5 Things Non Swedes Do That Swedes Find Weird
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- There's a lot of cultural differences between Sweden and the rest of the world, and some things that people do from outside of Sweden are just downright strange to native Swedes. Here's a list of five strange things non-swedes do in Sweden.
Weirdest: putting your basket on the conveyer belt... that’s psycho vibes man
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Nah, pulling up a secateur, cutting the conveyer belt, winding it up, placing it in the basket, and asking for the price of the conveyer belt, THAT'S psycho vibes. :-)
@@ubbe12ande Du sprider en korkad artikel. Redan diagrammet innan man ens börjat läsa är korkat. "As of November 27" betyder att man fått kompletta data t.o.m. 12 november. Läkare har två veckor på sig att rapportera dödsfall. Man har alltså bara fullständiga data för ca 86% av året. Extrapolering visar att antalet döda med god marginal kommer att vara högre än under samtliga dessa föregående tio år som visas. Här kan du ladda ner senaste kända dödssiffrorna: www.scb.se/om-scb/nyheter-och-pressmeddelanden/scb-publicerar-preliminar-statistik-over-doda-i-sverige/ En analys från den datan visar att antal döda för 2020 kommer att bli ca 97 000. (Kolla själv 20 januari så ska du se att jag hade rätt, plus minus 800 personer!)
Påstående kring karta nr. 2 är nästan lika idiotiskt. USA har 35,6 fler konstaterade smittade än vad Kanada har. Det vore synnerligen märkligt om det inte reflekterades på kartan. Dessutom är det så att John Hopkins ligger i USA och t.ex. kan ha tillgång till en stor mängd data från mindre orter runt om i USA på ett sätt man kanske inte har från andra länder. Det är inte konstigare än att en väderkarta från SMHI visar vädret i Sverige i mer detalj än i t.ex. Finland.
Jag orkar inte ens kommentera den sörja som texten i övrigt bjuder på. Du måste lära dig att förstå skillnaden mellan fakta och knäppskallars hemgjorda "forskning" om saker de vare sig har tillräcklig utbildning eller kunskap om.
It is much more efficient, though.
I was about to comment how weird it is.
I have never seen anybody put the basket on the conveyer belt and I would definitly have judged you hard. If someone did that here in Sweden, I can imagine the clerk just staring back and forth between you and your basket
Same here in Australia, I’ve seen cashiers just tip the basket over with no consideration for their groceries cos these people sure as hell aren’t considerate of them
I worked at hemköp for 3 years and at one point that happend! Someone just put the basket on the "kassabandet" and I got so mad! I told him that is not how it works here 🤷🏻♀️
I'm from England and have never ever heard of anyone putting the basket on the conveyer belt, thats so alien to me
Yeeh
@@tamaraf4823 Im not a cashier, never been but I would been so mad too.
"a small thing like taking the groceries out of the basket"
Bruh, not doing that is social suicide
Not just social suicide its loss of life privilige
hahahaha
Vänta vänta vääänta... satte han korgen på bandet i affären!?! Wtf 😳😂😂
Vet inte direkt vad amerikaner tänker när de gör det är svin orespektfult till kassören och till andra kunder tar mer tid och mer jobb till den som jobbar
I USA har de ingen kultur av solidaritet. Man tror på individens fulla makt över sig själv. Så ja på det sättet han säger det. Amerikaner gör det som är mest bekvämt för dem och struntar i att kassören kommer få det jobbigt. Det är inte ovanligt i USA att kvinnor är hemmafruar heller. När de går och handlar kan de lösa in massor med rabattkuponger och då menar jag inte 5-10 stycken. De kan komma med en hel pärm full. Jag har varit i USA två gånger i olika delstater och sett detta hända flera gånger.
JA JAG VET WTF
@@JackGalaxy ordet du söker är *respektlöst
Brukar byta mellan språk blir lite förvirrad ibland lol
Ordinary Swedes: Wearing black, white and grey
Estetare: go crazy
I feel personally attacked lmao
Me being naturare wearing mostly red and orange
@@davidstahl9155 låter som en natur-sam
@@bobmcsnark r u a estetare?
Me as an estetare can confirm this
something i personally always forget about the US is people ask "how are you" as a greeting and don't even expect an answer... i always want to answer
@@moakristiansson5257 Answer honestly would be the obvious and most simple thing to do innit!?....
Ja men, de gör vi i Sverige också princip. Du kan inte va ärlig i den frågan om de inte är bra. För då är man " negativ" o påträngande.
Where I come from in small-town Utah in the past, we didn't have to say "how are you" as a greeting, because if someone had blood coming out or they looked sick, we knew how they were, and if they looked good, we were happy for them and didn't need to say "how are you" to be polite. We asked how people were if we wanted to know, y'know?
Hehe, answering as a Swede (honestly and frankly) often result in a funny face on the foreigner asking the question.
Answer - ok/fine and how are u?
Our jokes are like our style: subtle
Lol sant
He hasn’t met Swedish teenagers
LOL ja
Yee
Well my jokes are very blunt with my friends and they do The same so i disagree
But like 90% of all Swedes speak fluent sarcasm.
Truers
@Rufus Börnfelt i am also from sweden and i speak perfect swedish and english... wait are you being sarcastic right now or are you actually being serious? I feel a bit lost... i guess my sarcasm isn't that fluent if that's the case...
No they don't... oooh you're being sarcastic
@Fjotolf Hansen uhh why arabic out of all languages?
