I wore a dry stick in my boots when I was a small kid (6-7 years old), just in case there was a badger around. I think crunchy bread would break down into crumbles.
Coffe on a plate.. in the old days they boiled the coffee and it was really hot. To pour in on the plate turned the coffee cooler quickly so they didn’t have to wait to drink it.
..yes, its a very old swedish tradition... long time ago houses was heated by stoves and usually in the kitchen u had a cooking stove, most had covered up holes called platters and rings(rim platters) for different sized pots for quick heating...and most ppl grined thir coffe themself wich wasent as fined grinded as todays stuff, u boiled the coffe sor some time and left the leftovers in the pot as everything was sinking except the coffe...100 deg poured on a coffe plate for cooling/drinking was quite common as thay had a much wider cooling area, and back in then sugar cubes was very much harder than today...puting a piece cut off with a pliers and put in ur mouth or between the theeths...thay did not disolve quick compared to todays sugar... today it makes very litte sense doing so... not only is the coffe not suitabe, the sugar cubes today disolves giving out alot more sugar.
no its true in norway an old myth says that styrofoam will keep the badgers from biting. most likely the same myth in sweden but honestly i just run at them and they dissapear pretty quickly. i might just be lucky tho or have the size tho so dont try it. best bet is to stay away from badgers as they can take more of a beating than any other animal.
Yes, there are girls livibg in the north. Award winning photographer Jonna Jinton have her own YT channel. Warmly recommended. She are so visually talented that her videos are amongst the most beautiful ones on the entire YT.
Hi :) I believe that the elderly in Denmark used to drink coffee from the saucer with a lump of sugar in their mouth in the past, but I don't know if they still do that. There were many things in that video that I can nod in recognition of here in Denmark, so maybe it's Scandinavian traditions. :)
No not everybody wears crisp bread in their rubberwellingtons in Sweden. It is a myth that we are afraid of Badgers taking a bite of our legs, they are nocturnal animal and if you are walking in the woods looking for berries or mushrooms we do it in daytime.
Most households in Sweden have a entrance in the house where you have stone flooring in the hallway before you enter the rest of the house. This is the area where you remove your shoes before entering the house. I'm sad that I don't have this in my home but I have a large rug instead and a stand for all the shoes for everyone.
Drinking coffee or tea on the saucer isn't that uncommon in the world. From Sweden to India to Australia. It's called "på fat". You could also put a lump of sugar between your lips and drink tea/coffee and that's called "på bit". They even manufacture sugar cubes especially to drink "på bit" in Denmark. These can be combined, but isn't always.
Well.. Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia is in the so called "Vodka belt"... maybe that's why it works better for Danes since they live south of the belt.
I'm a swede living in England, i remember first time I bumped in to someone in the shop, being polite I said Ok, they just looked at me as they thought I said Oi, totally different meaning lol
Hello again Luke! Yes, I can vouch for many of these things. For instance, I know from experience walking into someone's house in Sweden (and Estonia) is taboo, and I can understand why. I've worked with Scandinavians and Germans on the phone and I can say they are direct opposites - the Scandinavians always use first names, while the Germans never use them. I suppose we British are somewhere in the middle. Anyway, thanks for a great video. 🙂 Now earlier on, I said I'd make a video for you to react to. It's in Swedish WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. As I said before, my pronunciation is not perfect but Swedish viewers seem to understand what I'm saying. SO, if you're still interested, here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/EpTEDefT14M/v-deo.html The video is called: Sverige, Skandinavien och Norden är betydligt större än de flesta människor tror (=Sweden, Scandinavia and the Nordic Region are considerably bigger than most people think). From one British Scandophile to another: if you decide to react to this, I hope it will generate more views for both of us. Have a good day and keep bringing the great content 🙂
Oj is an expression for a sudden happening, you get surprised by something/someone. But we do say thank you and so on...have seen this vlogg before and can´t recognize myself in everything she says. Hard bread in my wellies? Nooo...and I have badgers in my yard sometimes. About the north and men...yes, girls are more for going south and to big towns, at least it was like that earlier. But now we have more work possibilities up here compared to the south and cheaper rents so I guess it will work out for the "lonely boys" soon. 😉 I also think that men have a more laid back personality here, man of us (well, I´m a woman) are brought up with fishing, hunting and other outdoor activities, not so much to do here so...and the girls are more for neon and glitter...and a higher education. Can´t say that it really is like that but in my generation (the 60`s), when genders were more split between what was female and male, it was. I also looooove to talk to people but yes, I prefer a stranger - my neighbours I alredady know! No. No. No. Kaffe på fat - drinking coffe from the saucer - yes, like my mom when I was a little girl IN THE 60`s! I don´t do it, my friends doesn´t do it and the elderly I take care of at work doesn´t do it.
