who clicks their thumbs down should probably come up from the basement and study geography then go to Norway (after the Corona pandemic).
interesting to hear that Norwegians say they are cold people...I lived in Trondheim for 8 months and as a Brazilian, i had a different perception of Norwegians. In fact, Norwegians may seem cold at first but then they were very warm and welcoming with me. I had one of the best experiences in Trondheim. Such a beautiful city with warm and friendly people. I moved back to A´dam where i was studying and always considered living in Norway. Maybe one day i will. :)
I was working 3 months in Norway and after that I started to learn norwegian because I just want to speak in their language. When there was nice conversation or cool,funny, worth sharing with friends and family situation, it was mostly when interacting with norwegians. I really like those people! Of course some of elderly people were resent because I couldn't understand them, but actually they were right and just honest. Other than that, there were so many elderly people that were so kind to me that I almost felt like they were my family. One man even invited me for coffe and chocolate, after short conversation and me selling him pair of pants and jacket. I really want to be able to comunicate with the locals in their own language, so I''m working hard to acomplish that. One day I will come back to Norway and work there because of possibility of earning normal money, not working "almost for free" like in Poland. Those things I like in Norway. Also they have beautiful landskapes, rivers, fiords and lakes so it's a heaven for me being flyfisherman. Cheers.
4:11 Oh yes. I think while Norway is great with energy from renewable sources, there's still a lot to do about plastic packaging. And plastic bags in shops. Often you can't say "no" quickly enough before the cashier pulls out a plastic bag and hands it to you. We banned free plastic bags in shops in Germany and of course there was a huge outcry at first, but now nobody is complaining anymore. Now they cost like 10 Cents or something, which really isn't much (I really don't know, I have stopped using plastic bags some years ago), but at least it gets people thinking.
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One of the best videos I have ever seen- about Norway... All the opinions are akkurat! btw, I love Norway way more than my homeland (Bangladesh). and the reasons are pretty obvious!
Norway is a place I have only been to once, for a week. But it has pros and cons, like any nation. Cons would be that it is super expensive, even for simple things like food or taxis the prices are a joke. The people could be a bit warmer, friendlier. Pros are that the nature/scenery is incredibly beautiful. So are the local women. It is also a nation with good cleanliness, top-quality facilities and services. Very safe, not much crime at all. I have only seen Oslo & Bergen so far. Would love to visit to see more!
I am from Norway, and I think of my people as very awkward and arrogant and selfish . In Norway we have a lot of mental problems such as depression and bipolar disorder. The system is not selfish, the system is good, but alot of the people are very selfish, and a lot of the Norwegians drinks too much. The suicide rate is high. Money and democracy and freedom of speach whelt is not what makes you happy. But it is many good Norwegians as well, and many including Norwegians. I think the tourists get a wrong impression of Norway , they always says «aaa, Norwegians are sooo nice», well of course they are, because they will give you a good impression of Norway . We have a lot to be thankful for, but at the same we have a lot to be ashamed of too, and I think racism is a growning problem nowdays. Many says to me «you are from Norway, than you have won in a lottery» . No that is not the case, being born in Norway is not best thing in the world, I dont know where its best or worst, but one thing i can tell for sure, its not AUTOMATIC Norway, it can be anywhere, every countries have plusses and minusses. What count in life is have enough food, have a roof over your head, have nice friends and family, money and whealy system is not what makes a country happy. People born in Norway is not more, or less lucky than people anywhere else. I know a russian woman, she was married to an norwegian man, living in Norway, high education and norwegian passport, when she divorced, she moved back to russia, because she didnt see the point to live here, because her husband was the only think she had here, all her other relations was in russia, so being divorced for this woman, she diside to move back, because her happynes here was gone, she even of free mind got un-citizen of Norway after this, and left her safe job, and travled back with just a little bit money
Thank you for commenting freely. I was looking for someone would give more points about Norway other that the ones that were covered in the video but did not find one except yours. The people in the video seemed a little bit skeptic but it might be maybe that they do not be want to be seen as being the against Norway or something.
@@idkactually8565 You are the one who is self- absorbed. Get your facts straight first. I can tell you have been watching a lot of those poverty porn videos. Africa is not just full of "dying of thirst and hunger" people. It is so much more than that. I am an African and your picture about our continent is distorted. Educate yourself!!!
@@idkactually8565 money is not what make a human happy. But if people starving, of course that makes people unhappy. But system and money and wealth in general is not what makes a human happy. I am thankful for the system , but no one can tell me that I have «no reason» to be unhappy. Many people have done evil thing to me, and I have bipolar, and I experiense something trauma in my life, it does not matter where in the world this happens, is the same tragedy if I experiense these things in africa, as long as I had enough food, and good friends, its not better to be abused in Norway than in africa, and if people are cold too me in Norway, but warm in Africa (this is just hypotetic), is Norway better than? Very few people in Norway can complane on economy, but we have the same right too be sad and depressed here as anywhere else, BUT, the best thing is to be positive, and think of all we have, insted of what we not have in life (i am not talking about money), my life is better now, but one can not choose to broke your arm or leg. You can not choose to get cancer, or stroke, and you can NOT choose to have mental challenges either , and the mental healt is just as important as the physical healt. If you live in africa, and you are poor, but still have enough food, and good freinds and family, you might be more happy than a norwegian millionary, and maybe even have more reason to be happy. Money is not key to happiness . It is not selfish to struggle in Norway more or less than anywhere else. As long as you have good relationships with friends and family, living without war, and have enough food , and acress to a sink and a shower and a toilet , that is good enough reason to be happy. Norwegians are not more lucky than anyone else mentaly. Never base a country’s happines on system and wealth, I hate it when people based their happiness on money and system
@@isparshmehta I would love to have been there but I only saw it on You Tube too! She has three festival appearances scheduled for this summer, one in Oslo and two in Germany, and I would desperately hope that Covid19 is under control enough for me to go to one of them. I have my doubts though. Sorry for giving you the wrong impression!
Their coldness may be honestly begotten. So many of them mentioning coldness or introversion reminds me of The Prairie Home Companion originally broadcast from Minnesota. It is based on Lake Wobegon, a fictional town of quiet, Lutheran Norwegian-descended immigrants. Very stoic people, and Garrison Keillor made them very endearing and funny in their sequestered ways. By the way, I am an American mutt: mixed race, English, Spanish, Italian, Mexican, African. And I am very shy or apprehensive around strangers and need to warm up. I can be cold but it is not of a stuckup intention. I'm just shy. So I feel I would love Norway bc the people would not push me hard and I might blend in as long as I don't wear obviously American clothing. lol
Definitely doing my doctorate there in Norway. It's just so crazy here in U.S. Would be ecstatic to get a Ph.D., but with 100k+ debt? That's quite the killjoy.
I've always wanted to go to Norway. Im an American so of course im very fascinated with the Norwegian military spec ops teams (MJK/FSK) Cant wait to someday visit your beautiful country :}
Norway is actually bigger than 70% of the countries of the world by area(62/237), but that girl might have been talking about the population. Although my experience is that most Norwegians think we are in the lower half in size as well.