@@juliadahlstrom4108 That guy is probably a nazi - his profile-pic is a WW2-era German soldier, and his profile banner is literally nazis with swastika-banners
“Swedes usually wear more bland colours and non extravagant clothes.” Me,swedish, sitting in a puffy neon rainbow dress: Sureeeeeee
@@peterevans6480 not a girl but tHANKYOUUUU
Ylva Björnulfsson IM SO SORRY WHAT SHOULD I CALL YOU?! 😥
@@peterevans6480 You dont have to be sorry i understand why!! you can use person :)
@@jensclarberg6419 Your the only one whos cringeing
OMG SAME like my favouritepeice of clothing is a neon orange hoodie and i only have neon clothes and and colored clothes, almost non white/black clothes
The barcode scan thing and personal space is unwritten law
Edit: took me a month to notice a spelling mistake
Very true. Totally agree with both comments here.
Aztra the Supermage also it’s super straining on their hands and wrists to keep turning stuff all day long, some of it is actually quite heavy
Yeah I always feel soo bad when I’m in a rush and dont have time to turn the stuff the right way 😓
I'm an school librarian with a tendency towards joint aches and inflammations and I am super grateful for every turned book. I always turn the barcodes. "Do unto otters..." as it is said in Discworld.
@Aztra the Supermage Every item at LIDL has a barcode at every side. Germans are a bit ahead of us but i do agree with you.
Hörde en gång på pendeltåget en kvinna som sa : nu är det julafton så då FÅR man prata med främlingar utan att verka konstig!
Ha så Svenskt!
@@kurtarne2374 precis vad jag skrev 😁
🤣gulligt!❤️
lmao
Haha det verkar vara en vanlig mentalitet, 364 dagar om året är hundpromenaderna tysta och på julafton så vinkar och God-Jular alla man passerar, sen återgår man till att inte låtsas om varandra.
I'm American, but listening to this list, I think I was meant to be a Swede...
Lol no
@@zoggansr0 why not
@@merchantofmogadishu3579 cause you cant just decide to be a swede, you cant even the language
@@zoggansr0 you get it though, you know they didn’t mean it as such
@@69raisinswhy ja men malva hej i know ur swedish cause of your name
By far the weirdest, and I know you covered this before, is when people wear shoes inside someone's home. Shoes are for the outside! Inside you're either barefoot, in socks or a pair of slippers, perhaps a pair of indoor crocks(Foppatofflor), or you bring along a pair of extra shoes that's only worn inside, but the latter is borderline snob. 😁
For real! I kind of get offended if people walk too far in with their shoes on, like wtf dude! Have some respect! LOL
True. I was expecting wearing shoes indoors to be one of the five 😅
It’s almost 20 years since I was living in Sweden as an exchange student, and I still can’t handle folks walking into my house in shoes. Ever since I got back, I’ve never been an indoor shoes person!
Den sista är troligen någon med diabetes snarare än en snobb.
I must admitted this is something that bothers me so much that I have even gone to the extent of telling people to remove their shoes in someone else’s home 😅 I know this is crazy and complete insanity on my part, but I’m someone who has never shaken hands with someone unless I know I can wash my hands immediately, others wise it’s a fist bump coz I don’t know where your hands have been. Now try to imagining what goes on in my head when I see someone walking on a carpet with shoes on🤯🤢😨🤣😂
I really appreciate you pointing out that Swedes don't small talk much out of consideration of other people's spaces - it really bugs me when people label Swedes as "socially awkward", when in reality the interaction was only awkward because the foreigner in question was breaking all the Swedish social norms and thus the one *making* it awkward. Of course you're gonna think everyone's acting weird and awkward if you keep making them uncomfortable with how you act because you don't know the social norms.
But since Swedes love to suck up to English speaking media, a lot of people here will now agree that we are awkward just because people kept saying it about us. But like nah, it's never been awkward when we talk to each other.
Omg! No offence bur that’s the biggest bullshit I’ve read in a looooong time. Swedish culture lacks in being social. That’s facts and I believe the majority of people who lives in Sweden agrees with this.
Oh also, and I’m from Malmö. One of, if not THE city that’s been most influenced by foreign countries. Imagine living in a smaller city. Do people even speak there?
Spot on, Shiney! Some just aren't really familiar with the Swedish culture and it's subtleties. I'm not a Swede, but can appreciate your good manners and social skills when I visit, here across the bay you are actually considered very polite people! 😄
@@omarel-khalil5678 have to agree with you. En svensk här 🤣👍🏻
Spot on
@@omarel-khalil5678 fellow skåning here! I totally agree with what you said, especially since i live in a small city near Malmö. Growing up in a non-swedish household in sweden is like living in two different worlds in terms of socialising.
Just the fact that everyone here is writing in english says alot about us.
Sant som fan
I'm polish 🙄
Well some might not be Swedes thought the majority probably are.
😂😂😂
Det är ju för att folk som inte är svenskar ska förstå
1:36 Wearing clothes supporting a politician or a political party, like with party slogans is weird in Sweden. You can wear merch for a band, like a T-shirt or a hat, that´s totally fine, but politician merch... That´s just weird. Same thing with putting up a sign in your garden. You won´t find many, if any, gardens in Sweden where it says "Rösta på Löfven!" eller "Rösta på Kristersson!" (Or Lööf, Åkesson, Dadgostar, Sabuni, Busch, Bolund eller Lövin). Treating politics like sports where you root for a party, would be pretty weird in Sweden.
