AMERICAN REACTS TO | 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Sweden
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You can teach children about respect and disrespect without giving them a smack over the head. My parents never smacked me and I learned about it.
Children learn from their parents. If they're physically punished - which creates fear and shame in them - they later use physical punishment to others when being offended. When treated with respect they treat others with respect...
The Nordic flags:
All are based on the Christian cross.
Denmark has a white cross and Denmark is partly bound in red so it is a red background. It is also the world's oldest flag in use (from 1219)
The Swedish flag is a golden cross against a blue sky.
Norway's is similar to Denmark's but also has a blue cross in the innermost part since Norway before was subordinate to Sweden.
Finland's flag has a blue cross symbolizing all the lakes in Finland on a white blanket of snow.
You forgot Iceland 😃
As a Swede, I would like to confess, just like Americans, we are some of the most patriotic people in the world!
The difference is, we are just really quiet about it.😅
haaaaaaa I like that
Hahaha this is so true. We judge everyone in silence, firmly convinced that our way IS the right way. 😂
@@ge_mig_nat_som_kanns 😂
If we stop the sillyness for a moment there is only one legitimate situation to be patriotic in Sweden and that is when there is a national icehockey or football game going on. Other than that it's seen as something ugly and most likely racist. As an example you are more than happily allowed to be proud of the multicutural foundation that the established politicians has been forcing upon the whole country for decades. But if you are proud of and want the real Sweden, the swedish Sweden, then you are nothing more than a filthy racist in the eyes of these people.
Yes, we are very proud of our country and, as you say, we're quiet about it.
Even though we know we're living in one of the best countries in the world.
When you're a Swede it's hard to be humble. 😊
IKEA means Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd. It's the founders name and the name of the farm and village he grow up in.
Great reaction!😃 I have 2 teenage daughters. They've never been physically punished by any adult! They know how to behave and I couldn't be a more proud mom! Greetings from Sweden!🇸🇪
I'm proud of you and them. My son is the same way and when we go to party's i greet everyone and he follows me and doe's the same. People ask me how did i do it for my son to have that much respect and just said i respect him. lol
I gladly pay my taxes as a norwegian 😁 i think everyone in Skandinavia is ok with the taxes 😊Greetings from Norway ❤
People who say that "They call it skatt because they love it" no, that has nothing to do with it. It's been called skatt WAY before any social systems were put in place it has it's orgins from back in the 1300.
And it's the same in English; the department regulating taxation is usually called "the treasury".
We don't use timeout in sweden. We use nonviolent communication.
That myth about the meatballs coming from Turkey just refuses to die. It gets repeated in every damn video about Sweden. There are meatballs recipes from Sweden predating that time by centuries.
Yeah that's been debunked a million times.
Turkey Meatballs is sooo different
Kåldolmar OTOH…
Swedish meatballs are a swedish twist of a dish brought back from Turkey with the soldiers. The flavours and size is no where near the original but it is based on the Turkish one. It has blended in with our own culture and become a swedish dish. It is basically just grinded beef with spices and if done with love could include some specials like cream, milk or even carbonated water to give them more flavour or more air... Most dishes in the world have an origin in something else. That is the nature of food and culture. I bet many people think that swedish Tacos is from mexico. Well it is more like Texas, but we bring in fruits and other flavours so it is not even close to either the Mexican OR the Texan originals. Try comparing a swedish pizza to another country. We have gone WAY overboard and most italians would get the shivers when they see what we have done with their national food... Kebab-Pizza ;)
Snacka skit?
Har du läst de äldre recepten?
De heter inte köttbullar och de liknar inte vad vi idag kallar köttbullar.
De heter frikadeller vilket idag är en tredje sak som de inte heller liknade.
De gamla recepten malde inte köttet alls utan rullade hela köttbitar i brödsmulor.
Så de här så kallade äldre köttbullerecepten varken kallades för köttbullar eller liknade köttbullar.
Years ago a bank in Stockholm was robbed and the robbers took the people inside the bank as hostages. The hostages started to feel sympathy for the robbers and in the end did not want to testify against them. That became known as the Stockholm syndrome. Greetings from Sweden 👍 (and I do not mind the high taxes, much of the money goes to help and support the whole society)
They weren't sympathizing towards Clark, they were just less afraid of him and less sympathizing towards the police. Not due to Clark but because how the police acted. Nils Bejerot invented(read made up) Norrmalmstorgsyndromen which didn't sound as catchy as Stockholm syndrome to the foreign press. It's been claimed to not be a real thing by a list of people including all the hostages and every psychologist not named Nils Bejerot.
