I grew up in a small town, and we have house by the lake with a boat and big forests where we built treehouses and we could use the boat fom an early age and go fishing. It was total freedom in the 70s and early 80s, with very little control from grownups, we went to school by bike on our own, it was paradise.
As a Brit in Sweden, whenever I see Swedish schoolkids, I just think to myself "You have no idea how lucky you are!" 😂 The social safety net (provided by A-Kassa and strong unions etc), decent education where you learn 3+ languages, access to nature, I could go on...
I'm 70 years old and things have changed a lot here in Sweden. When I was a child in the end of the 1950's there were almost no kindergartens (we used the German word then). As both my parents were working as teachers, we had nannies who took care of me and my siblings, which was the usual way then. Some of the nannies lived in a room of their own in our house, and some came only during daytime. We had of course only one nanny at a time, but they usually shifted every year, because most were young women, who were a nanny for one year as it would help them to go on to other works or some higher education. I once even had a nanny from Lübeck in Germany. It was a young German woman, who lived in our house for one year. She had some education in law and economics, and was intended to work at a German Commerce Institute in Sweden. She was a nanny in my family for one year to be able to learn to talk in Swedish. When I started school in the first grade in 1961 it was very idyllic. The teachers were friendly and loved children. There was a lot of time for playing, and the teachers sometimes read one chapter after another from an adventure book for us. The teachers knew the families of the children personally. Nowadays I think there is too much stress in Swedish schools, and that it's too anonymous there.
Schools have too much stress, my daughter who is 11 years old is super stressed about school and they give her homework every week. She never feels free and there's always something she feels society is demanding of her... she is ELEVEN!! They shouldn't be stressed out about anything!! I believe Sweden is on a hard and steady decline, like every other European country. We, as a family, are strongly considering moving to my birth-country, the Netherlands.
I have always wanted to live in Sweden for as long as I can remember. Having relatives living there would have made things a little easier I think. I’ve just heard so many positive things about the country. Crazy as it sounds I’ve always felt that is where I belong. 😊. Unfortunately moving is not an option for me so I’ll need to settle for visiting.
I grew up on a small farm in Sweden. I never went to kindergarten when I was little. But was at home on the farm until I was six years old. Then I went to something called lekis at the age of 6. But that was in the mid-70s. Now it looks completely different.
@@herrbonk3635 I don't think that has ever been mandatory. I grew up in the late 90's, and at least one kid in my class was at home until lekis, and maybe one or two went to a dagmamma
I grew up in the 60s, in Norrköping, where I still live. Never went to kindergarten but was with a nanny. Went to play school as it was called then. Grades 1-3 were at a school right near where we lived. 4-9 a little further away but walking distance. Then Technical high school. Had a good childhood in Norrköping in the area in the north called Haga, Lots of children and lots of play outside, and some stupid things that children do.
Grew up just a few kilometers north of where you live now. English/Swedish speaking family, upper middle class with nanny and house keeper... Neighbours children thought I was weird when I spoke English to them.
I moved around in my childhood due to my fathers work. My mother was home during mine and my brothers first years. I was out and about with dozens of other kids in the neighbourhood until I was 6 and went to Lekskola (similar to Förskoleklass, 0:an) a year before first grade. My mother looked down on other mothers who sent their kids to Dagis (which was a new thing when I was in that age). She still grumbled when my own kids went to förskolan, although almost every kid is in förskola nowadays, and it's the only place to meet other kids. The idea she had probably stems from the 1930's and 40's when perhaps only the poorest families had to put their kids in "daghem." "A real mother is home taking care of the family and household." Another thing is the amount of children which is playing outdoors. When I was a kid it was crowded but now it's quite empty. During my childhood I also had the benfit of experience almost all of sweden north to south, east to west, and that is something I am grateful to my l parents.
I grew up in Sweden and im one of the lucky few it seems (when looking at social media).... I grew up pre internet and so... When i wanted to hang out or have fun with my friends we agreed to meet up on different locations and then go to different places. Sure it was not all great however we did gain real life experience, and did not sit around with our heads buried in some tablet or smartphone 🔥
I agree that this is a problem of today's time. It's up to us individuals and society to make a change again. I often think about my kids when they're older and I hope I can distill values in them, for example as you said 'real life experiences'. We're still a tablet/phone free household for the kids. I also read interesting studies about not using a phone or tablet until the kids are at least 12. It's definitely a difficult situation to be in.