För folk är rädda för att bli utfryst eller nedslagen på sin gata. (På vissa ställen)
@@AlexAlex10703 nej för att det är omoraliskt att köra upp din politiska åsikt i folks ansikten. Förstås så kanske du ser det mer i Stockholm, Göteborg och Malmö men på andra ställen så verkar politiken inte lika viktig.
I think it also has to do with how politics work here. In USA, for example, it's winner takes all, whereas here it doesn't seem like there's as much as stake. The losing parties still have a place in riksdagen.
@@isabellaanaya4169 the U.S seem to be all about winning and losing. They know very little about the world in general since when you ask them where Sweden is located (average American) they'll point it out in either Switzerland or Scotland. To make matters even worse, the people who gets the best education is the rich.
Also I hate it how they divide their people into races/colors. You have to fill in a form as a citizen where it says [Race]. I had friends who filled in all of those colors in a paper for applying to a new school because they took a DNA test and found that they were very mixed but they were later told by their School board that they could only pick 1. If that's not racist then I don't know what is.
Sweden (like Denmark, Norway etc) works very differently from America. I have never seen a country categorize their people into colors. Here in Sweden when someone commits a crime and they are perhaps East Asian, you don't tell the 112 operator that they're Chinese or whatever since it doesn't make any sense besides, other than being plain racist. I had trouble a while back with a gang of boys kicking on my door and when I opened it I only saw 1 of their faces since the others cover them with their shirts. I called it in to the police and explain to them what happened. I described the boy as being a person of darker skin, seemingly thick curly hair, eye color and clothing but I never even once said what race he was since I didn't know. Race isn't something Swedes are that professional with since we don't judge people by their skin color but rather their personality.
My point is, we can live in a world where race isn't even a thing. We shouldn't even categorize people into races since we all share 1 common ancestor way back in time (if that's what you want to believe).
@@isabellaanaya4169 Great point
#4 I feel like it's the complete opposite, but I guess it has more to do with anyones individual group of friends. Swedes tend to not be as obvious with their sarcasm and banter, it's more of a dead pan type of humour.
Ya
Agreee
I think it may also have to do with that we differentiate more between friends and acquaintances. Because we definitely joke around with friends. Acquaintances or friends of friends not so much, because you don't know where you have them.
I also agree. I would say irony is very standard in northern Europe, and is a type of humour that isn´t easily understood in other parts of the world. I travel a lot (not this year!) and have friends all over the world, and I´ve learnt that I have to make my jokes much more obvious than the slight sarcasm that can be used in Sweden. So this one is more about what types of jokes work and do not work. Joking is the kind of aspect of learning a language and a culture that takes the longest time to learn, in my opinion. I am very fluent in English and Spanish, to the point that ppl sometimes mistake me for a native at first. But when it comes around to joking, I still miss a lot of codes.
Agree. Could not relate to the “non banter” at all. I feel like that’s all we do 😅
the basket thing...people do that? like, doesn't everyone take the things out of the basket? weird
Some grocery stores in America make you put the basket with all the grocery items on the conveyor belt and have the cashier ring them up individually usually these types of grocery stores also have a bagger
Just him, I presume. I wonder if he's used to being served, lazy, selfish, or self-centered.
@@cyneathiajones-gray5958 you meant to write American, common mistake. you are forgiven.
I'm actually confused about putting all the barcodes in the same direction to be scanned? Do they use a handheld scanner? I understand taking everything out of the basket to make the cashier's life easier but as far as lining up the barcodes in the United States the majority of the time items are scanned in a way where you would need to lay them down, so lining up the barcodes wouldn't matter one way or the other
@@kellyjelly1086 no, it's not hand-held but often it's a standing one in front of them that faces them. Therefore it makes their job easier and faster by making the barcodes face yourself.
“Swedes don’t wear a lot of colour.”
Estetare: *sweating*
“Swedes don’t joke around” This guy clearly haven’t been to Gothenburg.
göteborg is built different
Or just never been in Skåne...
@@FatherCCP as a skåning, correct
Only with close friends/family
@@anonymo2192 true, i wouldn't do it with someone i don't know that well
Not sure about the 4th one. I'm a swede and find it hard to make jokes in English, or with someone not that skilled with Swedish. So between Swedes you should find a lot more sarcasm and jokes.
Your sense of humor is nothing compared to the rest of the world
Sorry man
@@tashaneuhaus sarcasm is the best humor ever
@@user-xs1pp9oi5z agreed
@@tashaneuhaus so for you to judge that I assume you speak perfect Swedish? 🙂
@@user-xs1pp9oi5z Sarcasm was huge humor style taking off in Sweden in the 90's. There is a huge standup comedy scene here (or was prior to corona).
Something that people from America react to in Sweden is that shop clerks wount approach you in a store. Americans sometimes interpret this as bad service but in Sweden it's considered unpolite to disturb someone who is shopping. If you need help from the staff you ask them for help and they will be more than happy to help you out.
I’m a Dane, but it’s basically the same as a swede so I’m gonna say this: #4 is, in my opinion, wrong. We do joke around, but not like American people. All Danes and swedes kind of share the same Humor when we are public - sarcasms and irony. That i steh nordic Humor. And I think it is hard for people outside the Scandinavian to understand it. And that might be why you have experienced it that way....
I agree but I as a Swed find it more common in closed groups...