And now what? A bit different story, right?
@@atvheads vad menar du med det?
@@tuijakantola6550 Vem visar sympati för dagens blallar som rånar? Möjligtvis vänster eller miljöpartister. Alternativt nysossar.
@@atvheads Vad menar du med det?
You definitely have to react to max martin, if you want to, this Swedish guy writes so many pop songs to the American artists. You will be surprised!
And there’s more famous sing/song writers as well.
When it comes to inventions, there’s plenty, ultrasound, wrench, dynamite, Minecraft, candy crush, Celsius, zipper function, computer mouse… just to name a few.
Max Martin took over after Denniz Pop who died after Cheiron studie had been known as a hit factory and he had learned Max Martin the secrets
@@birrextio6544 and Max Martin have his prodigy, Shellback.
And we shall not forget RedOne.
We are NOT fighting over santa..😮
Lot's of things that weren't really accurate 😅
Exaktly. I dont know wher they got that from. Santa liv in the northpole not in sweden or finand. And I have never herd a swed claiming he liv in sewden and I am swedish.
@@emilianilsson3729 Well we do have Tomteland in Mora ;)
@@Jonke75 Yes but ther is no one that belives santa livse ther. Adults know thwt he dont exist and if you ask a kid they are going to say that he lives on the north pole.
No, we fight over hockey 🏒
Santa is not a thing that Sweden is fighting about, the Santa story in Sweden is really different from the English one and he doesn't live on the Northpole and ride on a sledge pulled by reindeer. Considering that we eat raindeer that would be traumatizing to a lot of kids.
You also let him in so he can give you the presents, so he's not some man tgat you never see. We interact with him. It's a family member or so.eone who knows the family who drrsses up for the part. My dad was santa when I was a kid. An Oscar worthy performance lol.
lol
Santa's sleigh is pulled by goats...
The worst thing about living in a Nordic country is the high taxes.
The best thing about living in a Nordic country is the high taxes.
You mentioned sick days… in sweden we don’t have a limited number of sick days. If you’re sick you’re sick… there’s no limit. (But if you’re sick more than 7 days in a row you need a doctor’s opinion). Your first day of sick leave you don’t get paid but then the following days you get 80% of your salary.
Well, we did have such a limit between 2008 and 2016.
We still have, but not as tough as during that period and todays government plans to make it worse again. 😢
Look, my friends, the tax structure in America is just a few percent lower than that in Sweden. Why? Sweden has but one national tax. The U.S. has multiple federal, state, and local taxes and even taxes on taxes. You heard that right. In general, your statement is correct, a huge shoutout for Sweden.
That statement is not really True. We do have several tax brackets in sweden. We pay between 30 and 33% income tax up to ca60 000 US dollars. Then everything above that is an additional 20% (ie 50-53%) In 2024 the highest income tax is 55.6% We also pay 25% vat on services and between 6 and 12% for certain goods and services.
In Sweden you tell the kid why he is wrong and if that doesn't work you tell the parents, you do NOT hit a kid and if you hit my kid, I will send you to the hospital and at the end of the day, you'll be the one in court.
You use your words, that is what we tell kids and apparently we have to teach Americans that too.
I have never hit my children and the amount of respect they have always had for me is far greater than anyone who ever did. If you look at statistics on the matter, hitting a child will always result in them behaving far worse. We knew that in the 1970's because we like to do shit the sciency way instead of the "'murican common sense" way and we implemented it, it resulted in an overall increase of pretty every measure you can think of over the next decades.
19:30 corporal punishment on children is prohibited 🚫
Most work places in Sweden have fika (15-20 minutes) around 9 or 10 am, then lunch around 12.00 and yet another fika around 2 or 3 pm. If your boss doesn´t give you this, he doesn´t live long LOL. You work more efficiently if you have breaks. And then the work day ends around 5 pm.
As a swede we don't all like the tax ("skatt") since many of us don't find that it's being spent properly.
*I*ngvar *K*amprad, *E*lmtaryd, *A*gunnaryd. The founders name, and the first two locations.