I just wanna say something that I say many times allready I have no reason to feel lucky and happy just the fact that I am a norwegian citizen, and the fact that I live here, is born here and have norwegian ethnisity I have discoverd plenty of stories from foreiners. This time I will tell about a pastor from Congo who was on eurotrip to held speaches in several churches in europe, also in Norway , the expenses on his eurotrip was paied by several churches around europe. This man lived in the countryside of Congo, he worked as a pastor, he didnt have water or electricity. He got wather and fish from a river, he had vegetables outside his homemade house, and he had animals outside for food, he’s wife made food on the bunfire. He had a low salary, and had axress to free internet on the villige libary. He had enough to feed his family, and they was poor, but not starving-poor (there is a difference between poor and starving poor) He was a bit rude in he’s speach, rude against Norwegians . He say «I feel so lucky and happy to NOT beeing born IN Norway, and I think europe is a cold place, its a cold place on temperature, and also among the mentality of people». A goverment is NOT a country, its something thats IN a country, money is NOT a country, its something thats IN a country. There are many factors that plays a matter of beeing lucky and happy. Having a good goverment and enough money is just 1 of 10. 000 reasons of beeing happy and lucky. I cant say if I should be less thankful beeing born in a poor country with a corrupt goverment , or being born in Norway. Its impossible to say, I havnt lived in an other country, maybe I would feel more lucky and happy to be born poor in Congo than in Norway, maybe not, totally impossible to say. Have I less reason to feel pain for beeing molested by a «friend» in my teenage years , living in Norway than everywhere else? There is no different where you live, its the pain no matter what. Have I less reason to be sad and depressed loosing my father in a young age, just because I live in Norway? And not in a poor country? No the pain is totally the same. Have I less reason to feel pain for beeing bullied in school in Norway rather in a poor country. No the pain is toatally the same. It dosent matter where you live if you discover these things. The pain is the same, both mental and physical. Let’s say enough money and a good goverment is 1 of 10.000 reasons to be thankful and happy and lucky. And good hot weather (for some) is 1 of 10.000 reasons, beeing able to do outdoor activitys all year around. Like playing volleyball on the beach all year around, swim in the ocean all year around, living among people with a good mentality, bee happy and thankful for friends and small things in life. In many poor countries people are sattisfied by simple small things, but here most people take most things for grounded? In many country’s in this world people have a more warm and including mentality than in Norway , and takes better care of eachother than in Norway, even the goverment is horrible. Happiness and lucky is about friends and family and things to do. I dont feel lucky to be born here, and I dont see a good reason to be happy and lucky just living here. Btw, I dont see a reason to be UN-lucky either, Im just neutral. Remember that all people are individuals and different, and have many ways to see life , not everyone things the same, I dont think that I am lucky OR UN-lucky to be born here. I dont feel thankful OR UN-thankful to bee a norwegian. Im neutral. People can talk for themself, but not on behalf of others. No one have the fasit, and no one can judge. Many people think Norway is Utopia and heaven, untill they come here and live here a few years, and than change their opinion about Norway and that money and goverment is «related» and «assosialetd» with happiness and luckyness. Everyone that read this : DONT generalise people , dont take things out do contecst, dont force other people how to think and how to feel about life. Dont judge. Dont speak on behalf of all other people, and respect that not everyone ser life the way you do . Dont be to «sure» about other people, dont say: «you would have change your mind if you lived in my country» , see things from a HUGE perspective. If you judge me for beeing greedy and selfish , YOU are the one that are greedy and selfish for not letting me having my own opinions about myself, and my personal life. Many people dont see any reason for me to be unlucky in life, just because I am a norwegian , no matter what happens, and no matter the surrondings. Because my country have a good leadership (compared to many other countries), and a good economy, and than Everything is okey????? What about all other things in life ????? Dont tell me that I am more lucky than a person that can feed him self in Africa, this all depends from person to person. No one can tell how the other person feels inside, no one can judge, who have the best life?? Who have the whorst life?? this depends on lifesituation, in all different ways, NOT JUST in an economical way, NOT JUST in a goverment way . There are so many things that play a role for a good living, money and goverment range very low on this in my opinion. See things in a huge perspective. I am glad that I am NOT a millionary. I like my job in an industrial laundery. Most Norwegians are not millionaries , most Norwegians are middleclass. Most Norwegians have 20 - 35 years of loan from the bank to pay their house / flat. And most Norwegians can not travle wherever they want whenever they want. And most Norwegians dont stay on 5 Star hotels when they are on holiday , it of course depends on how often you travle or not. If you dream about Norway, moving here, getting job here, you dont automaticly getting a millionary salary, you dont automaticly get rich, you can not travle where you want and how often you want on an awarage salary. You have to save up money, and priority what you wanna spend your money on. The country is rich , but most people are middleclass, but there are also many rich of course, a few poor also, BUT STILL THEY EXIST Some people say its very safe here? Well I dont go out alone after its dark outside in the big towns. And in small towns I dont go out alone in the weekend evenings , in large towns I dont go out in evenening no matter what day it is, not after 21 : 30 (09 : 30 evening time)
it is very interesting and strange to me that except one person no one else mentions the most valuable and necessary thing for a person and country . and that is freedom and democracy , please appreciate this gift . for me as a person who is suffering a lot from this deficiency in my country it was odd.
@@the80386 Won't be going there as a refugee or migrant to leech off your country's resources, no worries. We will visit Norway as tourists. Norway might be a great destination, but im sure as hell I don't wanna live there for the rest of my life considering the weather, food, and people
If you have to try that hard to come up with things are are bad with your country, and the main one is that people aren't chatty, you live in good place.
Pros - safe environment, people are polite (at least seem to be), stability, monotonicity, good for old people and people who do not look for much excitement or fun Cons - people are cold and it's imposible to make genuine friends, nobody cares about anything, food is disaster, very narrow food options in grocery stores, incredibly expensive restaurants, high taxes for nothing special I cannot find in another european countries, perfectly depresing weather, cities are isolated and there are no trip options, you have to take a plane to visit another nearest city and pay 200-300 dollars for a ticket, tools on roads (you have to pay 5 dollars just to get into the city, for using a normal road full of holes), everything is extremely expensive and quality of things is under average (dry bread 3 dollars), authorities and offices and institutions are imposible to reach, you cannot come personaly and they mostly don't pick the phone for days straight
As a Norwegian, I strongly disagree with you. It is not the best country to be a foreigner in, I won't claim it to be, but being born in Norway is not like what you describe. We are not exempt from mental illness, not even close, but what country is? Your description is really really far from reality when you generalize for everywhere in Norway, and I highly doubt you were anywhere remotely close to Oslo when you were in Norway. I am confused by where you get your information from since it so far from reality. Your generalizations are so horribly wrong. Stuff is expensive though, that is right ;D
An old saying in Norway that is kind of rooted in our nature is a saying that goes like: ''Du skal ikke tro at du er noe.'', which means ''You shall not believe that you are something.'', but more correctly translated as ''You shall not believe that you are BETTER than someone else.'', in other countries flaunting your wealth, high standard and believing that you are somehow better than your neighbour is normal, but in Norway such behavior is often looked down upon-- Treat people with respect, treat people like you want them to treat you. Everyone is equal, and your ''success'' doesn't make you better than someone ''less successfull''.
That is part of more of the older generations.
I've met people with expensive sportscars and nice villas, and they are not hated or shunned for flaunting it. Maybe by some jealous people.
Atleast people i know think others who have earned their way to wealth, should be allowed to enjoy their wealth however they see fit. That's their right and freedom.
I know I would buy some exclusive things and maybe a fancy car if I could.
@@loadingmikke7451 That is not my point, It's not a ''I don't like you because you are rich'' thing. It's rooted in our nature as Norwegians to not believe that your wealth or success makes you BETTER than someone less successful. What you are talking about is something completely different, I am refering to the saying, ''Du skal ikke tro at du er noe.'' Which, no matter how successfull or not one are, this old saying have been part of our culture, where success doesn't make you ''of higher worth'' than your neighbour who doesn't have a fancy sportscar, or a villa.
@@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 I think people like 'Loading Mikke' will probably never actually understand what you are saying. 🙃 I love Norway (and Finland) for the 'equality' that is felt whether you are the CEO of a mega company or a cleaner = we are all important. Plus you can't take a shiny car or flashy home with you when you die ...and we all die.
@@bambit08 I'm just writing it off as him misunderstanding the context of what I was saying; it's not a thing were people would hate or shun you because you come driving in a sportscar, or have a million dollar income because you are the boss of some corporation, what I was refering to is more a ''philosophy'' engrained into our nature were you treat others with the same respect that you want others to treat you, you treat people equally no matter of ''social standard'', In other countries, if people act like an ass towards someone less successful, that is sort of ''the norm'', because it's an ego thing where they somehow believe that their wealth and high standard of living equals that they are somehow a ''better person'', or ''person of more value'', that is what I ment with ''but in Norway such behavior is often looked down upon'', but I think 'Loading Mikke' misunderstood what I was talking about.
