It's hilarious how Norwegians barely say hi to the people we know in town but as soon as we get out in nature we say hi to EVERYBODY whether we know them or not😂 I'm not sure what he meant about the getting married thing but it's very common for young people to move in with each other without getting married for years, there isn't quite the same pressure to get married here as it might be in the US.

Not many Norwegians are religious anymore, and we can be a bit more reluctant to get into conversations with religious missionaries. We consider people's faith to be a personal and private matter, and we find it rude when people (like the missionaries) try to "sell us" their own religious beliefs. Another thing is that Norwegians are more open and welcoming to people who are humble, not too opinionated, and not too loud. 🤫

@spankie7728

Жыл бұрын

big indeed... jævlig sant:)

I have the impression that Americans often claims to have a lot of friends, but doesn't really know a lot about most of them. Here in Norway, it's the opposite. We usually don't have a lot of friends, but have an "inner circle" where everyone knows almost everything about each other. Then there's an "outer circle", where you know people, have friendly relationships, but don't know a lot about them. The ones within the "inner circle" are often people you will call close friends for the rest of your life. Norwegians rarely goes to a psychiatrist, we use our closest friends as such, because we can mostly trust them with everything, and support and help each other almost no matter what.

Julien Bourelle, a Canadian, wrote “The social guidebook to Norway”. He has also held lectures. He speaks of the peach culture (the USA), and the coconut culture (Norway). He also explains how giving people space, and leaving other people to themselves sometimes is part of Norwegian politeness, which people from other cultures can interpret as rudeness

@MagGray

Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised I haven't seen that. I'll check it out. Thanks!

@themetricsystem7967

Жыл бұрын

@@MagGray you’re welcome. I think the peach and coconut is explained in the YT video Learn a new culture TEDx Arendal. Also extracts from other lectures on YT

@Glundberg84

Жыл бұрын

I just saw the TED talk my self,it was good. Here is the link if anyone is interested: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eZx1m8eyoNLJdZM.html

@ForkynnerenTor

Жыл бұрын

yes in Norway ( I'm born and raised) not to boast about myself here but I have a Dominican wife and their culture is so welcoming just out of the blue I am from Norway so for me its weird because what about their privacy there we value not our own privacy but other peoples privacy I cant bother you in your life man but if you want to bother me it's obviously perfectly fine which in itself makes nobody bothering anyone and as I have Dominican wife I see that's not so great but just the way we as culture shows you as individual respect.

The one guy talking about it being less expensive to live with a girlfriend - was talking about typical Norwegian romantic relationships. Norwegians often choose to live together sharing an apartment rather than getting married. It's not a "sin" to live together as partners without getting married. Some couples never get married, but have kids and stay together all their lives. But he thought it was nice that some Norwegians still get married even though we don't "have to". I remember talking to an American couple one time my ex and I was in Portugal. We sat at a restaurant and they struck up a conversation with us.They thought it was strange that we lived together without being married.

@thorarisan

Жыл бұрын

Norwegian even has a name for a live in boyfriend/girlfriend. Samboer. Recognized by goverment too. Cheaper then paying for a wedding.

@eurovisionwtf

Жыл бұрын

@@thorarisan You do not need to have a wedding to get married.

@thorarisan

Жыл бұрын

@@eurovisionwtf No, but the only reason to get married (other then religion and many people here are not religious) is the weeding and a little easier time with taxes. (Takes me 15 min vs. 5 min)

@eurovisionwtf

Жыл бұрын

@@thorarisan Also the wedding does not need to be in a church. Having it outside in the nature, looking out from a hill down upon the fjords.. can it get any grander than that? And it does not have to cost a lot. Jeg er religiøs, i am religious. Er ikke så mange som er det lenger, nei.. men vi er rundt omkring. But then again, not only religious people want to get married, if not sacred, they want to bond to show their love for eachother, and so they get married.. some do that, not all. My sister has been engaged to my 'brother in law' for 20 years without getting married, but that is their bond, they still get a ring, hehe.