Im swedish and ive never heard that santas supposed to live in sweden or finland, he lives on the north pole
The Santa Claus issue has been settled. His name is Julius, he speaks Norwegian and lives in Snøfall.
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Not to spoil things if you intend to watch the IKEA video, but i will say that it's an acronym.
However most of the product names are actual swedish words/places/names. As example the shelf of yours, Kallax, is a small place located in northern Sweden.
15:29 no the Swedish word for furniture is Möbel
Like the German word ❤
Actually, IKEA is an acronym of the name of the founder and where he was from. His name is Ingvar Kamprad an he’s from the village of Elmtaryd in the cunty of Aggunaryd. IKEA. 👍
Wait what!? Santa isn't real!?
haaaaaaaaaaaaaa wait what he is?
Just replace him with God and it's the same thing.
Almost everyone in Sweden has a 30% income tax. You only have the 50% income tax on everything above the $72.543 mentioned.
We do also have a 25% sales tax on stuff (which is always included in the price on the tag on the shelf. Never any tax surprises at the counter.
14:00 it's a "fight" cause we need some sort of tension between the two nations apart from Hockey
Volvo did not sell for 1.9 billion dollars. Volvo sold 1 part (Volvo cars/personvagnar) of Volvo for 1.9 billions. They still have busses, trucks, Construction equipment and Penta (boat engines) left. No one fight about Santa claus.
video got those wrong
AB Volvo sold the car business to Ford in 1999 for 50 billion SEK which was about 5 billion dollars at that time. During the 2008 crisis Ford had to sell off a lot of car makes like Aston Martin, Land Rover and Jaguar. Geely bought Volvo from Ford for 1,9 billion so it was a loss - for Ford. Aston Martin went to a private firm and Land Rover/Jaguar was sold to Tata, industry conglomerate from India.
Stumbled across a video with David Cross called _David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything_ and it goes into the same kind of things that you were on about with taxes and shit. You should react to it, it was really eye opening.
I will look that up thank you Bella
Check out Max Martin, music producer at 3rd on the Billboard so far.
i will look it up
ABBA will blow your mind. Dancing Queen would definitely be a good song to start with. What an incredible rabbit hole to go down. People didn't treat them very well in the 80s. They started out as two couples. Unfortunately, both broke up. One of their kids even had his name changed because the disrespect for ABBA was so bad. But they had a major resurgence in popularity in the 90s and have been going from strength to strength. That's when people started begging them to get together again. Other people tried singing their songs and discovered what musical geniuses they were. They had the music industry in a state of shock that a band that hadn't performed in decades were that popular. One of their biggest fan bases outside of Sweden was in Australia during their heyday. We still love them. In fact, one of our movies started off their newfound popularity in the 90s.
The name IKEA consists of founder Ingvar Kamprad's initials and the first letters of the name of the farm Elmtaryd where he grew up and the nearby one at Agunnaryd. 👍
I saw a video here on YT once made by an american family that had lived in Denmark a couple of years. They made a cost comparison between the US and Denmark (that has a very similar system to Sweden). They started with the average salary and deducted from that: taxes, healthcare, school fees and so on according to their experiance and their conclusion was that in the US you pay more for the same services.
You can't beat respect in to a child! All you beat in to them is violence, fear and anger..
You can drink in a pub if you are 18 years old!
Learn about the other nordic country's to 😊 We all have something called the nordic model ❤ Greetings from Norway ❤
No problem with our tax, it works and you see it working every day🇸🇪
The name IKEA consists of founder Ingvar Kamprad's initials as well as the first letters of the name of the farm Elmtaryd where he grew up and the nearby village of Agunnaryd
The word for furniture is Möbler.
IKEA is the name and address of the founder of IKEA.
IK Ingvar Kamprad (the founder’s name),
E: Elmtaryd (the farm where the founder grew up),
A: Agunnaryd (the founder’s hometown)
Meatballs are Swedish, the myth about them not beeing have been debunked for a long time...
Hahah regarding the chimney, I've got 2 boys, 4 and 2, I've told him that there's a shit ton of santas but only 1 father christmas who holds the christmas magic and distributes it. I couldn't even fathom what his magic is able to accomplish but I know that it spreads love and happiness.
I've left footprints from our balcony over to our christmas tree every year :)
When my older son starts doubting and asks I'll let him in on the truth: are you truly ready for the truth? once you know you can't tell a soul! if yes: Santa is real but not in the form of an old man as you've been told, we are all santa, we all contribute to the love and happiness around christmas time, we simply don't tell our younglings, so do not tell your younger brother, do you think you could help us being Santa?