That sounds nice in writing but as a foreigner currently in Norway I witness that it’s not so much applied, as some in this video also mentioned.
Merry Christmas! Or God jul as we say here in Norway! 🎄
Thanks for 50k subs 😳
Also by the way, we call today, dec 23rd, "lille juleaften" in Norwegian, meaning "little christmas eve" 😉
Based on my personal experiences and observations when I was in Norway, I kinda agree that locals can be cold towards outsiders but when you get know them (locals) they are really nice and friendly, in fact some of them are still keeping in touch with me.
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Norway is one of the 3 most beautiful (cold countries) in my opinion. Αlso has very largely honest people.
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The other 2?
I agree
I worked in Norway for 2 years.
Yea Norway is beautiful, actually all Nordic countries have beautiful nature and pretty sceneries, but I prefer Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia.
We happen to be the country where most people trust each other. Coincidentally.
Aww, such lovely people. I'm learning Norwegian and was able to pick out the Bergen accent, so I was pretty proud of that.
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I love this channel so much.
I'm studying every day while watching your video.
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At "What do you like most about Norway" no one said "The biggest pension fund in the world" that was a pity ;)
Ref; Jante's Law...that's why, 'I am not better than you'.
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Most norwegians have enough money to not care about money that much, so its not so important for us.
Well. Money is not the key to happiness
@@kk440635NORWAY unless you are poor....once above a certain amount then considered not relevant..I think about $75,000 US per annum (varies per country)
@@kk440635NORWAY ...but the amount of money is a happiness
No country is perfect, but with the current political climate here in the USA, I'd much rather be in Norway. I can't wait to return once the virus is under control. Jeg elsker Norge!
You are very welcome brother. But dont bring more socialism
@@hellalan More socialism? From the US? 😂
@@WyrdHag You must have the IQ of a 13 year old
@@hellalan That's exactly the sort of reply I expected from someone like you. Uneducated people are so predictable....
@@WyrdHag Most likely i wont need that, but i bet you would need those benefits your entire life though. Because you defend it, CUS YOU GOT THE REASON, sucker ;)
I lived in Norway for about 3 months but I realised that once I said where I'm from (Poland), people there were judging me as from the stereotypes like my country is poor and we're thieves and whatsoever, and how much Norway is better. Kinda hurtful, but I loved Norway anyway and wanna go back (maybe without mentioning where I'm from)
I am sorry to hear this, but not suprised. As an norwegian I am embarest of this. I like polish people. And I have been there also. In reality polish people are not primitivte, just in movies. I am sorry to say, but I think the mentality of Norway is: cold, selfish , greedy and arrogant! I feel safe in poland , and I feel polish people are western world people . They act normal, dress normal, its very clean and safe in your country, and I dont know why people think polish people drive so fast, I’v been there many times, in taxi, they drive normal. And no I do NOT think polish people drink more than Norwegians, its just in movies
@@kk440635NORWAY Why do you mean by "western world people" ?
@@mkmc94 I dont think any nationality is wrong. Be proud of who you are. My point was that polish people are similar to Norwegians , they are both countries in the western world. Poland is in central europe and member of EU and Schengen , and Norway is in North europe and member of EEA and Schengen . My point is that Norwegians have no right to judge poland and polish people for beeing different than Norwegians, because we’r very similar countries. I dont think that Norway have a «better» system than poland. Just more money
Dude in my experience the opposite, your people are hardworking, and contribute alot to our economy
@@Rguhbuh thanks, yeah, I dont think we are lazy, just complaining alot. We contribute alot to the state by tax and to salary to the people. So the system is good. But when we come home from work, we are not always so kind to eachother, unfortunately. We dont give so much of our own privat money to charity, maybe the Workplace do, maybe the goverment do, but not private people, its just the system that is generous, not the mentality of people. Industries and goverment are generous, so in that way, its not greedy, system is not so greedy. But PEOPLE dont share the generosity of the system by their private economy on their leisure time. Some do of course. People are individuals here as well as in the rest of the world, but mentality among people on their leisure time is greedy. The system’s mentality dont matches the people’s mentality. Its like to different worlds , very strange but true. A woman from the phillipines say to me that in the phillipines its oposite. People care more about eachother than Norwegians do of eachother, but in the phillipines the goverment and workplaces dont care so much about the people.
Mentality among people does not always correspond to the system. Many times its like «me, me, me, me» in many «good» countries, Very strange, but 100% true
Wonderful landscape. As a swede, I found the Bergen dialect easier to understand. Strange, since it is about as far away from Sweden as you can get in Norway.
It s weird you said this. During my first couple of years in Norway, I thought that People from Bergen were Swedish. 😊
Thank you for making these videos! I love watching them and learning norwegian at the same time! God jul!
God jul!
I'm Brazilian. I'm learning about Norwegian culture and everything. Thanks so much for your video! 💕
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Norway is so beautiful! I love your videos because they always show raw and honest opinions. Keep it up!
I am born in Norway and lived in Norway until the year I turned 30. I left Norway to start working in Ireland, lived there for almost a little over 1 year before I moved to Portugal. This is what my thoughts are about Norway.
Positives:
- It is a country with an amazing nature
- In comparison to some other countries we do have a lot of help available when we need it.
- The freedom in regards to it being a peaceful country
Negatives:
- A little bit to busy with their own lives to really care about others
- Looks down on others that are going through a hard time and often hear things like get over it, get up and keep moving, without them even listening to peoples stories.
- If you loose your job and have to go to NAV to get help financially and to get a job or if you get ill and need help from NAV, then people will put you in the pile with those who just likes to be on welfare. No understanding for peoples individual situations
- Your life has to be perfect, you have no right to complain because others have it worse even before anyone has cared to listen to you.
- You have to fit the mold or else you will be very lonely
- You have freedom of speech but you should agree with most people if you do not want to be viewed as the opinionated one and be left out
- Shy in regards to confrontations so you will be talked about a lot behind your back and if they confront they will come with full force as its normally when someone is so fed up they will burst
- If someone cannot change your mind about something then you can easy get accused of trying to push your opinions on to them, when in reality its the other way around.
- Not easy to make friends in Norway, people are shy, skeptical and some very judgmental. Good friends hard to come by, people that will actually allow you to be exactly who you are and not have to fit into the mold.
- The new generations are a bit colder as they have less empathy and very self involved. It was better even before my generation when people actually invited the Nabors for coffee and had parties in the condominiums, now people half of the time do not even know who lives in the building.
- We are to busy saving the world and looking perfect and completely ignore the ones in Norway that struggle. There are children that do not eat all meals per day because there is no money to buy food, kids that are abused, elders that cannot have on heat in the winter because they do not afford the bills and have to eat very little to get by every month, etc etc. But the attitude in Norway is that we have no poor people, which is a denial, lie and complete BS. We do not get any stars in the ceiling for sending food to Africa and then ignore the poor boy at school that might only have an apple to eat and next meal might be at night.
- We want the world to believe we are perfect and trash everyone that complains. The fact is, that if we are to always use the excuse that other people got it worse then nothing of what is actually wrong in our society and systems will ever be fixed.
- Very judgmental in regards to mental health, people generally will tell you to just get up and be strong and again not really listen to you. The health care for mental health needs to get better.
- I could honestly write a long long list and this is me as Norwegian saying all of this because honestly the only thing I liked about living in Norway was the nature and the peace (freedom). In many ways you have the right to be who you are but if who you are does not fit a certain mold expect to be alone a lot and for people to not be very helpful if you need help.
Now this is based on my experience but also what I have seen while growing up in Norway and being an adult in Norway. I never felt I belonged there, so I left and probably will never return other than for visits.
Do you feel better now in Portugal?