I grew up in Sweden and It wasn’t that great. It all depends on the individual area, school etc. Now letting my kids attend an international school in Germany and I’m really amazed by their facilities and teaching methods.
Swede here: I'd say how good it is growing up in Sweden depends on where you live. I think it was in the 90s that the school system went from national to municipial, and since then the wealth of the municipality plays a big role in the standard of edutcation. Comparing the north were everything is being shut down to the south its probably night and day. And just look at Stockholm, I'd bet someone in the poorer suburbs have a heck of a harder time than in the city. I went to school in the south of sweden in the 90s-2000s and I can't really say it was all unicorns and rainbows. In my small town which is an industrial town of roughly say 18,000 people, we had no high school programme for industrial workers - but we did have for hairdressers, florists, soccer players, artists, actors and dancers. After graduation there were alot of unemployed people who had spent 12 years in the school system and had in the end, not been taught a profession which they could be working in. Individuality and choice sounds nice and all, but I'd take a school system more market-oriented any day. And kids needs rules and structures, if a kid doesn't learn how to being to told what to do, how are they gonna function in the workplace? If you act up at work, you ain't gonna be lead out to the park, you'll get fired. Anyway interesting video, cheers from an on the subject of swedish school an equally bitter and passionate experiencer.
Just think about how many brilliant inventions and solutions have come out of Sweden. Sooo many cool (and at times big) companies. One can say the same about Germany I guess but I think the school sytem is working here. For such a small country it punches above its weight. ("Smarter" kids get special attention in Swedish schools. They often stay with their friends but are working ahead in books. No need to put them outside their normal frames/environment just because they are smarter than average.)
I feel that the “free” higher education really is great. Without it we would probably have a lot of talented people settling for less advanced careers, and the society would be worse off because of it. There is of course the risk of people not suited for higher education just spending time at universities postponing their entry into the workforce, but I think/hope we, the society, have a net benefit from it.
Greetings from Turkiye, as a Turk I love Germany and have a huge respect of Germans. I totally agree with you points you made on education. They want to educate students like a industrial product and want them to be all same like a product. However i guess traditional education schools will be replaced by online education systems in the near future. Universities, high schools...etc will be attended all online.
I’m Scottish/Swedish. Never met another person like me. I grew up in Edinburgh & Stockholm. From 1970s back n forth for years. I speak English, Scottish & Swedish 🇸🇪 - I am very Viking hyper aggressive Scottish 🏴 but peaceful Swedish 🇸🇪 at the same time. I’m confused but logical & good looking Sweden 🇸🇪 man. Age 39. Jaja men Sam !
I grew up in Sweden. I like my chilhood, but things have changed a lot, and I don't want my kids to grow up in Sweden. If I was omnipotent, then I would rewind time and have my children born in Sweden, but I would like for my kids to grow up in Japan. I think that would be much, much better, safer and more enjoyable for them.
@@LivingSwedish Oh, it's quite amazing. We lived in Japan for 7 months in 2020, but then returned to Sweden to save up some money and sell off furniture so wee could move there permanently. Unfortunatly that was a lot harder than expected with first covid and then the inflation that we've been having and relatives falling ill and needing our help. But for the educational system - it's different from prefecture to prefecture, but where we lived, which was 2 subway stops from Kyoto station they have nursery schools and preschools, meaning they can even take care of your new born. Japan is very collective minded, but not in a tax for social services way, but in a member of a family type of way. The preschoolers in our kindergarten grew their own food and helped cook it and serve it. And not just the kids, but the entire staff too. At the end of the day everyone cleans the school, even the principal is on his knees scrubbing the floor. Nobody gets a pass, everyone has to pitch in. They would go on a fieldtrip at least once a week to see a temple, castle or a museum for example. Japan is very safe - Sweden has more crimes reported to thee Police than Japan. And that's with Japan having 120+ million people. And society i structured in a way to make it very safe for kids to go to school by themselves, meaning it's fairly common to see children as young as 5 year old going to preschool by themselves. They are taught humanist values, respect for eachother and their belongings, but also responsibility. A first grader in Japan is expected to be able to be able to take care of her/himself. I would say that school in general is a bit harder, and they get a lot of homework and assignments, they have after school activities like judo or volleyball, chess, ballet, english classes etc - some run by school staff. It gets very intense in 8:th and 9:th grade and onwards, when the kids then tend to study to pass exams rather than study to learn.
