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I think this is interesting but also a bit confusing. Because it seems somethings are more about her personal life rather than being uniquely Swedish. Then something's are not just a Swedish thing.
I think this video was a good enough representation of habits in Sweden. Each family has the freedom to create traditions and customs, and there is much variation. In some families for example, we order one whole pizza for each family member, each according to taste, so we don't slice them up, except if we agree to taste off each others'. It is true that dating is very different and that it is so different that is difficult to find words to describe the differences. But traditionally it was not polite to approach girls you don't know otherwise than to invite them to a dance for one or mostly two pieces of music. In the streets or on beaches, parks, cafées, busses, etc, you leave them their peace. I think you call it hook up. It happens, but it is not really the normal way. It's rather a huge no, no. A girl and girls must be allowed to feel safe and relaxed when being out and about on their own. Young people today meet for dancing, karaoke, celebrations, but also for example at music festivals, travelling, at pubs and at youth hostels, and when doing their hobbies. Then you can speak with almost anybody. There's a huge difference between for example Italy and Sweden.
I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned that people in Scandinavia (I live in Norway) take off their shoes when they enter their house. Many use slippers or just have socks or bare feet around the house. Not only do we avoid bringing in outside dirt and germs and spreading them throughout the house, but hardwood floors and carpets stay cleaner and last longer. And - nap time for young children is often outside in their strollers, year round, also at daycare centers. Lambs wool sleeping bags, warm hats and gloves keep them comfortable in colder weather.
The no shoes indoors idea was standard here in the UK until recently.
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Felt like she came from up north. Not knowing about cake mixes?? As someone said, those products have been around for awhile now. I believe most people, younger generations atleast, do buy the mixes more often then she thinks.
@She's from the south. Her thick southern dialect gave it away instantly when she said "Havlfabrikat"
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@@fipekeYou are most likely right. I didn't pay attention to how she said it. Just got the feeling she was from upnorth. But you are most Likely correct. Still, I thought cake mix produkts was well known nowdays.
Swede here. I giggled so hard when she was talking about the store bought cake mix. You can buy it here but its rare and its usually placed in the shelf for stuff thats importated from the US. My experience is the same as hers - I didnt know about the "halffabrikat" either until I was adult. Also: you prounced it correctly. Well done! :D
I'm sure some cake mix can be found in the stores but to be honest, the only place I would know to look is in the "American section" where certain US foods can be found. This is for US specific food that people have come across travelling and want at home too so that would include some cake mixes I guess. I know there are waffle mixes that is quite commonly used but cakes, cookies etc., I agree bought finished or baked from scratch.
American transplant... There are cake mixes and even cookie mixes but they are one brand for the most part, but you can keep it basic or make it more elaborate. No Pillsbury or Betty Crocker here.lol
Dating in Sweden is the same as here in Norway. You meet someone, you hang out for a couple of days/weeks going on movies, dinner out partying. and if you both like each other you kinda just become a couple.
Cake mix exists but it didn't always exist. It has gotten more and more popular over the last 20 years. It's still a pretty small section at the store, with only one or two options for each cake like cupcake, chocolate cake.
We usually just mix sugar, wheat flour (or glutenfree flour), and eggs (or bakingpowder) for a simple cake, and if it should be fancier, we also also some butter and some flavour to taste. All kids learn to make cakes, pancakes, mashed potatoes, spagetti with tomato-sauce, gingerbreadmen, real bread, and so many more recipes in school. Maybe cooking at home is made much easier because we have such simple measures?
Pizza: It is my experience that most people here in Sweden only use scissors to cut their pizzas if they don't have any knives, or pizza cutters, at hand. Dating: I think she's confusing dating with going on dates. Here in Sweden we usually only say dating when we mean going on actual dates. What you call dating, we call being together and see it as a separate thing from going on dates with someone which is seen more as a trial period where you have time to decide if you want to be in a relationship with that person or not.
The part where she says "Halvfabrikat" shows that she is from the southernmost point of Sweden. Down there we speak differently from the rest of Sweden, as explained in the GeographyNow video. You pronounced the word very well and in a more usual Swedish dialect, good job on that one!
@@BasicModelling She most definitely is from the south. Most probably Skåne, just listen to how she speaks. Edit: After listening to it again, I must say you really don't have a clue what you're talking about if you deny her southern dialect. I myself live in northern Skåne, and that is exactly how we speak.
You know y'all should really watch Everything for Sweden (Allt för Sverige) Its a TV show of A handfull of Americans with Swedish descent that travel to Sweden to learn about their heritage and overall Swedish culture during their stay. It is a competition and the winner gets to meet their Swedish relatives
I'm surprised she didn't mention this in the section about children, but us Swedes were the first to completely ban corporal punishment in the home, so pretty much every kid is raised without spankings etc.
which is why we have so many brats and people who murder at 13, 14 and 15 now days........my mom B slapped me when I was out of control and I turned out fine
Thats why we have lots of spoiled brats in Sweden that commit crimes in order to fund their lifestyle. Ever since spanking was made illegal it all went to hell trust me i grew up back then.
Swedes aged 40 by now also grew up without suffering corporal punishment, and I'm pretty sure millennials are not overrepresented in the crime registry. Odds are pretty damn high more violent criminals come from families where they used violence to enact discipline at home. @@Belnick6666
@@fulalbatrossnothing wrong with the odd slap, it's all about the context of why you need to. If a child decides to run out into traffic and they do, are you going to say no don't do that. Some kids aren't going to listen, what do you do then let them get squashed by a vehicle?
There is one more thing it likely didn’t even occur to her to mention, but that really amused and surprised me when I first moved here. It is COMMON for a couple to live together and have up to three children before they even consider getting married - if they even do. Swedish even has official terms for legally recognized variations of being a couple. Of course you can be married or “gift” (which word also means “ poison” in both Swedish and German 😂), but you may also be ”sambo” or ”särbo” - meaning that you live together or you are a couple living in different places. Note that all three circumstances have legal status and legal rights under the law.
None of my friends are married. 😅 My parents only got married because of how much easier it was, before sambolagen. Kids, partners; just no piece of paper. ;)
First time I needed to answer a question about my race in Sweden I was 50 years old and a American company did a research. I refused to answer that question and when they also asked about my sexuality I closed it down and reported to the leaders at the company, because that's illegal in Sweden to ask about your sexuality.
Yes there are a number of things that are considered sensitive information and for this reason are illegal to keep register of or requires very a very strict and controlled handling Ethnicity, Religion, Political affiliation, Union membership, sexual orientation, some health aspects, genetics or biometrics that can be used to positively identify a person among others.
SUrprised to read all the comments from fellow Swedes that we don't have cakemixes. There are an entire section of cake mixes, bread mixes and waffle mixes and so on in stores. They are usually at the baking section where the regular flour and sugar is. And there are mixes for bread and cakes for those with food allergies, in a separate section as well.
As a Swedish person i too never dated 😊 not in the way you do in Usa. But on the other hand as a woman i never culturally was taught that it was a man that shuld approach you first either, men are more respectful here and many times it's you as a woman who approaches him if you are interested, gender equality is big here too. We are not seen as " the weaker sex" here we are all equal. I think there is a very good video talking about this, how we see relationships culturally and i can put a link to it or tell you where you can find it if you are interested, love and peace from Sweden
I would say the equality is a general thing in Sweden, it goes through everything. As she said, we treat our children with respect, you could say that we treat them as equals that need our help and guidance. And the "race" part. Why is that a thing? Everyone is equal. My boss? I don't treat him any different than the cleaning lady. We are equal. The prime minister? I wouldn't treat him any different than the mail man. We are all equal. And about dating, I have never done it either. Most often it goes like this: You get drunk and end up in bed with someone. The next time you are at a party, you end up drunk and in bed with him/her again. And after a couple of more times like that, all of a sudden you are not drunk and in bed with eachother, but for some reason you are still hanging out. :)
You realy nailed "Halvfabrikat". Good job. Nice to see you guys getting in to sweden as you do, its realy fun for me, as an swede, to see how you react to what you see and hear about our strange country.