And now, we like to hear how fantastic things are in Ireland and Portugal ) alright; no comments
@@Rimrock300 "A little bit to busy with their own lives to really care about others" , i get the same impression of many yanks. Im going to be blunt : i dont give a rats ass whether someone dislikes Norway so it doesnt affect me personally , no country is perfect either imo.
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I'm American and have been really looking into Norway and it definitely seems really awesome, but after reading this I'll have to look into it more. What part did you grow up in, I've heard people from the north tend to be warmer socially, is that true?
I like the Vestlandet (does that mean west land?) accent. It's pausing and thoughtful, with interesting brr and ghh sounds. Also the dude seems righteous and inflecting. He could be a possible friend.
Yeah it’s Westland but I think it only makes sense in Norwegian
It means *the* westland, but in English it's just West Norway.
I'm American and I just visited Norway for the first time last weekend. I was only in Oslo, so my perception might be a bit skewed, but I thought it was great. I didn't think people were cold at all, in fact, I found them to be very friendly. The people also seemed pretty easy going and not stressing the small stuff. I will definitely visit again. I'd retire there and just spend my time volunteering, but as my understanding goes you have to be a Norwegian citizen first, and that is difficult to get.
why go there , why not go to Bergen or Trondheim , Oslo isnt that nice
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@@postersandstuffwhat about Stavanger
I'll have my MAs in Norway and lately I have been studying Norwegian with ntnu course and på vei. I was feeling the need of this video exactly. It includes anything and everything I could ask for: visual cue, authentic use of language, simutaneous subtitles both in english and in norwegian, natural situation... thank you so much. I really appreciate the work you're doing. Love from Turkey
I have been in Norway for like 10 months now and I should confess I have gotten totally captivated by the beautiful language and the vast variety of charming dialects
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Wow, overrasket over at noen utenfor Norge vil lære seg norsk! Imponerende! Hva får deg til å ville lære norsk?
@@MikeWFX Jeg synes norsk er et vakkert språk! Jeg har også en grad i norsk og vil gjerne bli oversetter og lærer
@@saradantoni6712 Fantastisk! Helt sikker på at du blir en kjempegod lærer! ;D
I had missed your videos... So long to wait since the last one 😁
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I absolutely love Norway and Norwegians. Been there twice, and I was blown away by the beautiful and pristine landscape. People are great as well, and are actually quite approachable.
Thank you for the great videos on this channel!
I'm brazilian, and I really want to live in a country like norway, it seems like a wonderful place to live a relaxed and fair life, without having to worry about things that I cannot change, like safety, good public transport, quality of life in general I would say. Currently I'm 18, I hope in the future I can fulfill this dream or something like that
@@Raquel22209 Po cara, obrigado, espero que também obtenha sucesso em aprender a lingua e em se mudar pra lá também caso você queira
I am turkish we are very similar i want freedom and fair place to live too i’m also 18 from similar countries
Rogério Junior
I would like to see millions of Brazilians, suddenly move to Norway' mountains, build "favelas" everywhere, pollute it visually, the water, air, traffic and disturb the neighbors. Remember, where they go, they bring their culture, education and thinking.
Not saying that they have a habit
to check many times other people,
like they have a coil in their neck,
that keep bouncing their head.
It will be something ... a horror!
@@Bright-It you're funny bro
@@Bright-It yeah me too
I find as a Canadian there seems to be a lot of similarities between Norway and Canada in terms of what people say they like and dislike about their own countries. We both admire our nature, we both complain that things are expensive in our lands, and we both admit that we're not as warm to each other as we would like. I know what you're thinking "isn't Canada one of those most friendly and open places?" yes, sort of, in a somewhat fake non-confrontational way. I'd prefer it if our kindness was genuine and not just a way to get through the day easier
Regardless, I'm very excited to start my education in Norway soon and to hopefully one day become a Norwegian myself; I'd consider it the absolute best place to live and grow on the planet
People from Ontario seem very friendly and open to me...
Same here, being from Norway, I really love my country, its beautiful, its safe, it has alot to offer..
but some people I just dont like. Especially the cocky ones or those who must argue about anything.
F.ex. there was this woman that said I was walking on the wrong side of the sidewalk,
(it doesent matter where u walk on the sidewalk), but she made a big deal about it.
I Hope you can make a new segment about universities in norway. Maybe you can ask the students about their university, the pro and cons of studying there or A little bit of campus tour. That will be helpful 😁
Fascinating, thank you for this video. It shares some good insight about a country I don't know much about. Greetings from Los Angeles, CA
Som egen bor i Norge føler det er fine naturen her men skjer veldig liten på daglig livet. Et fint land men kjedelig. Ærlig talt.
ja, og veldig treige når det kommer til nye trender... hvis noe blir "mainstream" internasjonalt eller i USA så kan du vedde på at det tar nok minst 5 år før det begynner å bli akseptert i Norge... Jeg mener hvor lenge er det siden K-Pop eksploderte med BTS og Blackpink internasjonalt, mens her i lille Norge hører du aldri noe om det og det er først nå i nyere tid at jeg har begynt å se noen tegn til at det har "nådd" Norge. Og jeg ville nok satset på at hvis du som barn i norsk skole eller nordmann generelt liker dette åpent så vil du nok bli dømt en del enda...
im surprised they say very cold and introverted only thinking of them selfes is what they think of some of eachother :O im from Denmark and have been in Norway and i havent forgotten every single moment i had with the people i met and i got them on facebook still writing to them after 5 years i only saw them for like 3 weeks max XD they where so kind and nice always ready to help funny happy and loved to talk i met an old couple as well and we talked about christmas trees (i was selling trees by the way) :D sometimes i had to switch to english because of dialect so i dident understand also it was my first time talking to Norwegians everyday XD :D imagine me looking like the big question mark alot XD also there was a woman that was so happy about her purchase she came again to buy one more for her friend and let me pick some sort of a spiritual card it was magical and a norwegian chocolate bar Troika :D i have been stunned over the hospitality i got ever since i have wanted to explore norway even more and interact with the people ofcause that is a key point for me last time i was in Sørlandscenteret and Kristianssand Mostly work tho :D
Makes me want to go to Norway too, (in from Latin America, haha
Wow, I envy the feeling you can barely find a reason to dislike your country. How it like really?
I dislike the arroganse and selfishness and the cold mentality. I love the nature and my friends and family. But other than that I dont think Norway is a good place to live. Money and system is not the key to happiness. Im not more or less lucky than anyone else just for beeing born here, and for living here.
@James Myer yes I agree with you!!
@@kk440635NORWAY you might be right about what you said but being born in norway is always a good thing. not having a concern for the future (as money) must be some kind of a heaven that i probably will never reach😰
@@jane-il3qs Don't mistake their opinions of money as meaning it's not important here. While we have an economical security meaning you will never be desperately poor (like being homeless. homeless people are usually ones with deep mental issues). But people's personal finances are still a matter of great importance to most. An example is people's personal debts are getting higher, finding affordable property can be hard, society expenses are rising especially in the health sector and the burden will fall more and more on the younger generations, etc
@@NoNeedNoGreed hey i'm not saying everything is ✨perfect✨there financially.
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After visiting for only one week, I agree with all of these points. Although half of my DNA is from Norway, I could never belong there. I was a fisk out of water! 😆
I like everything about Norway esp. the nature, really stunning 💗
Love from the Philippines
What is the best way to make Norwegain friends as a foreigner (for example as a student, tourist or immigrant)? It scares me a little that in the video everyone said that Norwegains are cold.
Tussn takk for making such interessting videos :D
Greetings from Germany
Same as anywhere I guess, be friendly and interesting
You are German. You'll be fine.
When we have Portugal, Spain and Italy in the comparison among European countries, it's hard not to be taken as colder.
With few words. Be honest. No politician conversations. Respect their culture, smile and be active.
As a norwegian this is true, we can appere cold. but I think the first reason why we behave like this is because we don't want to bother people, and the other reason I think we are not so social types.