Then that Swedish, Norway, Finland and Denmark also tease eachother and talk about how horrible the others are.
My dad, when does weird Danish ads comes up on TV for no reason, my dad always says "Oh gosh, is there barfing swedes on the TV again!?"
Yeah we have very dry humour and love to pick on each other’s countries. But I think that at least Denmark tolerates more jokes than Swedes do nowadays. So sad but I think it’s true, you can barely say a joke in this country before being called out🤷♀️
@@lisakarlsson2134 Yeah Ikr. Most swedes get hella mad when you say something bad about them, like btf.
@@lisakarlsson2134 vi har samma efternamn.
As a Swede I found the barcode turning hilarious! It’s something I do every time I go to the store, but never reflected over the fact that it’s not common everywhere else. I also do this to make the checkout process quicker for myself.
Some grosserystores even point out that you shoud turn the barcode
@@spacemaker8760 Oooh, I kind of resent that. If there's no sign, I'm a nice person for aligning the groceries correctly. But if there's a sign telling me to do so, it shifts the dynamic - I'm now just an asshole if I *don't* align them.
I put things on the belt...heavier to lighter so the person packing has to do less.
I'm Canadian.
Du är effektiv och en exemplarisk medborgare!
About the 4th one, I think it’s interesting because it’s apparent from your experience that it’s a type of humor that goes over the heads of those who didn’t grow up here. Swedish humor is very ironic and riddled with sarcasm. The best part, I think, is that you can hold a normal tone of conversation and in the middle of that conversation you say something with just *that* bit of an undertone, and you’ll have Swedes having a brain hiccup and then they’re laughing. It doesn’t surprise me that people who didn’t grow up with that doesn’t catch it. We like the subtle, small, and clever jokes as opposed to the clip you showed with Kevin H - which I found toeing the edge of rude rather than funny 😄
Its sad how my fellow swedish friends are more american than swedish when it comes to jokes
haha yea, absolutely true!!
Yeah, I've grown up here, but I still have trouble seeing it. Though that's probably because I've been a friendless, social outcast through my most formative years.
Yea I get it, like Frida Karlsson saying to Jens Berman ski training in front of her, hey Jens, you have butt sweat. Real subtle.
As an extremely sarcastic person, most of my fellow countrymen lack any sense of sarcasm and irony. They'd much prefer to be personally hurt by words as if words caused physical pain.
I do think we joke around a lot with friends, but we tone it down when we're in public and around strangers. And that fits perfectly with the swedish mentallity of beeing very nice to friend but not open to talk with strangers
Det värsta man kan göra i Sverige är ju att sätta sig bredvid någon på buss/tåg när det finns andra platser lediga.
Jag blir lite rädd när det händer
Det är bara abnorm att någon göt det. Jag bara tänker "Jahap, detta kommer att bli roligt..."
När personen som satt sig bredvid försöker starta en konversation, holy shiet vad det är skumt
@@sheshkebab7007 Egentligen så är det ju rätt skumt att inte prata med den enda andra passageraren på bussen...
Often old people tend to talk to other old people that they don’t know, it’s just the younger people that don’t really like to talk to strangers
I do that turning the barcode thingy as well and, yes, I'm Swedish. It's true that most Swedes don't want to be inconvenient for others. Some countries seem to have this mentality culturally.
I remember when I was young, since I'm taller than the average woman, I always tried to not sit in front of somebody shorter than I, when I frequented movie theaters for instance, if I could choose where to sit, that is. Guess it's a sign of that "not wanting to cause inconvenience". (Yes, you actually had to go places to watch Netflix, strange huh?)
@@vivienleigh4640 You mean people don’t go to the movies anymore? Come on, it’s still very common for people to do that! Just not now during Corona because they are closed, but before that.
The reason why we want to swich to English When we talk to you is because, as you said, we want to be convenient for the people around us. If you are ”struggling” we get uncomfortable (even tho you’re Not really struggling) and we want to make things easier for you. Many times it’s easier for us to speak English than for a foreigner to speak Swedish, so that’s Why we do It, in my opinion.
Agree. I work in customer service and when the customer speak basic words / stumble I really want to switch to English to make the call more effective and the customer less awkward. But usually I continue in Swedish or ask if they prefer English. Also I try to remember to compliment their language skills. Some are really nervous to speak and they get so happy when you tell them how good they are 😊
It's also a way to practice. I'm so excited meeting English-speaking people I won't give them a chance to talk swedish
For me a big part of why I don't like being approached for small talk in public is because 9 times out of 10 the person greeting you turns out to actually be a salesperson or a person from a charity who's only pretending to be friendly in order to trick you into listening to their sales pitch. So I'm usually stand-offish at first when someone approaches me because I always suspect they're a salesperson. As soon as I realise it's actually a "real" person talking to me I'm much more friendly.
If someone puts a basket on the conveyer belt in sweden, they have to prepare to get physically and mentaly hurt
I'm learning the language so I can read Swedish to find history. I'm going to go to Sweden someday and I want to practice speaking to them.
I really wish my family had still spoken swedish to us, along with English, so I could speak it. I'm sure it may be somewhat easier for me to learn, since it's such a recent genetic memory. Even my mother knew some swedish.
@Light Source
Lycka till med att lära dig Svenska.
@@alfepalfe *svenska. Ingen versal.
@@patriksvensson2360 oops min autocorrect brukar göra så ibland då jag kan ha skrivit det i början av en mening förut. Ibland märker jag det inte. Den gillar även att göra om svenska i till I eftersom jag använder ganska mycket engelska.