1) We do date but maybe not exactly how you do it in the US. 2) Not everyone cuts pizza with scissors 3) We have cake mixes but not in a huge variety 4) You do wash your duvets but perhaps not as often as the duvet cover, pillow case and sheets.
Co-sleeping is definitely a personal thing! Only time I slept in my mom's bed was if I had a nightmare. Yes I had my kids next to me when they were babies. But like I said, personal thing!
While many countries have "dating/marriage" and other types of specific rituals and milestones, in Sweden it is much more organic growth as a couple. Usually young people travel in packs and if someone you like is in that pack (or in adjacent pack), you hang out more or less with that pack. Dating is an activity, but we don't like the formality of it, so if you really want to have a date you go for fika (definitely not a dinner). Otherwise you start to slide to spending more time with the person you have a crush on rather than with the entire pack, but you probably spend time with your or his packs as well. For some people, putting the title on the relationship is also not a big thing. It depends on the couple how they want to do this, how they label themselves (there are bunch of different labels describing the relationships), what order you want to do things at, and what rules your relationship has. There is no social norm or stigma connected to having to be, or getting married. However, monogamy is still the norm. I disagree to adopting the dating norm. The ceremonial dinner dates are awkward and weird and if you're unlucky feel like a job interview (even the coffee ones can feel like it if you do it too early). I prefer the more relaxed way of getting to know each other that Sweden has (or doing it in reverse order - having the fun time together and then getting to know each other).
I´m Swedish and I think that our way to look at the "race" issue makes so much sense. There´s ONLY different skin tones, not different races. We are all the SAME race HUMANS. Full stop. @ 11:55 Btw you nailed "Halvfabrikat" Natasha. Well done XD
"Hel och ren" is for me more about being presentable. We usually don't have dress code for work or events. You don't always have to show your best self, it is enough to be "Hel och ren" = don't show up in old teared clothes or dirty clothes, but as long as they are nice and clean you are ready to go.
We do have cakemix, but that is for emergency bake. Almost all swedish home know how to bake from scratch. I think part of that is because we have the fika tradition, we bake cinnemon rolls, cake, cookies and all that stuff and we take pride in our baking skills. We also have something in school that is called Hemkunskap (Domestic science) it is a class where we learn stuff that is good to know when moving to live on your own. You learn how to cook, bake, do dishes, calculate the economics about living on your own and so on. These two facts combined together make that almost everyone know how to bake from scratch.
I had never heard the word Caucasian until watching American police shows and dramas, probably in my 20's. In England our tick boxes start with White British then onto other ethnicities. I have always put pillow cases and duvet covers on my bedding then wash weekly, all my family and friends do too. When I do wash the duvets, I choose a hot day so they can be dried in the sun.
In the UK we also have duvet covers rather than a top sheet. Some people prefer to also use a top sheet especially those who like to have a blanket in addition to the duvet, but mostly we just use a bottom sheet and a duvet cover, that acts as a top sheet. Duvets only became popular here in the 1970s before that we used sheets and blankets. We imported the idea from Europe so we used to call them continental quilts.
The dating world in Sweden is just as confusing for those involved as it is for you. When we were little we were a couple if someone took the other's hand after a dance at the school disco, when we got older you were together when you got a kiss. All this happened among people who already knew each other and therefore there was no need to go on a date to get to know each other. You just managed to get together without a date. Breaking up could be done on a piece of paper, so for so long no one had to put themselves out there and ask for a date. We also don't have the culture of asking someone to go to the school dance, like we see in American movies, so there's no practice in asking and possibly being rejected. As we got older it became more difficult, but it was often solved with alcohol, and you might have ended up in bed. If you changed numbers after the sex, it just rolled on and no direct dates were needed. Without alcohol, not as many children would have been born. The older we got, the harder it became. When, however, you couldn't find anyone at the workplace, among friends' friends, etc., with whom you could accidentally end up in bed, everything became very difficult. Because now we are adults and have never had to ask anyone on a date. We are also not very good at talking to strangers. But now there is Tinder etc., so now the Swedish people are dating with trembling legs and in a way where you can ask for a date via text.
@@lindakirk698 A generalization is a generalization. If I say that Swedes eat a lot of candy, it's true even if neither you nor I ever eat candy. The point I was trying to make is that many people use alcohol to help make things happen, and that many people meet partners through friends, work, etc. Sleeping with your friends was not even included in my generalization.
I was born in N. Ireland and raised in England, my worst nightmare is having to go on a 'date', having to sit & eat in front of someone you don't know and make conversation, not pleasant and they won't see the best of me. I'm too introverted for all that, but like you say it does get alot harder the older you get
Hi. Sorry if someone has already mentioned this in the comments, in the UK we also use a similar weather expression - there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
I am new to this channel. And i just love your reactions and interest in us Swedes. I am a Swedish woman in my 40s . We dont do fikas only on dates and we always take off our shoes wherever we go. I will try to come up with more info. But i have not travelled as much so i dont know how much different we are then other countries. But as said i love your channel so far keep it up love Jenny
That was super interesting. I'm keen on the separate du vets/doonas. My partner is a furnace and a cuddler so might try that out. Just on the space bar thing - mine doesn't work great on my desktop PC either recently during videos, might be a YT thing?
Hi, a Swede here - never heard of scissors to cut my pizza, never done it - I use knife and fork. "Halvfabrikat" sounded good :) We do have cake-mixes but it's not a big deal here. We don't like halvfabrikat as it's much healthier to make it from scratch, that way we know what we use to bake the cake or cook our food. Swedes are not born into the Church of Sweden since the year 2000. We can still be baptist, wed, and buried in the Church of Sweden. I think for a small fee for each occasion.
About the please thing, she's technicly correct that a direct translation to the word please doesn't exist, but I was always raised to be polite and use "Tack/Snälla" when asking for something. or at the very least rephrase it to a less rude/demanding sounding question. Ex. "Give me the potatoes" would be "Ge mig potatisen" which in both languages could be more of a demand than an ask depending on tone, but i feel the swedish neutral tone is still considered more rude than the english neutral tone. ( it all depends on which ppl you're with of course, like immidiate family or invited to someone's home for dinner) So in swedish i'd often rephrase to "Can you give me the potatoes?" ("Kan du ge mig potatisen?"), sometimes with added "tack" directly to the end of the question as you would use "please" in english" or "Snälla kan du ge mig potatisen?". Both works, just different placement in the sentence.
Thanks ladies. I was able to watch this all the way as my internet been sticky would have wrecked your views. Hopefully we back on but I think a mast is down somewhere as everyone is same near me.
Dating is confusing in Sweden, it's basically you get to know someone, hang out with them and at some point take a plunge to escalate to pre-relationship or relationship straight away depending on the vibes you've built up and other preferences. So dating as in "meeting in the express purpose of evaluating each other as potential partner" is something new and unusual kind of. It does happen, as with fika situations, but it's less usual. Dating is starting to move into the culture bit-by-bit. But it's kinda slow and feels mostly driven by online dating which isn't perhaps the best platform to import the dating culture from.
Whelking is fine. I remember doing it once with my junior school classmates, as part of a two-day field trip. The advantage was, we enjoyed eating them afterwards.
I too was adult when I understood the word caucasian, from a TV show. Also thought about African American, to us in Sweden it’s just Americans. We don’t say African British or African Germans for example? I’m adopted but call myself Swedish. Never used the term Swedish Asian, never heard it here and never ticked any ethnicity boxes.
At least Northern Europe, I think I seen all of them as culture chocks from American moving to Germany. Even the saying "no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing", exist in German, Dutch and all Nordic languages.
