No one really lives by Jantelagen, but the gist of it does show in how many Swedes and Norwegians behave. We are rather humble, and don't like to brag about ourselves.
I'd say we all live by Jantelagen but it's so ingrained in our culture that we don't really reflect on it until we meet someone people from less humble cultures (looking at you America). :)
Same in Finland. I think it really originates from the Lutheran faith which puts a heavy emphasis on being humble and modest. Although most people here aren't religious either, bragging about yourself is about the worst thing that you can do. If you have really achieved something (like winning some contest because you really were the best), it is ok to be proud about it, but still, just to be on the safe side, you might add some self-deprecating comment when you talk about it. "Yeah, I won that weight-lifting contest.... good that it didn't include any running, because then I wouldn't have had any chance! Ha ha ha."
As a male and 52 year old Swede, I have been baking since I was around 10, and NEVER used a pre-made mix. I bake almost all my bread and cakes. I don't think I ever had store bought bread or cake at home when growing up. And almost everything was made "from scratch" and yes, we don't use that term.
Making *_all_* your bread at home? What a waste of time! :) Our efficient society and prosperity is built on specialization after all, since (before) the middle ages... But I agree that when baking a sockerkaka or similar, you do it from scratch. I mean, there is no point buying a "ready mix". (Hardly even saw one of those after the mid 1970s or so.)
@herrbonk3635 What a waste of time? I make bread in a bread machine so 5 min work to save lots of money and I get to make extremely healthy bread with nuts, seeds and lots of fibers that tastes great. I also ALWAYS have fresh bread at home and I live far from a store. You could say the same with dinners, what a waste of time when you could buy pre-made food that taste like shit and shaves years of your life. I guess you are young... or American... Based on the ignorant arrogance...
I'm 57 and were brought up in store bought bread (in Sweden that kind of bread is much better than the one you can find in USA). After the separation, when I was 6, mom didn't have time but I think it had more to do with th fact that her mother didn't bake bread that often. Bread for fika (fikabröd) were grandmas "thing". There were allways cookies, cake or buns available but mom didn't have time for that either but she did have a recepie for klickar (dollops), kind of buns, easy, fast and tasty.
swede here, and I have never made anything from scratch either. I have always used pre-ground flour (and processed such that it is white!!!), pre-pasturized milk, pre-lain eggs, pre-picked AND pre-ground spices (well I actually _have_ used ones that weren't pre-ground, like muskot, vanilla, and cinnamon), and pre-treated water (from my tap), etc. edit: oh, and pre-cultivated yeast - sometimes even pre-dried yeast (but usually not, I tend towards the wonderfully tactile cubes of yeast, instead of the bags of powder)
Hel och ren (whole and clean) isn’t about your house but about your apperense. You don’t have to have expensive clothes but they (and you) should be clean and whole.
teue but i still dont under stand why my darn room needed to be cleaned when nobody going to be there, if i ever get children so they don't have to clean it so it looks like an Ikea showroom, but if it looks like a bomb has hit I can understand, but having to clean the whole house for guests has always confused me and made me hate cleaning because my father just scolded me because I had missed a spot to dust
For most Europeans race was a thing for Americans, South-Africans and Nazis or something from a distant past. Caucasians we know from American tv-series, for us Caucasians are a Eastern mountain people who want to be Europeans but really aren't. Registering on race is seen as ridiculous, dangerous/evil and impossible to do.
Yes in Germany the assumption of human races existing IS the very definition of racism. You should NEVER talk seriously of races when it comes to humans, that would be a very bad thing to do. I even remember biology classes about this topic.
interesting, in Serbia when you say caucasian it often implies northerner with blond or red hair and very pale. We are asked often what nationality we are but do not need to answer (prob cause territory of Serbia went trough so many kingdoms and was conquered so many times)
@@laurids796 Looking away does not make races go away though, or racism for that matter. In fact, being blind and "not seeing" race is the new form of racism, according to the "anti racists".
@@herrbonk3635 You don't really understand. Race is a biological term and different races DO NOT EXIST in humans. There is only one human race - the human race.
@@herrbonk3635 No, you misunderstand. From a biological standpoint the human species living today (homo sapiens sapiens) consists of only one race. Using the term for people with different appearances or origins is a social construct. And the only purpose of it is to measure if a person is of "better" or "lesser" value. *That* is why "human races" should never be used seriously as a concept.
That's because SagaJohanna is absolutely missing the point: we have personal identity numbers, if and only if we have a temporary or permanent residence, the later which implies that you are Swedish.
Yeah, would some answer say no to an account or what? And kid of Trixie these days when we can DNA test us. 30% caucasian, 15 % african, 17% Arabic, 3% hindi, 1% Neanderthal, 1% sheep.....and so on
She got the part about being "whole and clean" completely wrong. It derives from economic differences. Like if someone grew up poor they are often using the term. "We grew up poor but our parents always kept us whole and clean" meaning our clothes may had been repaired but washed and we were bathed and presentable. I used the frase not long ago when I pulled out my old suit from the closet for a baptism. My daughter thought maybe it was time for me to buy a new one. My answer was "No, this one is still whole and clean". 🙂
Hel och ren is of course being clean and tidy, looking like a model citizen. Nothing to do with economics, it was important for workers because it was a way of advancing in society and gaining respect from others.
@@mn4169 The expression is very old and was often used by people who grew up at the time large estates had contract workers who basically worked for food and shelter for themselves and their famiies. I guess you´re using a more modern definition.
"What is your race?" has a VERY 1930s German vibe to me as a Finn 😅 But then again, so does singing to a flag in every morning too... And this isnt really mainstream, but I call myself a feminist, socialist, an atheist, cosmic nihilist, a marxist-leninist communist. And an aspiring saxophonist. (bada-boom!)
Im also swedish, I have Never used a scissor to cut the pizza with and noone that I know ever cut their pizza with a scissor.. and I know Alot of people! That is probably just something an influencer came up with and is now known and used by 50.000 people. I mean, how hard is it to cut a pizza with a knife or a pizza cutter. Its probably more people that cut their pizza like I do, along the way while eating it
A lot of it also applies for many other European countries; especially the Nordics. Some of it is just her personal experience which doesn't apply to any one else.
I was going to say. A fair amount of these things doesn't really sound like something that's "Sweden-specific"... I was expecting more specific niches rather than well... this is just something that every non-American knows as standard practice..
I've never before heard the term "co-sleeping" and now I'm completely dumbfounded that it is an issue somewhere. I know that when I was a baby, I slept right next to my mother so that she barely needed to wake up when I needed breastfeeding during the night. I didn't start sleeping in my own bed until I was about 11 or so. I had a bed of my own, I just didn't want to sleep alone until that age. That race thing then. When I was in the U.S., I also noticed that every single form that I had to fill always started with "name", "address", "race/ethnicity", and it always caught me off-guard. Also, at first I didn't know what "Caucasian" meant (the geographical area called Caucasia isn't anywhere near me) so I just checked "other" because none of the other options seemed to apply. After I learned the meaning of the word, I still kept checking "other" simply because I was so insulted by the question. Some years ago, one extreme-right politician here (in Finland) suggested that we should start keeping track of people's race/ethnicity and the suggestion was shot down instantly, also by members of his own party. That would be completely unacceptable here.
I have heard about the co-sleeping controversy before but I wanted to look up what the German wikipedia page said about it. Apparently in 888 (year!) the pope already ordered his bishops to tell people not to sleep qith small children in the same bed due to the suffocation risk. So it's apparently a very old topic. But I know co-sleeping is still very common here in Austria and also not generally discouraged by professionals. Also the studies on it are not very definite on wether it's generally dangerous or only under certain circumstances.
Separate duvet/comforter is not a swedish lifehack, almost everyone in Europe use separate duvets. 5:30: It is easier to wash the duvet+pillow covers than the duvet or pillows. In a standard european top loading washing machine you can wash only one duvet, and nothing else fits in. But you can put 2 blankets + 2 duvet covers + 2 pillow covers in it. 5:50: Germans have the same saying.
luckily NOT here in Italy. When I happen to find the separate duvets in some hotels I sleep SO bad... we sleep very near, so one of my limbs is always out of the duvet, in the middle, and cold. We fix this by putting the duvet "on the wrong side" (I mean not in the direction head-feet, but bedside to bedside)
I prefer to use this form too trying to improve my badic-basic English I've been taught at school and the university as well (as native Russian and Belarusian speaker). It is not weird in any way, it is just polite to say like this.
@L.K.Rydens ermm, how is 'sorry' (ursäkta) basically the same thing as 'please'? Just because you use both to be polite, it doesn't mean they are remotely the same. In my experience, the Swedes have become much ruder in the las 2 decades, which you notice especially when you live abroad and come back. Not to mention how they think using the f word in English is perfectly acceptable.
But we don't really use comforters and blankets for sleeping at night in northern Europe, do we. Sleeping under comforter isn't a thing, most people don't even know what it is and blankets are for naps or for decor in the living room.
@@letitiakearney2423 Yes, I've only seen this from Americans where they wonder if we have the same technology in other partss of the world. Of course we do. And food stores everywhere so noone needs to live only by foraging or whatever. I'm sure this is true even in most non-western countries. But even more so in Sweden Where so many of these companies, like Electrolux, are from.
Well, this is like with everything else, just because she's Swedish doesn't mean she can speak for all of us. Neither can I. A lot of this probably applies to most, but not everything. She is pretty bold in her claims at times, for being Swedish. 😅 We don't all cut our pizza's with scissors, sleep with our kids in the same bed, dates are different here but exist (though much more casual), we don't divide people into races - so you can't find that sort of information (you can't do that legally here). We don't use titles like Mr, Mrs, Miss or Ms - we just call everyone by their first name, since the 60s. We are a casual bunch of people. She has misunderstood "Hel och ren" - that's about the way you dress. That it's not important to look "posh", just clean and tidy, then you're all good. A grain of salt is always good. She is just 1 Swede, and her opinions and outlook will differ from others. She should have made that clear (that would sound more Swedish). Hej=Hi from Sweden! 🇸🇪
12:01 You make sure there’s alternatives, and if five people have allergies or are vegetarian or vegan, you make sure there’s something for them. To us, that’s part of our hospitality. Or you do something like tacos where everyone ”make” their own portions and can put the things that suits them and leave what they don’t want! You just serve the bowl and the guests do the rest! ❤️❤️❤️🇸🇪
Yeah, when there are too many ppl with conflicting preferences, you either just make a buffet of sides that ppl can collect into a whole dish, like tacos or sandwiches, or you make multiple alternatives (very common to see "meat, fish, and vegan" options. The vegan options are ideally something really really boring to eat, while fish is because many pescetarians actually use the word vegetarian, and meat is because it is something tasty the organizers want to eat and many ppl dislike fish/shrimps/clams). Besides those main-preferences, most ppl will have converging preferences, such as allergies tend to be the same 5-10, and stuff ppl dislike enough to bother vetoing in their food is often the same few stuffs (ppl generally don't write it down if it is not something that ensures they won't touch the food. Like cilantro, mushrooms, or seafood is what I have usually seen).
Smörgåsbord is a thing😄 I think thats a beautiful way to include all different people without making to much different dishes. Doesn't also the word even exist outside sweden as a decription, sorta like fika?
Yeah, and important as well to note that the "us" includes both me and you. We're all part of the whole, the community, and as a whole we're better than any one individual.
@@christianbergenstrahle6709 Indeed, and I feel like our word "lagom" fits in well with that philosophy. Can't be translated to other languages but resonates with every swede.
Fika: Swedes have fika (pronounced [ˈfîːka]) (back slang of kaffi (coffee, dialectal)), which is basically a coffee break with sweet breads or sometimes pastries, although coffee can be replaced by tea, juice, lemonade, hot chocolate, or squash for children.[citation needed] The tradition has spread throughout Swedish businesses around the world. Fika is a social institution in Sweden and the practice of taking a break with a beverage and snack is widely accepted as central to Swedish life. As a common mid-morning and mid-afternoon practice at workplaces in Sweden, fika may also function partially as an informal meeting between co-workers and management people, and it may even be considered impolite not to join in. Fika often takes place in a meeting room or a designated fika room. A sandwich, some fruit, or a small meal may be called fika like the English concept of afternoon tea.
Coffee in Swedish is kaffe, not kaffi, the origin of the word fika is not really clear. And fika is used also just to meet someone for a coffee, either at home or at café anytime of the day.