@@alfepalfe Tack sa mycket. Jag behover det. Jag ar pa min dator (so I can't easily type accents)
I have a brazilian/american friend and he keeps calling out to strangers and starts talking with them so I have to go and hide.
You should be proud of him and take after :D
@@annikaerf No thanks. Stranger danger
I'm Brazilian, I dont necessarily do that, I would say I'm more of an introvert (at times) but Im trying to be a bit more like that, especially because of travelling and wanting to meet new people, being and extrovert definetily has benefits
what do u mean american? there are 55 countries in america!!!
you know brazil is IN AMERICA ?? do u mean
Brazil, Indiana? or
Brazil, country
its amazing how ppl dont know what they say
If you turn the barcode right you help the cashier so they avoid getting strain injuries. you also help yourself and the ppl behind you becasue it will go faster to scan. putting the basket on the conveyer belt is just fucked up ~:-o
You know Stefan, I think your channel is so popular because you genuinely put in a lot off effort into understanding our culture. Many foreigners don't do this and gets frustrated that it's not like their home country. So, thanks for this.
The Brits would also find it weird if you put the entire basket with food on a full sized conveyor at a store. You’d probably get a dirty look for being lazy.
Also in DK :P Think it’s common for EU
Yeah I've never seen that over here
People in my country (in South America) would also find it weird. The basket usually ends on the floor while the groceries move over the conveyor belt. By the way, I used to live in Sweden many years ago.
That’s everywhere in the world except apparently America. Here in Australia you are considered rude and self entitled. Don’t be surprised if the cashier just tips the basket over instead of handling your groceries gently.
I’m American and I’ve never seen someone do this in the US 😆 so strange
As an introvert, Sweden sounds like a free estate.❤️❤️❤️❤️
As a swede who lived in australia for two years, I've recognized a lot of the same things that you talk about in your videos!
Although, one big difference I found that I think you haven't brought up (?) is how swedes tend to go straight to the point and australians/americans/britts are so polite that they won't say straight out what they mean. That could really annoy me sometimes, haha
We Brits are definitely the worst out of the 3 for that, especially the southern English. I’ve found Americans are more direct, Australians too (although not as direct as Americans). We don’t always realise we are doing it. I think it comes from worrying about making others feel awkward or uncomfortable and not wanting to come across as rude or demanding. The more indirect someone is, the more polite or gentle they are trying to be (generally speaking). Of course it totally changes after a few pints.
As a Swedish person, the one thing that stands out the most when it comes to the US specifically, is the washing machine in the kitchen. I mean, it’s not even logic. Its only place is in the bathroom.
Wait... what??? Kitchen? Bathroom?? Don’t you guys have laundry rooms???
@@Vicksar Some bigger houses have laundry rooms in Sweden. But if the house lacks a laundry rooms, bathroom it goes.
Another apparently very Swedish thing.
Apartment complexes. They always, ALWAYS. Have a public laundry room provided by the landlord. IIRC it's law.
So very few apartments have washing machines. But instead have a aparment building or area specific washroom that you rent, for free, it's part of the rent. So borrow might be a better word?
Regardless.
No washing machines.
i've never owned one. Never had one in my apartments. Mum had a few in the bathroom when i grew up, coz country home.
In my current area it's digital, so i just login on my user on the landlord page and book a time. Super easy. Then i go there and wash with the two high yield washing machines provided. I can fit a month worth of clothes and beddings in there :P
think washing machines need to be in a room that is safe with water, some kitchens might be fine
@@smievil Some yes, but all bathrooms are water proof standard.
Then again i don't think dishwashers need water proofing and those are usually in the kitchen.
There are a lot of stores in Sweden, especially the kind of stores that sell big and/or heavy things, but also a lot of regular grocerystores, that have signs that asks you to put the barcode toward yourself - so the person behind the register can just slide it past the scanner. It's not something that all of us just automatically would think of if it weren't for those signs.
Many swedes will speak english with you if they notice that you are not swedish because they'll assume that it's easier for you. Rather than to have you struggle with a language that you are not familiar with, they'll choose one that you can both understand and speak.
wait really? i've never seen a sign like that- it's just something we do automatically
@@lunarsway I think you misunderstood. The signs say: "Vänd streckkoden mot dig" which translates to "Turn the barcode towards you". I could show you some pictures if that feature was available for youtube-comments, but it isn't.
@@tommiejonsson8952 still never seen one.... maybe it depends on where you live too? i do live in a pretty small town in the middle of nowhere so maybe they couldn't be bothered to put those signs up here
Yes! I agree. We also just in general like to take our chances to practice English when we can. That might be why many foreigners also think that we are good at speaking English. An other reason why we might learn English fast is because we, compared to many other European countries, don't dub movies in to Swedish very often. We enjoy watching movies in their original language. Especially if the original language is Swedish. (Love you're videos)
So funny that when Swedes find out I’m from New York they’re the ones who wanna chat even though I’m tryna avoid other humans 😂
Swedes love to practice speaking english to a native english speaker! I have heard from Americans that live in Sweden that they had a really hard time learning swedish because all swedes wanted to speak english with them.
@@peppermintcrush5794 haha I speak both. I learned Swedish and English at the same time.
Most Swedes are impressed by Americans, especially ones from NYC or LA.