Hello from Sweden! Love your movies about Sweden. It's always fun to see what people think about us strange swedes.. 1. Have never in my life heard about anyone slicing pizza with scissors. I'm using a slicer or knife and fork. 2. Separate duvets and duvet covers is a must. No top sheets! 4. I hate that saying. Of course we are staying inside when it's bad weather. 5. Race? Never, that is something they talked about in Germany in the 30s.. 6. Ethnicity? Why care about that? 7. Kids should be treated with respect. Why should't they? 8. I love then people ask about my food dislikes/allergies. 10. There is cake mix but I never heard about anyone using it. 11. Fika is overrated. Of course we have coffee breaks at work etc, but just sitting in a café talking and eating is soo boring. But it may be me.. 14. The school has become easier the last 20-25 years. I went to school in the 80s and that could be pretty hard. When I look at test kids have now is way easier than I had. 15. No specific rules for dating. It would be easier for us, I guess.. 18. Jantelagen is mostly good, but sometimes we should benefit from being a bit more self confident.
I agree on almost everything but..."Fika is overrated"!?!? 😯 I actually gasped! 😄😬 I think that is the closest to blasphemy you can come in Sweden 😂. I'm in my 40s and my old grandmother thought taught me to cut 🍕 with ✂️ when I was a kid! For me it's very common and where I have grown up, however it's something we do at home, in restaurants we use knife and fork :)
Hi ! The word FIKA was a code word for drinking coffee with friends and acquaintances. Because one Swedish king prohibited the working class and others to drink coffee. Skål Tom ☕😄
As an Estonian when i hear the word caucasian I think of the people of the Caucasus because we have armenian, azers, georgians and turkish etc people(or decendants) here and also nearby(inc Scandinavia). I think the doctors would have it noted by now in Sweden and nearby if the patient is of a different race other than white by now. Would be more efficient while treating or diagnosing the person. Just like they ask for your sex. Idk just sounds dated if it is so.
On our first date my now partner drove us through the Chatsworth Estate and over the 8.5yrs we have returned to Chatsworth often. We live around a 45mins drive from the house. At Christmas the house is decorated with a different theme every year and there is a Christmas market. Bakewell is a must just for the Bakewell Tart (and you have to try to the two claiming to be the original cafes) and the Chatsworth Farm Shop and cafe is also a must see.
11:55 You actually really kinda nailred it. The funiest thing is that this girl as a destinct southern accent. You hit it well enough to even got a hint of the accent xD Id say thats a 9/10.
Think of the duvet cover like two sheets sewn together. The Swedish word Påslakan literally translates to Bag sheet. If you just have a top sheet how can you turn your blankett over to the cooler side when you're to hot?
I never go on vacation south, but I went to Mallorca with the company one year. We were told not to set the air condition lower than 22 Celcius (71.6 F) because then we'd get a cold. On the beds were only a blanket. I can't sleep comfortably with just a blanket!!! Might as well try to sleep on a concrete slab.
The thing about Cilantro is actually involuntary. The number differs quite a lot in different parts of the world, but in Europe about 20 percent of the population have a genetic variantion that make them more sensitive to the smell and taste of aldehydes. Since fresh cilantro contains quite a lot of various aldehydes to us it only taste/smell like 🧼🧴
Hi I am from Sweden and this was fun to watch. She does have the most of it right I guess. The co-sleeping thing with ones children I myself do not recognize but thats because my mother raised me herself and her bed was tiny!! We both are a little like loners to - like to sleep alone and not be bothered by some other person making a ruckus beside us... About this "halvfabrikat" - halfprocessed foods - When I got ill a couple of years ago I started watching american housewifes cooking, cleaning and making their homes really nice. I have been so surprised when they say they cook from scratch - and then mix something in a bowl - from a premade dry mix! It can be cakes, macaroni and cheese, mashed potato, sauces and you name it .... we do not have that in Sweden to that extent at all..... so makes me giggle sometimes....I watched som housewife the other day who whisked her own cream for a cake for the first time in her life - at the age of 35!!! That is unheard of in sweden - we just do not use premade cream in a tube/bottle like you have.....have tryed it but it was tasting bad....not like the ones you whisk yourself at all. About the question of race she is spot on - I have never had that question and i am now 46, also never been asked if I am gay or straight or something like that either.... I think you nailed the swedish words acctually!
Sorry I missed the live I came in at the end so I went to the start . I forgot got what day it was lol . Anyway what a great video I can never have a separate duvet . And I did not understand with the dating and if I do have people over for dinner for the first time I always ask them is there anything you don't like. Thank you for this great video and all of your hard work
Fika doesn't have to include anything sweet though. That's probably a more modern take on it. On a working day, fika used to be a sandwich. It might also be regional. Up north, they have a specifik term "gofika" for when there's cake or cookies or anything else sweet. I think another video you watched earlier suggested that fika should include seven types of cookies/cakes. That's a thing for celebrations. It'd be massive overkill even for a Sunday fika. I'd put forward one bun and a cookie or a cake.
I've noticed in America kids always adress adults as Ms Mrs or Mr. We don't do that. Kids adress adults with their first names. That includes teachers. I have only addressed my teachers by the first name when I was in school. It's in no way disrespectful it's just normal. Wasn't mentioned in the video but that's another thing Sweden does differently than other countries
We are the special combination of being very reserved but very kind and helpful at the same time 😅 Ask for help and you will absolutly get it. But the reserved bit makes us most of the time ignore you until you ask for help, as long as you arent in a very serious danger or really struggles with getting your stroller of the bus or something like that. This lovely facts makes some people from other countrys think we are emotionless or deliberate rude but thats simply not true, its only on our culture to let each other mind their own business and thats also how we want to be treated by others, but like I said, ask for help and you will absolutly get help, we are very friendly and helpful if we understans you want the help :)
Well, you have the Swedish 'Fika' tradition in Germany, too, there it's called ' Kaffee und Kuchen' or in Norway you can meet at a cafe within opening hours and drink coffee and eat baked goods. And Natasha: In Restaurants in Norway and Sweden they have wine or beer without alcohol, just ask and sodas😀
Hi ! The word FIKA was a code word for drinking coffee with friends and acquaintances. Because one Swedish king prohibited the working class and others to drink coffee. Skål Tom ☕😄
You probably can buy cakemixes in store but I’ve never seen anyone use it. But you can still buy frozen cakes and already-made baked goods in the store. You can also buy the cake(base?) already done from the supermarket. Dating is pretty mich non-existent in Sweden, when she talked about fika-dates she meant just meeting up with friends or family. When you are interested in someone you just ask if they want to meet up and do something, meet as friends until you eventually start to make moves, and then there is this phase of either ”friends with benefits” or ”I hope he/she wants a relationship with me too” until finally you’ll have a coversation about if you’re in a relationship, or maybe it just is so obvious that you are. Middle-aged+ people usually will go on dating sites and decide to have a dinner but they probably wont call it a date. I kind of like this way though since I dont find it attractive when someone is flirting with me, then it feels like they dont care about my personality (because they probably dont know me) The girl in the video really seems to love everything about swedish culture but I think it would be so difficult to enjoy the reserved ways of the people and how quiet it is for people who are not used to it (I am used to it but I do not like that part at all) people are so polite and reserved that it is quite difficult to meet new people and have a genuine conversation because people are scared to offend anyone and say their opinions and also often have an outer shell.
Great video, super entertaining! :) I'm a little sorry the woman in the video you watched was so dismissive about other ideas. I'm a Swede who does do most of the things she mentioned, but I don't think it's very nice to say other ways are wrong.