Well it might be a southern thing! But I talk to my neighbours and if I bump in to someone and it´s an accident I say OOJ förlåt (sorry). She have a lot of things wrong in fact
@@allaboutscandinavia9779 awesome:) i tried too look into a fitting video with some length, but not too much. I think this video is good: ua-cam.com/video/nPSYY2GamgA/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ArthuriosLanguages Otherwise if you have other videos in mind i dont mind at all :D
I think I've heard about the crispbread but the the thing I've heard you should put in your boots is dry sticks. Never done it or heard of anyone who've done it. I believe it's from the same times as the advise to turn your shirt inside out not to get lost in the woods by "skogsrået" And about weird(?) coffeetraditions, my grandfathers "cocktail" of choice was Kask. Just vodka and coffee.
this video was pretty focused on the north of sweden. and these kinds of videos is always very generalized, here ismy take on a few of these. *bread in boots, never heard of before and i was an outdoor kid (Scouts etc) so feel like i would have heard this, badgers was also not one of the animals kids were afraid of. *the mostly boys in northern sweden, i would guess its more a result of the kind of work available in northern Sweden being traditionally more masculine, like mining,and generally industrial. maybe not what a large part of younger women want as a career. but i guess you could call that a form of ambition. its usually true in all countries, that the young generation growing up in small towns wants to move away to bigger towns as soon as they can, both boys and girls. *Oj is a pretty regional word, some parts of the country use it quite alot, others very rarely. basically part of different dialects *the part of avoiding people (like the mailbox example) is pretty true, of course its a generalization but i think its more common in Sweden than most other countries. kinda like Swedish people tend to care quite alot about how they look even in the most mundane situations like going to the store. Im an example of that myself as i wear sweatpants almost daily at home, but i dont think i have ever gone outside my house in them even if its just to go to the store for 5mins. *The part of the flat hierarki in society is very true and very different from many countries.i have never in 40 years called anyone mr or mrs(in sweden) and its still very strange to do it at work. basically the only person you address with a title in Sweden is the royal family, (or atleast the king and queen)
To address royalty in Swedish has it's own challenges. The King is formally "ers majestät" (your majesty) but can be adressed informally too. For common folks it's "du" (the formal is abolished for commoners) and for the king it's "Kungen" ("The King") and that can sound really weird, like this authentic question I heard when I worked there: "Hur kommer Kungen att fira jul i år?" "How will The King celebrate Christmas this year?" Asked directly from The King himself!
I would love for you to react to the video "Swedishness" by Tobias Rådenholt. It is funny and true at the same time, a lot of famous comedians and actors are in this one, and the guy playing the prime minister he was the real prime minister at the time of this video.
I am not that comfortable with "janteloven", it's used demeaningly about Scandinavians all willy nilly, and frankly often misinterpreted. It was originally a way of critisizing that "small town" mentality that you actually can find all over the world more or less... and of course it's about the fictive danish town of Jante. That said, yes, bragging and putting others down is frowned upon and not really appreciated. But where is bragging something other people like? ... and we still like and are proud of successful people. We just don't like bragging and self glorification.
When she was lying in state? Here we often use the frase Lit de parade when it comes to the royals. Princess Lilian was the latest royal to lie in state after her passing in 2013
People are different, but yes, if you ask me how I am I will tell you. If you don't want to know, why ask? My mother DO often drink her coffee on the saucer with a sugar lump between her teeth if we have fika outside. She says it taste better. The only one I ever heard about that put crisp bread in their wellies were some crazy southerners but they are up to all sorts of strange things, camping in the middle of some farmers crops or drive up North without wintertires during winter. Yes the word Oj trips one up sometimes when in an English speaking country. Compliments make me very embarrassed and uncomfortable and I just want to leave.
Why do people online insist on calling everything other people in other countries do weird? As if everything their own country's population does is the "normal" for others to relate to? "Different" is exciting for those with an open mind.
Yeah I completely agree! As I said in the video, I don’t think we should call these things weird when really they are just different. I love learning about different things that people in different countries do! 😁
@@erikaeriksson9840 my grandfather was born 1908 hes the only one i have seen do that. Ofcourse you are going to find someone younger doing it, maybe i Will be doing it not just because of we discusting it, but in real life nobody does it, just some odd person here and there. If the guy doing this video traveled to sweden, do you think he would see anybody drinking coffe from the saucer? If he went got hiking in the forest would he meet anybody with crunchy bread in the boots?