@@linusfotograf Några av de två platserna i västvärlden jag helst inte skulle sätta min fot i.
If I could describe Sweden in one sentence, it would be: Do not inconvenience me in any way.
I would like more small talks in Sweden, we’re really living our separate lives when we’re in public and kinda don’t know how to do otherwise because we don’t have much experience of it and don’t expect other to be open for it, even though I think there are many people who would like it. It’s a too strong norm. It’s really nice getting to know new people.
Yeah and we better start asking people things better. Sweden is verry devided and thats not good in the long term.
Swedes don't joke around? Then you haven't been in mine and my friends' Among Us lobby
Swedish jokes suck haha 😂
@@tashaneuhaus Swedish jokes? What is "swedish jokes"? We just fuck around me and my friends
@@tashaneuhaus seems like just you and your friends suck at joking around with each other 🤔
I would say that we swedes do joke around with friends, but we tone it down a bit when we are ut in public around strangers
@@GothicLightingQueen yea thats true. As to not be a potential inconvenience.
I’ve been following your channel almost 2 year! You inspire me to move to sweden and now my visa is on process.
I’m from Sweden and it’s so fun to hear, what people think about Sweden.
Älskar de du gör, alltid roligt att se vad du har kommit på att vi gör som är weird :))))
I wouldnt say swedes find it weird that someone wants to small talk its more just uncommon
They hate it trust me
I would imagine that shifts within the country. Sure many Swedes just like not to bother others but it's not like small talk never happens. I wouldn't strike up a conversation in the middle of the city but surely I have talked to people who were unknown to me when the setting was right. Last time I remember was some week ago when I gave this lady at the bus stop a compliment for how she styled her hair (it was similar texture to mine) and we talked about ways to make the waves behave. When I'm in the outskirts of the city or in the countryside I feel like these conversations become more frequent.
@@tashaneuhaus idk im swedish and if someone starts a small talk i dont really give a shit
@@tashaneuhaus nah most swedes dont hate it, it's more about respecting others private space, most swedes dont have any problem with talking to strangers, its just that they dont tend to initiate the conversations themselves.
When someone tries to small talk with me, I hide in the closet. That may have more to do with me being an introvert though...
Omg!! Loved this video I have been following you for a while and you’ve been such an inspiration for me starting my channel as a Swede in France. Anyways will take this video into consideration when I film a video comparing the French and the Swedes. Have a great day! 🙌🏼🙌
Tack ör den analysen :)
Good informational video!
Interesting as usual Stefan. Number 5 I do not agree at all, unless the person is really lousy in Swedish. In small towns, you can have a little more small talk with each other without knowing the person. I think it's easy to talk to strangers if you have a given topic of conversation. The dog, the little child or that it is raining heavily etc etc
Small towners are absolutley more chatty! Stockholmers who come to Skåne might experience a mild culture chock. I had to teach my boyfriend who silently handed over ferry tickets that he was being rude for not saying hi and thanks. In Stockholm effiency is considered polite and that means no unnessesary talking,
@@SchlyterMia Yes likewise in the north of Sweden were I grove up.
@@SchlyterMia likewise just some miles from stockholm.
Om du bor i Stockholm och kommer till lund var bredd för skämten om isbjörnar på gatorna.
@@familjenfurumark788 Fortfarande? Efter alla dessa årtionden, samma skämt. Vad tror du en norrbottning får höra i mälardalsområdet då?
I love the sound of Swedish folk. How respectful they are towards others
Yea,that's kinda how we are made, and thank YOU for being respectfull towards our culture:> have a Nice day!
Big up for the nice editing, keep up the good work
”Not joking around” wait what? Offended.
Same
I guess I'm not Swedish then, I joke around with my friends, especially my best friend. I love when people have humor. Hmm... To be honest, there are a few adults I know that have boring humor, at least around guests. My family is different. My mom and I can laugh at the silliest things, but we could not imagine that many of our family friends would ever do that.
01:40 Me a swede walking around outside with blue hair and being fully dressed in my harry potter gryffindor robe....
I bet you're rockin' that style girl! I would know,'cause my swedish mind said so and my swedish mind never lies
Estetare
Apropos small talk/privacy. Met a furniture designer once who was Indian but lived in Sweden. He had production facilities, a huge paradise like estate with hoards of staff waiting on him hand and foot, his whole family etc in India but still spent most of the year in a modest flat in cold dark Stockholm. Why you ask? To avoid small talk! His exact word were " I get nothing done in India, never manage to keep a deadline or show up on time, cos people constantly drop in or stop me to have a chat. It drives me crazy". He had spent a year in Sweden while at university and I guess taking the Indian out of Sweden didn't take Sweden out of the Indian...🤷♀️
I’m a twelve year old swedish girl and my native language is swedish but i think in english most of the time and sometimes i remember what something is named in english but i cant remember it in swedish.
Samma här men jag brukar oxå tänka i spanska vilket gör allt mer förvirrande :')
Usally thats us whom are good at speaking english. It goes automatically for us. I allso forgett the swedish word sometimes and use the english one.
@@spacemaker8760 Same! Im also swedish :)
Im a 32 years old Swedish dude and i do the same from time to time.