If a neighbour smacked my kid even if he was disrespectful... the neighbour would be in a world of trouble.
If he was disrespectful I'd want to know about it AND I would take action.
He would know I don't tolerate him being disrespectful, he would apologize and face consequenses I decided.
The person that laid a finger on him would have to face the police.
Violence is a terrible role model.
Great video reaction! Never seen any of your videos before but Im here to stay for sure. If you ask me I would say alot of the things on this list are either so niched down that just some swedish peoples can say it have happen which makes the video wrong when it sounds like it is typical all of sweden for example I have never ever ever heard even a discussion about Santa being swedish. Sure I havnt had Santa as a part of christmas as I celebrate that holiday as a christian in a christan way but still, closest I have ever heard is that we got peoples working as Santa as their main job in gallerys, visiting hospitals, events, homes etc to bring that christmas feeling to peoples that maybe doesnt get it as much as others. But never have I heard a swed say "Oh Santa must be living in sweden" but I have heard very many swedish peoples saying he either comes from the north pole, finland, turkey, US/coca cola depending on what culture you have been a part of and what legend you read. So sure all things in this are things that is to some degree are true but also things that are completely wrong or atleast maximally excessive.
Outside of the parental leave that can be divided however you want, fathers get 10 days of directly after the birth - so that both parents can stay at home for 2 weeks. so you're correct that this should be a thing. those 10 days of-work are not counted into the parental leave.
Buying alcohol in supermarkets??? WTF
Walmart and 7 11 has wine
@@CVTECK1 I have recently discovered this info. It's not just in the U.S. either. Outrageous!! But Oz does have some odd things too.
The parental leave you reacted to is also paid by the taxes. The highest percentage you get is 80% of something called SGI. The SGI is based on your work income so if you usually earn $40000 a year they base the SGI to about $32000 a year and you can use it on parental leave.
The same SGI goes for sick leave from day 15 if you get sick or injured. The first 13 days of sick leave, day one is not paid leave, your work pays 80% of your salary.
Also the first 10 days, these days are extra and do not get deducted from your leagal parental days, after a new baby has come/been adopted you get paid to be at home and your partner gets paid too. Along side that you have, - if I remember correctly, - 30 days more, 60 days alltogether as they take 30 days from each parent, you both get paid at the same time though.
The parental leave days can be used until the kid turns 12 but only if you've saved a maximum of 96 days the rest must be used by the time the kid turns 8.
We also have something called Vård av barn - VAB short, this is something the SGI also covers but is for when you have a sick kid or if the other parent of the kid is sick, and you have to stay home from work to take care of the kid or take care of the kid while the other parent is sick. VAB is not connected to the parental leave days. Temporary parental leave is something you get paid for until the kid is 12 and even at a common cold you can stay home and get paid for taking care of the kid if it's sick or if the other parent is sick in a common cold.
Downside of SGI and the benefits - taxes. But the taxes on - parental leave, temporary parental leave and sick leave - are lower than the regular taxes. So you pay taxes with taxes 😅😂.
Hitting and spanking children is abuse. You do not teaxh a child that somethibg is wrong by hurtibg them. That's pretty fucked up. Also, it's kids. Their brains are not fully developed yet. They will act or and make mistakes. Hittibg someobe so much smaller than you is just cowardly imo. If you think it's wrong to hit women for example then you shouldn't do that to kids either.
Great reaction, thank you! Your ABBA-journey could start with the song "The winner takes it all"... Or any other of their songs, they are all amazing! Cheers from Stockholm.
Dude. Santa is based on a true story :p
Hi from Stockholm Sweden 🇸🇪 I'm not so keen over the taxes since we pay taxes on taxes. Please do Finland as well. It's a difference. I'm half Finnish 🇫🇮 ❤
Santa beef isn't a big thing, nothing that I've ever heard people talk about, lol.
Thanks for reacting on Sweden 🫶
I don't mind paying taxes.
The last 2.5 years I've become a grandmother to three boys.
My sons and wives didn't have to pay anything to give birth at the hospital. My grandsons have free (tax paid) health and dental care until they turn adults. Their education will be free, with free school lunches. If they need prescripted drugs - it's free.