Thanks for a nother great upload! 👍 Here are some comments from a Swede. 2:19 Yeah, I would say it's like 75% of all people I know still use a pizza slicer. I think scissors is getting more common though. Also a bit different is that you usually have to ask the pizza place (and sometimes even pay extra) for them to slice your pizza when ordering. Otherwise the pizza will be delivered uncut. 7:02 No, we never have to fill in what race we are. It is now discussed if we should even have to disclose if we are male, female or other. But I think it will never get to that. 11:54 REALLY good pronounciation (is that how you spell it?)! 12:41 Yes, we certainly do. And it is popular. But I believe it's a relatively new thing that it is commonly used. 13:41 Fika doesn't even have to contain any cakes or sweets. Nowaydays it can be just a coffee break. Like if you're at work and people say it's fika, then you leave your desk, work place and sit down together with a coffee or tea. Or at home if you are cleaning or something and one of you says, let's fika - then you take a break, sit down together before getting on with it. Then you have dating and fika with friends at a café - could also mean just coffee or tea, but usually a cake, cinammon bun or biscuit of some sort. And then you have like birthday fika when you invite relatives or friends' families, then it usually contains a birthday cake and a couple cakes/cookies etc. 15:59 And now we are dropping in knowledge to the rest of the world. ☹ I don't think our school system is in a good place right now.
Swedes do date, I guess she just has a different idea of what dating is? From my own experience you don't really explicitly call it dating or a term like that, it's more that you're seeing someone, but you definitely go on "dates". Was on a lunch/afternoon date this week, it's two newly met people doing something together to get to know eachother, if i'm not wrong, that is dating right?
One thing i think you've missed with Britain is the Christmas adverts. I've just searched for it and couldn't find any. They're a staple in British at Christmas, full blown arguments can occur over which is the best one both around the Christmastable and online, it got heated on Twitter last year. You should take a look.
If you had a duvet cover, why then would you also need a top sheet? A duvet cover is essentially a longer sheet that is folded and sewn into a bag in which you put the duvet. Using both a duvet cover and a top sheet would be like using two top sheets.
Cutting pizza with scissors?? I am 60 y-o swede and have NEVER done this, nor have I seen it done anywhere here in Sweden. "Halvfabrikat".. You absolutely nail it :)
I'm Swedish and have never seen or heard of anyone in my country cutting a pizza with a pair of scissors. Furthermore, we DO label people black, white/caucasian, Asian etc in everyday language. In many official documents and more formal contexts there are some differences to certain other nations though.
Which time are you guys streaming? We swedes follow the CEST time so if its in the middle of the night for us it can be hard to join live. love your videos though
Your pronunciation of "halvfabrikat" was very good. 👍 I could also tell from her pronunciation of the word that she's from the same part of Sweden as me. 🙂
11:59 that was very good pronounced almost better than hers (she seems to have a Skåne accent which is from southern Sweden which used to belong to Denmark so the Skåne accent is iirc Danish turned into Swedish so it wouldnt be as closely related to "gammalsvenska" as the way you pronounced it)
Another thing we do that you dont in America is how we address people. We dont say Sir/Mam and i guess the biggest difference is that in school, teachers are never Mr or Mrs/Ms. We just call them by their first name. So if my teachers name was Anna Svensson we would always refer to her as Anna, no matter what grade you are in (even in university/college its still their first name. I even had a teacher named Ulf and we called him Uffe, cus that was his nickname. Same goes for work. When i greet the CEO of my company or my boss its their first name.
On the pizza cutting, yes I have used scissors, but I have a pizza slicer as well. I think we need to explain some more around pizza. 1. We don't get pre-cut pizza, you may get it if you ask for it, but sometimes they decline or charge extra for it(rare). So when you get home with your pizza you need to cut it and since there is no other real use for a slicer we use knife and fork, or in some occasions we cut it with scissors.
This probably isn't behavior you should adopt, but in Sweden it's almost taboo to take the last cookie or piece of cake (during coffee break or "fika") 😅 People usually just sit and stare at it until someone finally caves in and takes the last piece.
If you go to north of Sweden in the winter you have to visit the winter hotell they built up every year! A experance of a lifetime. But I think you have to book a room long before.
hi, Im from Malmö in the south parts of Sweden that is connected by the Öresund Bridge to Copenhagen in Denmark. I dont know what time you do your live streams but it could be that when you do them mosts swedish people are sleeping or out dancing depending on age. And sorry about the first on, not many cuts their pizza with scissors, I dont. Either we get them pre-sliced and thats free but I dont want that so I eat my pizza with my fingers and teer it apart by hand with every slice I eat.
Have never used Cakemix and my Mom (when I was a kid) never used any kind of premade "Mix", it just didn't exist or is as good as doing it from Scratch. Great video, cheers from Sweden! :)
Here in Sweden kids play outside without supervision from ~ 4 y and up and walk to school from 6 y. Usually the parents join the kids simply because we enjoy being with them and being outside. Kidnappning is very rare and when it happens it’s usually one of the parent. It’s the same in all the Scandinavian countries.
As an alternative to separate duvets, my ex wife and I had a king size duvet on a double bed. More than enough spare duvet to cope with people pulling bed covers about in the middle of the night.
You can buy cake mix in swedish stores, but i have NEVER seen anyone buy it. AND i have never heard of anyone using it. it's kinda like peanut butter over here, i've seen a jar in a store...but i've never bought one or heard of anyone buying one. Btw i was like 32 years old the first time my mind registered that cake mixer existed and that we acctually had them in swedish stores on some dusty shelf.
no, we do not cut whit scissors. this is an individual thing. there is pizza cutters that are used. i do believe you can get pissa scissors though at ikea. but its not an all swedes do. maybe several do, but at least just as many don't.
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I think this is interesting but also a bit confusing. Because it seems somethings are more about her personal life rather than being uniquely Swedish. Then something's are not just a Swedish thing.
it is NOT common to cut pizza with scisors!!! NOT AT ALL
@@st_bibon This woman grew up with psychopaths
I think this video was a good enough representation of habits in Sweden. Each family has the freedom to create traditions and customs, and there is much variation. In some families for example, we order one whole pizza for each family member, each according to taste, so we don't slice them up, except if we agree to taste off each others'. It is true that dating is very different and that it is so different that is difficult to find words to describe the differences. But traditionally it was not polite to approach girls you don't know otherwise than to invite them to a dance for one or mostly two pieces of music. In the streets or on beaches, parks, cafées, busses, etc, you leave them their peace. I think you call it hook up. It happens, but it is not really the normal way. It's rather a huge no, no. A girl and girls must be allowed to feel safe and relaxed when being out and about on their own. Young people today meet for dancing, karaoke, celebrations, but also for example at music festivals, travelling, at pubs and at youth hostels, and when doing their hobbies. Then you can speak with almost anybody. There's a huge difference between for example Italy and Sweden.
@@helvete983 yep the weird leftist power is strong here..
I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned that people in Scandinavia (I live in Norway) take off their shoes when they enter their house. Many use slippers or just have socks or bare feet around the house. Not only do we avoid bringing in outside dirt and germs and spreading them throughout the house, but hardwood floors and carpets stay cleaner and last longer.
And - nap time for young children is often outside in their strollers, year round, also at daycare centers. Lambs wool sleeping bags, warm hats and gloves keep them comfortable in colder weather.
That’s true for pretty much every country except the US. Why do you walk in muddy boots on your hosts carpet?
The no shoes indoors idea was standard here in the UK until recently.
Felt like she came from up north. Not knowing about cake mixes?? As someone said, those products have been around for awhile now. I believe most people, younger generations atleast, do buy the mixes more often then she thinks.
@She's from the south. Her thick southern dialect gave it away instantly when she said "Havlfabrikat"
@@fipekeYou are most likely right. I didn't pay attention to how she said it. Just got the feeling she was from upnorth.
But you are most Likely correct.
Still, I thought cake mix produkts was well known nowdays.