But I think most of us is honest and thrustworthy people. hope that in some way compensate for you guys not from here.
I'd advice looking out for some sort of interest groups or clubs. I know there are groups like that that advertise their presence at the beginning of the school year on student campuses and such.
All the time, I was looking straight to the subtitles😂. That was really helping 🥴🥴 I didn't notice the people who said it 😆😆
aha,to the English subtitles 😊. did the same
Just when I think I have figured out how people from Bergen pronounce Bergen, this guy says it in a way I've never heard. :D
In some ways, I get it that people who live in Norway are protective about their way of life. The "coldness" could also be a bit of that. What is great about living in Norway could so easily be upset by people not appreciating it. Norway is a jewel, imo. Beautiful Nature, a great standard of living, mutually cared for and agreed upon by the people who live there.
I'm a foreigner and have been living in Trondheim for more than a year now.
I like your videos a lot, the subtitles in both languages help and especially the "where's your dialect from?" question at the end. So thank you for them!
---> Honestly, all the Norwegians I met were very kind. The only thing I don't like about Norway is the shortage of international products. More stuff, larger selection and bigger supermarkets! :D
You globalist. Stop it. Appreciate regional differences, which aren't like where you're from.
@@bonsummers2657 You isolationist.
What if I told you that one can appreciate the local products AND want to have international products too.
@@pannacotta9917 I appreciate local focus, without more globalism than there already is. You racist! Isolationism is a virtue.
@@bonsummers2657 Why are you calling me a racist? Who am I racist against?
Please don't throw this word at people without any reason.
@@pannacotta9917 they do that to protect their domestic economy
I have talked/still talk to people from Sweden, Norway, Finland, and in the past Denmark. I find most to be a bit closed off but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sure, some people are more introverted and relationships take more effort but they seem to value connections a lot more. I found way more colder people then ones from Nordic countries.
As a Norwegian I agree that there's a lot to like about Norway, wealth, standard of living, safety, freedom and so on makes it a great place to live. However my biggest gripe with Norway and this honestly is pretty petty in some sense, is that it's boring and it's not particularly great when it comes to accepting new ideas, cultures and it feels like we're pretty far behind the times on trends etc. That's not to say we aren't progressive and accepting of people etc. but it's more about smaller niche cultures within entertainment, etc. You may see certain cultures and trends start hitting the mainstream internationally and in the US especially and then it'll take literal years before it even becomes halfway acceptable to admit to liking it in Norway. for example, K-Pop has blown up internationally, yet if you were to say you liked K-Pop in Norway you'd probably get judged and seen as a weirdo by most, I can't even imagine anyone ever putting on something that wasn't in Norwegian or English when at a party or with friends here. And what makes it worse is that when you compare to the US where you may have alot of conventions etc. even for more fringe cultures that allow you to meet and connect with others who share your interest, Norway being a small and long country doesn't really have that. Result is that it's really hard to find others who share your interests, be it k-pop, anime, e-sport or whatnot.
Fun fact I was at "The Gathering" which is a big LAN party in Norway a few years back and there was a cosplay competition, and even in that crowd, full of gamers, people were like "wtf is that?" when some of the cosplays were of anime characters...
'Safe' will in many cases also mean 'boring'. One can not always have it all. With money one can always visit other, more 'unsafe' countries for some more exitement. I like 'boring') Yeah, get your point. I'm abit off topic, but not totally)
@@Rimrock300 Most Norwegians can not travle all the time, and we need visa to alot of countries. I dont know where its better or whorse, because I have only lived in Norway . I guess something is better in Norway , and something is better in an other country. There are many factors that will make you lucky, unlucky, happy or unhappy. Economy and system is not all to get lucky and happy. In a big puzzle economy is just one of more than tousands pieces to be happy and lucky . We are lucky in some ways, and unlucky in other ways. We are unlucky with mentality, weather, suicide statistics, alcohol problems , drug problems. So in many ways it is NOT a good country to live in, but in other ways it is a good country to live in. It depends how you see life. Many foreiners ones had an idea that materalism could make them happy. Than came to Norway , and than discover that there are many other values than just money and political systems, and then regret comming here, and than moving back to theirs own country, and than live on a low wage in their native country. Sometimes having enough to survive is enough to be lucky and happy. Someone from the phillipines told me, they where moving back, because in the phillipines they are surrounded by a warm and caring mentality, and hot weather all the time, and that was a better thing than the economy in Norway , and the mentality of Norwegians . If one feel sorry for them self for NOT having enough money for traveling around the world, having a large TV screen, staying at luxary hotels, than I do not feel sorry for them. Beeing a millionary is not a human right . Beeing rich is not a human right . I am not a rich norwegian , I am like most norwegian a middleclass norwegian, most Norwegians are middleclass, we do not have VERY LITTLE poverty compared to many other countries, but at the same time most are not millionaries either , many people are millionaries in Norway , but its still LESS than the majority of the population , And I do not complane about this, because the millionaries don’t look happy at all. I will just disprove the myth that «most Norwegians are millionaries and can afford whatever they want, whenever they want»
Some people in other countries tell me «you should be thankfull for living in Norway , in my country you don’t know about tomorrow, in Norway you have predictability» and then I tell them, no, I have not, I don’t know what will happend with my economy the next day or the next week. Someones Workplace can be bankrot the next day in Norway as well as everywhere else. And not everyone have a buffer of money in their account. I have 20 years of loan on my apartment, its small, and it is on the countryside , and its not new, the bank interest rates can shoot in the air anytime.
Live day by day, wherever you live, because you can’t tell what will happen the next day no matter where you live. Don’t believe that we have no concerns in Norway . At the moment the The currency is very volatile, and there are great opportunities for extreme interest rate changes and inflation. And fuel, and taxes and food and electricity have become MUCH MUCH MUCH more expensive in just a few months, but the wage have not become any higher , so life is now more expensive and more uncertain than just a few months ago. But live in the moment, and live day by day, thats my advice. I will not be worried in advance , I take it when applicable
Life is unpredictable in all countries. I have no guarantee that I will sleep in my own bed next week.
I work in a professional laundry. We wash clothes for health care, and uniforms for many other private companies. We also wash bed linen and towels for crisis institutions. In recent months, we have received increased orders for towels and bed linen rent from crises institutions, it is because people lose their jobs, and then they also lose their place of residence, and are therefore evicted from their place of residence, and then they have to live in a crisis institution
It's might mean to say, but if we had not received increased orders from crisis institutions for the rental of towels and bed linen, we MAY have gone bankrupt. Because many companies have canceled contracts for washing uniforms that we rent to companies, because some of the companies we wash uniforms for have now gone bankrupt
@@Rimrock300 and also I reflect about something….
Often people abroad say that if I discover a tragedy, its «better» for me than it is for «them» because I live in Norway…. So «lucky me, Im from Norway , if someone I know die, its «less» of a tragedy»
I have some reflections from my own life
*If you loose your father in a young age, is it than less painful for me than it is for a person in a second or third world country? No the pain is still the same
*I was molested when I was younger by a monster, he was a norwegian , this happened in Norway , should I be thankful that it didn’t happened in africa ? Are there less trauma because it happened here in Norway, no.
*I was bullied in school, it happened in Norway , the ones who bullied me where Norwegians, is it a good thing that these actions happened in Norway rather than in africa? Would it make any differents? No!!!
*I sometimes struggle with depression and trauma, you can not always choose to not be depressed, in the same way that you can not choose to not have physical pain, you can’t either choose to not have mental pain. It can happen to anyone, just like cancer can happen to anyone, sometimes its caused by a chronic mental condition, like bipolar disorder as an example. This one is hard to answer what country its better or whorse. In my personal life it can be hard to live in a country with cold weather, almost no sun, surrounded by cold people, however I have my family and friends here. And even Norway have a good healthcare system, its still not a good mental-healthcare system. Its hard to get professional help. And expensive , and its bad capisity, and many psycologist don’t know what to say to motivate you, and just give you anti-depression medicine, and say «Now Everything will be good».