@@vonmaceronetheheretic191 That depends where you go I suppose. In the cities no, you would not find anyone drinking from the saucer. In Jämtland in the villages when people are drinking coffee outside in the summer. Yes, you will see people do that. People at least as young as me and I'm born 1977 not 1910. The myth up here is to put coal in the wellies not crisp bread but I think that's just to take the piss out of city dwellers. Nobody does that. Badgers can be a bit grumpy but they are not dangerous. I quite like them.
Like i said you can find some odd people here and there drinking like that, she in the video described it like it something common. I spend time in a small village in västerbotten, i have not seen anyone there doing it since my grandfather. Just because you drink like that does not mean its widespread like she in the video would like the viewers to think. So stopp arguing that people drink coffe like that just because 0,001 percent do it
@@vonmaceronetheheretic191 But I don't even drink coffee. But I see it so often that I don't find it surprising in the least. I can't speak for Västerbotten but in Jämtland it isn't unusual. I don't know which part of Sweden the girl in the video is from but it seems to be a common practise wherever she is from as well.
Sorry! But she is talking a lot of... It is bad when someone who is swedish are spreadign so much terrible junk about Sweden. She does not like Sweden.. that is obvious!
@@swedishmetalbear And WHAT is the irony in giving wrong picture of Sweden as "information"? How would people around the world know what is true, what is false and what is irony if they do not know anything about Sweden?
1. While it IS a bit annoying that you can ONLY buy alcohol at Systembolaget it is not ALL bad, since they are a "specialty shop" and large ones at that they have selections that are.. shall we say extensive? 2. "cute speech"? uuuh say what now? no never heard of that 3. nor have I ever heard of anyone putting Knäckebröd in their boots, and badgers biting until they hear a crunch is just a myth. 4. And ah.. yeah, embarrassing to admit but trying not to meet anyone in the stairs even if you have to wait to open the door? that IS a thing yes. 5. The trust thing, well it certainly used to be that way but we're being cured of that in a hurry. We still suck at things like haggling though and can get quite offended if someone tries it on us. 6. The doubling up on words, yes true. 7. Shoes indoors, yes true. NO EFFING SHOES!
Lol..and yet still are the best girls from north..no stress no ego ..but she must referred from some newspaper..are one town called kiruna..its a mining town where 80% are guys..she has probably not been here in north or outside of stockholm
Up north in Sweden it is important to be tolerant to alcohol when out drinking with the boys. Because the first 1-2 guys who pass out will be the "designated females" for the rest of the night.. Of course they won't remember it happening at all except for a slight soreness in their bum bums that lasts for a few days.
The talk cute thing is something I never heard off in my soon 42 years in sweden :P Maybe it's a (08) thing. 08 is what we living north of stockholm is calling people that live in stockholm ^^ And 08 is refering to their region telephone number from the old days where we had phonelines and mobiles were less prominant. And 08 is also their IQ sometimes =D They think stockholm is the middle of sweden and that just because they live in our biggest city they are smarter then the rest of sweden, while rest of sweden knows thats not the case. Jentelagen be damned. Tho ofc when we all meet we follow Jentelagen to a point, but not online .
This about not talking to stranger, don't believe it. It might depend on where you're from but I always had fika with my neighbors, we helped out. And would always chat, even here in UK if for example it take some time at the till i talk to the person next to me. I think this myth has grown a lot more through reaction videos
I would think a huge reason for why there are so many dudes in the north is probally becouse of all the mines. Now ofcourse women can work in the mines aswell and make like 4-5 000 pounds a month with 15 days a months. But lets be real its not what most women would like to do.
At first.. one probably need to be Scandinavian to understand "Jantelagen".. its actualy danish and a complain about.. stay in your place or your class! Nowadays.. its more like, dont brag! Crisp bread in ones boths.. its a long time myth, told that many time thats it become a fairytale! Its rather this, there is more women in higher education then males, and they have problem to find there male mate! She talked about conversation between friends.. especialy femals, be cute! Otherwise we hate "small talks" and like to put up a grumpy attitude! And to start a conversation to your cassier is nothing but a crime, to those back in the line! Dont disturb your neighbur.. then they dont disturbe you, give a lot of space! We use "du" , kinda "you" i think, or if one is very yong and inscure "ni" for older persons. For what I understand our king prefere "du" as a private, frome persons he dont know! In anyway I think that "du" is related to old english "Thou"? Take your shoes of.. in my home.. translated to.. dont bring any dirt in.. and get cosy! Coffe on a plate was a thing in the past, when sugar cubs didnt disolved that easy! ' Kebab pizza is a swedish invention.. its crossover food.. there should be Pizza sallat to that!' Soo, okey we are weird, but I have altso been to UK, you is weird to! In anyway.. a fish and chips from a road stand saved my day! And your Strongbow cider.. exept I was that one to drive the bus! Come to sweden and act as tourist, ask people tourist questions.. its a danger there, many dont let you of the hook!