And a fika can also be without anything to drink or eat at all 😅 If someone at work says "Do you want to take a fika?" it's code for "I want a break from work and just have a nice chat in the lounge area for a bit. Come keep me company." Having a coffee/tea/snack during this break is the norm but not required 🙂
@@Xiroi87 The origin of "fika" is indeed the dialectal short form of "coffee" (kaffi), in the Fig language (fikonspråket), where you exchange the syllables and throw in the word "fikon". Kaffi = fikon-kakon. My dad, who is from Gothenburg, taught me this language when I was an itty-bitty child! :D
I first read squashed children, and thought “that’s odd..” I do find it interesting no other country seem to have a similar word, just like “lagom”, which means just enough
I've been told once by a Swede that I should try fika and see how nice it is... And I'm like, well, in the Balkans we have been drinking coffee for longer time in history than Italians, and we often eat some sweets with it, and we're socialising a lot. 😅 It's fascinating how Sweden has sold it as if it was something particular and peculiar.
Ryan: Race breakdown of sweden, u wont find any because it doesent exist, its completly irrelevant, it only is important in some cases like in medecine because some ethinc groups are more sensetive to some diseases and vitamins (for exaple thers ppl who produce very little Vitamin-D from sunlight), but thats between an induvidual and the persons doctor.
The vitamin D recommendation in Denmark has been extended to all people... we simply don't get enough sunlight, and most of those that choose nuts over regular milk, doesn't get enough of D...
@@BenjaminVestergaard so..dont go totally nuts ... jokes aside, prob good advise for us up here north if its used in low doses.. especially during dak winters
@@BenjaminVestergaardEven in winter up here white people still don't need as much vitamin D as black people do. We do absorb it alot more efficiently even from the little sun we get.
"Please" is a shortened way of saying "if you please", so more polite and considerate to ask the other person if it's ok with them to do something for you.
22:32 We don’t ask that, we just spend all free time together and after a while you sort of realize that you are a couple! I agree it is kind of weird the way it works here. If you fancy someone and you are a teenager, then you will have sleepovers either at your house or in his or her house (in the same room). But, no, we don’t have many teenagers getting pregnant because you are considered to be a bit stupid for letting that happen to you as a teenager… Your peer would think you are kind of clumsy and dumb… But as a society we are very accepting… We don’t give babies up for adoption either so if you’re having a child you are expected to race it and that goes for BOTH parents!❤❤❤🇸🇪
UK here. I cut my pizza with scissors as well. I do the same with a duvet. If you have a duvet you don't use blankets. You wash the duvet COVER not the duvet itself. BIDET is pronounced BEE DAY. I've only heard the word " Caucasian" used on American police shows. Unusual to drink coffee in the afternoon !? Why !?
Exp pat who has lived in Sweden nearly 25 years now, I just cut it up on a cutting board using a knife, although I don't see why having a pizza cutter would be an issue, but understand why they use scissors, the same way the Koreans use scissors to cut up meat for a Korean BBQ or hotpot. I only ever knew one person who did not use a duvet cover, and that was an absolute slob of a guy I house shared with during my student years, and that was simply because he was too bone idle to wash anything (and fecking stank) Same with me for the word Caucasian, the only other time you really used to hear it was in anthropology documentaries. Try telling a Swede it's unusual to drink coffee in the afternoon. Although the Americans seem to have some weird relationship with caffeine, like it turns them into Gremlins if they drink it after noon or something. Only coffee though, they'll happily quaff a full 1 litre of coke.
Regarding "race" As a Swedish person it sounds a bit strange when the news in the US talks about different races. For example "black people are voting for..." x needs to win the Latinos votes" and things like that. Just like there are no individuals in the US who vote and act differently depending on their own situation and upbringing. Like all white or black people would vote for x president or party. I can understand if they would say people in this region are more likely to vote for x because it will create jobs in this region. But I do not understand "that person is black and therefore he will vote for x"
@@marcusfridh8489 That would get messy. A scissor will cut nice cuts with all the toppings intact on the slice. Bend the slice in the middle to get more structural rigidness in the slice and then lift it by the crust
When you are on the topic of Sweden. i'd recommend the video by Jonna Jinton "Living with the Dark Winters in Sweden" You wont regret it Ryan. Anyway, have a good one!
If it's below zero outside, it's best to dry it there. The moisture freezes and the blanket dries more quickly when you take it inside. I always hang my wet laundry outside in the winter.
As a swede I have never used a sissor to cut a pizza, and I never seen it done. But 2 blankets is so good. I want a thin and my husband want a realy warm one.
I'm an abnormal Swede. I started cutting pizza with scissors a few years ago but it's just something I came up with myself. I've wasted so much time slowly cutting pizzas with fork and knife. That's time I'll never get back...
26:38 Yes, it’s very strange to us that you applaud yourselves and your accomplishments! We just don’t do that… It’s so ingrained in us to not try and make a fuss over yourself like that. It’s of course okay for others to tell you how well you did, but we don’t do it ourselves. Other people applaud you, sort of…❤❤❤🇸🇪
Yes, if everyone is praised it devalues real achievement. In USA pupils graduate from each stage of school. In UK the term graduate means someone with a bachelors, masters or philosopher degree.
But you do do that! The only difference is in how. Swedes tend to simply state the fact that they're great with a blank face instead of an applause. Still the same sentiment, in my experience.
Few of these appear "weird" to anyone outside the US. A duvet is not a blanket. It's a covered down-filled quilt. Kids have a different metabolism to adults. We keep kids snug and warm because they actually don't feel the cold as acutely as older people do. I've seen my kids, and now my grandsons, jump into a lake and joyfully swim around, but I found it too cold to more than dip in my toe. 🥶
Although "please" doesn't exist, we have other ways of expressing the same thing. As she says: "Kind" or "thank you" largely replace it. And "the magic word" can be translated to mean that if a child says "I shall have milk" you can answer "'Shall have' gets nothing". Instead, you should say: Can/would you give me milk? And even "You don't want to hand me the milk?" That is, by asking, even asking with a negation, we indirectly say "please".
Regarding the dating thing in Sweden: what she means is that we generally don't have the "tradition" of getting to know someone by dating, we get to know people as friends and as we grow closer and feelings develop we then start a relationship as a couple. This, however, doesn't mean that the dating scene, that is common in the US, doesn't happen here, it's just not considered "the norm".
@@HannesGilstring The only time I've had any sort of problem with a relationship has been when I tried dating someone I didn't already know as a friend. The relationships I've had with friends have all been happy ones, and even though they didn't last as long as I may have wanted, they never ended badly and I'm still friends with those girls. And my current relationship is with one of my closest and best friends that I've known for over 20 years, and it's the best relationship I've ever had. So, no, not problematic in any way what so ever.
@@Ariadan I didn’t judge in any way! It just goes to show there are many way to live you life. I’m a fellow Swede. But I think I prefer to keep my friends as friends. But then I meet someone new it’s often at a party or via Tinder. And even if it not always becomes a long time relationship some of them have become my close friends after that. So it’s sort of the opposite.
An Aussie company, DreamFarm, specialises in kitchen gadgets, and has pizza scissors as one of their items. It even has a narrow platform on which to rest the pizza as you cut it. In Korea, the chef cuts your meat with special scissors.
Swedish may not have A WORD for please, but they express the same damned thing using TWO WORDS, duh. They get back at English by using the word "lagom", for which the English need a whole bloody sentence. LOL 😛
@@DemiCape -- True, but I would put it the other way round, i.e. "snälla" can mean "please" -- with proper intonation, especially when used by grandchildren. LOL
I have also heard of at least three parents who were driving the car with their children and accidentally killed the whole family. Life is not completely safe. But in general, most things that could hypothetically go wrong are completely harmless: flying, driving, sleeping together, eating fruit (choking hazard, you know), skating, riding, going to a consert, etc. The concern about children dying by co-sleeping is greatly exaggerated. It has happened, but it is not a measure of its being generally dangerous.
Duvet, Doona, Continental Quilt. Imagine two bedsheets stitched together on three sides then filled with fine feather down until it’s four inches thick. Then the fourth side is zipped up. That’s roughly what a Duvet is and you sleep under it in Winter. A comforter is a lot thinner than a duvet.
@@Jeni10 Omg how big was your washing machine? 😅 I have a hard time stuffing my 5 cm (2 inches) thick duvet in our slightly larger than normal washing machines 😂
@ I did the sheets and mattress protector first and then the doona. My washing machine is great for big loads! It’s a Gorenje and it holds 8 kilos. I love it!
I expect that she is talking about Sweden having a state religion. Finland does as well; the state religion being Lutheran. Sweden is probably also Protestant.
We don't have a state religion. We used to be norse religion, then we had a thing with catholicism and then Gustav Wasa (a king in the 1500s) wanted more money so he decided we should be protestant. Now we have complete freedom of religion and it's not allowed to discriminate against other religions. Religious practice is not allowed in public schools (but they kinda do anyway because Christian traditions are viewed as neutral eventhough they're really not).
Every time I watch any show with americans I get uncomfortable because they are screaming so much, being so rude and confrontational and treating basic respect for other people as a transaction where you have to give to get. I couldn't live like that, it's way too loud XD /Swede
We are for the most part protestant, at least in theory. In practice, lots of people have their children baptized in church because it's tradition and then never think about religion again. So on paper we are a christian country, but few actually practice it beyond baptisms, weddings and funerals. Religion is also not really a topic we discuss with aquaintances (or at all, tbh), it's considered a deeply personal matter, so it's honestly quite hard to judge how common believing vs non-believing is. Personally I wouldn't even make assumptions one way or the other about people I met at church.
I think there was a study some years ago about religion around the world and it showed that swedish people are the least religious people in the world. If you’re interested in good schoolsystems I recommend you check out Finlands. And I say that as a swedish teacher 🙂
As a swede, what I found so weird in America is that it's taboo to call teachers by their real first name. First time I saw that on youtube some guy recording him self, every American teacher got offended I was like. wtf?! here in sweden, it's the norm to call a teacher by their first name,
in Italy we use the surnames for teachers, because they are older and in a kind of "superior rank" ... well, let's say they are not your friends or relatives, so you don't call them by first name.
@@solaccursio It's _because_ they're not friends we call them by their first names, we don't know them well enough to know what their surname is 😅 (At least not until we get a bit older and grasp the concept that people have several names😆) If anything, using the surname would go into nickname/pet name territory which would be awkward unless the adult actually introduced themselves like that. We don't have an equivalent for sir/ma'am and the equivalents for mr and mrs haven't been in common use for the past 50 years or so. If you call anyone mr/mrs [name] people will assume you are either joking or mocking them.
Not very accurate... I love how coriander seeds smell and taste. I cannot eat the leafy part of the plant (more known as cilantro), which is the one that MAY smell and taste like how a shield bug smells when it releases its defense oil (rotten almonds and pickled cabbage gone bad is how I describe it to myself).
Just to try and move you forward, in the USA you keep talking about "Race" referring to human beings as if we were still in the 18th century. Scientifically, the only known breeds are those due to human selection, such as on dogs, horses, cows, etc. Consequently, no "races" emerge in nature, not even among human beings. Obviously generic traits are passed down over generations and it is very likely that a trait like, say, red hair, is much more likely if among your grandparents there were other individuals with the same trait. But this does not make a person with red hair belong to a race, ethnicity is another matter and is based on the type of culture imparted on the individual during his training and not on somatic traits. The ideas about "race" are a legacy of the propaganda efforts of Germany in the early twentieth century which had the aim of hegemonizing the German population of the time by suggesting the idea of belonging to a typology of human beings that for some reason was superior to the others but it has no scientific basis.
How does that explain the very real physical differences between different peoples? Clearly being tall or short, white or black etc isn't a cultural trait
Of course red heads aren't a race... that's just the hair. A black and white person are different races. Not propaganda when it's obvious haha. Talking about differences doesn't automatically make it bad. Of course there's a scientific basis, it's biology and categorization. There are 5 main races and then you can talk about ethnicity beyond that.
We prefer to talk about ethnic groups rather than races, because this term can give the wrong idea that there are substantial biological differences between the various human groups. Modern science has shown that genetic differences between humans are minimal and that most genetic variation is found within individual populations rather than between different groups. Therefore, talking about 'races' for human beings does not make much sense and can perpetuate erroneous and harmful ideas.