@thorarisan

Жыл бұрын

@@eurovisionwtf I agree, it doesn't have to be religious and i probably will get married overlooking the ocean one day. Me and my man have just decided that it's not important to us. We have been together 10 years next January and we own a house together. We, and many people I know, just don't care all that much. To me, it's an excuse to have an awsome party one day, and not having to distribute our debt manually for tax season. Samboer is fine if that's all we'll ever be, I know we love each other. Of the two couples I know that have married, one did it because he needed a visa to live here and the other did it for their families sake (they are religious, even if the couple doesn't mind that much). And yes, I know quite a few people that are engaged with no plans to actually marry, that's their commitment.

Critical thinking is very important in Norway.

@steinarhaugen7617

Жыл бұрын

Yes, very.

@ThePwicken

Жыл бұрын

@@steinarhaugen7617 Norwegian satire

@steinarhaugen7617

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePwicken 😏

@zaph1rax

Жыл бұрын

Yes for most. We still have our share of conspiracy nuts though.

@maria-cc8uy

Жыл бұрын

@@zaph1rax Conspiracy theorists are just people capable of pattern recognition. At the point, Either your blood is boiling Or it's clotting. Think what you mean is Complicity theorists.

Bear in mind that the speakers here are not just visiting Americans; they are Mormon missionaries - and the video (there are more of them) were meant for an American Mormon audience (and possible missionaries), and their statements may have been coloured by that. And the video, even if it's reposted recently, at least five years old. As missionaries, it is these inexperienced youngers job to talk/preach to people. Ansd many people are ... sceptical about being told, based on no credible evidence at all, by some youngsters that everything you known until now is wrong. That may be another reason you might5 have problemes getting to know people,. Easting everything with a fork and knife? Have they never seen a Norwegian home made lunch ("matpakke")? If you're eating out and get an open sandwich with several layers, THEN you use a fork and knife; it's practical and you don't look like a barbarian.

8:36 Take that with a grain of salt. Remember that they're missionaries. And Norwegians are very secular for the most part. Not necessarily atheists. But even christians here don't really practice actively like Americans do, instead it's a highly private thing here, all about belief and not about rituals and behaviour. And as he mentioned, we're very sceptical towards anyone trying to change our beliefs like that...

The best thing to come out of Oslo, Norway is the band A-HA. I been an AHA since 1985 when i was 16, i’m 53 now. AHA are a criminally underrated and unappreciated band with a huge back catalogue of music. Their first song was called Take on Me and it has at present over 1 billion views you should check them out. I describe AHA as the viking invasion of 1985 that never left especially to me personally. AHA hold the guinness book of records for the longest note held in a song. The song is called Summer Moved On. I recommend you check it out. Take care 😘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇳🇴❤️

@Sondre_Husby

Жыл бұрын

I realy like a-ha the song lifelines music video is a part of the short film a year along the abandoned road wich was made in børfjord on sørøya so it hits home and I realy like the other song like take on me and many others

Tyler, you should watch an episode of Alt for Norge here on YT and see Americans of Norwegian descent visiting Norway for the first time.

many of us are trilingual aswell. In 8th grade you can choose if you want to go deeper into english, or take another language like german or spanish.

@OriginalPuro

Жыл бұрын

We are multilingual from early school, by default.

We should remember that Lifey is the Mormon mission channel. These guys are Mormon missionaries and would not say anything negative about the country whose population they are trying to attract to their church.

@plix3763

Жыл бұрын

I think that's a big point that he missed in this video.

that mindset is fairly common among all the nordic countries, I've heard people compare the american and [insert any nordic country of your choice] friendship as being that of a peach and a coconut, whilst american peach seem to have a soft outer layer that makes you think you're best friends from the get go, the inner core is often hard to crack and reserved for the select few. The coconut is hard to initially crack, but once you're in you are in for life.

@peterc.1618

Жыл бұрын

I watched a video on YT by a guy (American I think) living in Finland and apparently they have a saying, "Silence, the utmost in sophistication" or something like that so it would appear to be a Nordic trait.