And right now both my sons are staying at home with their sons with parental leave. Paid by taxes.
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They’ve hopefully paid it themselves already by all the tax throughout the years. Unfortunately, there are many people not working and that are just getting the benefits, which is why we don’t like taxes.
We dont use timeout in Sweden ether. We talk with the kids and maybe a temporary screenbrake for some days or so.
You should react to Volvo crash test vs other car brands
The flags in Scandinavia and Finland is ironic since they represent a Christian country while the people here is the least religious.
The fact is that we not only know that Santa Claus don't exist, we also know that God don't exist.
(Or at least don't believe Gods exist)
This knowledge make us happy and good at innovations, no fear of Hell and ghosts.
But we now have a huge number of immigrants who move away from religious countries but still bring their Gods to us and demand respect for their fantasy Gods and their culture that is 1,000 years behind.
Oh wow. So what do you believe in as far how life started. I'm not asking to be an ass or anything i love hearing different perspective on life and universe. My brother and I talk about this stuff for hours every week lol
It's not ironic, the people back in the day were very religious.
@@CVTECK1 Big bang and evolution and all that. It's just natural here to grow up as atheists or agnostics because of our culture and education. Especially since we had our Norse mythology in the beginning and then became a Christian country and with people immigrating we get other religions introduced as well.
@@CVTECK1 Do an experiment in your mind, think about the lowest lifeform you can image, go so far that you no longer think it's alive.
What teligious people do is to jump from a rock to a full grown man who can speak so it seems impossible unless a God is there with magic.
Let me remind you that creation of life has nothing to do with evolution but acientists has already proven abiogenesis to work.
The problem is that there can be many different ways that it happened and we may never be sure if our explabation is the right one, the only thing we can be sure of is that it can happen ans it did happen.
If you will learn, just replace the bible with wikipedia, search for
abiogenesis and enjoy the power of the real world.
@@magnusblomquist1787 Yes and it didn't go so well.
The church dominated so much that people starved during bad times and 20% of the population had to move to the new stolen country in the west and instead of blaming Christianity for collecting gold while people starved to death, they took their religion with them to the new countey and started to build churches there.
The Norse Gods had no chanse since rewards was granted for honesty and bravery while Jesus forgive any sin or crime and only require faith.
If you respect your children, eg take them seriously and listen when they talk to you, they will learn what respect looks like and show respect to you in return. Then punishment isnt necessary at all. Like ever.! I have two kids of 10 and 13 and ive never even raised my voice. Just been descering when necessary. Any type of agression you show will come back to you and vice versa. You show respect you get it right back. /swede
Saint yes i agree with you but it's not the kids i blame it's the other parents who don't care and don't teach that is the problem here in America. parents all have phones in their hands while kids in the other room with no structure
Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark has historically either been occupied under the same flag or in unions, though not all 4 at the same time, could be the reason to why our flags share the cross, not certain though.
Well - all four countries were in fact in one union once - the Kalmarunion from 1397 to 1520 since Norway belonged to Denmark and Finland was always a part of Sweden until 1809 when it was lost to Russia. Norway and Finland wasn't their own free countries until 1905 (Norway - could have been on its own during the viking age) and 1917 (Finland).
Really like your take on the taxes. That's exactly how most of us feel. It's not fun to give 33% of your wages in taxes, but the parental leave, health care, schooling etc. is wonderful. We do not think of the taxes as a part of our salary, we count the salary we get after taxes.
The parental leave is fantastic. Both parents get a two week joined time off after the baby is born. It really helps when adjusting to a new life. We then have over a year to split between us, with three months for each parent that the other can take.
About taxes being "used correctly".
About 16 Billion SEK are paid to criminals through the Swedish welfare every year. There is a lot of corruption going on and is a very good example of how not to run welfare. The quality of education and healthcare has been on a rapid decline since 2008.
Since 2005, Sweden has been one of the most missmanaged countries in the world and as a Swede I can admit that.
This most be one of the most classic comments from Swedes when they hear about good things about Sweden.
- Hey!!! We are NOT a good country! 😡
And yes, I am a Swede as well...
So true.... /also from Sweden
On parental leave, my husband took 9 months paternal leave with our first son and 6 months with our second.