Swede here. I giggled so hard when she was talking about the store bought cake mix. You can buy it here but its rare and its usually placed in the shelf for stuff thats importated from the US. My experience is the same as hers - I didnt know about the "halffabrikat" either until I was adult. Also: you prounced it correctly. Well done! :D
But you spelled it wrong ;) It's spelled "Halvfabrikat"
Fixade mitt slarvfel där. :P @@pernilla6017
I'm sure some cake mix can be found in the stores but to be honest, the only place I would know to look is in the "American section" where certain US foods can be found. This is for US specific food that people have come across travelling and want at home too so that would include some cake mixes I guess. I know there are waffle mixes that is quite commonly used but cakes, cookies etc., I agree bought finished or baked from scratch.
American transplant... There are cake mixes and even cookie mixes but they are one brand for the most part, but you can keep it basic or make it more elaborate. No Pillsbury or Betty Crocker here.lol
Dating in Sweden is the same as here in Norway. You meet someone, you hang out for a couple of days/weeks going on movies, dinner out partying. and if you both like each other you kinda just become a couple.
That is dating... What is confusing about it?
Most never call it date. It’s just not as formal. It would just to meet, in a group.
me and my sambo been together around 10 - 12 years. Dont ask me for what date we got together. I have no idea and dont care 😊
@@johnnyjohansson16 well yeah maby but we don't call it dating.
@@lenasoderberg2583 exactly. It's not the kind of dating as one do in the states.
Cake mix exists but it didn't always exist. It has gotten more and more popular over the last 20 years. It's still a pretty small section at the store, with only one or two options for each cake like cupcake, chocolate cake.
Usually they are in the american section of the international shelves 😅
We usually just mix sugar, wheat flour (or glutenfree flour), and eggs (or bakingpowder) for a simple cake, and if it should be fancier, we also also some butter and some flavour to taste. All kids learn to make cakes, pancakes, mashed potatoes, spagetti with tomato-sauce, gingerbreadmen, real bread, and so many more recipes in school. Maybe cooking at home is made much easier because we have such simple measures?
Pizza: It is my experience that most people here in Sweden only use scissors to cut their pizzas if they don't have any knives, or pizza cutters, at hand.
Dating: I think she's confusing dating with going on dates. Here in Sweden we usually only say dating when we mean going on actual dates. What you call dating, we call being together and see it as a separate thing from going on dates with someone which is seen more as a trial period where you have time to decide if you want to be in a relationship with that person or not.
The part where she says "Halvfabrikat" shows that she is from the southernmost point of Sweden. Down there we speak differently from the rest of Sweden, as explained in the GeographyNow video. You pronounced the word very well and in a more usual Swedish dialect, good job on that one!
Yay!! Thanks!!!!
She is definitely not from Skane..
@@BasicModelling She most definitely is from the south. Most probably Skåne, just listen to how she speaks.
Edit: After listening to it again, I must say you really don't have a clue what you're talking about if you deny her southern dialect. I myself live in northern Skåne, and that is exactly how we speak.
@@fipeke That's a polite way of saying you speak the worst dialect of Swedish. Haha skämtar.
she speaks like someone from malmö :)
You know y'all should really watch Everything for Sweden (Allt för Sverige) Its a TV show of A handfull of Americans with Swedish descent that travel to Sweden to learn about their heritage and overall Swedish culture during their stay. It is a competition and the winner gets to meet their Swedish relatives
Yes!! "Allt för Sverige" is called "the Great Swedish Adventure" in US (even though it's not shown over there). The second season is on TH-cam I think
Yes 👍 Very good series ❤
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I'm surprised she didn't mention this in the section about children, but us Swedes were the first to completely ban corporal punishment in the home, so pretty much every kid is raised without spankings etc.
which is why we have so many brats and people who murder at 13, 14 and 15 now days........my mom B slapped me when I was out of control and I turned out fine
@@Belnick6666 You obviously did not turn out fine, since you think people should beat up children.
Thats why we have lots of spoiled brats in Sweden that commit crimes in order to fund their lifestyle. Ever since spanking was made illegal it all went to hell trust me i grew up back then.
Swedes aged 40 by now also grew up without suffering corporal punishment, and I'm pretty sure millennials are not overrepresented in the crime registry. Odds are pretty damn high more violent criminals come from families where they used violence to enact discipline at home. @@Belnick6666
@@fulalbatrossnothing wrong with the odd slap, it's all about the context of why you need to. If a child decides to run out into traffic and they do, are you going to say no don't do that. Some kids aren't going to listen, what do you do then let them get squashed by a vehicle?
There is one more thing it likely didn’t even occur to her to mention, but that really amused and surprised me when I first moved here. It is COMMON for a couple to live together and have up to three children before they even consider getting married - if they even do. Swedish even has official terms for legally recognized variations of being a couple. Of course you can be married or “gift” (which word also means “ poison” in both Swedish and German 😂), but you may also be ”sambo” or ”särbo” - meaning that you live together or you are a couple living in different places. Note that all three circumstances have legal status and legal rights under the law.
The english word for Sambo is cohabitant.
None of my friends are married. 😅 My parents only got married because of how much easier it was, before sambolagen. Kids, partners; just no piece of paper. ;)
First time I needed to answer a question about my race in Sweden I was 50 years old and a American company did a research.
I refused to answer that question and when they also asked about my sexuality I closed it down and reported to the leaders at the company, because that's illegal in Sweden to ask about your sexuality.
Yes there are a number of things that are considered sensitive information and for this reason are illegal to keep register of or requires very a very strict and controlled handling
Ethnicity, Religion, Political affiliation, Union membership, sexual orientation, some health aspects, genetics or biometrics that can be used to positively identify a person among others.
SUrprised to read all the comments from fellow Swedes that we don't have cakemixes. There are an entire section of cake mixes, bread mixes and waffle mixes and so on in stores. They are usually at the baking section where the regular flour and sugar is. And there are mixes for bread and cakes for those with food allergies, in a separate section as well.
Depends on the size of the store. In my local ica there are about two rows (1m wide) of different mixes.
As a Swedish person i too never dated 😊 not in the way you do in Usa. But on the other hand as a woman i never culturally was taught that it was a man that shuld approach you first either, men are more respectful here and many times it's you as a woman who approaches him if you are interested, gender equality is big here too. We are not seen as " the weaker sex" here we are all equal.
I think there is a very good video talking about this, how we see relationships culturally and i can put a link to it or tell you where you can find it if you are interested, love and peace from Sweden
A link here or even better, on our Facebook would be super appreciated!
I would say the equality is a general thing in Sweden, it goes through everything. As she said, we treat our children with respect, you could say that we treat them as equals that need our help and guidance. And the "race" part. Why is that a thing? Everyone is equal. My boss? I don't treat him any different than the cleaning lady. We are equal. The prime minister? I wouldn't treat him any different than the mail man. We are all equal.
And about dating, I have never done it either. Most often it goes like this: You get drunk and end up in bed with someone. The next time you are at a party, you end up drunk and in bed with him/her again. And after a couple of more times like that, all of a sudden you are not drunk and in bed with eachother, but for some reason you are still hanging out. :)
You realy nailed "Halvfabrikat". Good job. Nice to see you guys getting in to sweden as you do, its realy fun for me, as an swede, to see how you react to what you see and hear about our strange country.
1) We do date but maybe not exactly how you do it in the US.
2) Not everyone cuts pizza with scissors
3) We have cake mixes but not in a huge variety
4) You do wash your duvets but perhaps not as often as the duvet cover, pillow case and sheets.
Co-sleeping is definitely a personal thing! Only time I slept in my mom's bed was if I had a nightmare. Yes I had my kids next to me when they were babies. But like I said, personal thing!
While many countries have "dating/marriage" and other types of specific rituals and milestones, in Sweden it is much more organic growth as a couple. Usually young people travel in packs and if someone you like is in that pack (or in adjacent pack), you hang out more or less with that pack. Dating is an activity, but we don't like the formality of it, so if you really want to have a date you go for fika (definitely not a dinner). Otherwise you start to slide to spending more time with the person you have a crush on rather than with the entire pack, but you probably spend time with your or his packs as well. For some people, putting the title on the relationship is also not a big thing. It depends on the couple how they want to do this, how they label themselves (there are bunch of different labels describing the relationships), what order you want to do things at, and what rules your relationship has. There is no social norm or stigma connected to having to be, or getting married. However, monogamy is still the norm.