The video was so right about the whole "get them into the mountain to get them to talk" thing. Even between Norwegians, it is on the hiking trails that spontaneous conversations with strangers start.

@peterc.1618

Жыл бұрын

In London (sober) people only talk to strangers before 7 am. I used to walk to the station at about 6:30 am. and a lot of people would say "good morning" to me.

We over 60 had to wait untill 4/5 grade. So we only speak english nearly fluent 😋🇧🇻

I have a Norwegian friend now going on 5 yrs. The best, kindest and most honest person i have ever known. Perfect communication and wonderful chemistry. I'm a Jersey girl and he's an Oslo guy.

English is a trade language so it makes sence to learn it so we can do business with other countries, there is quite common to learn German too as a optional subject at school, usually at late at school or high-school... Also if your parents have a another language you can also learn that language at school like if one of your parents are from Spain, then you are entitled to have that at school.

@peterc.1618

Жыл бұрын

Not forgetting that London is only about 1h40m flight from Oslo. After the 7/7 London bombings a lot of Norwegians posted messages of support for the people of London with one describing London as Oslo's big sister.

i would say, i have seen the video you are reacting to before, and they do come from an religious viewpoint, and show an...side they want to highlight, to attract ppl to their ideas. so take their glowing statements with a grain of salt ^^ Said as an norwegian :)

09:24 So, this is obviously going to be a little contradictory to how Norwegians generally are in public, but yeah, when we are in the mountains or on hiking trails in general, it is really common for people to at the very least shoot off a "Hello/Hi/Hey" with maybe a follow up "Good day/evening" or even "Nice weather" as we pass by each other on the trail, and if you don't respond in the same fashion, they'll kinda think you were rude for not replying. I don't go hiking that often, so I can only vaguely remember - mostly guessing - this, but I think the reason people will take at least enough time to look at other people's face long enough to great them as they pass by, is so that they'll be able to help out if someone should end up in some kind of emergency situation somewhere on the hiking trail, but they don't know who, what they look like, or where they went, then the people that passed the person in trouble can provide information. For instance "Yeah, I think I saw him on my way back from the mountain peak around an hour and a half ago, he was about halfway up the mountain when I passed him, and he seemed kind of out of it, like something wasn't quite right, but he replied back like people tend to and everything seemed normal." It's easier to remember people you pass by if you take enough time to look at their faces, especially if you talk to them, as the image of their face and your conversation - however brief - helps your memory to remember the encounter better, and Norwegian Hikers are extremely serious about these Hiking Laws/Rules: relocation.no/expat-communities/expat-resource-articles/the-norwegian-mountain-code-fjellvettreglene/ One of these was a Missionary, and if they happen to be a Mormon Missionary from the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Days Saints, then from personal experience, all of the missionaries seem to tend to live at a church member's house, and are almost always guaranteed a nice living experience because everyone seem to treat their missionaries extra nice and kindly. I would be interested to hear the experiences and opinions of Americans that moved to Norway for a while just to explore or experience the country, but were not affiliated with any religion or church of any kind. This would give an unbiased and realistic experience for them, and their experiences would be as accurate as possible to the average day and life in Norway.

I work in a hotel and i am genually impressed any time a tourist has any understanding of our language, we are a small country with a small population, so its not easy to find someone that can help you learn, so most people that do learn, do it in the time they are in the country

Thing is: I've been in the US a couple of times, and one thing I really did appreciate was how naturally that friendly smalltalk comes from americans. Americans to me are the most friendly ppl I've met, so maybe we are a good match 😀

I believe he was in Norway in 2014 if everything was closed for so many days. 24th December was on a Wednesday that year, and we got a double weekend. Weekends are associated with free time in Norway. When he referred to spitting, it was about their missionary work in Norway. And yes, if you want to be social with random people, you should go hiking. But it's mostly a smile and a short hi, you meet. It depends on the circumstances.

Big fan of your videos! We actually learn critical thinking and online awareness in kids, mid and high school.