@@KungKokkos @Nekotaku_TV Race is the result of a programmed selection among the desired traits of a species through multiple generations. When these traits are isolated and we have reasonable certainty that they will be passed on to the next generation we can declare that we have created a "Breed". So it is only in what is raised that we can talk about race. The isolation of a population for many generations simulates this process, the Maori of New Zealand obviously have a genome very similar to each other but different from other populations but, having emerged naturally, to say: "Of Maori race" is wrong both scientifically and culturally. It's enough to say "It's Maori". The second commenter is so confidently ignorant that screams "I'm a US citizen." I also have no idea what he is referring to when he gives an exact number of human races. I assume the color of the skin but then it would be sufficient to say this, that is, what color the skin is, because but from the most albino phenotype to the darkest it is a constant gradation, its 5 limits are therefore arbitrary and unscientific. Furthermore, let's say we have an Eririan and a Nigerian. Maybe the skin color of both is exactly the same but if we look at the genome of the Eritrean it is possible that he has many more genes in common with a light-skinned individual than with the Nigerian. The use of the word "Race" exclusively showcases "classification anxiety":
I have it as well. It makes us able to taste the aldehydes that exist in both soap and cilantro. My question is if soap tastes the same to cilantro-lovers as it does to us? Sometimes a better sense of taste is not a plus.
@@JohnCederdahl LOL that's not that's not gene, every one thinks that. The amount of people that do this to them self is minuscule even in Sweden. NOBODY ACTUALLY EATS THIS. (at least not anymore) It's not a part of Swedish food culture it's just an oddity and a meme. But we do eat crawfish at the crawfish premier.
@@hellmalm I have plenty of friends who enjoy surströmming. They all assure me that it tastes so much better than it smells - but why take the risk? I may sit at the furtherst side of the table at a surströmming party but I've never actually tasted any.
Kitchen scissors cuts pizza much faster and easier than a pizza cutter does because they are much sharper than a pizza cutter and because the cutting is from two sides instead of one. The duvet cover protects the duvet/blanket from sweat since it functions as a barrier between the body and the comforter, just like a pillow case does. Using one means that you don't have to wash the comforter as often, and this is a good thing because comforters are heavier than duvet covers. And yes we do have drying machines in Sweden. And drying cabinets for larger things like sheets, towels, duvets, and duvet covers. This is a cold climate country and we can't always rely on the sun to dry our washing. Asking if there is something someone doesn't eat is more about allergies, than preferences. Fica (spelled with a c instead of a k) is an Italian word for a woman's private parts. We do date. I think that she has just been unlucky in that department. Up until the year 2000, we had a state church here in Sweden that everyone was born into A more accurate translation of the first part of the Jante law is "don't think you are better than anyone else" = we are all equal. She is wrong about please. We do have a word for it: snälla (pronounced snella), although we usually don't put it at the end of a sentence like you do in English, instead we put it at the beginning, like you say "Can you please..." or "Would you be so kind to..."
The thing about the clothes, that referes to kindergardens/nurseries, in Skandinavia you start kindergarden at the age of 1 year, and you are out in all kinds of weather, at least if its warmer than minus 10 degrees, at least here in norway 😊
Reg the bed linnen. In Sweden most people have down quilt and that cost somewhere between $60 -100 depending on size. To wash that every week or even every month will turn it after a year or two. So we use the duvet cover to act as the protector of the quilt.
Duvet in sweden is not a blanket. We would use a padded down confurter /duvet or synthetic padded conforter/duvet. If you have a duvet cover you dont need to wash it as often. You dont get it next to your skin.
Most American thing ever. " Does Sweden have drying machines " That was gold. And the church thing. Its like a state church. Like state school. Its to offer free options to people or cheaper. Like you don't have to pay for baptism. You don't pay for confirmation, it happens with the schools. You have the right to be laid to rest in a graveyard. In the US, you most likely have to pay for a lot of these things. And be part of a certain church. Would like to mention, it is possible to choose not to be part of the state church. You just have to go online and say "Bye bye" Pretty sure its like that in Sweden to. Janteloven is not a Swedish thing. It was first mention by an author born in Denmark. But are now a common thing in Scandinavia. Also, the " No bad weather, only bad clothing" is something that at least is said in all of Scandinavia. Would even say Nordics. Would certainly not call it a "Swedish" thing. But then again, the duvet stuff is also common throughout Europe. So maybe she is not talking about "Swedish things" but things that is just common in Sweden. surstrømning is what I would call a Swedish thing.
Drying Machines? No we hang the sheets from the yardarm of our Viking ships and by the time we reach mainland Europe on a pillaging run the sheets are dry. I swear, some Americans.
What are you talking about? that makes no sense. I mention Denmark once, because the woman in the video say "Janteloven" is a Swedish thing. While its a known fact it was written in Denmark by a Dane. Has nothing to do with giving or taking from Sweden. Can't take something away from Sweden if it was never Swedish. Or should Germany say IKEA is a German thing because they can buy IKEA in Germany? I point out flaws in the video, because I find it weird that the maker names things that is in fact not Swedish, or is something that is done many places. Missing the opportunity to name actual Swedish things. Be mad at the woman for naming Danish things as Swedish. Instead of naming Swedish things. Not me. There are plenty of amazing Swedish things to mention. So you comment really makes zero sense. And has nothing to do with Denmark apart from the point that one of the things are Danish not Swedish. That is however not something I think. Its just a fact. Sweden have plenty things, or as you put it "gratitudes" And you should agree with my comment its a shame she does not actually bring them up. Bring up things that is in fact not Swedish gratitudes. Not everything has to do with a nationalistic feeling. And getting hurt over facts will never bring anything positive. But I do hope you have a wonderful day.
I think her point with the video was to talk about it from a swedish perspective vs how she sees life being in for example America (it's always a hot topic to compare) and how we do it here (were she actually lives) - and not trying to say we Swedes invented them?
@@sandrasaurusrex5984 "But then again, the duvet stuff is also common throughout Europe. So maybe she is not talking about "Swedish things" but things that is just common in Sweden." As I point out. Just seems weird to me. Same as if Germany said IKEA is super German because we buy a lot of stuff from IKEA. And when people see it, from like the US. They will have no clue. And thus view them as. " Oh that is Swedish then " meaning the confusion will always be there. And to me also a missed opportunity to showcase actual Swedish things. There are many amazing Swedish things to showcase and talk about. And it just seems weird to me she talk about things that is either from an other country. Or shared throughout many countries. But did write she might just have meant it a different way than it was presented. Or maybe she did just not know that they where not "Swedish" and or a more general thing. Something that is also fair.
Sweden is so secular that a lot of people don't even know that they are members of a church or which church they belong to. My coworkers seemed confused when I told them I go to church with my mom every Christmas. The Swedish church is very liberal and welcoming and I think it's a shame people are starting to leave it, just to slightly reduce their taxes. The church does so much good for lesser-off people, I kind of see being part of it as giving money to charity.
I agree. As an atheist, I do not go to church. Yet, I am a member of the Swedish church because they do many good things. However, if you want too get married in a church ONE of the couple must be a member As for leaving the church to save on taxes, there is still one tax you cannot revoke. That is your funeral cost. Since everbody is going too have one. Death and taxes, eh? 😉.
I prefer giving to charities that I know where the money goes to. I don't want to pay for some priest's new Porche (not that this is a thing in the Swedish church, afaik).
We put the crib in the same bedroom and the baby sleeps in the same room as you until they started to walk then they often move in to their own room. and you can take the crib away. If they are scared they can come to your bedroom.
15:07 No it’s taking a break and having a conversation while drinking coffee or tea and sometimes with some cinnamon bun, cake or cookies. At all workplaces there a coffee machine that you get free coffee from and usually there are two breaks when everyone gets together (colleagues) and talk and have a fika. Usually around 10am and 2 or 3 pm. Then after work you can have a fika at a cafe with someone you just stared dating and it depending on if it’s going good or not it can be quick or last for hours. Then at night after the kids have gone to bed most parents will have a cosy fika together and talk about the day. ❤❤❤🇸🇪
Shame the other video( greenland) was taken down, for whatever reason. I know the discussion got heated in the comments , but I hope that would be understandable. From my point of view, you at least brought it out as a topic, which I appreciate, I think that's very important for all of us at the moment to be able to exchange ideas.
Finns inget bättre än när man hör ligger bredvid sina ungar och somnar med dom! Har alltid haft dom från nyfödda och några månader framåt i min vänstra famn och somnat med dom, finns inget mer underbart, skapar ett sådant otroligt band! Spenderar varenda lediga tid med dom och hela familjen har ett sånt otroligt starkt band. :) Big ups tills alla föräldrar!
@ Well, some languages are easier to read than others. Read this, it’s Swahili: Hakuna matata. Only Welsh speakers can read Welsh. Only Japanese speakers can read Japanese kanji, but James Hepburn invented a system of Romanised spelling so others could read Japanese. Japan doesn’t use any emphasis on any of its syllables, every syllable is of equal strength. Knowing that, you can read Japanese using the Hepburn system. Konichiwa. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. But with kanji, that would be impossible. Russian writing is impossible for us because we don’t know how their characters are pronounced. That’s what I meant by being unable to read other languages, only those who write using the Alphabet.
@Jeni10 I see what you meant. Other alphabets are obviously obscurs the people who only know latin alphabet. But even though a language is spelled in latin alphabet, you won't probably know how to pronounce a word if you don't know the language. For exemple I suppose you will not know how to pronounce those words if you don't speak the respective languages : feuille/beliebig/coreutiche
@@Jeni10 "Japanese kanji" are simplified chinese characters, so most can be read by Chinese too, even though the characters might have a slightly different meaning. Hiragana and katakana are unique to the Japanese language though. Unlike kanji they don't represent "pictures" but syllable sounds. You can "spell" a kanji by using hiragana and katakana. And hiragana and katakana is easily romanised (turned into latin letters). *今日は* → *こん* → *konnichiwa* Kanji 今 is pronounced こん/ko-n (hiragana/latin) Kanji 日 is pronounced にち/ni-chi (hiragana/latin) The last character is は/wa (hiragana/latin) Not sure what you mean by "doesn’t use any emphasis on any of its syllables". Take the words for rain and candy. Different kanjis, same hiragana/latin spelling, different emphasis on the syllables. 雨 あめ/ame rain → emphasis on the first syllable *あ*-め / *A*-me 飴 あめ/ame candy → emphasis on the second syllable あ-*め* / a-*ME*
If you plan your co-sleeping you can do it safely! We dont use that much drugs (some of the chough syrups in the US that you can just buy and chug are banned or only prescription here!) we have fewer alcoholics (generally among new mothers) our mattress are generally firmer, we use less blankets and fluffy things in the bed, our beds are generally lower, we have a lower amount of obese people than the US. Also accidently suffocating your baby is not SIDS, so many people mix it up (even scientists!) and the statistics on co-sleeping that have accidently fallen asleep with baby on a chouch or fallen asleep with baby drunk or drugged is NOT part of our tradition to co-sleep, if you plan and do it sober its perfectly safe.
I think if you are dead tired to the point you will be closer to unconscious rather than normal sleep, then it will be dangerous even if not drunk. Using large and heavy duvets/blankets is also dangerous.
@@Joakim.Bengtsson Not really. we have one of the lowest infant mortality deaths and i cant find a single roll over death that is not caused by unsafe sleep habits (and again, true SIDS is not the same!) we also use two blankets and good material so they tend to not be large or heavy, many new parents, according to safe co-sleeping methods, use thinner blankets or tuck them in at the end so they cant get over the baby at all + use clothes in their body instead.
Jantelagen originally Danish. It seems that she (and many others) do not know it completely. It doesn't quite fit in with how Scandinavia is today. It was about a small town in Denmark during the 1930s with a very restrictive and oppressive attitude.
@@kristerforsman2448 If I remember correctly, someone (I'm guessing the Danes? But I can't say for sure) started teasing Swedes about our behavior by calling it Jantelagen. After a while it has been done for so long that it was adopted automatically. That's also why most Swedes don't know it's from Denmark, it was originally a joke or diss in previous generations 😊 and what we had was never the original Jantelag, it was just someone sticking it to us a bit, but she still doesn't explain the social code well😅 also madly generalizing 😅
I think it’s fair to say that the concept has evolved and changed, and the “modern” meaning of it in Swedish is different from how it was originally described. That said, I think a lot of americanisms have affected Sweden over the last 50 years, to the point that it might even be as apparent as it used to be (especially in urban areas).
@@SwedenTheHedgehogYes you are right. It is probably largely due to the ignorance of the "real" Jantelagen. They have only heard the expression and some parts of it. In addition, many believe that it has Swedish origins. You are also right about Swedes' slightly changed way of being. Not so afraid to stand out but still far from how Americans can be.
I would not say Swedish schools are easier, we actually go through more in a shorter of time than in many other countries! Although they are very different and better thought out for kids mental health and stress!
.. You don't need to lift up the entire pizza... Just lift up one side barely enough so you can get one of the blades under it, and then go to town. I bet you'll love it if you try it.
here in Denmark vi have the same saying as in Sweden about the weather and dressing for it: "Der findes ikke dårligt vejr, kun dårligt påklædning" therefor you see Danes biking when the sun is shining, it rains and even if it snows.