You should react to Geography Now Sweden to learn more!
will do
IKEA was founded in 1943. The company name IKEA comes from the initials of our founder Ingvar Kamprad and the first letters of the farm Elmtaryd and the southern Swedish village of Agunnaryd, where Ingvar Kamprad grew up. Ingvar Kamprad was only 17 when he registered the IKEA name as a trademark.
The name IKEA consists of founder Ingvar Kamprad's initials as well as the first letters of the name of the farm Elmtaryd where he grew up and the nearby village of Agunnaryd
The tax numbers presented are waaaaaaay off! What she refers to as income tax she says in dollars, but that amount is ten times higher than the real number. The tax system here is kinda complicated, but what she says in the video is plain wrong and she's ten doubled the income amount as well.
But honestly, I'm proud to be a Swede and the taxes we pay comes to use in a good way. Healthcare, social services, police, education etc. We get all of that due to our high taxes and no one is put in high debt due to getting sick.
12:13 System Bolaget ? I didn't see any in Stockholm last year. I need to find one next time 😂
A huge problem is that many that have child after child haven’t worked and paid taxes in Sweden at all, they just take the benefits…
IKEA is an acronym, The acronym that makes up the name stands for Ingvar Kamprad (the founder’s name), Elmtaryd (the farm where the founder grew up), and Agunnaryd (the founder’s hometown).
If you going to check out some Swedish music, do check out Sabaton. They are a heavy/power metal band that been around for 25 years and are considered as one of the Great four power metal bands. They have amazing videos and live performances, and as a starter suggest, try 'No bullets fly' the animated video story. Sure you will find it amazing.
Nice reaction otherwise!
Peter I did Subaton brother and man do i love those boys
@@CVTECK1 Yea, I do recall that now. Well , there are many more epic songs from them, I hope you will continue to react to them.
And of course Hammerfall.
ABBA Start with a banger. Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) 🧨👌
Great reaction ❤ I for sure will follow.😀
You're the best!
Look, we don't fight about where Santa lives... He lives in Sweden. Everyone knows this.
That thing about the Nobel prize committee was for several years ago. It was in 2017. Sara Danius died from cancer in 2019
I agree that kids have little respect, but you don't teach respect by hitting them, you teach them that it's ok to hit people.
I know trust me my son is 17 years old and he has the up most respect for everyone and no hitting. Some of the kids here in USA need a hit lol. I had a 7 year old tell me to shut the f up and parents said nothing to him. lol
Lappland is an outdated name. Sapmi is also not only in sweden and finland. It spans over norway, sweden, finland and russia.
The trash thing is wrong. Yes the trash is imported, but not to be recycled. if it's not sorted before, it might be sorted. But what we do with it is that we burn it for heat and power. Since Sweden is so efficient at recycling, there's too little to burn.
also, the countries we import from - pay for it. So the garbage isn't bought, they pay for the disposal and we use it for energy. I have one of those right in my city and I pass it on the way to work.
"Why do they fight when Santa's not real" sent me! "Chim-eh-nee" was TKO. Great reaction to a random list of crazy things about my country.
You should Watch the video about 100 famous songs from Sweden, its amazing 😀
will do
And don’t confuse that with a video of 100 famous swedish songs (then you only get songs written in swedish, most of the famous music is in english)
you are allowed to brew your own wine and beer in sweden its just the hard stuff that is illegal.
So... i'll run along the video with some commonets.
1. Yes, swedish texes are high. All dont like it. Like most are willing to pay high taxes for the benefits it gives, but the situation is also turning a bit unstable since well, there are taxes, and then there are Taxes. I'll explain what i mean, but first of all: Skatt does mean Treasure. But it ALSO means Taxes. We dont call it Skatt and Mean Treasure. Thats just a thing in the swedish language, we got quite a few words with many meanings. Var = Where, but Var also = Pus. Val means Whale AND Election, or Choise. etc.
So taxes. The problem with sweden is that we are a Tax Onion. And thats Me saying that, someone who likes the benefits taxes bring.
But today here is how it goes.
I Earn money. I pay about 30% taxes (And thats a Low Income tax btw). So lets make this simple, and say i earn 20.000sek, 6k are then taxes. ok. I buy food for about 4000 a month. Of those 4k, 25% goes to Moms (Moms was a Wartime tax from WW2, that they just didnt remove afterwards, as they said they would), so thats another 1000 to taxes.
Now i pay tax for owning a car, a house, if i have pets, extra high tax on gas and tobacco (Punktskatt), tv-licens etc.