The trust thing. It's nothing new with your current government brouhaha. When I lived in the uk some 20 years ago. Most people over there went fully tinfoil hat when discussing things like ID or the ease of bureaucracy because here everything is in a database that is synced with other databases. And the information is generally public which means my doctor or electric company can pull information straight from the central database rather than keeping their own. Things like moving house in Sweden vs the uk. Here I do three clicks on a website. Done. All the databases sync up and everyone has updated your records. In the uk we spent weeks sending out change of adress notices to banks, doctors, dentists, employers, every institution and company you've ever been in contact with... So they can update your adress in their records. Or that my neighbour, or really anyone, can look up what my income is in a government database. And newspapers regularly pull information from them to publish what houses have sold for in your area. All of that is public information, accessable to anyone. Those kind of things really freaked my British friends out. In a let me get the tinfoil hat, kind of way. While here we just trust the government and institutions to make our lives easier. And that I am unimportant and uninteresting enough for anyone to bother doing anything nefarious with the information.
She didn't explain Jantelagen very well, of course you say thank you if someone gives you a compliment, Jantelagen is more that you're not supposed to talk about things you've done well or your accomplishments, never think that you're better than anyone else. About the neighbors she exaggerated quite heavily aswell, overall most of this videos was silly and not very accurate at all. Forget this video if you want to understand Swedish culture. This was cringe...
@@andershanquist1237 completely besides the point as she was describing how Swedes approach the Jantelag. The origin of it makes no difference, She did not explain it well.
I dont know wich planet she is comming from. She is talking baloney. Ex: oj, is a Word what is more like a Word you use when you got suprise. Nobody put on wellington boots with crumps inside. We use sneaker. You put on wellingtonboots when we go for picking berrys. Me my self think she is over the top. 90% is so wrong.
That about crunchy bread in the boots is something you joke about, she would most likely not be able to name someone who actually has done this
Haha thanks for the clarification! 🤣
Yeah, only a gullible city person would do that.
I wore a dry stick in my boots when I was a small kid (6-7 years old), just in case there was a badger around. I think crunchy bread would break down into crumbles.
it was the "TRUTH!!" when i was a kid, never heard about it after the age of 10. Never did it though
@@mikgus Do you know anyone who actually did it?
Coffe on a plate.. in the old days they boiled the coffee and it was really hot. To pour in on the plate turned the coffee cooler quickly so they didn’t have to wait to drink it.
That makes a lot of sense! 😁
..yes, its a very old swedish tradition... long time ago houses was heated by stoves and usually in the kitchen u had a cooking stove, most had covered up holes called platters and rings(rim platters) for different sized pots for quick heating...and most ppl grined thir coffe themself wich wasent as fined grinded as todays stuff, u boiled the coffe sor some time and left the leftovers in the pot as everything was sinking except the coffe...100 deg poured on a coffe plate for cooling/drinking was quite common as thay had a much wider cooling area, and back in then sugar cubes was very much harder than today...puting a piece cut off with a pliers and put in ur mouth or between the theeths...thay did not disolve quick compared to todays sugar...
today it makes very litte sense doing so... not only is the coffe not suitabe, the sugar cubes today disolves giving out alot more sugar.
My grandfather used to drink from the plate. With a sugar cube in his mouth to filter through 😂
It's also to get max aroma from the coffey. My grandfather did this.
Never heard about knäckebröd in your wellies.
She's waffling a lot... about most things.
Haha well thank you for letting me know! 😅
ehm its like super common? maybe its regional tho.
no its true in norway an old myth says that styrofoam will keep the badgers from biting. most likely the same myth in sweden but honestly i just run at them and they dissapear pretty quickly. i might just be lucky tho or have the size tho so dont try it. best bet is to stay away from badgers as they can take more of a beating than any other animal.
My northswedish grandma always used to drink coffee with a little bit of milk on a plate with suggar in the mouth.
That’s nice! 😁
There are cities in the North, though. She's probably a "Sörlänning".
Probably. and there are girls in the far north, even if it is some truth to what she said about that
😅😅
Yes, there are girls livibg in the north. Award winning photographer Jonna Jinton have her own YT channel. Warmly recommended. She are so visually talented that her videos are amongst the most beautiful ones on the entire YT.