I’m guessing he may have taken it down as he was making light of trump’s threats as entertaining. Comments from Canadians and Europeans feeling not so ha ha about this.
@@hmkmk7038 Well I got to see it and had some discussions going on, I actually liked the atmosphere and am sad about the interruption. But of course I am not aware of the overall picture. Just wondering if he took it down or if it was taken down.
10:56 that's one thing i really love about sweden. you adress everyone on a first name basis, there is no mr or mrs bullshit and no sir's etc, everyone is supposed to be on the same level
I'm Germany we don't date either. You go on some dates. As soon as you advance to kissing, it means you are a couple (if you hadn't make it clear that it's a one night stand, but then your wouldn't go on several dates). Seeing each other often, kissing, cuddling, maybe being intimate, but calling it "dating" and not being exclusive and seeing other people is a weird concept to me.
@@Nekotaku_TV No not really. We don't have the concept of "dating" as in the entire period up to moving in together. We go on _a few_ dates = meet up a few times. Then we're in a relationship until we breakup or die.
When I was in school, we didn’t get homework until third grade, about 8 years old, so we can practise the skills we learned in school, but at that age, homework took fifteen minutes and my parents supervised me so they knew I had done the work.
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We say "please", but the formula is "om du skulle vilja vara så snäll att." The Swedes are a combination of egalitarian and polite in a way that we aren't aware of ourselves (except me). The personal address singular is always "du", but don't dare you to misuse "du", then you will unexpectedly annoy Swedes! Straight imperatives such as "you shall" can only be spoken by a police or other person in legal power, otherwise you must use fourth person "man" or passive form plus a mild prescription counterparting "ought to" and "may".
The collective in Sweden has a very long tradition because in farming society we had to rely on each others. In older ages, Sweden was a harsh country to live in periods. In summer collect for winter. We had to help each other. Currently we have household with one person live in it. We are at the peaking point in the world. Most singled people. Independent but polite.
I'm from germany, but i can relate so much to allmost everything she describes, especially jantelagen, which is word i just learned, but the concept klicks with me. The only exception is the "whole and clean" one - me and my wife still do that to an extend, but we reduced it quite a bit after the kids were born. It feels like "keeping up with the joneses" for cleaning and tidying up and we didn't want to pressure other parents or children with unnecessary high standards. So we just started to own our imperfections and began to justify it to ourselves by thinking, that while it might be embarrassing at times we're relieving others. But i have to admit that its a balancing act we're not allways happy with. And in my car that derailed completely, i can't have guests in there!
46 yr old Swede here. What she means is that both genders are for equality, not modern feminism. (And with equality I'm referring to equality of opportunity not outcome, cause then I wouldn't count myself in that group!) I really liked your reactions and points here, enjoyable to watch.
04:05 swedes not obly have regular dryers, they also have drying boxes where you can put jackets, outdoor clothes, blankets etc (theyre the size of a fridge) - they're used when it rains or snows a lot.
Those are mostly used in kindergarden and mountain cabins. But i'ts true that most people have dryers since you have to dry clothes inside for 9 months each year
17:00 I was gonna make a joke about it probably being due to people being fat in US, but then I realised it's probably IS due to people being fat in US. Don't co-sleep if you're fat. Perhaps a bit due to prescribed mood drugs and sleeping pills etc is more widely used in the US (rumor based "info") . Don't co-sleep if you take sleeping pills or bensos etc.
It's not a fat or drug thing. My grandmother turned over on my mom when they were sleeping and my mom was out of air for so long that she actually turned blue. This was in Sweden in 1954. My grandmother was a slim woman with no need for drugs (or ways to get them I'm sure 😅). She was just a normal person (co-)sleeping normally.
@@TinaDanielsson if it happened once in Sweden 1954 where it's standard, and happened 3 times in the 10(?) years Ryans spouse worked in US healthcare, where it's shunned upon, there should be some differences. Like fat and drugs.
@@gonnaga9302 Lol, of course my mother wasn't the only one it happened to. That was my point. It's normal human behaviour to move around when you sleep. And it's not the weight that crushes the babies, it's cutting of their air flow. And that can be done just by covering the baby with the duvet or blanket in your bed. But most people, and especially moms, have a high awareness when they have a tiny creature with them, whether it be a baby or an animal. So they sense if something is wrong and wake up before anything really bad happens.
I guess I should clarify that I don't mean to say that everyone should co-sleep! I'm not against it, but if done, all possible safety measures should be taken. I'm just saying that it is not as simple as a weight or drug issue.
@@TinaDanielsson But you only have one example, no real numbers, and on that you base the opinion that it doesn't have to do with fatness or drugs, because that one example wasn't fat or used drugs.
fun fact: Home work was inventet in Italy to be a punishment for students who misbehaved in class but then teachers got lazy and gave it to everyone to avoid having to write down who had misbehaved and who had behaved
Swede here, I have never heard of or seen anyone use scissors to cut their pizzas. Neither in Stockholm or on the countryside. But as I say that, it does sound like something my sister and her family would do seeing as they started using scissors to cut their spaghetti when living in the US.
Italian here: pizza is something that can be cut with scissors only when it's eaten in slices (in Italy we usually call it "pizza al trancio") because it is prepared with a topping solid enough to stay on the pizza when you cut it. We use scissors a lot to cut that kind of pizza. But proper pizza, restaurant pizza, have a topping that is too fluid to be cut in that way. Or at least, you can do it, but it will be a mess. It is intended to be cut with a fork and knife when you eat it. Pizza is everywhere slightly different, maybe in Sweden it is common to eat it in slices I don't know :)
...WHY is your go-to plan to hold up the entire pizza when cutting it? It's okay if parts of it touch the plate while doing this, it's not gonna catch some kind of disease from this practice 😅 I'd be terrified to see you trying to saw a plank or work with textiles if this is how you go about things 😂
Hey! I’m from Sweden and not everything she said is a generell thing in Sweden! It’s her family and upbringing ! I just laugh when I heard some of the stuff, like she seriously think that everybody does like she does! 😄
I think your saying is "the right tool is half the job done" Another saying in Denmark is "planning right is half the job" I have had some headwinds at work saying "planning right is half the job and the right tools is half the job, so plan right with the right tools and you dont have to do anything"
I don't know if as a swede i can agree with everything she says , she makes it sound as if we are doing everything right and others should follow the will , feels strained and not really humble unlike other cultures way of living thier lives .
Vad svenskt svar haha 😅 lite ironiskt med tanke på den kulturella jantelagen. Hon är ödmjuk, hon visar ju bara det hon tycker är bra. Videon hade nog blivit dubbelt så lång om hon behövde jämna ut det med både fördelar och nackdelar, och dessutom helt orelevant
No one really lives by Jantelagen, but the gist of it does show in how many Swedes and Norwegians behave. We are rather humble, and don't like to brag about ourselves.
I'd say we all live by Jantelagen but it's so ingrained in our culture that we don't really reflect on it until we meet someone people from less humble cultures (looking at you America). :)
Same in Finland. I think it really originates from the Lutheran faith which puts a heavy emphasis on being humble and modest. Although most people here aren't religious either, bragging about yourself is about the worst thing that you can do. If you have really achieved something (like winning some contest because you really were the best), it is ok to be proud about it, but still, just to be on the safe side, you might add some self-deprecating comment when you talk about it. "Yeah, I won that weight-lifting contest.... good that it didn't include any running, because then I wouldn't have had any chance! Ha ha ha."
@@j.erlandsson Jantelagen is an old blunt Danish-Norwegian *_satire_* (Sandemose), it's not a hand book...
Forgot Denmark in the mix 🤔
@@Zandain Denmark is less Jante than Sweden and Norway. It exists but is less prominent.
As a male and 52 year old Swede, I have been baking since I was around 10, and NEVER used a pre-made mix. I bake almost all my bread and cakes. I don't think I ever had store bought bread or cake at home when growing up. And almost everything was made "from scratch" and yes, we don't use that term.
Making *_all_* your bread at home? What a waste of time! :) Our efficient society and prosperity is built on specialization after all, since (before) the middle ages...
But I agree that when baking a sockerkaka or similar, you do it from scratch. I mean, there is no point buying a "ready mix". (Hardly even saw one of those after the mid 1970s or so.)
@herrbonk3635 What a waste of time? I make bread in a bread machine so 5 min work to save lots of money and I get to make extremely healthy bread with nuts, seeds and lots of fibers that tastes great. I also ALWAYS have fresh bread at home and I live far from a store. You could say the same with dinners, what a waste of time when you could buy pre-made food that taste like shit and shaves years of your life. I guess you are young... or American... Based on the ignorant arrogance...
I'm 57 and were brought up in store bought bread (in Sweden that kind of bread is much better than the one you can find in USA). After the separation, when I was 6, mom didn't have time but I think it had more to do with th fact that her mother didn't bake bread that often. Bread for fika (fikabröd) were grandmas "thing". There were allways cookies, cake or buns available but mom didn't have time for that either but she did have a recepie for klickar (dollops), kind of buns, easy, fast and tasty.
swede here, and I have never made anything from scratch either. I have always used pre-ground flour (and processed such that it is white!!!), pre-pasturized milk, pre-lain eggs, pre-picked AND pre-ground spices (well I actually _have_ used ones that weren't pre-ground, like muskot, vanilla, and cinnamon), and pre-treated water (from my tap), etc.
edit: oh, and pre-cultivated yeast - sometimes even pre-dried yeast (but usually not, I tend towards the wonderfully tactile cubes of yeast, instead of the bags of powder)
Swede here as well, the only thing I've ever used pre-mix for is waffles.
Hel och ren (whole and clean) isn’t about your house but about your apperense. You don’t have to have expensive clothes but they (and you) should be clean and whole.
Yep, she had that all wrong.
Yeah, clean body, clean clothes and the clothes should not have holes or be too worn out. Present yourself in a respectable manner.
Yeah that is how I was taught for generations
I mean she's from Skåne clearly so cut her some slack. Can't expect her to know how we live up here in actual Sweden. ;) (This is said as a joke.)
teue but i still dont under stand why my darn room needed to be cleaned when nobody going to be there, if i ever get children so they don't have to clean it so it looks like an Ikea showroom, but if it looks like a bomb has hit I can understand, but having to clean the whole house for guests has always confused me and made me hate cleaning because my father just scolded me because I had missed a spot to dust
For most Europeans race was a thing for Americans, South-Africans and Nazis or something from a distant past. Caucasians we know from American tv-series, for us Caucasians are a Eastern mountain people who want to be Europeans but really aren't. Registering on race is seen as ridiculous, dangerous/evil and impossible to do.
Yes in Germany the assumption of human races existing IS the very definition of racism.
You should NEVER talk seriously of races when it comes to humans, that would be a very bad thing to do. I even remember biology classes about this topic.
interesting, in Serbia when you say caucasian it often implies northerner with blond or red hair and very pale. We are asked often what nationality we are but do not need to answer (prob cause territory of Serbia went trough so many kingdoms and was conquered so many times)
@@laurids796 Looking away does not make races go away though, or racism for that matter.
In fact, being blind and "not seeing" race is the new form of racism, according to the "anti racists".
@@herrbonk3635
You don't really understand. Race is a biological term and different races DO NOT EXIST in humans. There is only one human race - the human race.
@@herrbonk3635 No, you misunderstand. From a biological standpoint the human species living today (homo sapiens sapiens) consists of only one race. Using the term for people with different appearances or origins is a social construct. And the only purpose of it is to measure if a person is of "better" or "lesser" value. *That* is why "human races" should never be used seriously as a concept.
Asking for your ethnicity for open a bank account or any official document is really weird.
Only if you all are all the same ethnicity, and culture in a country.
But that's forbidden now.
"What race are you?" Human?
I'd be so confused XD
That's because SagaJohanna is absolutely missing the point: we have personal identity numbers, if and only if we have a temporary or permanent residence, the later which implies that you are Swedish.
I too believe, that this is illegal to ask anywhere in Europe just for opening an account. That is discriminating.
Yeah, would some answer say no to an account or what?
And kid of Trixie these days when we can DNA test us. 30% caucasian, 15 % african, 17% Arabic, 3% hindi, 1% Neanderthal, 1% sheep.....and so on
It's pretty hilarious that your first thought was to pick up the whole pizza. Just slide the scissors under the pizza and snip away
I was literally yelling that at my phone 😂
Well I'm Swedish and I have never ever cut pizza with scissors nor seen it done in my 60 years. Maybe it's because I'm not 12 generations native
Logic is not his greatest strength 😅
I thought it was hilarious that he even gestured to hold the pizza vertically to cut it…. LOL
@@peterpete8458no , I'm at least 12 generation swedish and I have never done that either 🤔
She got the part about being "whole and clean" completely wrong. It derives from economic differences. Like if someone grew up poor they are often using the term. "We grew up poor but our parents always kept us whole and clean" meaning our clothes may had been repaired but washed and we were bathed and presentable. I used the frase not long ago when I pulled out my old suit from the closet for a baptism. My daughter thought maybe it was time for me to buy a new one. My answer was "No, this one is still whole and clean". 🙂
Hel och ren is of course being clean and tidy, looking like a model citizen. Nothing to do with economics, it was important for workers because it was a way of advancing in society and gaining respect from others.