I disagree to adopting the dating norm. The ceremonial dinner dates are awkward and weird and if you're unlucky feel like a job interview (even the coffee ones can feel like it if you do it too early). I prefer the more relaxed way of getting to know each other that Sweden has (or doing it in reverse order - having the fun time together and then getting to know each other).
I´m Swedish and I think that our way to look at the "race" issue makes so much sense. There´s ONLY different skin tones, not different races. We are all the SAME race HUMANS. Full stop.
@ 11:55 Btw you nailed "Halvfabrikat" Natasha. Well done XD
Thank you! I hate saying race as We are all the same race but can have different ethnicity
"Hel och ren" is for me more about being presentable.
We usually don't have dress code for work or events. You don't always have to show your best self, it is enough to be "Hel och ren" = don't show up in old teared clothes or dirty clothes, but as long as they are nice and clean you are ready to go.
Good and interesting show! Hello from Sweden.
We do have cakemix, but that is for emergency bake.
Almost all swedish home know how to bake from scratch. I think part of that is because we have the fika tradition, we bake cinnemon rolls, cake, cookies and all that stuff and we take pride in our baking skills.
We also have something in school that is called Hemkunskap (Domestic science) it is a class where we learn stuff that is good to know when moving to live on your own. You learn how to cook, bake, do dishes, calculate the economics about living on your own and so on.
These two facts combined together make that almost everyone know how to bake from scratch.
I had never heard the word Caucasian until watching American police shows and dramas, probably in my 20's. In England our tick boxes start with White British then onto other ethnicities. I have always put pillow cases and duvet covers on my bedding then wash weekly, all my family and friends do too. When I do wash the duvets, I choose a hot day so they can be dried in the sun.
We do not cut our pizza with scissors, she might but it's the first time I have heard of anybody cutting it with scissors
In the UK we also have duvet covers rather than a top sheet. Some people prefer to also use a top sheet especially those who like to have a blanket in addition to the duvet, but mostly we just use a bottom sheet and a duvet cover, that acts as a top sheet. Duvets only became popular here in the 1970s before that we used sheets and blankets. We imported the idea from Europe so we used to call them continental quilts.
The dating world in Sweden is just as confusing for those involved as it is for you. When we were little we were a couple if someone took the other's hand after a dance at the school disco, when we got older you were together when you got a kiss. All this happened among people who already knew each other and therefore there was no need to go on a date to get to know each other. You just managed to get together without a date. Breaking up could be done on a piece of paper, so for so long no one had to put themselves out there and ask for a date. We also don't have the culture of asking someone to go to the school dance, like we see in American movies, so there's no practice in asking and possibly being rejected. As we got older it became more difficult, but it was often solved with alcohol, and you might have ended up in bed. If you changed numbers after the sex, it just rolled on and no direct dates were needed. Without alcohol, not as many children would have been born. The older we got, the harder it became. When, however, you couldn't find anyone at the workplace, among friends' friends, etc., with whom you could accidentally end up in bed, everything became very difficult. Because now we are adults and have never had to ask anyone on a date. We are also not very good at talking to strangers. But now there is Tinder etc., so now the Swedish people are dating with trembling legs and in a way where you can ask for a date via text.
@@lindakirk698 A generalization is a generalization. If I say that Swedes eat a lot of candy, it's true even if neither you nor I ever eat candy. The point I was trying to make is that many people use alcohol to help make things happen, and that many people meet partners through friends, work, etc. Sleeping with your friends was not even included in my generalization.
I have!! Midsommar can get a bit crazy sometimes haha@@lindakirk698
I was born in N. Ireland and raised in England, my worst nightmare is having to go on a 'date', having to sit & eat in front of someone you don't know and make conversation, not pleasant and they won't see the best of me. I'm too introverted for all that, but like you say it does get alot harder the older you get
I have cut my pizzas with scissors for years, I ...and others thought I was weird but I knew I was being very clever 😂😂
Jag klippte spaghetti med sax, när barnen var mindre! Mycket effektivt 😊
Hi. Sorry if someone has already mentioned this in the comments, in the UK we also use a similar weather expression - there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
Or as I like to say, there is no nice weather, only nice clothes.
I am new to this channel. And i just love your reactions and interest in us Swedes. I am a Swedish woman in my 40s . We dont do fikas only on dates and we always take off our shoes wherever we go. I will try to come up with more info. But i have not travelled as much so i dont know how much different we are then other countries. But as said i love your channel so far keep it up love Jenny
Thank you Jenny! ♥️
Fascinating video was hooked from the start to end.
That was super interesting. I'm keen on the separate du vets/doonas. My partner is a furnace and a cuddler so might try that out. Just on the space bar thing - mine doesn't work great on my desktop PC either recently during videos, might be a YT thing?
Hi, a Swede here - never heard of scissors to cut my pizza, never done it - I use knife and fork.
"Halvfabrikat" sounded good :)
We do have cake-mixes but it's not a big deal here. We don't like halvfabrikat as it's much healthier to make it from scratch, that way we know what we use to bake the cake or cook our food.
Swedes are not born into the Church of Sweden since the year 2000. We can still be baptist, wed, and buried in the Church of Sweden. I think for a small fee for each occasion.
About the please thing, she's technicly correct that a direct translation to the word please doesn't exist, but I was always raised to be polite and use "Tack/Snälla" when asking for something. or at the very least rephrase it to a less rude/demanding sounding question.
Ex. "Give me the potatoes" would be "Ge mig potatisen" which in both languages could be more of a demand than an ask depending on tone, but i feel the swedish neutral tone is still considered more rude than the english neutral tone. ( it all depends on which ppl you're with of course, like immidiate family or invited to someone's home for dinner)
So in swedish i'd often rephrase to "Can you give me the potatoes?" ("Kan du ge mig potatisen?"), sometimes with added "tack" directly to the end of the question as you would use "please" in english" or "Snälla kan du ge mig potatisen?". Both works, just different placement in the sentence.
Thanks ladies. I was able to watch this all the way as my internet been sticky would have wrecked your views. Hopefully we back on but I think a mast is down somewhere as everyone is same near me.
Dating is confusing in Sweden, it's basically you get to know someone, hang out with them and at some point take a plunge to escalate to pre-relationship or relationship straight away depending on the vibes you've built up and other preferences.
So dating as in "meeting in the express purpose of evaluating each other as potential partner" is something new and unusual kind of. It does happen, as with fika situations, but it's less usual. Dating is starting to move into the culture bit-by-bit. But it's kinda slow and feels mostly driven by online dating which isn't perhaps the best platform to import the dating culture from.
Interesting .Looking forward to finding out what these things are
Whelking is fine. I remember doing it once with my junior school classmates, as part of a two-day field trip. The advantage was, we enjoyed eating them afterwards.
We have some cake mix on the shelves, but mostly we bake from scratch
I too was adult when I understood the word caucasian, from a TV show.
Also thought about African American, to us in Sweden it’s just Americans.
We don’t say African British or African Germans for example?
I’m adopted but call myself Swedish. Never used the term Swedish Asian, never heard it here and never ticked any ethnicity boxes.
Another great video ladies. Sweden it sounds such a brilliant place and it is on my to do list.
Very little of this video is necessarily Swedish but is Europewide, especially here in the UK, anyway.
At least Northern Europe, I think I seen all of them as culture chocks from American moving to Germany. Even the saying "no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing", exist in German, Dutch and all Nordic languages.
