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other channel i'll put a link in the description i asked you guys over on instagram which videos
you want me to make and this was one of the most popular ideas now all countries have their own
weird customs and behaviors and suites definitely are no exception i'm swedish myself and a lot
of these things i didn't realize were completely bonkers until i left and moved to another country
i thought this is just how people behave it's human nature all over the world but no no people
do not behave like this everywhere it's time to roast my own country people and call them out
on their strange and embarrassing habits okay okay i'm one of them so i'm gonna roast myself today as
well let's do it in sweden no one is ever better than anyone else it's considered completely vulgar
to brag about yourself or even slightly point out one of your good sides if someone gives you
a compliment you can't say is thank you instead you have to go like oh no not me not at all
i'm not good at this at all all this makes job interviews a kind of tricky business in sweden
swedish people's favorite word isn't about love or thank you or please or oh goody or something cute
like that our favorite word is oi we say it all the time it means kinda like oops and wow combined
oi the short little ugly word is used instead of oh really and cool and even excuse me yep if a
swedish person bumps into someone they will simply say a little oi this got me into trouble when i
moved to london and as a reflex went oi whenever i walked into someone because british people used
the word oi too but there it has a not so nice meaning i was the rudest londoner until i got out
of the habit of oying people on the street you're not allowed to buy alcohol in the supermarket in
sweden the only place you can get your drinks are at system below it a speciality shop that
close on seven on weekdays three on saturdays and is closed on sundays the lines on friday evenings
and saturday afternoons are ridiculous when you're walking in the forest in sweden because
everyone walks in the forest in my country you wear rubber wellies in those wellies you put
crunchy crisp bread why because there are badgers in sweden and an old myth is that when badgers
bite you they don't let go until they hear bones cracking so naturally you outsmart the badgers by
putting crunchy bread in your boots that will crack satisfying the badger and you can both
leave the encounter completely satisfied a big problem in sweden is the boys in the north sweden
is a very long country and up in the northern part it's cold dark and gloomy beautiful but oh
man the weather is tough also there are no big cities and not as many work opportunities as in
the southern part so a lot of swedish girls have ambitions they move south the day after graduation
trying their luck in stockholm or gothenburg for example the boys aren't as ambitious staying
behind so there are actually whole villages in sweden with very few young women only a bunch
of very lonely dudes in sweden we don't like to stand out it has to do with that whole you're
not supposed to brag and think you're special kind of thing so we like dressing the same if
you walk down the street in stockholm you'll be convinced that you're seeing the same few people
over and over again nope we're just all imitating each other if you want to be cool in sweden you'll
speak super cutely to strangers don't ask me why this is cold but people go like hi sweetie
hey gullet hi missy no matter who you're talking to even the 56 year old bus driver with prison
tattoos is in on it we are an extremely reserved people we do not like talking to strangers or even
talking to acquaintances we hate it when we see someone we know on the street because then we have
to talk to them before leaving the apartment we look in the little peephole to make sure that no
neighbor is out there waiting for the elevator if there are someone there we will wait for them to
get into the elevator first and we get the next one if you've ever heard a swedish person small
talk you'll understand why which brings me to if you ask a swedish person hi how are you don't
expect to get out great how are you back don't ask someone how they're doing in sweden if you
don't want to get depressed we love to complain we will tell you the gory details of our kids
ear infection the horrible way our dentist messed up our tooth yesterday how expensive everything
has become and how we've not been sleeping well lately again it's all about i think everything
that she's saying just reminds me of finland like literally like i know you guys literally
are neighbors but it literally everything that she has said just says finland to me so
it's not really a shocker the things that she's saying but um it's kind of cool that i'm actually
finding out the neighbors are just like each other which is a bit weird because i thought sweden was
probably different from finland in terms of these type of culture cultural behaviors what's bragging
about your life strange as it might sound we trust society we believe strangers are good people and
we never ever expect to be hustled or tricked it was a shock for me moving to london and realizing
that i had to watch my back my whole life up until then i've just been a trusting person because in
sweden in general you really can be to sound friendly we like doubling up words to be cute
see it works cute and friendly again no one is better than anyone else in sweden so we
hate hierarchies your boss will always try to be just one of the guys and you never use mr or miss
with anyone we're all on first name basis at uni there are no professor this or doctor that it's
just jon and julia which means i didn't even know who were professors or doctors or assistants or
guest lecturers at my school they were all just people this isn't strange it's hygienic people
take off your bloody shoes it's nasty having them on indoors barbaric we are one of the if not the
most coffee drinking people on earth yet we don't have different kinds of coffee it's all just a
cup of coffee and coconut flavor no more chiato sorry stretchers or avogadros or espressos it's
just coffee with porturify lucky which means a refill oh there's one other type that all people
drink it's called catheter poffart which means coffee on saucer yep they pour some coffee onto
their saucer place a sugar cube in between the teeth and then slurp the coffee from the saucer
through the sugar cube nasty stuff but i used to love it as a kid though we're a feminist
people and it shows in our fashion women like to dress quite masculine because it makes us cool
men get away with dressing hipsters soft and cute because that makes them cool enough to be
comfortable in their own masculinity it makes for great people watching the swedish style is just
the cross over between the kebab and the pizza with iceberg lettuce and everything
oh and sometimes the whole shebang gets covered with french fries just to get it all in there
a heart attack on a platter in sweden we don't have places that only takes cash
we have places that don't take cash at all the coins and bills are a thing of the past and
everything is done electronically in sweden very futuristic so yes swedish people are [ __ ] weird
but i'm pretty sure you guys are yesterday not really i already know all these things about
finland so i kind of just got the like it just repeated in my head okay sweden is practically
finland practically finally just with 10 million people instead of five point something whatever
but um yeah practically the same thing so nothing major key like surprising or nothing you know you
kind of expect them to be at least so similar but everything that she said i actually expected it
except for the food part uh i don't necessarily know a lot about food culture in finland or sweden
and she mentioned a little bit of that but the coffee definitely was a similar thing for finland
um yeah sweden is finland finland is we didn't get it over with but either ways man um yeah
much love to y'all over there in the nordic but yeah i'm out of here guys peace