@@mn4169 The expression is very old and was often used by people who grew up at the time large estates had contract workers who basically worked for food and shelter for themselves and their famiies. I guess you´re using a more modern definition.
"What is your race?" has a VERY 1930s German vibe to me as a Finn 😅
But then again, so does singing to a flag in every morning too...
And this isnt really mainstream, but I call myself a feminist, socialist, an atheist, cosmic nihilist, a marxist-leninist communist. And an aspiring saxophonist. (bada-boom!)
Agreed. On top of that there's only one human race.
Wow. All respect to you but we should never meet lol.
Im 63, swedish. I have NEVER cut a pizza with siccors.I use a knife or a pizza cutter.
100% swedish
Same
Im a lazy swede and yea i use the scissor cause it just works.
I have never seen anybody use a sissor..
Im also swedish, I have Never used a scissor to cut the pizza with and noone that I know ever cut their pizza with a scissor.. and I know Alot of people! That is probably just something an influencer came up with and is now known and used by 50.000 people. I mean, how hard is it to cut a pizza with a knife or a pizza cutter. Its probably more people that cut their pizza like I do, along the way while eating it
A lot of it also applies for many other European countries; especially the Nordics.
Some of it is just her personal experience which doesn't apply to any one else.
Yes, I'm from Scotland, most of this is pretty standard.
I was going to say. A fair amount of these things doesn't really sound like something that's "Sweden-specific"... I was expecting more specific niches rather than well... this is just something that every non-American knows as standard practice..
Regarding not dating: Instead we get drunk, make out with someone and if it happens more than once you're together.
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That's the simplest explanation I've seen and it's dead on 😂
Yes, or you start hanging out and if it turns physical you're in a relationship.
@@shadowcat311 Or one of you goes to jail 😂
@@TinaDanielssonhahaahaha 😂😂😂🤣
I've never before heard the term "co-sleeping" and now I'm completely dumbfounded that it is an issue somewhere. I know that when I was a baby, I slept right next to my mother so that she barely needed to wake up when I needed breastfeeding during the night. I didn't start sleeping in my own bed until I was about 11 or so. I had a bed of my own, I just didn't want to sleep alone until that age.
That race thing then. When I was in the U.S., I also noticed that every single form that I had to fill always started with "name", "address", "race/ethnicity", and it always caught me off-guard. Also, at first I didn't know what "Caucasian" meant (the geographical area called Caucasia isn't anywhere near me) so I just checked "other" because none of the other options seemed to apply. After I learned the meaning of the word, I still kept checking "other" simply because I was so insulted by the question.
Some years ago, one extreme-right politician here (in Finland) suggested that we should start keeping track of people's race/ethnicity and the suggestion was shot down instantly, also by members of his own party. That would be completely unacceptable here.
Co-sleeping kills babies mostly when the parents are obese, alcoholics or drug users. Heavy blankets and duvets are also dangerous.
I have heard about the co-sleeping controversy before but I wanted to look up what the German wikipedia page said about it. Apparently in 888 (year!) the pope already ordered his bishops to tell people not to sleep qith small children in the same bed due to the suffocation risk. So it's apparently a very old topic. But I know co-sleeping is still very common here in Austria and also not generally discouraged by professionals. Also the studies on it are not very definite on wether it's generally dangerous or only under certain circumstances.
Im pretty sure that here in Sweden it's a big no-no to sleep with you baby if you're intoxicated, but otherwise it's a non-issue.
Separate duvet/comforter is not a swedish lifehack, almost everyone in Europe use separate duvets.
5:30: It is easier to wash the duvet+pillow covers than the duvet or pillows.
In a standard european top loading washing machine you can wash only one duvet, and nothing else fits in.
But you can put 2 blankets + 2 duvet covers + 2 pillow covers in it.
5:50: Germans have the same saying.
Separate duvets are NOT a thing in Southern Europe, where there is also winter, even if milder and shorter than in Scandinavia.
Maybe SHE doesn't know that it is fairly common in mid and north Europe? Go figure
I don’t think she meant to say that these things are exclusive to sweden, only that they are the common way things are done in sweden.
luckily NOT here in Italy. When I happen to find the separate duvets in some hotels I sleep SO bad... we sleep very near, so one of my limbs is always out of the duvet, in the middle, and cold. We fix this by putting the duvet "on the wrong side" (I mean not in the direction head-feet, but bedside to bedside)
@@Jolle187
Well, that’s what the title says.
In Sweden, we don't say please, but we say, for example, "Could you be so kind as to..."
A bit like in Switzerland. That’s why we clash with Germans that might not even say please…
Or we say "Snälla" (Kind).
I prefer to use this form too trying to improve my badic-basic English I've been taught at school and the university as well (as native Russian and Belarusian speaker). It is not weird in any way, it is just polite to say like this.
@L.K.Rydens ermm, how is 'sorry' (ursäkta) basically the same thing as 'please'? Just because you use both to be polite, it doesn't mean they are remotely the same. In my experience, the Swedes have become much ruder in the las 2 decades, which you notice especially when you live abroad and come back. Not to mention how they think using the f word in English is perfectly acceptable.
@@L.K.Rydens "Kan du skicka mig smöret, ursäkta?"
No, Ursäkta is Excuse Me, nothing else. Almost a 1:1 translation.
We do wash blankets/comforters/duvets, but not as often, as they are bulky to dry.
And they cost a lot so better wash the covers regulary.
I wash blankets/comforters/duvets only when my cat complains.
But we don't really use comforters and blankets for sleeping at night in northern Europe, do we. Sleeping under comforter isn't a thing, most people don't even know what it is and blankets are for naps or for decor in the living room.
We do have dryers in the Uk for drying clothes and I’m sure they have in Sweden.
@@letitiakearney2423 Yes, I've only seen this from Americans where they wonder if we have the same technology in other partss of the world. Of course we do. And food stores everywhere so noone needs to live only by foraging or whatever.
I'm sure this is true even in most non-western countries. But even more so in Sweden Where so many of these companies, like Electrolux, are from.
Well, this is like with everything else, just because she's Swedish doesn't mean she can speak for all of us. Neither can I. A lot of this probably applies to most, but not everything. She is pretty bold in her claims at times, for being Swedish. 😅
We don't all cut our pizza's with scissors, sleep with our kids in the same bed, dates are different here but exist (though much more casual), we don't divide people into races - so you can't find that sort of information (you can't do that legally here). We don't use titles like Mr, Mrs, Miss or Ms - we just call everyone by their first name, since the 60s. We are a casual bunch of people.
She has misunderstood "Hel och ren" - that's about the way you dress. That it's not important to look "posh", just clean and tidy, then you're all good.
A grain of salt is always good. She is just 1 Swede, and her opinions and outlook will differ from others. She should have made that clear (that would sound more Swedish).
Hej=Hi from Sweden! 🇸🇪
12:01 You make sure there’s alternatives, and if five people have allergies or are vegetarian or vegan, you make sure there’s something for them. To us, that’s part of our hospitality. Or you do something like tacos where everyone ”make” their own portions and can put the things that suits them and leave what they don’t want! You just serve the bowl and the guests do the rest! ❤️❤️❤️🇸🇪
Yeah, when there are too many ppl with conflicting preferences, you either just make a buffet of sides that ppl can collect into a whole dish, like tacos or sandwiches, or you make multiple alternatives (very common to see "meat, fish, and vegan" options. The vegan options are ideally something really really boring to eat, while fish is because many pescetarians actually use the word vegetarian, and meat is because it is something tasty the organizers want to eat and many ppl dislike fish/shrimps/clams). Besides those main-preferences, most ppl will have converging preferences, such as allergies tend to be the same 5-10, and stuff ppl dislike enough to bother vetoing in their food is often the same few stuffs (ppl generally don't write it down if it is not something that ensures they won't touch the food. Like cilantro, mushrooms, or seafood is what I have usually seen).
Smörgåsbord is a thing😄 I think thats a beautiful way to include all different people without making to much different dishes.
Doesn't also the word even exist outside sweden as a decription, sorta like fika?
Ryan, about the bedding, if you wanna now why Swedes do this, check how much a human sweats per night - it's insane 🤢😅
plus not airing the bed out long enough,instead cover everything under blankets and pillows.
@@TheUlli1964 The acari 👀👀
Jante: you should not brag. But you are as good as everyone else.
Yeah, and important as well to note that the "us" includes both me and you. We're all part of the whole, the community, and as a whole we're better than any one individual.
@@christianbergenstrahle6709 Indeed, and I feel like our word "lagom" fits in well with that philosophy. Can't be translated to other languages but resonates with every swede.
Fika: Swedes have fika (pronounced [ˈfîːka]) (back slang of kaffi (coffee, dialectal)), which is basically a coffee break with sweet breads or sometimes pastries, although coffee can be replaced by tea, juice, lemonade, hot chocolate, or squash for children.[citation needed]
The tradition has spread throughout Swedish businesses around the world. Fika is a social institution in Sweden and the practice of taking a break with a beverage and snack is widely accepted as central to Swedish life. As a common mid-morning and mid-afternoon practice at workplaces in Sweden, fika may also function partially as an informal meeting between co-workers and management people, and it may even be considered impolite not to join in. Fika often takes place in a meeting room or a designated fika room. A sandwich, some fruit, or a small meal may be called fika like the English concept of afternoon tea.
Coffee in Swedish is kaffe, not kaffi, the origin of the word fika is not really clear. And fika is used also just to meet someone for a coffee, either at home or at café anytime of the day.
And a fika can also be without anything to drink or eat at all 😅 If someone at work says "Do you want to take a fika?" it's code for "I want a break from work and just have a nice chat in the lounge area for a bit. Come keep me company." Having a coffee/tea/snack during this break is the norm but not required 🙂
@@Xiroi87 The origin of "fika" is indeed the dialectal short form of "coffee" (kaffi), in the Fig language (fikonspråket), where you exchange the syllables and throw in the word "fikon". Kaffi = fikon-kakon. My dad, who is from Gothenburg, taught me this language when I was an itty-bitty child! :D
I first read squashed children, and thought “that’s odd..”
I do find it interesting no other country seem to have a similar word, just like “lagom”, which means just enough
I've been told once by a Swede that I should try fika and see how nice it is... And I'm like, well, in the Balkans we have been drinking coffee for longer time in history than Italians, and we often eat some sweets with it, and we're socialising a lot. 😅 It's fascinating how Sweden has sold it as if it was something particular and peculiar.
Ryan: Race breakdown of sweden, u wont find any because it doesent exist, its completly irrelevant, it only is important in some cases like in medecine because some ethinc groups are more sensetive to some diseases and vitamins (for exaple thers ppl who produce very little Vitamin-D from sunlight), but thats between an induvidual and the persons doctor.
The vitamin D recommendation in Denmark has been extended to all people... we simply don't get enough sunlight, and most of those that choose nuts over regular milk, doesn't get enough of D...
@@BenjaminVestergaard so..dont go totally nuts ... jokes aside, prob good advise for us up here north if its used in low doses.. especially during dak winters
@@Patrik6920 happy you caught my hidden joke 😄 yeah it's difficult to be entirely vegan here, it's possible but nut easy. Have a wonderful day.
@@BenjaminVestergaardEven in winter up here white people still don't need as much vitamin D as black people do. We do absorb it alot more efficiently even from the little sun we get.
"Please" is a shortened way of saying "if you please", so more polite and considerate to ask the other person if it's ok with them to do something for you.
Snälla (please/Kindly) is shortend om du är snäll (If you are kind, or if you'd be so kind)
22:32 We don’t ask that, we just spend all free time together and after a while you sort of realize that you are a couple! I agree it is kind of weird the way it works here. If you fancy someone and you are a teenager, then you will have sleepovers either at your house or in his or her house (in the same room). But, no, we don’t have many teenagers getting pregnant because you are considered to be a bit stupid for letting that happen to you as a teenager… Your peer would think you are kind of clumsy and dumb… But as a society we are very accepting… We don’t give babies up for adoption either so if you’re having a child you are expected to race it and that goes for BOTH parents!❤❤❤🇸🇪
UK here.
I cut my pizza with scissors as well.
