15 CRAZY Sweden Stereotypes Americans Believe

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Thinking about visiting Sweden or just curious about the culture? Don't believe everything you hear! This video dives into 15 of the biggest stereotypes Americans have about Sweden, from blondes and Vikings to meatballs and free everything. We'll separate fact from fiction and give you a realistic picture of Swedish life. Get ready to be surprised!
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[@moonglow9251]

6:30 That can contains FERMENTED baltic herring ( surströmming ). It smells lika disaster. But if you throw that can away and instead eat PICKLED herring ( inlagd sill ) you'll probable like it a lot. Inlagd sill is sweet and tart and a bit salty and does not smell bad at all. I love it.

[@patrickadolfsson4784]

You do know that the Beatles are English right? From Liverpool actually... Awful city name though, a pool of liver ..😨💂👈🤓✌ ( thanks for your posts.) 😎..I need to point out to that I have no problems with British people or Britain, just to make it clear if someone mistake my sence of humor! It's actually brilliant if I may say so!! Over & Out..💆👈🤓❤✌

[@actionalex3611]

Aah you saved me the trouble haha

[@FoxPurtill]

Note on Blond/Blue.. there are, by average, more of them in Sweden. But that is only about 10% more than USA as example. As far as Neutrality, until joining NATO, Sweden was listed as a formal neutral country and would not take sides in a conflict except as peacekeepers.

[@FoxPurtill]

I have lived in Sweden for 26 years from the USA

[@StaffanSwede]

IKEA is very handy for families with children. Buy your furniture from IKEA when the kids are small. When they are old enough to care for furniture and other things in your home, the IKEA furniture is probably a bit worn and battered and that's when you go to other furniture stores and buy what you like. Regardless of this, they do have some nice things so a mix from different stores is probably what people have in their homes.

[@patrickadolfsson4784]

Hi my friend! As you surely noticed now in April & it"s unpredictable weather, Sweden has got various weathers during the same period depending on where you are.. Today Sunday April 28, we got summer here in Malmö& up north they had SNOW last night!! .. Schizofrenic are we?? 😨🙊🤓....P:S In May it's gonna be great weather here down in Malmö anyways, I ordered a lot of 🌻☉🌞😎.D:S! PIIZ 🕴✌

[@Patrik6920]

..ya weather been kind of nuts last month or so... especially in south, Blizzard and 50 cm snow one day and flloding two days later..

[@patrickadolfsson4784]

@@Patrik6920 What? Where? Not in south of Sweden anyways, I live there & here's not been any blizzards down here! Maybe not this year or what? You lost me there ..? Piiz ✌

[@Patrik6920]

@@patrickadolfsson4784 was all over the news so... even another mayor road was clogged upp ... again.. sry dont remeber the date... 8 mars for example turned up.. if u search for it..

[@bjornh4664]

Nice debunking of some popular myths, even if I would've liked a bit more detail. Anyway, as a 100 % genetic Swede, I have blue eyes and very dark blonde hair - certainly not anywhere near the yellowish thatch some think all Swedes have. The darkness... Southern Sweden is on the same latitude as northern England and Scotland, and you never hear people talk about those regions as "dark". Sure, up north - especially above the Arctic Circle - things are different in wintertime, but the majority of Swedes live in areas with the same amount of daylight as, say, the north of Scotland. As for IKEA... I live in a mid-sized city, and the nearest IKEA is over an hour's drive away. Haven't been to it in ages. Herring... Pickled herring is a traditional staple at festivities like Midsummer, Christmas, etc, but fermented herring (surströmming) is more regional (north of Sweden). I've never had it. Nudity... In my 59 years, I've never seen a nude person in a public area. Skinnydipping in a more secluded location is one thing, but if anyone went about in the buff in public they would most likely be arrested. Neutrality... It has been more like non-aligned in peacetime and non-belligerent in time of war. Politically and militarily, Sweden has been solidly in the Western camp post-WW2, and now we are a full NATO member. English language skills... While most Swedes possess basic English as a result of it being the first foreign language we study, the proficiency in it varies wildly. It mainly depends on how much you've used it after leaving school. Most can manage a basic conversation in more or less accented English if pressed. Some of the older generation (say 70+) avoid it if possible. Then you have a large group with varying degrees of fluency. I'm married to an American and speak the language almost like a native speaker. Anyway, it's good to see some tired clichés debunked.

[@stiglarsson8405]

Its this about stereotypes.. its when one dont know that much! Is swedes happyer, not if one ask swedes.. and dont ask becuse then one have to listen to all there life problems! Its rather that other populations would think they get happy if they get what we got in Sweden!!? In anyway.. there is some drawbacks.. it rather make sweden an "extrem country" in a world scale, and its about values! The first values is 1, Independens, 2, Independens, 3 Independens.. the rest is any other "value"! Our kids leave there parents home around 18-20, to be "Indipendent" and to compete in a higly competetive "job market"! Soo, we do have one of the moste highest "single households" and to top up that altso "the moste lonlines households"! Its hard to live in sweden, becuse every other is altso "Indipendent", our lifstyle is much indoor living half the year or more! Makes it dificult to find new friends or a spouse! Then there is "areas" where its even more dificult to be fully integrated to swedish society.. so you dont need to walk those areas, becuse someone alredy done that; "Swedens most "dangerous" Ghettos . Malmö - Rosengård and stockholm - Rinkeby." kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHSvinafrtKNoac&ab_channel=KishMyWorld

[@BazColne]

This is embarrassing.

[@Lexxinsweden]

I know