As a Swedish slob I can say that not even me would even think about wearing my shoes indoors
Hi :) I believe that the elderly in Denmark used to drink coffee from the saucer with a lump of sugar in their mouth in the past, but I don't know if they still do that.
There were many things in that video that I can nod in recognition of here in Denmark, so maybe it's Scandinavian traditions. :)
In Sweden too. My maternal grandfather (morfar) did.
@@annicaesplund6613 Mine too.
Ah that’s interesting to know! I guess the three Scandinavian countries really do have quite a lot of things in common! 😁
No not everybody wears crisp bread in their rubberwellingtons in Sweden. It is a myth that we are afraid of Badgers taking a bite of our legs, they are nocturnal animal and if you are walking in the woods looking for berries or mushrooms we do it in daytime.
Do you know anyone who actually has done that?
@@vonmaceronetheheretic191 no one has crisp bread in their boots. Can say the most of what she says in the video is bull.
@@MR-go1tj exactly
Oh thanks for the clarification! 😁
@@allaboutscandinavia9779 we may have found someone putting crisp bread in her boots, @Erika Eriksson the coffe drinkar from Jämtland 🤣
Nobody in Sweden is that cute to strangers… at least not outside of Stockholm
An older women told me when I was a kid that she always drank coffee from a saucer because on a saucer the coffee turned cold faster.
Most households in Sweden have a entrance in the house where you have stone flooring in the hallway before you enter the rest of the house. This is the area where you remove your shoes before entering the house. I'm sad that I don't have this in my home but I have a large rug instead and a stand for all the shoes for everyone.
That’s a great idea! Always better to take off the shoes before going further into the house! 🤣
I can confirm the double up words thing… it’s basically just one syllable words cause they sound so short and harsh…
Scandinavians love to queue aswell. We are famous queuers
As a Norwegian, I will wait in my apartment if I hear someone going in the stairs in my apartment building.
"Oj" is strange. Never encountered it where I live. The polite way when you bump into someone is to say "ursäkta".
Drinking coffee or tea on the saucer isn't that uncommon in the world. From Sweden to India to Australia. It's called "på fat".
You could also put a lump of sugar between your lips and drink tea/coffee and that's called "på bit". They even manufacture sugar cubes especially to drink "på bit" in Denmark.
These can be combined, but isn't always.
You can actually buy alcohol in supermarkets in Sweden. But only 3.5% vol or lower. And if it is lower than 2.25% there are no age restriction
If we was able to buy alcohol in normal stores, alcoholism would rise 😂
Not only in Sweden. The same in Norway and Finland and some provinces of Canada too.
Haha yes I can believe it! 😂
Well.. Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia is in the so called "Vodka belt"... maybe that's why it works better for Danes since they live south of the belt.
@@SteamboatW Well... Not really, look at EU statistics of alcoholism, danes are up there in the top, your youth is the top...
I'm a swede living in England, i remember first time I bumped in to someone in the shop, being polite I said Ok, they just looked at me as they thought I said Oi, totally different meaning lol
Hello again Luke! Yes, I can vouch for many of these things. For instance, I know from experience walking into someone's house in Sweden (and Estonia) is taboo, and I can understand why. I've worked with Scandinavians and Germans on the phone and I can say they are direct opposites - the Scandinavians always use first names, while the Germans never use them. I suppose we British are somewhere in the middle. Anyway, thanks for a great video. 🙂
Now earlier on, I said I'd make a video for you to react to. It's in Swedish WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. As I said before, my pronunciation is not perfect but Swedish viewers seem to understand what I'm saying. SO, if you're still interested, here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/EpTEDefT14M/v-deo.html
The video is called: Sverige, Skandinavien och Norden är betydligt större än de flesta människor tror (=Sweden, Scandinavia and the Nordic Region are considerably bigger than most people think). From one British Scandophile to another: if you decide to react to this, I hope it will generate more views for both of us.
Have a good day and keep bringing the great content 🙂
Dang this video could have been made by a Norwegian 😎😂🇧🇻
Haha that’s interesting to know! 🤣
And a Dane 😂😂
Oj is an expression for a sudden happening, you get surprised by something/someone. But we do say thank you and so on...have seen this vlogg before and can´t recognize myself in everything she says. Hard bread in my wellies? Nooo...and I have badgers in my yard sometimes. About the north and men...yes, girls are more for going south and to big towns, at least it was like that earlier. But now we have more work possibilities up here compared to the south and cheaper rents so I guess it will work out for the "lonely boys" soon. 😉 I also think that men have a more laid back personality here, man of us (well, I´m a woman) are brought up with fishing, hunting and other outdoor activities, not so much to do here so...and the girls are more for neon and glitter...and a higher education. Can´t say that it really is like that but in my generation (the 60`s), when genders were more split between what was female and male, it was. I also looooove to talk to people but yes, I prefer a stranger - my neighbours I alredady know!