Hi from Sweden 🇸🇪 i love your Marilyn T-shirt!!!! 💖
Hello from Sweden! Love your movies about Sweden. It's always fun to see what people think about us strange swedes..
1. Have never in my life heard about anyone slicing pizza with scissors. I'm using a slicer or knife and fork.
2. Separate duvets and duvet covers is a must. No top sheets!
4. I hate that saying. Of course we are staying inside when it's bad weather.
5. Race? Never, that is something they talked about in Germany in the 30s..
6. Ethnicity? Why care about that?
7. Kids should be treated with respect. Why should't they?
8. I love then people ask about my food dislikes/allergies.
10. There is cake mix but I never heard about anyone using it.
11. Fika is overrated. Of course we have coffee breaks at work etc, but just sitting in a café talking and eating is soo boring. But it may be me..
14. The school has become easier the last 20-25 years. I went to school in the 80s and that could be pretty hard. When I look at test kids have now is way easier than I had.
15. No specific rules for dating. It would be easier for us, I guess..
18. Jantelagen is mostly good, but sometimes we should benefit from being a bit more self confident.
I agree on almost everything but..."Fika is overrated"!?!? 😯 I actually gasped! 😄😬 I think that is the closest to blasphemy you can come in Sweden 😂.
I'm in my 40s and my old grandmother thought taught me to cut 🍕 with ✂️ when I was a kid! For me it's very common and where I have grown up, however it's something we do at home, in restaurants we use knife and fork :)
Hi !
The word FIKA was a code word for drinking coffee with friends and acquaintances. Because one Swedish king prohibited the working class and others to drink coffee.
Skål Tom ☕😄
As an Estonian when i hear the word caucasian I think of the people of the Caucasus because we have armenian, azers, georgians and turkish etc people(or decendants) here and also nearby(inc Scandinavia). I think the doctors would have it noted by now in Sweden and nearby if the patient is of a different race other than white by now. Would be more efficient while treating or diagnosing the person. Just like they ask for your sex. Idk just sounds dated if it is so.
❤ loved the video, ery interesting, thanx😂
On our first date my now partner drove us through the Chatsworth Estate and over the 8.5yrs we have returned to Chatsworth often. We live around a 45mins drive from the house. At Christmas the house is decorated with a different theme every year and there is a Christmas market. Bakewell is a must just for the Bakewell Tart (and you have to try to the two claiming to be the original cafes) and the Chatsworth Farm Shop and cafe is also a must see.
I'm Swedish and I also work as a Chef and I have never heard about anyone here that used a scissor for cutting up pizzas.
11:55
You actually really kinda nailred it.
The funiest thing is that this girl as a destinct southern accent.
You hit it well enough to even got a hint of the accent xD
Id say thats a 9/10.
I'd give you 8.5/10
Definitely understandable, good job!
Think of the duvet cover like two sheets sewn together. The Swedish word Påslakan literally translates to Bag sheet. If you just have a top sheet how can you turn your blankett over to the cooler side when you're to hot?
We have a lot of coffee shops in Australia and we go for dates in coffee shops as an early date.
In Swedish there's no exact equivalent to "please" but there are many ways of phrasing a sentence to convay the same meaning
Nice video, I love to learn about other coltures. Until next time mujeres hermosas
I never go on vacation south, but I went to Mallorca with the company one year. We were told not to set the air condition lower than 22 Celcius (71.6 F) because then we'd get a cold. On the beds were only a blanket. I can't sleep comfortably with just a blanket!!! Might as well try to sleep on a concrete slab.
The thing about Cilantro is actually involuntary. The number differs quite a lot in different parts of the world, but in Europe about 20 percent of the population have a genetic variantion that make them more sensitive to the smell and taste of aldehydes. Since fresh cilantro contains quite a lot of various aldehydes to us it only taste/smell like 🧼🧴
Hi, from Sweden!
I graduated a few years back and I don't think I've ever had homework assigned. Only when I was sick and missed an assignment.
Im from Sweden and I would say the majority of the things she says are incorrect and mostly seems to be what she herself thinks and does.
Hi I am from Sweden and this was fun to watch. She does have the most of it right I guess. The co-sleeping thing with ones children I myself do not recognize but thats because my mother raised me herself and her bed was tiny!! We both are a little like loners to - like to sleep alone and not be bothered by some other person making a ruckus beside us...
About this "halvfabrikat" - halfprocessed foods - When I got ill a couple of years ago I started watching american housewifes cooking, cleaning and making their homes really nice. I have been so surprised when they say they cook from scratch - and then mix something in a bowl - from a premade dry mix! It can be cakes, macaroni and cheese, mashed potato, sauces and you name it .... we do not have that in Sweden to that extent at all..... so makes me giggle sometimes....I watched som housewife the other day who whisked her own cream for a cake for the first time in her life - at the age of 35!!! That is unheard of in sweden - we just do not use premade cream in a tube/bottle like you have.....have tryed it but it was tasting bad....not like the ones you whisk yourself at all.
About the question of race she is spot on - I have never had that question and i am now 46, also never been asked if I am gay or straight or something like that either....
I think you nailed the swedish words acctually!
Sorry I missed the live I came in at the end so I went to the start . I forgot got what day it was lol . Anyway what a great video I can never have a separate duvet . And I did not understand with the dating and if I do have people over for dinner for the first time I always ask them is there anything you don't like. Thank you for this great video and all of your hard work
10/10 on the word 'halvfabrikat'! Yes, we do have cakemix in the stores, don't know if they are popular or not, I always bake my own!
Fika doesn't have to include anything sweet though. That's probably a more modern take on it. On a working day, fika used to be a sandwich. It might also be regional. Up north, they have a specifik term "gofika" for when there's cake or cookies or anything else sweet.
I think another video you watched earlier suggested that fika should include seven types of cookies/cakes. That's a thing for celebrations. It'd be massive overkill even for a Sunday fika. I'd put forward one bun and a cookie or a cake.
I dunno. I'm swedish and if someone said we're going to have fika and they bring out a sandwich I would be a little disappointed, haha.
@@Gencoilmackfika eller gofika?
I've noticed in America kids always adress adults as Ms Mrs or Mr. We don't do that. Kids adress adults with their first names. That includes teachers. I have only addressed my teachers by the first name when I was in school. It's in no way disrespectful it's just normal. Wasn't mentioned in the video but that's another thing Sweden does differently than other countries
Debbie your hair is different? Looks terrific!
Natasha, spot on.
We are the special combination of being very reserved but very kind and helpful at the same time 😅 Ask for help and you will absolutly get it. But the reserved bit makes us most of the time ignore you until you ask for help, as long as you arent in a very serious danger or really struggles with getting your stroller of the bus or something like that.
This lovely facts makes some people from other countrys think we are emotionless or deliberate rude but thats simply not true, its only on our culture to let each other mind their own business and thats also how we want to be treated by others, but like I said, ask for help and you will absolutly get help, we are very friendly and helpful if we understans you want the help :)
Well, you have the Swedish 'Fika' tradition in Germany, too, there it's called ' Kaffee und Kuchen' or in Norway you can meet at a cafe within opening hours and drink coffee and eat baked goods. And Natasha: In Restaurants in Norway and Sweden they have wine or beer without alcohol, just ask and sodas😀
Hi !
The word FIKA was a code word for drinking coffee with friends and acquaintances. Because one Swedish king prohibited the working class and others to drink coffee.
Skål Tom ☕😄
I love your TH-cam canel💞 love from sweden
You probably can buy cakemixes in store but I’ve never seen anyone use it. But you can still buy frozen cakes and already-made baked goods in the store. You can also buy the cake(base?) already done from the supermarket.
Dating is pretty mich non-existent in Sweden, when she talked about fika-dates she meant just meeting up with friends or family.
When you are interested in someone you just ask if they want to meet up and do something, meet as friends until you eventually start to make moves, and then there is this phase of either ”friends with benefits” or ”I hope he/she wants a relationship with me too” until finally you’ll have a coversation about if you’re in a relationship, or maybe it just is so obvious that you are.