I do the same with a duvet. If you have a duvet you don't use blankets. You wash the duvet COVER not the duvet itself.
BIDET is pronounced BEE DAY.
I've only heard the word " Caucasian" used on American police shows.
Unusual to drink coffee in the afternoon !? Why !?
Exp pat who has lived in Sweden nearly 25 years now, I just cut it up on a cutting board using a knife, although I don't see why having a pizza cutter would be an issue, but understand why they use scissors, the same way the Koreans use scissors to cut up meat for a Korean BBQ or hotpot.
I only ever knew one person who did not use a duvet cover, and that was an absolute slob of a guy I house shared with during my student years, and that was simply because he was too bone idle to wash anything (and fecking stank)
Same with me for the word Caucasian, the only other time you really used to hear it was in anthropology documentaries.
Try telling a Swede it's unusual to drink coffee in the afternoon. Although the Americans seem to have some weird relationship with caffeine, like it turns them into Gremlins if they drink it after noon or something. Only coffee though, they'll happily quaff a full 1 litre of coke.
You cut your duvet with scissors? Seems counterproductive to me! 😉🤣
Experts recommend not drinking caffeine after lunch since that will affect your sleep negatively (something about caffeine half-life).
Most swedes drink coffee at afternoon fika, which most often happens at 1500! Me, my family and most friends drink coffee after dinner!
Regarding "race" As a Swedish person it sounds a bit strange when the news in the US talks about different races. For example "black people are voting for..." x needs to win the Latinos votes" and things like that.
Just like there are no individuals in the US who vote and act differently depending on their own situation and upbringing. Like all white or black people would vote for x president or party.
I can understand if they would say people in this region are more likely to vote for x because it will create jobs in this region. But I do not understand "that person is black and therefore he will vote for x"
Blacks and hispanics overwhelmingly vote democrat.
You can't pretend this isn't a thing and win an election.
In Italy we also cut pizza with scissors, clean kitchen ones of course. Not everybody but it's easier. But not at a restaurant of course hahaha
We do this at ours in France. American pizzas aren’t thin crust though so wouldn’t make sense to them.
Isnt the true Italian way to brake slices by hand instead to get the actual Napolitan pizza experience?
@@marcusfridh8489 That would get messy. A scissor will cut nice cuts with all the toppings intact on the slice. Bend the slice in the middle to get more structural rigidness in the slice and then lift it by the crust
I use knife and fork (Swedish)
With a few variations, this video apply for most of europe.
When you are on the topic of Sweden. i'd recommend the video by Jonna Jinton "Living with the Dark Winters in Sweden"
You wont regret it Ryan.
Anyway, have a good one!
I think the split duvets are basically the norm in western Europe. Here in Germany everybody uses them. Its just so much easier.
Try to dry a big woolen blanket - in the winter. Good luck.
If it's below zero outside, it's best to dry it there. The moisture freezes and the blanket dries more quickly when you take it inside. I always hang my wet laundry outside in the winter.
been following you a couple of months, really nice to hear you cover something about Sweden
As a swede I have never used a sissor to cut a pizza, and I never seen it done. But 2 blankets is so good. I want a thin and my husband want a realy warm one.
You're a normal Swede. Pizza-scissors Swedes are rare kind of Swedes.
No No, scissor are coming big.😅 My son and all hes friend cut with scissors
I'm an abnormal Swede. I started cutting pizza with scissors a few years ago but it's just something I came up with myself. I've wasted so much time slowly cutting pizzas with fork and knife. That's time I'll never get back...
Apperently, 40% use scissors. I personally don't but I know people who do.
@@StalKalle Maybe it's a regional thing? Like eating hamburgers with buns with a knife and fork in parts of northern Sweden? (galna norrlänningar)
26:38 Yes, it’s very strange to us that you applaud yourselves and your accomplishments! We just don’t do that… It’s so ingrained in us to not try and make a fuss over yourself like that. It’s of course okay for others to tell you how well you did, but we don’t do it ourselves. Other people applaud you, sort of…❤❤❤🇸🇪
Yes, if everyone is praised it devalues real achievement. In USA pupils graduate from each stage of school. In UK the term graduate means someone with a bachelors, masters or philosopher degree.
But you do do that!
The only difference is in how.
Swedes tend to simply state the fact that they're great with a blank face instead of an applause. Still the same sentiment, in my experience.
Few of these appear "weird" to anyone outside the US. A duvet is not a blanket. It's a covered down-filled quilt. Kids have a different metabolism to adults. We keep kids snug and warm because they actually don't feel the cold as acutely as older people do. I've seen my kids, and now my grandsons, jump into a lake and joyfully swim around, but I found it too cold to more than dip in my toe. 🥶
Although "please" doesn't exist, we have other ways of expressing the same thing. As she says: "Kind" or "thank you" largely replace it. And "the magic word" can be translated to mean that if a child says "I shall have milk" you can answer "'Shall have' gets nothing". Instead, you should say: Can/would you give me milk? And even "You don't want to hand me the milk?" That is, by asking, even asking with a negation, we indirectly say "please".
Regarding the dating thing in Sweden: what she means is that we generally don't have the "tradition" of getting to know someone by dating, we get to know people as friends and as we grow closer and feelings develop we then start a relationship as a couple. This, however, doesn't mean that the dating scene, that is common in the US, doesn't happen here, it's just not considered "the norm".
Och de man känner som håller på med t.ex. tinder brukar inte heller hitta någon vettig partner😂
@@Ariadan We have different experiences 😂 Do you get involved with your friends? 😅 Seems problematic in several ways.
@@HannesGilstring The only time I've had any sort of problem with a relationship has been when I tried dating someone I didn't already know as a friend. The relationships I've had with friends have all been happy ones, and even though they didn't last as long as I may have wanted, they never ended badly and I'm still friends with those girls. And my current relationship is with one of my closest and best friends that I've known for over 20 years, and it's the best relationship I've ever had. So, no, not problematic in any way what so ever.
@@Ariadan I didn’t judge in any way! It just goes to show there are many way to live you life. I’m a fellow Swede. But I think I prefer to keep my friends as friends. But then I meet someone new it’s often at a party or via Tinder. And even if it not always becomes a long time relationship some of them have become my close friends after that. So it’s sort of the opposite.
@@HannesGilstring I didn't think you were judging at all. Sorry if my reply seemed aggressive.
An Aussie company, DreamFarm, specialises in kitchen gadgets, and has pizza scissors as one of their items. It even has a narrow platform on which to rest the pizza as you cut it.
In Korea, the chef cuts your meat with special scissors.
FYI: "Hej" is pronounced as "Hey" and means "Hello".
Yes, Saga literally said the word before he butchered it.
@@helvete983 Yeah it blows my mind.
Swedish may not have A WORD for please, but they express the same damned thing using TWO WORDS, duh. They get back at English by using the word "lagom", for which the English need a whole bloody sentence. LOL 😛
please means snälla.
@@DemiCape -- True, but I would put it the other way round, i.e. "snälla" can mean "please" -- with proper intonation, especially when used by grandchildren. LOL
@@DemiCape Snälla does actually mean kind tho. You are asking a person to be kind, instead of anmexact word for please
I have also heard of at least three parents who were driving the car with their children and accidentally killed the whole family. Life is not completely safe. But in general, most things that could hypothetically go wrong are completely harmless: flying, driving, sleeping together, eating fruit (choking hazard, you know), skating, riding, going to a consert, etc. The concern about children dying by co-sleeping is greatly exaggerated. It has happened, but it is not a measure of its being generally dangerous.
Duvet, Doona, Continental Quilt. Imagine two bedsheets stitched together on three sides then filled with fine feather down until it’s four inches thick. Then the fourth side is zipped up. That’s roughly what a Duvet is and you sleep under it in Winter. A comforter is a lot thinner than a duvet.
And that's *really* not something you happily put in your regular washing machine every week 😅
@ I did! When I was carer for my elderly mother, I had to wash the sheets and the doona as well as the mattress protector every day.
@@Jeni10 Omg how big was your washing machine? 😅 I have a hard time stuffing my 5 cm (2 inches) thick duvet in our slightly larger than normal washing machines 😂
@ I did the sheets and mattress protector first and then the doona. My washing machine is great for big loads! It’s a Gorenje and it holds 8 kilos. I love it!
@@Jeni10 Wow, that's *is* big 😃 Gorenje is a great brand, you often get that little bit extra with their products 😃
I expect that she is talking about Sweden having a state religion. Finland does as well; the state religion being Lutheran. Sweden is probably also Protestant.
But since the year 2000 we don't have a state church anymore.
We don't have a state religion. We used to be norse religion, then we had a thing with catholicism and then Gustav Wasa (a king in the 1500s) wanted more money so he decided we should be protestant. Now we have complete freedom of religion and it's not allowed to discriminate against other religions. Religious practice is not allowed in public schools (but they kinda do anyway because Christian traditions are viewed as neutral eventhough they're really not).
Every time I watch any show with americans I get uncomfortable because they are screaming so much, being so rude and confrontational and treating basic respect for other people as a transaction where you have to give to get. I couldn't live like that, it's way too loud XD /Swede
We are for the most part protestant, at least in theory. In practice, lots of people have their children baptized in church because it's tradition and then never think about religion again. So on paper we are a christian country, but few actually practice it beyond baptisms, weddings and funerals. Religion is also not really a topic we discuss with aquaintances (or at all, tbh), it's considered a deeply personal matter, so it's honestly quite hard to judge how common believing vs non-believing is. Personally I wouldn't even make assumptions one way or the other about people I met at church.
I think there was a study some years ago about religion around the world and it showed that swedish people are the least religious people in the world. If you’re interested in good schoolsystems I recommend you check out Finlands. And I say that as a swedish teacher 🙂
As a swede, what I found so weird in America is that it's taboo to call teachers by their real first name. First time I saw that on youtube some guy recording him self, every American teacher got offended I was like. wtf?! here in sweden, it's the norm to call a teacher by their first name,
in Italy we use the surnames for teachers, because they are older and in a kind of "superior rank" ... well, let's say they are not your friends or relatives, so you don't call them by first name.
@@solaccursio I thought it was moms that had the superior rank in italy xD
Also the boss at work is called by name
@@hanes2 hahahaha that's over the rank of teachers!!!
@@solaccursio It's _because_ they're not friends we call them by their first names, we don't know them well enough to know what their surname is 😅 (At least not until we get a bit older and grasp the concept that people have several names😆) If anything, using the surname would go into nickname/pet name territory which would be awkward unless the adult actually introduced themselves like that. We don't have an equivalent for sir/ma'am and the equivalents for mr and mrs haven't been in common use for the past 50 years or so. If you call anyone mr/mrs [name] people will assume you are either joking or mocking them.
Coriander taste in a genetic thing. For some people it taste like something between soap and led. At least for me
how do you know what led tastes like
Not very accurate... I love how coriander seeds smell and taste. I cannot eat the leafy part of the plant (more known as cilantro), which is the one that MAY smell and taste like how a shield bug smells when it releases its defense oil (rotten almonds and pickled cabbage gone bad is how I describe it to myself).
As someone who likes coriander I use to describe the taste as "metallic".
@@laur4a768 long story, let just say I grew up in communist Poland and we had some very cheap cutlery
Well, no one really cares if you like cilantro or not, if you don't like it don't eat!
Just to try and move you forward, in the USA you keep talking about "Race" referring to human beings as if we were still in the 18th century. Scientifically, the only known breeds are those due to human selection, such as on dogs, horses, cows, etc. Consequently, no "races" emerge in nature, not even among human beings. Obviously generic traits are passed down over generations and it is very likely that a trait like, say, red hair, is much more likely if among your grandparents there were other individuals with the same trait. But this does not make a person with red hair belong to a race, ethnicity is another matter and is based on the type of culture imparted on the individual during his training and not on somatic traits. The ideas about "race" are a legacy of the propaganda efforts of Germany in the early twentieth century which had the aim of hegemonizing the German population of the time by suggesting the idea of belonging to a typology of human beings that for some reason was superior to the others but it has no scientific basis.
How does that explain the very real physical differences between different peoples? Clearly being tall or short, white or black etc isn't a cultural trait
Of course red heads aren't a race... that's just the hair. A black and white person are different races. Not propaganda when it's obvious haha. Talking about differences doesn't automatically make it bad. Of course there's a scientific basis, it's biology and categorization. There are 5 main races and then you can talk about ethnicity beyond that.
We prefer to talk about ethnic groups rather than races, because this term can give the wrong idea that there are substantial biological differences between the various human groups. Modern science has shown that genetic differences between humans are minimal and that most genetic variation is found within individual populations rather than between different groups. Therefore, talking about 'races' for human beings does not make much sense and can perpetuate erroneous and harmful ideas.