@@LivingSwedish I will say that Japan has a bad reputation for racism and bullying, but there is a reason for that: First of all, one of the big global reports on racism that the UN does includes how many people from neighboring countries live in Japan...Japan borders North Korea, Russia & China. Countries that most of the west wants to stay very, very far away from. All 3 of them want to destroy Japan. And I know this is anecdotally, but I nver experienced racism during our 7 months. A friend of mine who has lived in Nagoya (2.3 million people) for 26 years has only experienced racism once, and that was 3 years ago from a very drunk Japanese person on a train. Bullying in school really only happens if you stick out. Ie, if you don't partake in the chores, or decide to sneak away and smoke a cigarette for example. The japanese have a saying - "the needle that sticks out gets hammered in", and schools have rules for length of hair, dying your hair, school uniforms, length of socks, etc, etc. It's strict, but teaches the kind of discipline that is almost guaranteed to lead to success in life. I hope you don't mind me giving some more background on my last post. It will make sense, I promise. In Sweden we contribute to the collective by paying taxes and getting social services and healthcare very cheap. And then on top of that you have a strong social pressure to embrace humanist values, and then culturally you have mentality of trust, not bragging about things like money or possessions. Japan is very collective minded, but in a very different way. As soon as we moved in we were treated as family by not just our neighbors, but the entire neighborhood. We were given vegetables, often invited to come and sit down and enjoy ice tea in the summer, got offers of babysitting if we wanted to see Kyoto by ourselves for a few hours, asked if we needed help in translating papers, asked if we needed help finding a job, etc, etc. Some of that might happen on the Swedish countryside, but this was in central Kyoto, a city larger Than Stockholm. BUT it also came with responsibilities, people on the ground floor would go out and sweep and clean the street in front of their shops every morning around 6 or 7 in the morning. That made you very conscious of not littering. There was a community board with notes of events that the entire neighborhood needed to participate in, like cleaning up plastic from a beach or participating in a parade (in specific clothes, learning a dance, etc) When this sort of mentality is drilled in, you get a society that is very different from Sweden. Japan has vending machines outside with alcohol and cigarettes in them, and yet there is no underage drinking/smoking. Tattoos are associated with criminals, so young people tend to avoid getting them. Drugs are close to non existent, but it is on the rise. (0,8% of all japanese have tried an illegal drug). Going to a rock festival, (Japan Jam Beach) everyone spreads out so that you have about 75 cm to thee next person so that everyone can move freely or dance without touching anyone else. At the same rock festival (where there were several beer vendors) there were 30 cm sticks in the sand with a ribbon attached to them saying "please do not go into the water", and nobody did. When you go on a train it is so quiet that you can hear a tissue falling. The streets are incredibly clean (except Osaka...there it's still good, but you can find trash in the street some times. Everything has upsides and downsides, but I think Japan is better than most (if not the best)
One teacher was enough until the nineties or early 2000s. Up until eary 1980s we had the worlds best school. Now we are at the bottom and have two teachers per class. There is absolutely no proof that more teachers equals better teaching. The problem is todays parents and the upbringing.
@@dansihvonen8218 Yep. Also many parents demand of teachers to set a higher grade on their children than what the child performed. The whole world really is inverted logic today. I wonder how long until it completely collapse. Reality and fact don't care about feelings.
It does not really matter where you grow up, what matters though is if people are good where you grow up. I am Swedish and the best part of my growing up was in Denmark. Today there is no difference cause it looks like it sucks all over the place up here. Stay away from the big cities like Stockholm and Gothenbourg etc etc though. I think Finland still is ok if you compare the Nordic countries but allways stay away from Norway if you can
we sweed say it is free health care but it is not totaly right you have to pay beside tax a symbolic bill little more then 100 kr/24 hour can be little difference between hospital so for a week in hospital you pay for food, care and bed place around 100 euro.not talk about dentiest, me exemple is old and lost 3 teeth to get new should cost like 5k euro. so do not get bad teeth in sweden the tax do not pay a single penny if you are older then 18.