It feels kinda wierd watching this. Very cool to see that you are interested in our country!

If you find language fun, perhaps the video "VIKING INFLUENCE on the English Language!" on the "Langfocus" channel would be fun to react to. especially from around the 4 minute mark he lists a lot of words in English that come from old norse (the base for norwegian, Icelandic, danish, swedish and such). A lot of the words are very similar to this day in both languages, which I find fun. Instead of learning about Norway directly, you're learning about how our shared history have affected the language you use in your everyday life. It's probably also a reason for why norwegian is easy for english speakers to learn and the other way around. (The grammar is also very similar.)

Just for context, all the americans in this video are mormons who went on a mission to Norway

We have Sunday open smaller food stores last 30 years 🤗😋🇧🇻

On the Christmas thing on everything closes: No, wrong, 24.des the day we Norwegian celebrate x-mas if I remember right shops classes around 12-13, 25.des is a red day can't remember if 26 is, but a red day is a day shops are closed. then everything is basically "back to normal" until new year, 31.des closes early (if I remember right) and 1. january I think is red and everything is closed

If you had seen an "ordinary" US citizen's opinion of Norwegians instead of these Mormon missionaries, you would not have heard so much about this "wall" we supposedly have in relation to people we do not know. Those "walls" are much bigger and stronger when it comes to Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons than anyone else. If there's one thing we find annoying, rude and intrusive, it's religious missionaries, both those who stop you on the street and not least those who think it's a good idea to come to our house and tell us to our faces how big sinners we are while in our own homes. When they say we're polite, it's because most of us politely reject them, even though most of us find it very rude to disturb people with religious rants. It is actually one of the two things most Norwegians really dislike. The other one are German motorhome tourists. Remember that we are one of the most atheistic countries in the world, which is precisely the result of us being critical thinkers and wanting to fact-check most things instead of taking everything we are told at face value, just like they say here. Therefore we know that the LDS is based on lies and fraud on the part of Joseph Smith and that the JW is one of the world's most oppressive and exploitative organizations/cults in the world, much like every other religion in the world today and in the past. We are a nation that subscribes to fact-based knowledge and well-documented science. When it comes to marriage, it is not certain that it is exactly what he thinks it is. I reckon he's thinking about religious/church marriages. But more and more Norwegians are choosing to marry outside the church or religious community in civil weddings. Even most people who get married in church do so because of tradition, not religion. As for what he means by just living together instead of getting married being cheaper, I'm not sure what he's talking about other than the wedding itself being expensive. Very little else is affected by getting married. They are right about one thing. Norwegians' behavior changes as soon as they get higher than 10 meters up or 10 meters into the forest. Then suddenly those who won't give you so much as a glance in the city, at the shop or on the bus, greet you loudly as if they have known you both in all of this and your other 8 previous lives. If you say hello back, there is a great risk that someone will stop and start a conversation with you, which I have never understood the point of. I don't know you when we stand in line together at the shop and don't talk to each other, and I STILL know you not just because the number of meters in height or the density of trees has increased! So why should you talk to me NOW? It's weird.

I think you should make a trip vlog to Norway and verify the facts from each video. Would be trip of your life, I can guarantee that.

We learn English from 3d or 4th grade unless its changed to earlier. But kids now days learn English earlier because they are introduced to so many words before that. And lots of kids will be watching cartoons on youtube thats in English from an early age. Since Norwegian is a rare language we need to learn other languages to get by, but whem you speak English as 1 language you can manage without. But that being said, its always good to learn an extra language. You can learn at any age really! Ive been learning spanish through an app for a few years. Since I at times dont study/do much tasks it takes longer than an intensive language class in person or if you lived in a spanish speaking country. But you can learn any language really and the more you practice each day the faster it goes. Im not fluent but I feel theres been a huge progress and I will continue learning:) and maybe a new language after that.

Whenever you are hiking you are expected to say hallo to other hikers. And you ask how far it is to where you are going etc.

You're so wholesome brother.