No. No. No. Kaffe på fat - drinking coffe from the saucer - yes, like my mom when I was a little girl IN THE 60`s! I don´t do it, my friends doesn´t do it and the elderly I take care of at work doesn´t do it.
The word Oi. I am from West coast Norway and have used that word all my life as " oops" . I am 60. So not spesific for sweden either 😋
I guess Sweden and Norway really do have a lot of things in common! 🤣
Well it might be a southern thing! But I talk to my neighbours and if I bump in to someone and it´s an accident I say OOJ förlåt (sorry). She have a lot of things wrong in fact
The crispy bread in boots is something I’ve never heard about and I am Swedish… so…
Maybe a reaction to a language comparison video in the near future?:)
Good idea! I will find a video! 😁
@@allaboutscandinavia9779 awesome:) i tried too look into a fitting video with some length, but not too much. I think this video is good:
ua-cam.com/video/nPSYY2GamgA/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ArthuriosLanguages
Otherwise if you have other videos in mind i dont mind at all :D
I think I've heard about the crispbread but the the thing I've heard you should put in your boots is dry sticks. Never done it or heard of anyone who've done it. I believe it's from the same times as the advise to turn your shirt inside out not to get lost in the woods by "skogsrået"
And about weird(?) coffeetraditions, my grandfathers "cocktail" of choice was Kask. Just vodka and coffee.
this video was pretty focused on the north of sweden. and these kinds of videos is always very generalized, here ismy take on a few of these.
*bread in boots, never heard of before and i was an outdoor kid (Scouts etc) so feel like i would have heard this, badgers was also not one of the animals kids were afraid of.
*the mostly boys in northern sweden, i would guess its more a result of the kind of work available in northern Sweden being traditionally more masculine, like mining,and generally industrial. maybe not what a large part of younger women want as a career. but i guess you could call that a form of ambition. its usually true in all countries, that the young generation growing up in small towns wants to move away to bigger towns as soon as they can, both boys and girls.
*Oj is a pretty regional word, some parts of the country use it quite alot, others very rarely. basically part of different dialects
*the part of avoiding people (like the mailbox example) is pretty true, of course its a generalization but i think its more common in Sweden than most other countries. kinda like Swedish people tend to care quite alot about how they look even in the most mundane situations like going to the store. Im an example of that myself as i wear sweatpants almost daily at home, but i dont think i have ever gone outside my house in them even if its just to go to the store for 5mins.
*The part of the flat hierarki in society is very true and very different from many countries.i have never in 40 years called anyone mr or mrs(in sweden) and its still very strange to do it at work.
basically the only person you address with a title in Sweden is the royal family, (or atleast the king and queen)
To address royalty in Swedish has it's own challenges. The King is formally "ers majestät" (your majesty) but can be adressed informally too. For common folks it's "du" (the formal is abolished for commoners) and for the king it's "Kungen" ("The King") and that can sound really weird, like this authentic question I heard when I worked there:
"Hur kommer Kungen att fira jul i år?"
"How will The King celebrate Christmas this year?"
Asked directly from The King himself!
biig generalization here 😂 As in all countrys. Most is different from area to area. North, south, city or rural areas. 😉
I completely agree haha 🤣
I would love for you to react to the video "Swedishness" by Tobias Rådenholt.
It is funny and true at the same time, a lot of famous comedians and actors are in this one, and the guy playing the prime minister he was the real prime minister at the time of this video.
The do not brag part is totally Scandinavian not swedish. Jante Loven.
Janteloven "invented" by Danish author Aksel Sandemaose in 1933. Not Swedish, really.
Yes I can believe it! 😁
I am not that comfortable with "janteloven", it's used demeaningly about Scandinavians all willy nilly, and frankly often misinterpreted.
It was originally a way of critisizing that "small town" mentality that you actually can find all over the world more or less... and of course it's about the fictive danish town of Jante.
That said, yes, bragging and putting others down is frowned upon and not really appreciated. But where is bragging something other people like?
... and we still like and are proud of successful people. We just don't like bragging and self glorification.
some of her things she talk about is a bunch of bs.
Oh dear! 😅
When she was lying in state? Here we often use the frase Lit de parade when it comes to the royals. Princess Lilian was the latest royal to lie in state after her passing in 2013
People are different, but yes, if you ask me how I am I will tell you. If you don't want to know, why ask?