Why didn't you have your babies in Germany... I was under the impression that Angela Merkel shows up at the hospital to give new moms a schnitzel sandwich. 🙃
@@LivingSwedish The looks (as you probably understand). I guess your shared genes are fairly common in Germany? (Not so much here in Sweden, I can say.)
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I grew up and still live in the US
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I grew up in a small town, and we have house by the lake with a boat and big forests where we built treehouses and we could use the boat fom an early age and go fishing. It was total freedom in the 70s and early 80s, with very little control from grownups, we went to school by bike on our own, it was paradise.
As a Brit in Sweden, whenever I see Swedish schoolkids, I just think to myself "You have no idea how lucky you are!" 😂
The social safety net (provided by A-Kassa and strong unions etc), decent education where you learn 3+ languages, access to nature, I could go on...
A-Kassa will chase you so all over the world
Some of us do. But the people who destroyed it doesn't.
I'm 70 years old and things have changed a lot here in Sweden. When I was a child in the end of the 1950's there were almost no kindergartens (we used the German word then). As both my parents were working as teachers, we had nannies who took care of me and my siblings, which was the usual way then. Some of the nannies lived in a room of their own in our house, and some came only during daytime. We had of course only one nanny at a time, but they usually shifted every year, because most were young women, who were a nanny for one year as it would help them to go on to other works or some higher education. I once even had a nanny from Lübeck in Germany. It was a young German woman, who lived in our house for one year. She had some education in law and economics, and was intended to work at a German Commerce Institute in Sweden. She was a nanny in my family for one year to be able to learn to talk in Swedish. When I started school in the first grade in 1961 it was very idyllic. The teachers were friendly and loved children. There was a lot of time for playing, and the teachers sometimes read one chapter after another from an adventure book for us. The teachers knew the families of the children personally. Nowadays I think there is too much stress in Swedish schools, and that it's too anonymous there.
Schools have too much stress, my daughter who is 11 years old is super stressed about school and they give her homework every week. She never feels free and there's always something she feels society is demanding of her... she is ELEVEN!! They shouldn't be stressed out about anything!! I believe Sweden is on a hard and steady decline, like every other European country. We, as a family, are strongly considering moving to my birth-country, the Netherlands.
Must suck seeing your country slowly fall in to pieces.
I have always wanted to live in Sweden for as long as I can remember. Having relatives living there would have made things a little easier I think. I’ve just heard so many positive things about the country. Crazy as it sounds I’ve always felt that is where I belong. 😊. Unfortunately moving is not an option for me so I’ll need to settle for visiting.
It´s very similar in all nordic countries greetings from Denmark Dk nice video ;)
I can imagine! I'd love to explore Denmark more 😊
I grew up on a small farm in Sweden. I never went to kindergarten when I was little. But was at home on the farm until I was six years old. Then I went to something called lekis at the age of 6. But that was in the mid-70s. Now it looks completely different.
Thanks for sharing! So interesting to hear! 😊
Same for me. But dagis isn't mandatory today either? I hope...
@@herrbonk3635 I don't think that has ever been mandatory. I grew up in the late 90's, and at least one kid in my class was at home until lekis, and maybe one or two went to a dagmamma
I grew up in the 60s, in Norrköping, where I still live. Never went to kindergarten but was with a nanny. Went to play school as it was called then.
Grades 1-3 were at a school right near where we lived. 4-9 a little further away but walking distance.
Then Technical high school.
Had a good childhood in Norrköping in the area in the north called Haga, Lots of children and lots of play outside, and some stupid things that children do.
Thanks for sharing! 👏👏
Tack!
Thanks a lot! 😊
Grew up just a few kilometers north of where you live now. English/Swedish speaking family, upper middle class with nanny and house keeper... Neighbours children thought I was weird when I spoke English to them.