Jag glömde ananas en gång, var tvungen att fråga min mor vad pineapple var på svenska nu igen lol
I retired 5 years ago. I have spent most of my time since reading and working on my property. I started learning Swedish because I frankly was noticing a drop in cognitive ability and I thiught it may be becase
I had become mentally passive. The choice of Swedish was completely random. After 3 months of studying Swedish for 3 or 4 hours a day I can read a Swedish newspaper and grasp about 90% of it. But I also feel much more alert and more mentally active. Learning a language requires concentration and exercises the brain. I don't know if I will ever be fluent (I am far better at reading and writiing Swedish than speaking it) but that's ok since the mental health benefit is very evident to me. My plan is to keep fine tuning my skills for a year and then spend a week or two visiting Sweden. I will then take on another language and do it again.
Yes, you might not need to know Swedish to get around Swedish society in a major city, but to get a job it is often a necessity
You nailed all of these things!
I especially love how you nailed the issue swedes have when strangers try talk to us xD
Granted, I actually LIKE talking to strangers - if I get good vibes from them - so I guess I'm a little unswedish for a swede on this account
Damn you and your videos Stephan, always making me miss Sweden
great videos. i lived in sweden many years ago as a winter sport athlete, i appreciate your insights which seem as accurate today as 40 years ago. our family really enjoys your videos as we speak some swedish and visit on occasion. you have a unique presentation and viewpoint that is very interesting and educational. please keep it up! lycka till! har det sa bra.
I live in Gothenburg and people can talk to strangers without problems and having small talks (I see it happen all the time) and we do joke with each other in special ways both with sarcasm and having positive banter but we don´t want to bother anyone so we choose our occations, when it´s appropriate.
@Yohannes Prince I moved from Uppsala to Borås and spend a lot of time in Gothenburg, it was a nice culture shock and now I never want to move back!
The fourth one I'd boil down to two things... When you noticed swedes joking less they avoided it because we lose nuance when talking english and when your friends spoke swedish you lost nuance. I've lived in Norway (im Swede) for 4 years and while we do in theory understand eachother well... We do lose nuance in the translation. This must be a problem for anyone learing swedish as well. Anyway...
We joke with our friends and we do put them down. This is however nearly never done bluntly but with finesse. Sarcasm and Irony are the two main tools for Scandinavians.
This is also why swedes in general prefer British over US humour. To us, a lot of US humour comes of as rude.
so for example...
NN does something bad...
US response: "You're such an idiot" followed by a mutual laughter.
Scandinavian response: "You really planed that well, didn't you?" followed by a sly glance over the tea mug.
We find the first one lowkey offensive, though we do understand the point of it.
Amerikans actually might miss the put down in the second one.
But as with any ppl... We are all individuals, so there will be swedes who just simply call each other idiots :p
Omg!! That example is spot on!! 👌 😂
Man, I really love your videos! You have an excellent sense of humor, and you explain things well. I'm Brazilian and Brazil is a mess for outsiders (and sometimes for insiders too) lol.
Jag lärde mej mycket från detta. Så detta var en bra video ^_^
When I was in college and working part time as a cashier in the local supermarket, when people placed their basket on the belt I found it so offensive
Never seen that happen in my entire life
Me being Swedish, the small talk with strangers is just awkward ✌️
Fascinating! Greetings from 🇿🇦
Perfect summary! =)
I work in a store and the language one is always tricky. I'll speak swedish if they speak swedish to me but imediatly switch to english without even noticing if the costumer does. I just wish I could speak more languages tbh, we get a lot of little old ladies who speak only russin or arabic or kurdish and I wish I could help them better.
I wouldn't mind a bit more color though, the suits in the tumbnail are great.
All these apply to the other nordic countries as well. (Though the one about making jokes about eachother just depends on the friend group you're in...)
Love the vid❤️🎉🎉
Interesting point of view, i think you are spot on about most things, the banter part is not true in my friend group but i think i might agree on the majority of people being like this. Great channel, subscribed 👍
If I meet people I’m only say “hej” and they say “hej” back but we go at the same time...
When a swede switches to English, it means either you're not accepted as a "swede" ie you feel foreign or they think your so poor att it that they want to spare you (and themselves) the trouble 😂
Yep, when i want to practice they speak English no matter if its in person at a store or online and they know in not swedish. And im good at it too 🤷🏾♂️
Recognized the things you brought up, you are a good observer.😊🤘
I met a Swedish family in 2019 that was visiting the UK on their vacation, I was at work on a train and I am a conductor/ticket inspector. As I walked through the train a few times I heard the family speaking to one another (I have a good ear for foreign languages, more so Scandinavian) so I stopped to speak to them. I’m guessing they may have found me a little strange striking up a conversation with them. I also told them I am learning Swedish, fingers crossed I will learn well enough to speak when visiting myself.
I'm from Sweden and when me and my wife are going to go outside our apartment, we Always use the watchhole on the door looking so no other neighbours are around when we go out hahah xD I thought everyone do that
Jag med haha
@@prinzezze puh då är det inte bara vi xd
@@sjuktkul8557 If we hear any door on our floor open we just stand in the hallway and wait lol (Svensk)
@@korpen2858 ahahah samma här
Aldrig fattat varför folk håller på med sånt här, lol
The conveyer belt thing is also typically British, quite a few things in common ☺️
Yeah I lived both in England and Germany and never saw anyone put their basket on the belt. In fact I always experienced it rude to stack items on top of eachother because it's too much of a nuisence for the cashier.
I liked the explanation and back story for point 2
A cashier from Norway said she can immediately tell which shoppers are from Sweden because they always place items with the barcode toward them. Swedes and Norwegians are generally pretty similar in many ways but I guess this specific thing is pretty uniquely Swedish haha. I never even really thought about why we do this other than just making the scanning go a bit smoother to make the lines move faster.