@@KungKokkos @Nekotaku_TV Race is the result of a programmed selection among the desired traits of a species through multiple generations. When these traits are isolated and we have reasonable certainty that they will be passed on to the next generation we can declare that we have created a "Breed". So it is only in what is raised that we can talk about race. The isolation of a population for many generations simulates this process, the Maori of New Zealand obviously have a genome very similar to each other but different from other populations but, having emerged naturally, to say: "Of Maori race" is wrong both scientifically and culturally. It's enough to say "It's Maori". The second commenter is so confidently ignorant that screams "I'm a US citizen." I also have no idea what he is referring to when he gives an exact number of human races. I assume the color of the skin but then it would be sufficient to say this, that is, what color the skin is, because but from the most albino phenotype to the darkest it is a constant gradation, its 5 limits are therefore arbitrary and unscientific. Furthermore, let's say we have an Eririan and a Nigerian. Maybe the skin color of both is exactly the same but if we look at the genome of the Eritrean it is possible that he has many more genes in common with a light-skinned individual than with the Nigerian. The use of the word "Race" exclusively showcases "classification anxiety":
@@KungKokkos Would you say a black cat and a white cat are different races/breeds just because they look different? No, you wouldn't.
11:36 Many Swedes don’t eat cilantro because they have specific gene that makes it taste like soap! This applies to me and is rather annoying.
I use dried cilantro.
I love it along with different currys and those Indian spice mixes.
I have it as well. It makes us able to taste the aldehydes that exist in both soap and cilantro. My question is if soap tastes the same to cilantro-lovers as it does to us? Sometimes a better sense of taste is not a plus.
The same as many Americans have a gen that thinks surströmming is disgusting...
@@JohnCederdahl LOL that's not that's not gene, every one thinks that. The amount of people that do this to them self is minuscule even in Sweden. NOBODY ACTUALLY EATS THIS. (at least not anymore) It's not a part of Swedish food culture it's just an oddity and a meme. But we do eat crawfish at the crawfish premier.
@@hellmalm I have plenty of friends who enjoy surströmming. They all assure me that it tastes so much better than it smells - but why take the risk? I may sit at the furtherst side of the table at a surströmming party but I've never actually tasted any.
Kitchen scissors cuts pizza much faster and easier than a pizza cutter does because they are much sharper than a pizza cutter and because the cutting is from two sides instead of one.
The duvet cover protects the duvet/blanket from sweat since it functions as a barrier between the body and the comforter, just like a pillow case does. Using one means that you don't have to wash the comforter as often, and this is a good thing because comforters are heavier than duvet covers.
And yes we do have drying machines in Sweden. And drying cabinets for larger things like sheets, towels, duvets, and duvet covers. This is a cold climate country and we can't always rely on the sun to dry our washing.
Asking if there is something someone doesn't eat is more about allergies, than preferences.
Fica (spelled with a c instead of a k) is an Italian word for a woman's private parts.
We do date. I think that she has just been unlucky in that department.
Up until the year 2000, we had a state church here in Sweden that everyone was born into
A more accurate translation of the first part of the Jante law is "don't think you are better than anyone else" = we are all equal.
She is wrong about please. We do have a word for it: snälla (pronounced snella), although we usually don't put it at the end of a sentence like you do in English, instead we put it at the beginning, like you say "Can you please..." or "Would you be so kind to..."
preferences count too. Either way the answer means "I won't touch that food".
As a swede, I consider this clarification to be correct.
The thing about the clothes, that referes to kindergardens/nurseries, in Skandinavia you start kindergarden at the age of 1 year, and you are out in all kinds of weather, at least if its warmer than minus 10 degrees, at least here in norway 😊
1 year is allowed in Sweden, but 1.5 years is more common.
We are out in colder weather than that in Sweden. But not the whole day.
@@tovep9573 it's only the children from 1-3 year that dont go out under minus 10, the other children do 😊
Reg the bed linnen. In Sweden most people have down quilt and that cost somewhere between $60 -100 depending on size. To wash that every week or even every month will turn it after a year or two. So we use the duvet cover to act as the protector of the quilt.
What I mean is that it will be destroyed by the washing. The seems will dissolve
Duvet in sweden is not a blanket. We would use a padded down confurter /duvet or synthetic padded conforter/duvet. If you have a duvet cover you dont need to wash it as often. You dont get it next to your skin.
I think item 9 in Jantelagen applies pretty well to the US mindset: You're not to think anyone cares about you. 🙂
Most American thing ever.
" Does Sweden have drying machines "
That was gold.
And the church thing. Its like a state church. Like state school.
Its to offer free options to people or cheaper.
Like you don't have to pay for baptism.
You don't pay for confirmation, it happens with the schools.
You have the right to be laid to rest in a graveyard.
In the US, you most likely have to pay for a lot of these things. And be part of a certain church.
Would like to mention, it is possible to choose not to be part of the state church. You just have to go online and say "Bye bye" Pretty sure its like that in Sweden to.
Janteloven is not a Swedish thing. It was first mention by an author born in Denmark. But are now a common thing in Scandinavia.
Also, the " No bad weather, only bad clothing" is something that at least is said in all of Scandinavia. Would even say Nordics.
Would certainly not call it a "Swedish" thing.
But then again, the duvet stuff is also common throughout Europe.
So maybe she is not talking about "Swedish things" but things that is just common in Sweden.
surstrømning is what I would call a Swedish thing.
Drying Machines? No we hang the sheets from the yardarm of our Viking ships and by the time we reach mainland Europe on a pillaging run the sheets are dry.
I swear, some Americans.
You dont want Sweden to have any gratitudes.. only Denmark. ...
What are you talking about? that makes no sense.
I mention Denmark once, because the woman in the video say "Janteloven" is a Swedish thing. While its a known fact it was written in Denmark by a Dane.
Has nothing to do with giving or taking from Sweden. Can't take something away from Sweden if it was never Swedish.
Or should Germany say IKEA is a German thing because they can buy IKEA in Germany?
I point out flaws in the video, because I find it weird that the maker names things that is in fact not Swedish, or is something that is done many places.
Missing the opportunity to name actual Swedish things.
Be mad at the woman for naming Danish things as Swedish. Instead of naming Swedish things. Not me.
There are plenty of amazing Swedish things to mention.
So you comment really makes zero sense. And has nothing to do with Denmark apart from the point that one of the things are Danish not Swedish.
That is however not something I think. Its just a fact.
Sweden have plenty things, or as you put it "gratitudes" And you should agree with my comment its a shame she does not actually bring them up. Bring up things that is in fact not Swedish gratitudes.
Not everything has to do with a nationalistic feeling. And getting hurt over facts will never bring anything positive.
But I do hope you have a wonderful day.
I think her point with the video was to talk about it from a swedish perspective vs how she sees life being in for example America (it's always a hot topic to compare) and how we do it here (were she actually lives) - and not trying to say we Swedes invented them?
@@sandrasaurusrex5984 "But then again, the duvet stuff is also common throughout Europe.
So maybe she is not talking about "Swedish things" but things that is just common in Sweden."
As I point out. Just seems weird to me.
Same as if Germany said IKEA is super German because we buy a lot of stuff from IKEA.
And when people see it, from like the US. They will have no clue. And thus view them as. " Oh that is Swedish then " meaning the confusion will always be there.
And to me also a missed opportunity to showcase actual Swedish things. There are many amazing Swedish things to showcase and talk about.
And it just seems weird to me she talk about things that is either from an other country. Or shared throughout many countries.
But did write she might just have meant it a different way than it was presented.
Or maybe she did just not know that they where not "Swedish" and or a more general thing. Something that is also fair.
I don't think you understand "faux pas" ? A faux pas is a tactless or embarrassing remark.
Sweden is so secular that a lot of people don't even know that they are members of a church or which church they belong to. My coworkers seemed confused when I told them I go to church with my mom every Christmas. The Swedish church is very liberal and welcoming and I think it's a shame people are starting to leave it, just to slightly reduce their taxes. The church does so much good for lesser-off people, I kind of see being part of it as giving money to charity.
I agree.
As an atheist, I do not go to church. Yet, I am a member of the Swedish church because they do many good things.
However, if you want too get married in a church ONE of the couple must be a member
As for leaving the church to save on taxes, there is still one tax you cannot revoke. That is your funeral cost. Since everbody is going too have one.
Death and taxes, eh? 😉.
I prefer giving to charities that I know where the money goes to.
I don't want to pay for some priest's new Porche (not that this is a thing in the Swedish church, afaik).
As a Swede, this girl seems a bit "quirky", borderline weird 😅
Yeah I get "weird" vibes of her aswell. Trying too hard to make it on the internet, vibes.
9:50 Haha! I love it when you run circles around self-righteous and complacent Swedes and Europeans, Ryan.
(Best regards, an old Swede.)
Jag också! Det här är nästan litet generande.
We put the crib in the same bedroom and the baby sleeps in the same room as you until they started to walk then they often move in to their own room. and you can take the crib away. If they are scared they can come to your bedroom.
15:07 No it’s taking a break and having a conversation while drinking coffee or tea and sometimes with some cinnamon bun, cake or cookies. At all workplaces there a coffee machine that you get free coffee from and usually there are two breaks when everyone gets together (colleagues) and talk and have a fika. Usually around 10am and 2 or 3 pm. Then after work you can have a fika at a cafe with someone you just stared dating and it depending on if it’s going good or not it can be quick or last for hours. Then at night after the kids have gone to bed most parents will have a cosy fika together and talk about the day. ❤❤❤🇸🇪
19:23 In my experience as a swede, being a feminist just means that you support womens rights, so unless you are sexist everyone is a feminist.
Shame the other video( greenland) was taken down, for whatever reason. I know the discussion got heated in the comments , but I hope that would be understandable. From my point of view, you at least brought it out as a topic, which I appreciate, I think that's very important for all of us at the moment to be able to exchange ideas.
Swede here and I have never, ever cut my pizza with scissors. 😂
No on the co-sleeping. Why not just have a cot in the bedroom.
Finns inget bättre än när man hör ligger bredvid sina ungar och somnar med dom! Har alltid haft dom från nyfödda och några månader framåt i min vänstra famn och somnat med dom, finns inget mer underbart, skapar ett sådant otroligt band! Spenderar varenda lediga tid med dom och hela familjen har ett sånt otroligt starkt band. :) Big ups tills alla föräldrar!
Swedish is one of the languages that we can’t read because their sounds are different, so eg, hej hej is said like hey hey.
same in slavic languages J is often Y or written as I but same sound as Y in hey
Doesn't it apply with litterally every language ? They all got different sounds from each other
@ Well, some languages are easier to read than others. Read this, it’s Swahili: Hakuna matata.
Only Welsh speakers can read Welsh. Only Japanese speakers can read Japanese kanji, but James Hepburn invented a system of Romanised spelling so others could read Japanese. Japan doesn’t use any emphasis on any of its syllables, every syllable is of equal strength. Knowing that, you can read Japanese using the Hepburn system. Konichiwa. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. But with kanji, that would be impossible. Russian writing is impossible for us because we don’t know how their characters are pronounced. That’s what I meant by being unable to read other languages, only those who write using the Alphabet.
@Jeni10 I see what you meant. Other alphabets are obviously obscurs the people who only know latin alphabet. But even though a language is spelled in latin alphabet, you won't probably know how to pronounce a word if you don't know the language. For exemple I suppose you will not know how to pronounce those words if you don't speak the respective languages : feuille/beliebig/coreutiche
@@Jeni10 "Japanese kanji" are simplified chinese characters, so most can be read by Chinese too, even though the characters might have a slightly different meaning. Hiragana and katakana are unique to the Japanese language though. Unlike kanji they don't represent "pictures" but syllable sounds. You can "spell" a kanji by using hiragana and katakana. And hiragana and katakana is easily romanised (turned into latin letters).
*今日は* → *こん* → *konnichiwa*
Kanji 今 is pronounced こん/ko-n (hiragana/latin)
Kanji 日 is pronounced にち/ni-chi (hiragana/latin)
The last character is は/wa (hiragana/latin)
Not sure what you mean by "doesn’t use any emphasis on any of its syllables". Take the words for rain and candy. Different kanjis, same hiragana/latin spelling, different emphasis on the syllables.
雨 あめ/ame rain → emphasis on the first syllable *あ*-め / *A*-me
飴 あめ/ame candy → emphasis on the second syllable あ-*め* / a-*ME*
As a Swede, I feel obliged to point out that she is not representative of the majority of our people.
Yeah, she's a very typical young global lefty big city woman which is very not representative of anyone outside of that specific demographic.
As another Swede, I don't agree. Most of what she says are standard Swedish customs for the majority.