I moved around in my childhood due to my fathers work. My mother was home during mine and my brothers first years. I was out and about with dozens of other kids in the neighbourhood until I was 6 and went to Lekskola (similar to Förskoleklass, 0:an) a year before first grade. My mother looked down on other mothers who sent their kids to Dagis (which was a new thing when I was in that age). She still grumbled when my own kids went to förskolan, although almost every kid is in förskola nowadays, and it's the only place to meet other kids. The idea she had probably stems from the 1930's and 40's when perhaps only the poorest families had to put their kids in "daghem." "A real mother is home taking care of the family and household."
Another thing is the amount of children which is playing outdoors. When I was a kid it was crowded but now it's quite empty.
During my childhood I also had the benfit of experience almost all of sweden north to south, east to west, and that is something I am grateful to my l parents.
I have a son and I totally agree with the experience in early years of the child, me too have that flag from BB
I grew up in Sweden and im one of the lucky few it seems (when looking at social media).... I grew up pre internet and so... When i wanted to hang out or have fun with my friends we agreed to meet up on different locations and then go to different places. Sure it was not all great however we did gain real life experience, and did not sit around with our heads buried in some tablet or smartphone 🔥
I agree that this is a problem of today's time. It's up to us individuals and society to make a change again. I often think about my kids when they're older and I hope I can distill values in them, for example as you said 'real life experiences'. We're still a tablet/phone free household for the kids. I also read interesting studies about not using a phone or tablet until the kids are at least 12. It's definitely a difficult situation to be in.
I remember that little meal we got with the swedish flag after our daughter was born. That was 13 years ago, nice to know it's still a thing.
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I grew up in Sweden and It wasn’t that great. It all depends on the individual area, school etc. Now letting my kids attend an international school in Germany and I’m really amazed by their facilities and teaching methods.
What didn't you like when growing up in Sweden? I can imagine an international school in Germany is very different from the usual schools in Germany 😅
Swede here: I'd say how good it is growing up in Sweden depends on where you live. I think it was in the 90s that the school system went from national to municipial, and since then the wealth of the municipality plays a big role in the standard of edutcation. Comparing the north were everything is being shut down to the south its probably night and day. And just look at Stockholm, I'd bet someone in the poorer suburbs have a heck of a harder time than in the city. I went to school in the south of sweden in the 90s-2000s and I can't really say it was all unicorns and rainbows. In my small town which is an industrial town of roughly say 18,000 people, we had no high school programme for industrial workers - but we did have for hairdressers, florists, soccer players, artists, actors and dancers. After graduation there were alot of unemployed people who had spent 12 years in the school system and had in the end, not been taught a profession which they could be working in. Individuality and choice sounds nice and all, but I'd take a school system more market-oriented any day. And kids needs rules and structures, if a kid doesn't learn how to being to told what to do, how are they gonna function in the workplace? If you act up at work, you ain't gonna be lead out to the park, you'll get fired.
Anyway interesting video, cheers from an on the subject of swedish school an equally bitter and passionate experiencer.
I'm moving to Portugal to live on my sailing yacht for the rest of my life. No more snow!
Wow, that sounds like an interesting life! I can't wait to see the snow again this year 😅 But Portugal is an amazing destination!
I grow up in sweden, from 12 to 27, i moved to china, i see huge different between the education and life and mentality.
Oh, how interesting! What is best and worst in China compared to Sweden?
@@LivingSwedish 1000 items i can list, take to much effort to write😀
Would loved to have grown up in Sweden. It's the wealthy "gated community" of Europe. Look forward to visiting.
😊 Where did you grow up?
@@LivingSwedish USA. I love spicy food though. My impression is that the cuisine is tasty but bland.
Just think about how many brilliant inventions and solutions have come out of Sweden. Sooo many cool (and at times big) companies. One can say the same about Germany I guess but I think the school sytem is working here. For such a small country it punches above its weight.
("Smarter" kids get special attention in Swedish schools. They often stay with their friends but are working ahead in books. No need to put them outside their normal frames/environment just because they are smarter than average.)
Mycket trevligt. Och intressant.
Tack så mycket! 🥰
Har du någon grupp där det är möjligt att chatta med likasinnade?? ❤
Jag är verkligen redo för det.
I feel that the “free” higher education really is great.