Sometimes people ask me if I wanna live in an other country. Than I say «no» because I have few friends, but they are still good friends, and I have a good family and good co-workers, thats what holds me back. If I didnt have this, I don’t know if I would have been living here, maybe, maybe not, hard to tell. Where is it better or whorse? You only know if you have try more than one country, and to emigrate its not an easy thing. Its alot of paperwork , and you dont automaticly get a residence permit to live in an other country either. you must apply for residence, and apply for a new job, and find a new place to live, and you must apply for beeing a part of the system (healtcare, tax office, public service) in the country where you wanna go and live. Some people say «if you don’t like Norway, than emigrate» , it isnt that simple. The process of emigration is not free, and its alot of bureaucracy, even for Norwegians that wanna go live abroad. People think that Everything is so easy for us, but is not. We are in avarage much more rich people than africans, latin americans and asians, that makes its easier for some people to move when it comes to airplane ticet, and to buy or rent a place to live. But the bureaucracy process is all the same . Its easy to get tourist visa to other countries, but getting a visa live permanently somewhere else is not more or less easy for Norwegians who wanna move out of Norway , than it is for foreiners that wanna move in to Norway , foreiners that wanna go and live in Norway must apply visa to the autorities of Norway for premission to live in Norway, BUT Norwegians must also apply for visa to live in an other country , so its not more easy for a norwegian to leave Norway than it is for a foreiner to enter Norway . We have not more freedom of movement than most other countries have, just better economy, and than some of us can afford the emigration process to move.
I believe that all countries have something that is whorse than Norway , and all countries have something thats better than Norway , because most countries have plusses and minuses. There are however some exception, if you live in war , or hunger or in North-Korea, or a place with similar dictatorship system as North-Korea have. On an other hand, there are countries with alot of hunger , where people starving, but in poor countries where people starve too death , there are many poor people there who have enough food also, not all poor people are starving-poor, some people have plenty of food, but not so many other things apart from food, and many of them are happy and appriciate what they have. So I don’t know if I am more lucky than they are. Its impossible for me to tell, because I have never try to live as they live, and they have never try to like I do.
I don’t feel lucky for beeing a norwegian, but not unlucky either, Im just neutral about it. But I do feel lucky that I am not from Afganistan or Ukraine or Russia or North-Korea, but I do not feel lucky/unlucky that I am not (as a hypothetical example) from Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, Phillipines, India , thats more about personal life and life situation, not about system in my opinion , because I have seen alot of example’s of this from foreiners that lives or use to live in Norway . I have all tho never been outside Europe myself. Money play a very small role of having a good life, but it is important in the sense to survive, but apart from that, its not a very important thing.
I am a lucky person because of friends and family and co-workers, but not for living in Norway.
I had a lower position in my previous job, but a much higher salary, but I hated the job that I had before , but the job I have now, I love it. I think that having one profession you like is more valuable than one profession that makes us rich, and good co-workers. If I stay in my old job, I could travle more, having a higher standard apartment , and less than 20 years of loan, but its not important. Traveling on holliday is something you do ones in a while, going to work is something you do year around, you spend more time on your Workplace than you do on holliday, so its most important to have a good place to spend time year around, than a place you are just ones in a while. So having a job with a good athmosphare is better than beeing able to travel , because a year have 52 weeks, and in Norway you have 5 week’s paied holliday. And you are going to spend your time at work in 47 week’s (Norwegian law) a year . you dispose 5 weeks you can use wherever you want (as long as you can afford it), the 47 other week’s you have to spend at work. In my last job I was able to travel abroad on high standard hotel every year for a week or two and sometimes more. Now if I save some money I might can afford a trip to somewhere low-standard hotel every second year, but life is better. Traveling is not a human right . I admit that I like to travle, but I think of the long-term effect in a large perspective , I will try to be happy the 47 other week’s too. So too me its better to have a job that I like and not a job that make me rich , so money is not what makes me happy in life, that is just a small part of what is important in a humans life. Its important to provide for yourself and your loved ones, having enough to pay your bills, but having more than this things is in my opinion not a human right , and it shouldnt be a human right either. Its not inhuman to be poor as long as you are not poor on a crises level . As long as you have access on hygiene, enough food, having a bed and roof over your head and can pay the mandatory bills, it should be good . Not having money for a television or an expensive telephone is not a human right
@@kk440635NORWAY Thanks for sharing your points of views, which are relevant. Most YT viewers are aware that people got their issues in life, ups and downs, whatever country they live in, even if they make comments like 'Norway must be perfect, with all the richdom from oil'. You let yourself might get a bit too provoked by these more or less superficial statements from foreginers and feel strongly for telling the world that Norway is not perfect. I see this is much about self-theraphy from your side, when this much time is put into it. I mean not to be negative at all, it's good and fully allowed to share one points of view, but honestly got a bit worried for you. Maybe better take some time off youtube, spend more time talk to the neighbour, family, friends, not sitting up all night writing here. On the other hand, if you feel it's good theraphy, helps and is worth the time, of course continue. Anyway, take care and good luck.
@@Rimrock300 thank you for your kind Words ❤️
oh my mom lives in Somna that's so cool! nice video, great to hear some different perspectives
Vær så snill, jeg venter på de nye videoene dine🙏🏻❤
Great to know about you guys in the other side of the world. Hello from a small town in the USA #newportbeachslife
The world's most beautiful country is home to the nicest people in the world.
You can write that Norway is an adorable country with adorable people
which has in the ears of Swedes the world most beautiful language.
Anyone who clicks their thumbs down should probably come up from the basement
and study geography then go to Norway (after the Corona pandemic).
I have been to more than 30 countries. Norway is surely the most beautiful one.
interesting to hear that Norwegians say they are cold people...I lived in Trondheim for 8 months and as a Brazilian, i had a different perception of Norwegians. In fact, Norwegians may seem cold at first but then they were very warm and welcoming with me. I had one of the best experiences in Trondheim. Such a beautiful city with warm and friendly people.
I moved back to A´dam where i was studying and always considered living in Norway. Maybe one day i will. :)
I was working 3 months in Norway and after that I started to learn norwegian because I just want to speak in their language. When there was nice conversation or cool,funny, worth sharing with friends and family situation, it was mostly when interacting with norwegians. I really like those people! Of course some of elderly people were resent because I couldn't understand them, but actually they were right and just honest. Other than that, there were so many elderly people that were so kind to me that I almost felt like they were my family. One man even invited me for coffe and chocolate, after short conversation and me selling him pair of pants and jacket. I really want to be able to comunicate with the locals in their own language, so I''m working hard to acomplish that. One day I will come back to Norway and work there because of possibility of earning normal money, not working "almost for free" like in Poland. Those things I like in Norway. Also they have beautiful landskapes, rivers, fiords and lakes so it's a heaven for me being flyfisherman. Cheers.
4:11 Oh yes. I think while Norway is great with energy from renewable sources, there's still a lot to do about plastic packaging. And plastic bags in shops. Often you can't say "no" quickly enough before the cashier pulls out a plastic bag and hands it to you. We banned free plastic bags in shops in Germany and of course there was a huge outcry at first, but now nobody is complaining anymore. Now they cost like 10 Cents or something, which really isn't much (I really don't know, I have stopped using plastic bags some years ago), but at least it gets people thinking.
but you guys send plastic that Norway sent you to poor countries instead of recycling it !
@@postersandstuff I honestly don't know what you are talking about?
waiting for new videossssss
This Chanel is very amazing this is what I like cause he or she is putting a sub titles understand and to practice ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊 I bet on no time I'll be good at this thank god I watch this UA-cam Chanel
One of the best videos I have ever seen- about Norway... All the opinions are akkurat!
btw, I love Norway way more than my homeland (Bangladesh). and the reasons are pretty obvious!
Impressive learning tips...
Takk for videoen, Jeg trodde nesten vi skal ikke fikk mer av dem!