Norway is very personal space is a thing here, so we come of as cold. If i see a stranger on a bus is doing his thing and i am doing my thing, so not bothering them by randomly starting a conversation, its about respecting his personal space, “as i am a stranger, why would i talk to you?” Say on a work hiking trip, suddenly your a group. That is a social setting, now talking is totally acceptable, because it is being inclusive to everyone in the group. I think it is about the mindset of inclusive to all vs complete stranger so respect private personal space

Yes I have Norwegian friends and also American friends more than 45 years. It is mostly bothsides.If you are loyal even you could have any nations as your friend. In way I am very lucky to get friends..

If you don’t visit Norway in the future after all this, Im gonna be very dissapointed 😂

@steinarhaugen7617

Жыл бұрын

Hei, Maja. Hallo.

I love your reaction to Norway ❤

The TV thing is actually pretty smart. English language shows and movies have subtitles, so you can either ignore them and pay attention to the language, or read the subtitles to understand, which even if you read fast, makes you lose a slight bit of the visuals which makes it enticing to just learn English.

Norway teach kids english since they are 6 years old👌🏻 as long as you know English norway is a fun country to visit cause its easy to communicate 😄👌🏻 lots of tv in English naturally helps as you get older and watch tv shows and movies.

We have english as,a sibject in school from 1 grade ( 6 yo) untill we are trough school. We have our 3rd language from grade 8-9-10-11-12-13 wich you can choose from german, french, spanish. We also have 2 norweigian languages. Bokmål and nynorsk .

We are like a stray dog. It takes time for us to trust you. But when we do, we love you for life. If you brake that trust.. we bite 🤣

Regarding dubbing. We *do* dubb movies for kids under the age of 6 or so, as they haven't even started at school then. For kids above 6 it's usually not dubbed although you can occasionally find it dubbed then, especially family movies. Basically as soon as we learn enough English to keep up with the native language we usually prefer that with subtitles over the dubbed version, even when it's available for the movie.

9:50 No, we're *not* the best English speakers among those with it as a second language. That said, we're not far off. Third place I think? The Swedes and Dutch both have us beat. We're competing more with the Danes in this area to be honest...

The marriage thing. There isn't a stigma about living together as a couple without being married. You also don't get any special tax benefits or something, by being married, like I've come to understand is a thing in the US. (children are also not given any different benefits if their parents are married to eachother or not) I think what they meant by "cheaper to live with a girlfriend vs. being married" is the fact that it costs money to get married. Also maybe they assume marriage means raising a family. In which case, yes, being a childfree couple is cheaper than adding children to finance ofc. So people only get married out of real, deep connection and love, and it's a well-thought-out decision for most.

Many of us do know and have their own version of "the barrier" I've used the "egg" as an example, you've got to crack a shell to get on the good side.

For Christmas we take a 9 hour roudtrip to grandma and granpas house. There we meet with them, my syntes and uncles etc. We all stay for about a week. During this time everyone has off from work, we play chess. Go on walks cook food together watch tv Christmas shows. And generally just spend time together relaxing

You can look up Amerinorge here on KZread, I think you’ll enjoy it ☺️

Not sure if I should speak for others, but for me I treasure the friendship I have, we invest quite abit into our friendshiips and sure our best friends probably is someone who we grow up with, my best friend I grew up with from the kindergarden, through school and even that we don't live at the same places anymore we are still close friends. One of the problems as I live in a small town is that many people who come here usually stay a short time and people are abit tired of investing too much time to create some better bonding to get friends ... just to see them move away shortly or eventually. So best friends you probably have from your childhood ...

I’m an English teacher in Norway in Grade 5. We teach English 2-3 days a week. Critical thinking and ethical awareness is a big part of Norway’s core curriculum. We start early!

Not everything is closed, but on 24. des, most places shuts down between 3 and 5 pm. On 1 and 2 day of christmas (25.-26. des), Gas stations, 7/11 (and such) and some other places are open. And during the time between christmas and new year there are some regular days. When can we expect you moving to Norway Tyler?