Without it we would probably have a lot of talented people settling for less advanced careers, and the society would be worse off because of it.
There is of course the risk of people not suited for higher education just spending time at universities postponing their entry into the workforce, but I think/hope we, the society, have a net benefit from it.
very relevant Information.
Greetings from Turkiye, as a Turk I love Germany and have a huge respect of Germans. I totally agree with you points you made on education. They want to educate students like a industrial product and want them to be all same like a product. However i guess traditional education schools will be replaced by online education systems in the near future. Universities, high schools...etc will be attended all online.
I’m Scottish/Swedish. Never met another person like me. I grew up in Edinburgh & Stockholm. From 1970s back n forth for years. I speak English, Scottish & Swedish 🇸🇪 - I am very Viking hyper aggressive Scottish 🏴 but peaceful Swedish 🇸🇪 at the same time. I’m confused but logical & good looking Sweden 🇸🇪 man. Age 39. Jaja men Sam !
Hahaha 💪
I grew up in Sweden. I like my chilhood, but things have changed a lot, and I don't want my kids to grow up in Sweden. If I was omnipotent, then I would rewind time and have my children born in Sweden, but I would like for my kids to grow up in Japan. I think that would be much, much better, safer and more enjoyable for them.
Oh, how interesting! What do you think about the education system in Japan?
@@LivingSwedish Oh, it's quite amazing. We lived in Japan for 7 months in 2020, but then returned to Sweden to save up some money and sell off furniture so wee could move there permanently. Unfortunatly that was a lot harder than expected with first covid and then the inflation that we've been having and relatives falling ill and needing our help.
But for the educational system - it's different from prefecture to prefecture, but where we lived, which was 2 subway stops from Kyoto station they have nursery schools and preschools, meaning they can even take care of your new born.
Japan is very collective minded, but not in a tax for social services way, but in a member of a family type of way.
The preschoolers in our kindergarten grew their own food and helped cook it and serve it. And not just the kids, but the entire staff too. At the end of the day everyone cleans the school, even the principal is on his knees scrubbing the floor. Nobody gets a pass, everyone has to pitch in. They would go on a fieldtrip at least once a week to see a temple, castle or a museum for example.
Japan is very safe - Sweden has more crimes reported to thee Police than Japan. And that's with Japan having 120+ million people. And society i structured in a way to make it very safe for kids to go to school by themselves, meaning it's fairly common to see children as young as 5 year old going to preschool by themselves.
They are taught humanist values, respect for eachother and their belongings, but also responsibility. A first grader in Japan is expected to be able to be able to take care of her/himself.
I would say that school in general is a bit harder, and they get a lot of homework and assignments, they have after school activities like judo or volleyball, chess, ballet, english classes etc - some run by school staff.
It gets very intense in 8:th and 9:th grade and onwards, when the kids then tend to study to pass exams rather than study to learn.
@@LivingSwedish I will say that Japan has a bad reputation for racism and bullying, but there is a reason for that:
First of all, one of the big global reports on racism that the UN does includes how many people from neighboring countries live in Japan...Japan borders North Korea, Russia & China. Countries that most of the west wants to stay very, very far away from. All 3 of them want to destroy Japan. And I know this is anecdotally, but I nver experienced racism during our 7 months. A friend of mine who has lived in Nagoya (2.3 million people) for 26 years has only experienced racism once, and that was 3 years ago from a very drunk Japanese person on a train.
Bullying in school really only happens if you stick out. Ie, if you don't partake in the chores, or decide to sneak away and smoke a cigarette for example. The japanese have a saying - "the needle that sticks out gets hammered in", and schools have rules for length of hair, dying your hair, school uniforms, length of socks, etc, etc. It's strict, but teaches the kind of discipline that is almost guaranteed to lead to success in life.
I hope you don't mind me giving some more background on my last post. It will make sense, I promise.
In Sweden we contribute to the collective by paying taxes and getting social services and healthcare very cheap. And then on top of that you have a strong social pressure to embrace humanist values, and then culturally you have mentality of trust, not bragging about things like money or possessions.