But it gets better. A påart of what i pay in taxes are placed in my Pensions account, so im paying for my older years. ok. Tax money goes to this. Thats the system.
But when i get the money back, guess what, i need to tax it again. Thats where the shoe realy iches for me. I earn money, i pay taxes, i get benefits for paying taxes, and then i need to pay taxes on those benefits.
Again, i dont mind a high tax, if it is as you said: Used Correctly.
But our politicians are not Using it correctly. they are pis*ing it away in the political game of power and biggest hat.
The ones that are for high taxes are often the ones not being the ones having to pay high taxes. It’s always someone else that should pay for them and their interests 😂 And they want more and more of other peoples money..
@@lo-andbehold i hate this kind of argument. No, i pay high tax Even as a low income earner.
Skatt + Moms (30%+25%)= 55% of my earnings. And thats the Minimum tax i pay.
But here is why i hate the argument, after Tax and Moms on 30k, a decent low-range salary, you get 13500 sek of purchase power. Or 16200 sek per year, and then without taxes of roughly 300k.
So the tax bracket sits at about 600k. So for those 600k you get roughly 390k a year after taxes, and a purchase power of 32260 sek.
Or a monthly salary of around 50k sek before taxes.
Any money earned after that gets an additional 20%, so it lands on a whopping 75%. And that Sounds like alot. And it Is alot.
But 2 points, its a heck of a difference living on 13500 sek purchase power than 32260+ sek.
In dollars thats roughly 1300 dollars compaired to 3200+ dollars of pure, pre-taxed purchase power for reference.
That matters.
And if you have a high income there is a realy high chanse you have a company to avoid paying Moms on many of the Expensive purchase options (land, vehicles, stocks, etc).
So on the large expenses you Actually pay 30% and not 55%. So Less tax.
So those 20% extra high income tax are on any money you generally use on Small purchases (lets call that purchases up to a low-tier high end gaming pc, in comparison to Large purchases, or about 20k Sek (inc. Moms), of which you can purchase 1 and still have 12k, or almost the whole purchase power of a low salary (30k>) left Before you get that extra High income tax.
And no, someone with a low income does not have the same opportunity to do that.
Oh, and do you know what you can do if you have money? Hire an economist to find out how best you can further get back from your taxes. Especially if you have a company as stated before.
Something you, again, Cant do if you are in the position of needing to choose who of your kids gets new clothes this month.
I do not say this as a argument out of sympathy, but rather one out of economic realism.
The more money you make, the more tax you pay, but as well does your ability to Deduct taxes increase.
As well as your ability to Earn More.
Sorry for wall of text, and im of course Specificly talking about the swedish system in this, but the conclussion remains as a universal one.
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- Kami
I never heard of the santafeud and i am from sweden 😂
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😄they've messed up nr 12. No meatballs when you have Fika.
IKEA is short for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd. Ingvar Kamprad is the name of the founder and Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd are the names of where he came from.
Spank is not the way. Take joy away and they start to think, No tools no Joy at all. When it hits your imagine and your affections it hurts. Stop hit start act as a adult and don't give take things fore free. If your joy is gone way do it again
"Why argue where santa lives. He doesn't exist". Why is there animosity between Jerusalem and Mecca? It's all about the money. And in the latter case, power.
About parental leave. The first 11 workdays you get to be home together but after that it’s only one parent at time. In most cases the mother takes the first 6-12 months 'cause she’s usually breast feeding and then you switch and the father takes the rest when the mother goes back to work.
You have additional 30 days you can take out together and both get paid. Downside is that you lose 30 days per parental leave and per parent. So 60 days will have been taken out. Usually counted on the 90 days each parent is leagally given from the start. Those 10 days at the start are counted as separate from the other days because each parent should be able to enjoy the first days toghether with the newborn.
Legal age of drinking 18 y/o.
Buying alcohol 20 y/o.
Fika is so not about eating meatballs...
A lot is wrong af..💀
51% taxes - that REALLY depends on how you count (like including sales tax?). I pay a little bit more than 30% on my income and it's more than worth it.
"Skatt" (treasure) is from a german word (back several hundred of year) that means "cattle" - often use to pay your taxes. Thus the dual meaning.