Another Swede here, and I also would also say that most of what she says are widely accepted Swedish customs.
@@StalKalle Also swede, and some of that stuff is stuff I don't know anyone who does.
I think she represents the general Swedish culture and behavior very accurate.
Hello! Im swedish. and also in school and with every one we say the first name not Mr. aftername.
25:42 Never brag about yourself is what she means…❤❤❤❤🇸🇪
If you plan your co-sleeping you can do it safely! We dont use that much drugs (some of the chough syrups in the US that you can just buy and chug are banned or only prescription here!) we have fewer alcoholics (generally among new mothers) our mattress are generally firmer, we use less blankets and fluffy things in the bed, our beds are generally lower, we have a lower amount of obese people than the US. Also accidently suffocating your baby is not SIDS, so many people mix it up (even scientists!) and the statistics on co-sleeping that have accidently fallen asleep with baby on a chouch or fallen asleep with baby drunk or drugged is NOT part of our tradition to co-sleep, if you plan and do it sober its perfectly safe.
I think if you are dead tired to the point you will be closer to unconscious rather than normal sleep, then it will be dangerous even if not drunk. Using large and heavy duvets/blankets is also dangerous.
@@Joakim.Bengtsson Not really. we have one of the lowest infant mortality deaths and i cant find a single roll over death that is not caused by unsafe sleep habits (and again, true SIDS is not the same!) we also use two blankets and good material so they tend to not be large or heavy, many new parents, according to safe co-sleeping methods, use thinner blankets or tuck them in at the end so they cant get over the baby at all + use clothes in their body instead.
Jantelagen originally Danish. It seems that she (and many others) do not know it completely. It doesn't quite fit in with how Scandinavia is today. It was about a small town in Denmark during the 1930s with a very restrictive and oppressive attitude.
@@kristerforsman2448 If I remember correctly, someone (I'm guessing the Danes? But I can't say for sure) started teasing Swedes about our behavior by calling it Jantelagen. After a while it has been done for so long that it was adopted automatically. That's also why most Swedes don't know it's from Denmark, it was originally a joke or diss in previous generations 😊 and what we had was never the original Jantelag, it was just someone sticking it to us a bit, but she still doesn't explain the social code well😅 also madly generalizing 😅
I think it’s fair to say that the concept has evolved and changed, and the “modern” meaning of it in Swedish is different from how it was originally described.
That said, I think a lot of americanisms have affected Sweden over the last 50 years, to the point that it might even be as apparent as it used to be (especially in urban areas).
@@SwedenTheHedgehogYes you are right. It is probably largely due to the ignorance of the "real" Jantelagen. They have only heard the expression and some parts of it. In addition, many believe that it has Swedish origins.
You are also right about Swedes' slightly changed way of being. Not so afraid to stand out but still far from how Americans can be.
@@L.K.RydensThey have allso forgot Axel Sandemose.
Aksel Sandemose is Danish-Norwegian. In my opinion Janteloven can be applied to all of Scandinavia.
Ryan, you are hilarious! I have no idea when you are sarcastic and when you are genuine, so when I think you are sarcastic, it really gets me.
I am laughing throughout the video. Great stuff! You are hilarious
4:05 "Outside in the sun" What sun lol? Of course we have drying machines, its the frickin arctic here
brother,it was colder in Cluj,Romania than in Malmo....
@@paulstark4923 okay? Who the fuck cares, its romania lol
@@paulstark4923 Malmö is the warmest part of Sweden. Romania is inland so the weather is not heated by the Gulf Stream.
"Arctic"
@@sungi7814 yes, Arctic as in where I live we are above the Arctic circle.
I would not say Swedish schools are easier, we actually go through more in a shorter of time than in many other countries! Although they are very different and better thought out for kids mental health and stress!
I think most of this applies to all of Europe 😅
Exactly
At least to the more northern parts I think. Southern Europe may be a bit different.
It is illigal to register race in Sweden so it would be hard to find in the statistic
.. You don't need to lift up the entire pizza... Just lift up one side barely enough so you can get one of the blades under it, and then go to town. I bet you'll love it if you try it.
did you take your latest video down?
I enjoy you speaking on your interpretation of jantelagen (which I would say you have misunderstood), then conclude "which .. I UNDERSTAND" hah
here in Denmark vi have the same saying as in Sweden about the weather and dressing for it: "Der findes ikke dårligt vejr, kun dårligt påklædning" therefor you see Danes biking when the sun is shining, it rains and even if it snows.
Hello ryan, what happend to the ”american reacts to greenland” or something like that, the video.
came here for the same reason. Was it too controversial for youtube? Snowflakes everywhere!
I’m guessing he may have taken it down as he was making light of trump’s threats as entertaining. Comments from Canadians and Europeans feeling not so ha ha about this.
@@hmkmk7038 Well I got to see it and had some discussions going on, I actually liked the atmosphere and am sad about the interruption. But of course I am not aware of the overall picture. Just wondering if he took it down or if it was taken down.
10:56 that's one thing i really love about sweden. you adress everyone on a first name basis, there is no mr or mrs bullshit and no sir's etc, everyone is supposed to be on the same level
I'm Germany we don't date either. You go on some dates. As soon as you advance to kissing, it means you are a couple (if you hadn't make it clear that it's a one night stand, but then your wouldn't go on several dates). Seeing each other often, kissing, cuddling, maybe being intimate, but calling it "dating" and not being exclusive and seeing other people is a weird concept to me.
Yeah. I would feel like I'm cheating on everyone involved if I was at the kissing stage with more than one person.
Americans are prude, they need to date for weeks or even months before they can say they are together :D
"we don't date either. You go on some dates." You literally just contradicted yourself.
@@Nekotaku_TV No not really. We don't have the concept of "dating" as in the entire period up to moving in together. We go on _a few_ dates = meet up a few times. Then we're in a relationship until we breakup or die.
When I was in school, we didn’t get homework until third grade, about 8 years old, so we can practise the skills we learned in school, but at that age, homework took fifteen minutes and my parents supervised me so they knew I had done the work.
What happened to the greenland video??
SWAT?
@ yeah probably
What a great video! Both of them.
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so basicly, sweden is germany without the ability to say please? im sold, sweden is now on my "possible migration" list.
you can say the word ”snälla” and it is basically the same word as please.
@@DemiCape but by far not as versitaile as "bitte"
We say "please", but the formula is "om du skulle vilja vara så snäll att." The Swedes are a combination of egalitarian and polite in a way that we aren't aware of ourselves (except me). The personal address singular is always "du", but don't dare you to misuse "du", then you will unexpectedly annoy Swedes! Straight imperatives such as "you shall" can only be spoken by a police or other person in legal power, otherwise you must use fourth person "man" or passive form plus a mild prescription counterparting "ought to" and "may".
In Sweden we use the word "NOW!" instead of "please".
We are so effective.
Fika in Italian means having sex.
Fikken in Germany😅
Your comment is hilarious @@filipohman7277
The collective in Sweden has a very long tradition because in farming society we had to rely on each others. In older ages, Sweden was a harsh country to live in periods. In summer collect for winter. We had to help each other. Currently we have household with one person live in it. We are at the peaking point in the world. Most singled people. Independent but polite.
Scissors to cut pizza? At home we always used a sharp knife.
It's so much easier with scissors!!
I'm from germany, but i can relate so much to allmost everything she describes, especially jantelagen, which is word i just learned, but the concept klicks with me. The only exception is the "whole and clean" one - me and my wife still do that to an extend, but we reduced it quite a bit after the kids were born. It feels like "keeping up with the joneses" for cleaning and tidying up and we didn't want to pressure other parents or children with unnecessary high standards. So we just started to own our imperfections and began to justify it to ourselves by thinking, that while it might be embarrassing at times we're relieving others. But i have to admit that its a balancing act we're not allways happy with. And in my car that derailed completely, i can't have guests in there!
Didnt he make a video about greenland?
Yup he did. And now it's gone. Hope he's safe.
46 yr old Swede here. What she means is that both genders are for equality, not modern feminism. (And with equality I'm referring to equality of opportunity not outcome, cause then I wouldn't count myself in that group!)
I really liked your reactions and points here, enjoyable to watch.
In Switzerland they also have separate duvets
But they are made out of cheese.
04:05 swedes not obly have regular dryers, they also have drying boxes where you can put jackets, outdoor clothes, blankets etc (theyre the size of a fridge) - they're used when it rains or snows a lot.
Those are mostly used in kindergarden and mountain cabins. But i'ts true that most people have dryers since you have to dry clothes inside for 9 months each year
17:00 I was gonna make a joke about it probably being due to people being fat in US, but then I realised it's probably IS due to people being fat in US. Don't co-sleep if you're fat.
Perhaps a bit due to prescribed mood drugs and sleeping pills etc is more widely used in the US (rumor based "info") . Don't co-sleep if you take sleeping pills or bensos etc.
It's not a fat or drug thing. My grandmother turned over on my mom when they were sleeping and my mom was out of air for so long that she actually turned blue. This was in Sweden in 1954. My grandmother was a slim woman with no need for drugs (or ways to get them I'm sure 😅). She was just a normal person (co-)sleeping normally.
@@TinaDanielsson if it happened once in Sweden 1954 where it's standard, and happened 3 times in the 10(?) years Ryans spouse worked in US healthcare, where it's shunned upon, there should be some differences. Like fat and drugs.
@@gonnaga9302 Lol, of course my mother wasn't the only one it happened to. That was my point. It's normal human behaviour to move around when you sleep. And it's not the weight that crushes the babies, it's cutting of their air flow. And that can be done just by covering the baby with the duvet or blanket in your bed.
But most people, and especially moms, have a high awareness when they have a tiny creature with them, whether it be a baby or an animal. So they sense if something is wrong and wake up before anything really bad happens.
I guess I should clarify that I don't mean to say that everyone should co-sleep! I'm not against it, but if done, all possible safety measures should be taken. I'm just saying that it is not as simple as a weight or drug issue.
@@TinaDanielsson But you only have one example, no real numbers, and on that you base the opinion that it doesn't have to do with fatness or drugs, because that one example wasn't fat or used drugs.
fun fact: Home work was inventet in Italy to be a punishment for students who misbehaved in class but then teachers got lazy and gave it to everyone to avoid having to write down who had misbehaved and who had behaved
Swede here, I have never heard of or seen anyone use scissors to cut their pizzas. Neither in Stockholm or on the countryside. But as I say that, it does sound like something my sister and her family would do seeing as they started using scissors to cut their spaghetti when living in the US.
As a Norwegian,...a lot of us do that...the artist Aurora as well😂
I'm Swedish and I cut my pizza with scissors, I don't remember where I learnt it, though 😂 there's a chance it was my American cousins 😂
@@talldra My brother did it once, and since that day if we enjoy a pizza meal together we always use one.
As a Norwegian I have also never heard of or seen anyone use scissors to cut pizza.
Italian here: pizza is something that can be cut with scissors only when it's eaten in slices (in Italy we usually call it "pizza al trancio") because it is prepared with a topping solid enough to stay on the pizza when you cut it.
We use scissors a lot to cut that kind of pizza.
But proper pizza, restaurant pizza, have a topping that is too fluid to be cut in that way. Or at least, you can do it, but it will be a mess.
It is intended to be cut with a fork and knife when you eat it.
Pizza is everywhere slightly different, maybe in Sweden it is common to eat it in slices I don't know :)
...WHY is your go-to plan to hold up the entire pizza when cutting it?
It's okay if parts of it touch the plate while doing this, it's not gonna catch some kind of disease from this practice 😅
I'd be terrified to see you trying to saw a plank or work with textiles if this is how you go about things 😂
Hey! I’m from Sweden and not everything she said is a generell thing in Sweden! It’s her family and upbringing ! I just laugh when I heard some of the stuff, like she seriously think that everybody does like she does! 😄
In particular that scissors-pizza thing.
Totally agree with you!
I think your saying is "the right tool is half the job done"
Another saying in Denmark is "planning right is half the job"
I have had some headwinds at work saying "planning right is half the job and the right tools is half the job, so plan right with the right tools and you dont have to do anything"
I don't know if as a swede i can agree with everything she says , she makes it sound as if we are doing everything right and others should follow the will , feels strained and not really humble unlike other cultures way of living thier lives .
Vad svenskt svar haha 😅 lite ironiskt med tanke på den kulturella jantelagen. Hon är ödmjuk, hon visar ju bara det hon tycker är bra. Videon hade nog blivit dubbelt så lång om hon behövde jämna ut det med både fördelar och nackdelar, och dessutom helt orelevant
That's the topic of the video... she could make one about the bad stuff too... Think harder.
She sounds arrogant and ethnocentric to me. Moral superiority complex kinda.