Japan is very collective minded, but in a very different way. As soon as we moved in we were treated as family by not just our neighbors, but the entire neighborhood. We were given vegetables, often invited to come and sit down and enjoy ice tea in the summer, got offers of babysitting if we wanted to see Kyoto by ourselves for a few hours, asked if we needed help in translating papers, asked if we needed help finding a job, etc, etc. Some of that might happen on the Swedish countryside, but this was in central Kyoto, a city larger Than Stockholm.
BUT it also came with responsibilities, people on the ground floor would go out and sweep and clean the street in front of their shops every morning around 6 or 7 in the morning. That made you very conscious of not littering. There was a community board with notes of events that the entire neighborhood needed to participate in, like cleaning up plastic from a beach or participating in a parade (in specific clothes, learning a dance, etc)
When this sort of mentality is drilled in, you get a society that is very different from Sweden.
Japan has vending machines outside with alcohol and cigarettes in them, and yet there is no underage drinking/smoking. Tattoos are associated with criminals, so young people tend to avoid getting them. Drugs are close to non existent, but it is on the rise. (0,8% of all japanese have tried an illegal drug).
Going to a rock festival, (Japan Jam Beach) everyone spreads out so that you have about 75 cm to thee next person so that everyone can move freely or dance without touching anyone else. At the same rock festival (where there were several beer vendors) there were 30 cm sticks in the sand with a ribbon attached to them saying "please do not go into the water", and nobody did. When you go on a train it is so quiet that you can hear a tissue falling. The streets are incredibly clean (except Osaka...there it's still good, but you can find trash in the street some times.
Everything has upsides and downsides, but I think Japan is better than most (if not the best)
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Hi, can I ask you how much you pay in yearly property taxes for your cabin?
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What worries me is that Swedes (I am one) takes all this for granted. But we are fast US adopters so things may change. I hope I'm wrong.
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Bit there are older hospital buildings in Sweden as well, you probably had the good luck to get to a modern ward.
One teacher was enough until the nineties or early 2000s. Up until eary 1980s we had the worlds best school. Now we are at the bottom and have two teachers per class. There is absolutely no proof that more teachers equals better teaching. The problem is todays parents and the upbringing.
Too many choose to be friends with children and not be responsible adults and parents. (Instead, they try to parent each other on social media.)
@@dansihvonen8218 Yep. Also many parents demand of teachers to set a higher grade on their children than what the child performed. The whole world really is inverted logic today. I wonder how long until it completely collapse. Reality and fact don't care about feelings.
Sweden's school system is broken. Back to basics, what we knows works!
What used to work best in Sweden?
Norway
It does not really matter where you grow up, what matters though is if people are good where you grow up. I am Swedish and the best part of my growing up was in Denmark. Today there is no difference cause it looks like it sucks all over the place up here. Stay away from the big cities like Stockholm and Gothenbourg etc etc though. I think Finland still is ok if you compare the Nordic countries but allways stay away from Norway if you can
Man behöver inte kunna svenska ,,, det går jätte bra med engelska 👍❤
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"how nice to hear you talk, det går ju bra på alla språk" :)
Om man planerar att bo permanent i Sverige bör man dock lära sig flytande svenska.
Självklart ska man lära sig Svenska om man avser att slå rot i Sverige. Men visst, UNDER TIDEN man lär sig svenska klarar man sig bra med engelskan.
Invandrare från 3e världen måste lära sig svenska dock!!
we sweed say it is free health care but it is not totaly right you have to pay beside tax a symbolic bill little more then 100 kr/24 hour can be little difference between hospital so for a week in hospital you pay for food, care and bed place around 100 euro.not talk about dentiest, me exemple is old and lost 3 teeth to get new should cost like 5k euro. so do not get bad teeth in sweden the tax do not pay a single penny if you are older then 18.
Yes, true, you pay a little fee. Dentist is a whole other thing for sure. Very expensive so I heard.
Only Jonkopping
Why didn't you have your babies in Germany... I was under the impression that Angela Merkel shows up at the hospital to give new moms a schnitzel sandwich. 🙃
Imbswedevgerman.
Are you second cousin with Sandra Bullock or something?
How did you know?! 😝
@@LivingSwedish The looks (as you probably understand). I guess your shared genes are fairly common in Germany? (Not so much here in Sweden, I can say.)