Borne in Stockholm, living in Göteborg I would say that Göteborg is the greenest - Stockholm is the bluest (oh, they didn't talk about green in that way). 😀
7 The Noble prize - that video is a few years old.
Ikea - I guess someone else has told you, but... IK is from Ingvar Kamprad (the founder) as EA I don't remember.
If someone hits you, do you start to respect that person?
Financial security makes people more moveable, trying new carriers and businesses endeavours.
Finally. I feel this is (in 2024) a bit of a idealistic view of Sweden. We now have a government that cut back on taxes fro those with the highest income, they also cut back on social security, health care etc etc etc.
You really must do video's on Denmark too. We will make you think we're crazy and it would be fun to hear from you 😊
haaaa. Any suggestions Lagoni? link
Spanking does NOTHING good for a child all you do is making the child better at lying and tell them they can´t trust you to help them.
That's bs, if it wasn't for Australia Abba wouldn't have made it out of Eurovision!!!
ohh really Nina don't start a fight lol
@@CVTECK1 My fists are up bro! 😊😊
@@Nina-rj4nu haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
We are allowed to be home with our new born both parents for the first two weeks getting pay from Försäkringskassan ,after that only one parent is allowed to be home at a time. Divide the leave as you like 😊 We pay around 30 dollar per visit to see the dr including tests and xray and so on, if we need to stay in hospital we pay around 15$ per day including food and care . Most medicine you need recipes to get you pay max 300$ then it's free . If you buy first time jan 1st and reach 300$ may 1st the medicine is free to next year jan 1.
+30 days now. Both can be home at once more than the first 10 days. But they take it out of the 150 days that each parent has. I got chocked when I saw the "dubbeldagar" when our youngest was born.
You have to be 20 to buy alcohol at systembolaget but you can buy alcohol at the pubs and clubs at age 18.
I dont remember all of them but the Blue and Yellow swedish flag is supposedly to represent the the ocean as Swede were very much sea faring explorers, the yellow is for the many vast fields of various grains.
Im not sure this is officially recogniced or just folkly traditional interpretaions.
From the official coat of arms th blue is something Loyalty, Vigilance, Truth and Justice, the Yellow represents Generousity I believe,
The Finnish Blue and White, as far as I know, represents their thousands of Lakes and filds of Snow.
The Danish Red and White, someone told me represents the Blood spilled by King Kristian the Second, also known as Kristian Tyrann (Tyrant), who was actually a Swedish king but in mediaval times terretories of Denmark and Sweden kept shifting back and forth.
The "bloodbath" took place in Copnhagen, the capital of Denmark.
I have no Idea how true this is, it _sounds_ rather suspect.
Its a rather grim meaning to put behind your flag, but then again, since Kristian was Swedish it might be as both a "never again - remember the past" memorial and also as to honor all the Danes who were executed, so I wouldnt rule it out as impossible.
Any Dane reading this, I very much implore you to confirm or deny these claims.
Norway and Iceland I really dont know.
The crosses are symbols from when the entire Norse left the Asir faith and became Christian nations.
This happened in around 1000-1100 A.D I believe, at the tail end of the Vking age,
This is why they all have the same design, just different colors.
It’s not about giving your kid a timeout it’s about actually sitting down with your kid and talking to them and explaining why we can’t behave certain ways etc. If we hit the kids they will start to take that behavior and hit other people around them
Thank you❤
Welcome!
Think about what you will about the rule against corporal punishment for children, but the worst I've heard and I'm glad it probably never happens anymore is that one of my now dead relatives got hit a lot in school because he was left-handed ( by teachers that is ) and it actually gave him a stutter as a result. And since I'm a lefty I'm glad we at least don't treat children like That anymore :)
Santa fight: its for the lols bro 😂
we have a Fika at the time we wake up, at 9, at 11, lunch at 12, coffea again at 14, home at 16:30 dinner and after dinner coffae, lootts of coffes here.
If you work part time you don’t pay that high taxes. The less you earn the less taxes you pay. But just like in the US there’s taxes on products etc, but they are already included in the price, i e if it says 10$ on a pricetag it is 10$, no xtra. And also the taxes are already deducted when we get our salary. The employer deducts it and then report both our income and our taxes to our IRS. About parental leave, parents can both stay at home the first 10 workingdays after the child is born. During the parental leave we get 80% of our salary if we have an employment.
I like having the Tax in the price because here in USA different state has their own % on the tax. some place has no tax