Very simple and usefull...
the dialects are so soothing, I love Nordic languages
Not at all 🤭
Me as a tourist: I like the cleanliness, beautiful landscapes of Bergen
Me as a tourist: I dislike the cost of living of Bergen 😂😂
U can try living in small cities :) like rognan, and fauske
@@Luminessen Both places looks great! Have you ever been to Bergen? It's very nice!
Wow I agree too. Merry Christmas!!!! I liked this video yes!!!!👍🎄
Norway is a place I have only been to once, for a week. But it has pros and cons, like any nation. Cons would be that it is super expensive, even for simple things like food or taxis the prices are a joke. The people could be a bit warmer, friendlier. Pros are that the nature/scenery is incredibly beautiful. So are the local women. It is also a nation with good cleanliness, top-quality facilities and services. Very safe, not much crime at all. I have only seen Oslo & Bergen so far. Would love to visit to see more!
Thanks for sharing❤️
Hey that is my friend monica! how cool!
Jeg er enig med disse menneskene. Det jeg liker best er det kule været og landskapet.
I am from Norway, and I think of my people as very awkward and arrogant and selfish . In Norway we have a lot of mental problems such as depression and bipolar disorder. The system is not selfish, the system is good, but alot of the people are very selfish, and a lot of the Norwegians drinks too much. The suicide rate is high. Money and democracy and freedom of speach whelt is not what makes you happy. But it is many good Norwegians as well, and many including Norwegians. I think the tourists get a wrong impression of Norway , they always says «aaa, Norwegians are sooo nice», well of course they are, because they will give you a good impression of Norway . We have a lot to be thankful for, but at the same we have a lot to be ashamed of too, and I think racism is a growning problem nowdays. Many says to me «you are from Norway, than you have won in a lottery» . No that is not the case, being born in Norway is not best thing in the world, I dont know where its best or worst, but one thing i can tell for sure, its not AUTOMATIC Norway, it can be anywhere, every countries have plusses and minusses. What count in life is have enough food, have a roof over your head, have nice friends and family, money and whealy system is not what makes a country happy. People born in Norway is not more, or less lucky than people anywhere else. I know a russian woman, she was married to an norwegian man, living in Norway, high education and norwegian passport, when she divorced, she moved back to russia, because she didnt see the point to live here, because her husband was the only think she had here, all her other relations was in russia, so being divorced for this woman, she diside to move back, because her happynes here was gone, she even of free mind got un-citizen of Norway after this, and left her safe job, and travled back with just a little bit money
Thank you for commenting freely. I was looking for someone would give more points about Norway other that the ones that were covered in the video but did not find one except yours. The people in the video seemed a little bit skeptic but it might be maybe that they do not be want to be seen as being the against Norway or something.
Lmao, I can tell you’re a selfish person, thinking we aren’t luckier than people living in Africa dying of thirst and hunger
@@idkactually8565 You are the one who is self- absorbed. Get your facts straight first. I can tell you have been watching a lot of those poverty porn videos. Africa is not just full of "dying of thirst and hunger" people. It is so much more than that. I am an African and your picture about our continent is distorted. Educate yourself!!!
@@idkactually8565 money is not what make a human happy. But if people starving, of course that makes people unhappy. But system and money and wealth in general is not what makes a human happy. I am thankful for the system , but no one can tell me that I have «no reason» to be unhappy. Many people have done evil thing to me, and I have bipolar, and I experiense something trauma in my life, it does not matter where in the world this happens, is the same tragedy if I experiense these things in africa, as long as I had enough food, and good friends, its not better to be abused in Norway than in africa, and if people are cold too me in Norway, but warm in Africa (this is just hypotetic), is Norway better than? Very few people in Norway can complane on economy, but we have the same right too be sad and depressed here as anywhere else, BUT, the best thing is to be positive, and think of all we have, insted of what we not have in life (i am not talking about money), my life is better now, but one can not choose to broke your arm or leg. You can not choose to get cancer, or stroke, and you can NOT choose to have mental challenges either , and the mental healt is just as important as the physical healt. If you live in africa, and you are poor, but still have enough food, and good freinds and family, you might be more happy than a norwegian millionary, and maybe even have more reason to be happy. Money is not key to happiness . It is not selfish to struggle in Norway more or less than anywhere else. As long as you have good relationships with friends and family, living without war, and have enough food , and acress to a sink and a shower and a toilet , that is good enough reason to be happy. Norwegians are not more lucky than anyone else mentaly. Never base a country’s happines on system and wealth, I hate it when people based their happiness on money and system
@@idkactually8565 this is generalising. Like you speak for everyone in africa, what about an african with enough to survive?
The dialect bit at the end was great
Keep it up man. Thankss
Since you are in trondheim. Please make a video on Nidaros cathedral . Takk
Nidarosdomen? I've seen it's interior beautifully lit when a Norwegian gem, AURORA, played heavenly music there!
@@TheSm0wman I saw that concert on UA-cam. 🔥 It was awesome 👍 you are a lucky man
@@isparshmehta I would love to have been there but I only saw it on You Tube too! She has three festival appearances scheduled for this summer, one in Oslo and two in Germany, and I would desperately hope that Covid19 is under control enough for me to go to one of them. I have my doubts though.
Sorry for giving you the wrong impression!
@@TheSm0wman skremmern by Trond Kirkvaag (and here Matt Groening says we dont have humor , lol)
Based on my experience I think Danes are a bit more straightforward and outgoing but have found Norwegians and Swedes to be more calm.
Yeah! New Video!
Girl - I like that we have seasons
Me - ...
(By the way I LOVE NORWAY SO MUCH Im a Norgeholic I legit have DREAMS about Norway!
We want more video sir
you were right, this song was ok and clearly now a sign of yours
Organized , discipline and respectful community.i love norway.watching here in Saudi Arabia.
Their coldness may be honestly begotten. So many of them mentioning coldness or introversion reminds me of The Prairie Home Companion originally broadcast from Minnesota. It is based on Lake Wobegon, a fictional town of quiet, Lutheran Norwegian-descended immigrants. Very stoic people, and Garrison Keillor made them very endearing and funny in their sequestered ways.
By the way, I am an American mutt: mixed race, English, Spanish, Italian, Mexican, African. And I am very shy or apprehensive around strangers and need to warm up. I can be cold but it is not of a stuckup intention. I'm just shy. So I feel I would love Norway bc the people would not push me hard and I might blend in as long as I don't wear obviously American clothing. lol
I love Ødegaard and Håland, so I love to know more about their country
The guy at 1:13 is so cuuuute
Awesome vlog! : )
Definitely doing my doctorate there in Norway. It's just so crazy here in U.S. Would be ecstatic to get a Ph.D., but with 100k+ debt? That's quite the killjoy.
@Moljo No , any distinction from where immigrant come from.
Integration and interest for us are the main reason.
My dear friend. Love your videos! You should do what Norwegians think about Latinos next :) would love to watch it!
I've always wanted to go to Norway. Im an American so of course im very fascinated with the Norwegian military spec ops teams (MJK/FSK)
Cant wait to someday visit your beautiful country :}
I'm an introvert and shy person, maybe I was adopted from Norway🤔
prob. social anxiety are like 20% for sure. im one of them, HURRA
I’ve been to Norway many times working would live there if I was younger, especially Kristiansund
Norway is actually bigger than 70% of the countries of the world by area(62/237), but that girl might have been talking about the population. Although my experience is that most Norwegians think we are in the lower half in size as well.
great video!
My moms family immigrated from laedral area in the 1870s
They have answered exactly as my research conclusions ( as a Brit), which is both satisfying and disappointing....
I love that they don't like norwegians being cold but at the same time its up to them to change that jajajja. People seem friendly though
Norwegians remind me of people from Switzerland, just be quiet, work hard, mind your own business and enjoy nature. Perfect societies!