For number 5 i want to believe that switching to English is also out of convenience for the Swedish person as well. I personally find it hard at times to understand what someone's trying to tell me if their Swedish is too accented. From personal experience (that literally happened a few hours ago) I had an American costumer come into the place I work at and I genuinely had a bit of a hard time understanding what they said 😅 they might've understood me perfectly but it took them saying the same thing over and over for me to fully grasp what they were trying to convey and that made me feel ridiculous...
I'm Swedish and i find it funny when foreigners does any of these things. My laughter stands out amongst the crowd though. I'm the loud Swedish guy. I'm quite used to speaking english now, that i've forgoten many Swedish words. The Swedish guy, so good at english, he forgets his own language, that's me in a nutshell
Same
Thank you❤️❤️❤️
Jag har studerat språket i mer än ett år nu (med DuoLingo-appen.). Jag försöker medan jag bor här i Japan, så jag är helt ensam i min kamp, men UA-cam och andra online-resurser är ganska hjälpsamma. Och jag älskar din UA-cam channel! :)
Haha that Ö meme 😆
Yes! Learning the language is the most basic thing people should learn if they move to another country. Far too many foreigners in Sweden don't get that!
To be fair, Swedes don’t really give people a chance to practice learning the language. As soon as someone has an accent or stumbles over the words we immediately switch to English. My international classmates complained about it, Swedes were trying to “help” by doing it, but it made it so that they never could practice using Swedish in everyday situation s
@@nightsgrow6575 yeah my boyfriend is French and everytime he stumbles the cashiers start speaking English, noticeably to be "nice" to him! 😅 he's soo happy everytime the cashiers continue in Swedish because then he knows that he nails the Swedish pronunciation 😂❤
Its weird cus most swedes speaks perfect english. You can survive in Sweden not speakingh the language but sometimes it gets complicated.
As a Danish person I try to speak Swedish here, but when young people hear my shit accent they start speaking in English, haha. So it's a bit difficult to learn properly unless you have a Swedish partner, Swedish job or close Swedish friends, I think.
You could say that about moving to any country but even just visiting. The problem with too many Americans like my father, is the high level of demand and you need to cater to me attitude. English is universal so why bother? That’s his attitude. It looks bad. Even just learn how to say you speak English or when he came to visit me over here in Germany a few times. Learn how to damn well say that you don’t speak German, you speak English. You might have somebody rambling to you in German asking for directions. Or same thing if he were to visit Sweden. Learn how to say it get yourself out of an awkward situation.
I'm Moving to Sweden in 2 months. I cannot wait to embrace the culture and language it's so interesting. Great video as always.
A good list. Puting the basket up seems mostly weird to me as, in Sweden, you are supposed to put the basket away in the beginning of the checkout right next to the conveyour belt.
so putting up Def means extra work as the basket when emptied needs to be moved backwards where prob the next customer is waiting.
The thing about the bar code is that some stores even have signs telling you to please to do so.
Though all Swedes def Don’t do so. I work as a cashiere and damn ppl sometimes build piles upon piles when loading up groceries. Makes me Especially nervous when they pile up eggs and other things that Can’t survive a tumble down unto the floor.
#2 we do the same in Italy, most of us put the basket back to its place too :) DoAmericans really don't put stuff on the conveyor belt O.o? It seems so entitled to let the casher do everything
ahahah that cat meme is hilarious
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Looks good, but what is that? Pine apples? Fires? Exploding corn? The left overs of smashed yellow flies?
I think he speaks fire emoji-
@@cursedimage945 🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥
What are you doing here ya mahameho?😄😄
Vi kødder med våres kompiser non stop,veldig likt det du sa du gjorde med dine amerikanske venner.🇳🇴🇳🇴
I am new to this channel (I’ve just watched a couple of your videos) and it would be fun to see you make a video of thing Swede tend to do a lot. One thing you could ad to that list is swearing.
It’s part of our nature
I'm problaly an atypical Swede, since I ask what language someone would prefer.
I do that too
i don't know about others but when i hear someone struggle with their swedish or have a heavy accent i flip to english out of consideration and make it easier for you or maybe i just have a hard time understand what you wanna say. Again that consideration. But if you ask me you wanna practice your swedish? Sure why not.
As a person learning Swedish this feels a bit disappointing, it’s like I’m trying to practice and talk to you in Swedish and you reply in English? My first though is “I’m that bad at it?” 😅
@@solunnne yeah that's the downside of a country who are generally good at english. It might be that we don't want to point out flaws in peoples swedish when they already have it rough. But as i said. Just tell people you wanna talk swedish and give permission to correct/help you out when something is off and i bet they will go all in. I'm sure your not "bad at it" we flip so fast to english when we hear that it isn't your native language that you're not even given a chance.
@@solunnne Swedish ppl loves to practise their english! So when we meet a native english speaker we want to speak english. And if I'm better at english than you are at swedish is better to speak english. But if you want to practise your swedish just says so and we'll gladly switch back to swedish!
Its the swedish Solidarity.
0:28, vart hittar man dom nya avsnitten till solsidan?
Married to a brit and I actually laughed out loud when you mentioned the conveyor belt thing because we talked about that more than once when we started dating. The difference in banter is also very much there. Really fun video. It´s interesting to see how people perceive us in reality and not just the stereotypes.