Middle-aged+ people usually will go on dating sites and decide to have a dinner but they probably wont call it a date.
I kind of like this way though since I dont find it attractive when someone is flirting with me, then it feels like they dont care about my personality (because they probably dont know me)
The girl in the video really seems to love everything about swedish culture but I think it would be so difficult to enjoy the reserved ways of the people and how quiet it is for people who are not used to it (I am used to it but I do not like that part at all) people are so polite and reserved that it is quite difficult to meet new people and have a genuine conversation because people are scared to offend anyone and say their opinions and also often have an outer shell.
Great video, super entertaining! :) I'm a little sorry the woman in the video you watched was so dismissive about other ideas. I'm a Swede who does do most of the things she mentioned, but I don't think it's very nice to say other ways are wrong.
Thanks for a nother great upload! 👍 Here are some comments from a Swede.
2:19 Yeah, I would say it's like 75% of all people I know still use a pizza slicer. I think scissors is getting more common though. Also a bit different is that you usually have to ask the pizza place (and sometimes even pay extra) for them to slice your pizza when ordering. Otherwise the pizza will be delivered uncut.
7:02 No, we never have to fill in what race we are. It is now discussed if we should even have to disclose if we are male, female or other. But I think it will never get to that.
11:54 REALLY good pronounciation (is that how you spell it?)!
12:41 Yes, we certainly do. And it is popular. But I believe it's a relatively new thing that it is commonly used.
13:41 Fika doesn't even have to contain any cakes or sweets. Nowaydays it can be just a coffee break. Like if you're at work and people say it's fika, then you leave your desk, work place and sit down together with a coffee or tea. Or at home if you are cleaning or something and one of you says, let's fika - then you take a break, sit down together before getting on with it. Then you have dating and fika with friends at a café - could also mean just coffee or tea, but usually a cake, cinammon bun or biscuit of some sort. And then you have like birthday fika when you invite relatives or friends' families, then it usually contains a birthday cake and a couple cakes/cookies etc.
15:59 And now we are dropping in knowledge to the rest of the world. ☹ I don't think our school system is in a good place right now.
Swedes do date, I guess she just has a different idea of what dating is? From my own experience you don't really explicitly call it dating or a term like that, it's more that you're seeing someone, but you definitely go on "dates". Was on a lunch/afternoon date this week, it's two newly met people doing something together to get to know eachother, if i'm not wrong, that is dating right?
One thing i think you've missed with Britain is the Christmas adverts. I've just searched for it and couldn't find any. They're a staple in British at Christmas, full blown arguments can occur over which is the best one both around the Christmastable and online, it got heated on Twitter last year. You should take a look.
If you had a duvet cover, why then would you also need a top sheet? A duvet cover is essentially a longer sheet that is folded and sewn into a bag in which you put the duvet. Using both a duvet cover and a top sheet would be like using two top sheets.
Cutting pizza with scissors?? I am 60 y-o swede and have NEVER done this, nor have I seen it done anywhere here in Sweden.
"Halvfabrikat".. You absolutely nail it :)
Alla jag känner klipper pizzan med sax. Ett knep många har lärt sig på hemkunskapen.
HI girls great video on sweden
You nailed it with halvfabrikat. The girl in the video has an accent but you said it the "right" way.
The way you said "halvfabrikat" not only sounded well, but you said it in the standard swedish dialect when the girl in the video did not. Impressive!
I'm Swedish and have never seen or heard of anyone in my country cutting a pizza with a pair of scissors. Furthermore, we DO label people black, white/caucasian, Asian etc in everyday language. In many official documents and more formal contexts there are some differences to certain other nations though.
Du kanske har sovit under en sten? Alla jag känner klipper pizzan med sax.
Which time are you guys streaming? We swedes follow the CEST time so if its in the middle of the night for us it can be hard to join live. love your videos though
Your pronunciation of "halvfabrikat" was very good. 👍
I could also tell from her pronunciation of the word that she's from the same part of Sweden as me. 🙂
Nordvästskåne?
@@darkiee69 Definitivt Skåne i vart fall.🙂
Im a co sleeper and i wouldnt have it any other way, also the 2 duvets is a great idea but i took it a step further and went for seperate rooms 😂
Hey, nothing wrong with that!
Wow, the "like button" lit up when you said " hit the like button". That must be a new thing right? 1:13 😲
Love the countdown❤️
I'm really confused about the dating thing. Very interesting video.
11:59 that was very good pronounced almost better than hers (she seems to have a Skåne accent which is from southern Sweden which used to belong to Denmark so the Skåne accent is iirc Danish turned into Swedish so it wouldnt be as closely related to "gammalsvenska" as the way you pronounced it)
Another thing we do that you dont in America is how we address people. We dont say Sir/Mam and i guess the biggest difference is that in school, teachers are never Mr or Mrs/Ms. We just call them by their first name. So if my teachers name was Anna Svensson we would always refer to her as Anna, no matter what grade you are in (even in university/college its still their first name. I even had a teacher named Ulf and we called him Uffe, cus that was his nickname. Same goes for work. When i greet the CEO of my company or my boss its their first name.
On the pizza cutting, yes I have used scissors, but I have a pizza slicer as well.
I think we need to explain some more around pizza.
1. We don't get pre-cut pizza, you may get it if you ask for it, but sometimes they decline or charge extra for it(rare).
So when you get home with your pizza you need to cut it and since there is no other real use for a slicer we use knife and fork, or in some occasions we cut it with scissors.
In my city We get it cut
This probably isn't behavior you should adopt, but in Sweden it's almost taboo to take the last cookie or piece of cake (during coffee break or "fika") 😅 People usually just sit and stare at it until someone finally caves in and takes the last piece.
If you go to north of Sweden in the winter you have to visit the winter hotell they built up every year! A experance of a lifetime. But I think you have to book a room long before.
When do you do the live? It might be a time zone issue if we swedes don't show up.
hi, Im from Malmö in the south parts of Sweden that is connected by the Öresund Bridge to Copenhagen in Denmark.
I dont know what time you do your live streams but it could be that when you do them mosts swedish people are sleeping or out dancing depending on age.
And sorry about the first on, not many cuts their pizza with scissors, I dont. Either we get them pre-sliced and thats free but I dont want that so I eat my pizza with my fingers and teer it apart by hand with every slice I eat.
We do have cake mix but its really uncommen that we use it
Have never used Cakemix and my Mom (when I was a kid) never used any kind of premade "Mix", it just didn't exist or is as good as doing it from Scratch. Great video, cheers from Sweden! :)
Halvfabrikat sounded good. Well done
Here in Sweden kids play outside without supervision from ~ 4 y and up and walk to school from 6 y. Usually the parents join the kids simply because we enjoy being with them and being outside. Kidnappning is very rare and when it happens it’s usually one of the parent. It’s the same in all the Scandinavian countries.
We can absolutely be burried in the church yard without beeing a member of the church! The ceremony however can not be in the church.
As an alternative to separate duvets, my ex wife and I had a king size duvet on a double bed. More than enough spare duvet to cope with people pulling bed covers about in the middle of the night.
You can buy cake mix in swedish stores, but i have NEVER seen anyone buy it. AND i have never heard of anyone using it. it's kinda like peanut butter over here, i've seen a jar in a store...but i've never bought one or heard of anyone buying one. Btw i was like 32 years old the first time my mind registered that cake mixer existed and that we acctually had them in swedish stores on some dusty shelf.
I gave up pizza cutters years ago, after constantly burning my finger tips. Scissors is the way to go!
no, we do not cut whit scissors. this is an individual thing. there is pizza cutters that are used. i do believe you can get pissa scissors though at ikea. but its not an all swedes do. maybe several do, but at least just as many don't.
11:58 sounded really good (coming form a swede)!