I just wanna say something that I say many times allready
I have no reason to feel lucky and happy just the fact that I am a norwegian citizen, and the fact that I live here, is born here and have norwegian ethnisity
I have discoverd plenty of stories from foreiners. This time I will tell about a pastor from Congo who was on eurotrip to held speaches in several churches in europe, also in Norway , the expenses on his eurotrip was paied by several churches around europe.
This man lived in the countryside of Congo, he worked as a pastor, he didnt have water or electricity. He got wather and fish from a river, he had vegetables outside his homemade house, and he had animals outside for food, he’s wife made food on the bunfire. He had a low salary, and had axress to free internet on the villige libary. He had enough to feed his family, and they was poor, but not starving-poor (there is a difference between poor and starving poor)
He was a bit rude in he’s speach, rude against Norwegians . He say «I feel so lucky and happy to NOT beeing born IN Norway, and I think europe is a cold place, its a cold place on temperature, and also among the mentality of people».
A goverment is NOT a country, its something thats IN a country, money is NOT a country, its something thats IN a country. There are many factors that plays a matter of beeing lucky and happy. Having a good goverment and enough money is just 1 of 10. 000 reasons of beeing happy and lucky. I cant say if I should be less thankful beeing born in a poor country with a corrupt goverment , or being born in Norway. Its impossible to say, I havnt lived in an other country, maybe I would feel more lucky and happy to be born poor in Congo than in Norway, maybe not, totally impossible to say. Have I less reason to feel pain for beeing molested by a «friend» in my teenage years , living in Norway than everywhere else? There is no different where you live, its the pain no matter what. Have I less reason to be sad and depressed loosing my father in a young age, just because I live in Norway? And not in a poor country? No the pain is totally the same. Have I less reason to feel pain for beeing bullied in school in Norway rather in a poor country. No the pain is toatally the same. It dosent matter where you live if you discover these things. The pain is the same, both mental and physical.
Let’s say enough money and a good goverment is 1 of 10.000 reasons to be thankful and happy and lucky. And good hot weather (for some) is 1 of 10.000 reasons, beeing able to do outdoor activitys all year around. Like playing volleyball on the beach all year around, swim in the ocean all year around, living among people with a good mentality, bee happy and thankful for friends and small things in life. In many poor countries people are sattisfied by simple small things, but here most people take most things for grounded? In many country’s in this world people have a more warm and including mentality than in Norway , and takes better care of eachother than in Norway, even the goverment is horrible. Happiness and lucky is about friends and family and things to do. I dont feel lucky to be born here, and I dont see a good reason to be happy and lucky just living here. Btw, I dont see a reason to be UN-lucky either, Im just neutral. Remember that all people are individuals and different, and have many ways to see life , not everyone things the same, I dont think that I am lucky OR UN-lucky to be born here. I dont feel thankful OR UN-thankful to bee a norwegian. Im neutral. People can talk for themself, but not on behalf of others. No one have the fasit, and no one can judge. Many people think Norway is Utopia and heaven, untill they come here and live here a few years, and than change their opinion about Norway and that money and goverment is «related» and «assosialetd» with happiness and luckyness.
Everyone that read this :
DONT generalise people , dont take things out do contecst, dont force other people how to think and how to feel about life. Dont judge. Dont speak on behalf of all other people, and respect that not everyone ser life the way you do . Dont be to «sure» about other people, dont say: «you would have change your mind if you lived in my country» , see things from a HUGE perspective.
If you judge me for beeing greedy and selfish , YOU are the one that are greedy and selfish for not letting me having my own opinions about myself, and my personal life. Many people dont see any reason for me to be unlucky in life, just because I am a norwegian , no matter what happens, and no matter the surrondings. Because my country have a good leadership (compared to many other countries), and a good economy, and than Everything is okey????? What about all other things in life ????? Dont tell me that I am more lucky than a person that can feed him self in Africa, this all depends from person to person. No one can tell how the other person feels inside, no one can judge, who have the best life?? Who have the whorst life?? this depends on lifesituation, in all different ways, NOT JUST in an economical way, NOT JUST in a goverment way . There are so many things that play a role for a good living, money and goverment range very low on this in my opinion. See things in a huge perspective. I am glad that I am NOT a millionary. I like my job in an industrial laundery. Most Norwegians are not millionaries , most Norwegians are middleclass. Most Norwegians have 20 - 35 years of loan from the bank to pay their house / flat. And most Norwegians can not travle wherever they want whenever they want. And most Norwegians dont stay on 5 Star hotels when they are on holiday , it of course depends on how often you travle or not. If you dream about Norway, moving here, getting job here, you dont automaticly getting a millionary salary, you dont automaticly get rich, you can not travle where you want and how often you want on an awarage salary. You have to save up money, and priority what you wanna spend your money on. The country is rich , but most people are middleclass, but there are also many rich of course, a few poor also, BUT STILL THEY EXIST
Some people say its very safe here? Well I dont go out alone after its dark outside in the big towns. And in small towns I dont go out alone in the weekend evenings , in large towns I dont go out in evenening no matter what day it is, not after 21 : 30 (09 : 30 evening time)
You could make a video about what Norwegians think of South Americans. I'm curious.
it is very interesting and strange to me that except one person no one else mentions the most valuable and necessary thing for a person and country . and that is freedom and democracy , please appreciate this gift . for me as a person who is suffering a lot from this deficiency in my country it was odd.
I guess one can take it for granted when it's all they have experienced
I and my wife visited Bergen last 2019, and it is one of the most beautiful places I have been to. The place is so pricey though.
Norwegian are the best people in the world and I mean it...... Norge er best
I agree
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@@effiet9344 not everyone
I wanna watch more videos from you!
Greetings from Cambodia 🇰🇭
My dream is to visit Norway one day and enjoy myself!☺️☺️
There will be more videos 👍
Just found my fellow Cambodian here.
Non-European foreigners are not wanted in Norway
@@the80386 Won't be going there as a refugee or migrant to leech off your country's resources, no worries. We will visit Norway as tourists. Norway might be a great destination, but im sure as hell I don't wanna live there for the rest of my life considering the weather, food, and people
many asians and africans come using tourist or student visa and then overstay. that's a problem
If you have to try that hard to come up with things are are bad with your country, and the main one is that people aren't chatty, you live in good place.
plz continue
Pros - safe environment, people are polite (at least seem to be), stability, monotonicity, good for old people and people who do not look for much excitement or fun
Cons - people are cold and it's imposible to make genuine friends, nobody cares about anything, food is disaster, very narrow food options in grocery stores, incredibly expensive restaurants, high taxes for nothing special I cannot find in another european countries, perfectly depresing weather, cities are isolated and there are no trip options, you have to take a plane to visit another nearest city and pay 200-300 dollars for a ticket, tools on roads (you have to pay 5 dollars just to get into the city, for using a normal road full of holes), everything is extremely expensive and quality of things is under average (dry bread 3 dollars), authorities and offices and institutions are imposible to reach, you cannot come personaly and they mostly don't pick the phone for days straight
As a Norwegian, I strongly disagree with you. It is not the best country to be a foreigner in, I won't claim it to be, but being born in Norway is not like what you describe. We are not exempt from mental illness, not even close, but what country is? Your description is really really far from reality when you generalize for everywhere in Norway, and I highly doubt you were anywhere remotely close to Oslo when you were in Norway. I am confused by where you get your information from since it so far from reality. Your generalizations are so horribly wrong. Stuff is expensive though, that is right ;D
so thats whz thez went to pillage england
@@GT-fl9gf i can tell you back in the 80s if you travelled by plane from the north to Oslo that ticket cost 7-8000 krones and no , not kidding !
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Well this sucks for us people who went to American public schools and only know one language.
No one said Norwegian Salmon.... it's exported to the US and I love it
Im introvert but in norway i would be so extrovert...im from México 😂😂
Same. Im from Brazil
What kind of education need to study bachelor in Oslo pls help me to find the answer for this question
Nice vid - Må si jeg ler litt av at Norsk video blir tekstet til bokmål, men skjønner at det blir oversatt til engelsk for andre ;)