My mother DO often drink her coffee on the saucer with a sugar lump between her teeth if we have fika outside. She says it taste better.
The only one I ever heard about that put crisp bread in their wellies were some crazy southerners but they are up to all sorts of strange things, camping in the middle of some farmers crops or drive up North without wintertires during winter.
Yes the word Oj trips one up sometimes when in an English speaking country.
Compliments make me very embarrassed and uncomfortable and I just want to leave.
Why do people online insist on calling everything other people in other countries do weird? As if everything their own country's population does is the "normal" for others to relate to? "Different" is exciting for those with an open mind.
I suppose the word "weird" is tickling the mind more than "different...more viewers for her.
Yeah I completely agree! As I said in the video, I don’t think we should call these things weird when really they are just different. I love learning about different things that people in different countries do! 😁
Nobody drinks coffe from the saucer nowdays, if you are born before 1910 you might do it
My mother is not born before 1910. Just saying. 🤷♀️
@@erikaeriksson9840 my grandfather was born 1908 hes the only one i have seen do that.
Ofcourse you are going to find someone younger doing it, maybe i Will be doing it not just because of we discusting it, but in real life nobody does it, just some odd person here and there.
If the guy doing this video traveled to sweden, do you think he would see anybody drinking coffe from the saucer?
If he went got hiking in the forest would he meet anybody with crunchy bread in the boots?
@@vonmaceronetheheretic191 That depends where you go I suppose. In the cities no, you would not find anyone drinking from the saucer. In Jämtland in the villages when people are drinking coffee outside in the summer. Yes, you will see people do that. People at least as young as me and I'm born 1977 not 1910.
The myth up here is to put coal in the wellies not crisp bread but I think that's just to take the piss out of city dwellers. Nobody does that. Badgers can be a bit grumpy but they are not dangerous. I quite like them.
Like i said you can find some odd people here and there drinking like that, she in the video described it like it something common.
I spend time in a small village in västerbotten, i have not seen anyone there doing it since my grandfather.
Just because you drink like that does not mean its widespread like she in the video would like the viewers to think.
So stopp arguing that people drink coffe like that just because 0,001 percent do it
@@vonmaceronetheheretic191 But I don't even drink coffee. But I see it so often that I don't find it surprising in the least. I can't speak for Västerbotten but in Jämtland it isn't unusual. I don't know which part of Sweden the girl in the video is from but it seems to be a common practise wherever she is from as well.
Sorry! But she is talking a lot of... It is bad when someone who is swedish are spreadign so much terrible junk about Sweden.
She does not like Sweden.. that is obvious!
Sant!
Yeah, this was not a very good representation of Sweden or Swedes.
Oh no, that’s not good to hear! 😅 Well thank you for letting me know!
Some people do not understand irony..
@@swedishmetalbear And WHAT is the irony in giving wrong picture of Sweden as "information"? How would people around the world know what is true, what is false and what is irony if they do not know anything about Sweden?
I was sort of hoping this was just the bloke watching Midsommar
I prefer "ojdå"! (as a Swede).
I like that! 😁
@@allaboutscandinavia9779 ajdå
1. While it IS a bit annoying that you can ONLY buy alcohol at Systembolaget it is not ALL bad, since they are a "specialty shop" and large ones at that they have selections that are.. shall we say extensive?
2. "cute speech"? uuuh say what now? no never heard of that
3. nor have I ever heard of anyone putting Knäckebröd in their boots, and badgers biting until they hear a crunch is just a myth.
4. And ah.. yeah, embarrassing to admit but trying not to meet anyone in the stairs even if you have to wait to open the door? that IS a thing yes.
5. The trust thing, well it certainly used to be that way but we're being cured of that in a hurry. We still suck at things like haggling though and can get quite offended if someone tries it on us.
6. The doubling up on words, yes true.
7. Shoes indoors, yes true. NO EFFING SHOES!
But I have to protest the doubling of words... isn't for "cuteness" it's for emphasis, just like in some forms of English.
@@SteamboatW well yeah, see point 2 regarding cuteness :)
Lol..and yet still are the best girls from north..no stress no ego ..but she must referred from some newspaper..are one town called kiruna..its a mining town where 80% are guys..she has probably not been here in north or outside of stockholm
Up north in Sweden it is important to be tolerant to alcohol when out drinking with the boys. Because the first 1-2 guys who pass out will be the "designated females" for the rest of the night.. Of course they won't remember it happening at all except for a slight soreness in their bum bums that lasts for a few days.
The talk cute thing is something I never heard off in my soon 42 years in sweden :P Maybe it's a (08) thing. 08 is what we living north of stockholm is calling people that live in stockholm ^^
And 08 is refering to their region telephone number from the old days where we had phonelines and mobiles were less prominant. And 08 is also their IQ sometimes =D They think stockholm is the middle of sweden and that just because they live in our biggest city they are smarter then the rest of sweden, while rest of sweden knows thats not the case. Jentelagen be damned.
Tho ofc when we all meet we follow Jentelagen to a point, but not online .
This about not talking to stranger, don't believe it. It might depend on where you're from but I always had fika with my neighbors, we helped out. And would always chat, even here in UK if for example it take some time at the till i talk to the person next to me. I think this myth has grown a lot more through reaction videos
Good thing the guy in this video is dressed appropriately to referee a match between Kanye West and Donald Trump.
I would think a huge reason for why there are so many dudes in the north is probally becouse of all the mines. Now ofcourse women can work in the mines aswell and make like 4-5 000 pounds a month with 15 days a months. But lets be real its not what most women would like to do.
At first.. one probably need to be Scandinavian to understand "Jantelagen".. its actualy danish and a complain about.. stay in your place or your class!
Nowadays.. its more like, dont brag!
Crisp bread in ones boths.. its a long time myth, told that many time thats it become a fairytale!
Its rather this, there is more women in higher education then males, and they have problem to find there male mate!
She talked about conversation between friends.. especialy femals, be cute!
Otherwise we hate "small talks" and like to put up a grumpy attitude!
And to start a conversation to your cassier is nothing but a crime, to those back in the line!
Dont disturb your neighbur.. then they dont disturbe you, give a lot of space!
We use "du" , kinda "you" i think, or if one is very yong and inscure "ni" for older persons.
For what I understand our king prefere "du" as a private, frome persons he dont know!
In anyway I think that "du" is related to old english "Thou"?
Take your shoes of.. in my home.. translated to.. dont bring any dirt in.. and get cosy!
Coffe on a plate was a thing in the past, when sugar cubs didnt disolved that easy!
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Kebab pizza is a swedish invention.. its crossover food.. there should be Pizza sallat to that!'
Soo, okey we are weird, but I have altso been to UK, you is weird to!
In anyway.. a fish and chips from a road stand saved my day!
And your Strongbow cider.. exept I was that one to drive the bus!
Come to sweden and act as tourist, ask people tourist questions.. its a danger there, many dont let you of the hook!
The trust thing. It's nothing new with your current government brouhaha.
When I lived in the uk some 20 years ago. Most people over there went fully tinfoil hat when discussing things like ID or the ease of bureaucracy because here everything is in a database that is synced with other databases. And the information is generally public which means my doctor or electric company can pull information straight from the central database rather than keeping their own.
Things like moving house in Sweden vs the uk.
Here I do three clicks on a website. Done. All the databases sync up and everyone has updated your records.
In the uk we spent weeks sending out change of adress notices to banks, doctors, dentists, employers, every institution and company you've ever been in contact with... So they can update your adress in their records.
Or that my neighbour, or really anyone, can look up what my income is in a government database. And newspapers regularly pull information from them to publish what houses have sold for in your area. All of that is public information, accessable to anyone.
Those kind of things really freaked my British friends out. In a let me get the tinfoil hat, kind of way.
While here we just trust the government and institutions to make our lives easier. And that I am unimportant and uninteresting enough for anyone to bother doing anything nefarious with the information.
She didn't explain Jantelagen very well, of course you say thank you if someone gives you a compliment, Jantelagen is more that you're not supposed to talk about things you've done well or your accomplishments, never think that you're better than anyone else.
About the neighbors she exaggerated quite heavily aswell, overall most of this videos was silly and not very accurate at all. Forget this video if you want to understand Swedish culture. This was cringe...
It is Danish.
@@andershanquist1237 completely besides the point as she was describing how Swedes approach the Jantelag. The origin of it makes no difference, She did not explain it well.
Bugger all! So much that isn't proper with her claims. Do visit and have your own opinion about Sweden and the Swedes.
I dont know wich planet she is comming from. She is talking baloney. Ex: oj, is a Word what is more like a Word you use when you got suprise. Nobody put on wellington boots with crumps inside. We use sneaker. You put on wellingtonboots when we go for picking berrys. Me my self think she is over the top. 90% is so wrong.
To much generalisation. She is exaggerating. Please take her claims "with a piece of salt", as we say in Sweden.
Vad är det här för larv. Har bott här i snart 85 år och har aldrig hört detta...............NONSENS. Var hittade ni henne??
She is exaggerating a bit, there is not that much difference between English culture and Swedish.