This is why supermarkeds and shops are closed on sundays. Sundays are family time. I will say that everything closes down two days before Christmas to three days after New year. Stock up with everything you need for that whole period.

You might be interested to know that we have a big focus on happiness because the "dark times", October - March, takes a real toll in the Nordic countries and should be respected. As an example: Writing this on the 22nd of November, the sun rose a little after 9AM and sets around 4PM. It's pitch-black outside at 5PM

The point about bein critical thinkers.. Yes, at least my own parenting style and way of thinking is… It’s not our job to teach people (our kids especially) WHAT to think, but rather HOW to think (for themselves). I was parented completely free, without limits, but burdened by so much responsibility I could never be a child. (Dysfunctional and abu$ive home to the extreme) I therefore see the benefit of parenting in a way where my kids can SAFELY learn about freedom of choice, autonomy, and natural consequences in a SAFE WAY. We are (in my opinion) under strict government rules/politics, from a government that does it to keep us safe. Like not get your license until we’re 18- stores being closed so people can spend time with their families. I don’t agree with all of it, but I the structure of what works and not in our country. But being thought HOW to think and not WHAT to think, combined with rules to frame our society.. Makes us value and appreciate the heck out of our freedom. Just the fact that I have the freedom to disagree in and of itself is a privilege in my eyes that not everyone has in this world. I don’t want to speak for everyone, but I think most of us agree that the reason we are “critical thinkers” are the way we are raised and the fact that “it takes a village” makes us engage in how our kids are being thought to think in school and general society..

The American Mormon church is in Bergen,so over many many years thousands of Americans has been there🌞

For the last past 10 years as a 30 year old Norwegian, me and my friend put on English subtitles, because it was easier to follow than have like a translation. My sister was fluint in english (Iguess you could say so) at the age of 12. Seems like she understands everything at least, haha

Hi you😊 why so many videos on Norway? Are coming to visit? Love your videos!

These guys are really nice about it. A lot of people are like this, but we do have some arrogant types as well. Especially in the richer areas, like most other cultures I guess

Once u get under the skin, you will have friends forever! English is the most universal language, so it's obvious that its tought in the schools! But, Mr Walker, what second language would you want to be able to speak? Only about 5.5 mil speak Norwegian and most others speak or understand English! I think this vid you watched Tyler are Mormons staying in Norway to preach the gospel! The church/god or religion thing is not a big part of the Norwegian culture annymore, people are more sceptical towards religion now days! Think you got it right Tyler, respect,loyalty is wery important to Norwegians.

14:01 Yeah, it's kind of like that, I'm afraid... Makes it hard to get friends, especially early on. You have to work quite hard for it.

Norwegian living in the US here, and you definitely have to earn my respect before you become my friend. However, should you make it I'm a friend for life.

Living with your girlfriend/boyfriend is very common and even though marriage is still something people dream about not everyone think it's worth the high cost to get married and you have almost the same benefits if you are "samboer" like kindergarden, SFO (afterschool care) and such. Very many have kids before they get married and have their kid being bridesmate (girls or boys) if they get married. We don't have grown ups being bridesmates only best man or woman. It's now also legal to get married in church if you are gay, but the ministers can still refuse to marry gay people if they personally don't like that gay people marry. It's also quite common for gay people who live together to also have children and they live their life pretty normal and boring as the "normal" couple does. People in Norway like to talk and be your best friend if they drink as most people either don't drink or get drunk, usually in the weekend and holidays, and when everything else was in lockdown the "vinmonopol" was still open so people could get their 3 liters of wine in a cardboard box to take to their cabin. At one point during the lockdown it was forbidden to go to your cabin to avoid to mix with the locals and in case they would have to go to the emergency room, but it was so highly criticized that the goverment had to loosen up the "hytteregel" (cabinrule) so people that had a cabin in the same area or within a short enough distance that they could go home if they got sick. If you meet another person in an elevator you usually don't talk to them, but you could ask them which floor their going to once you enter the elevator at the same time. I usually let kids push the floor button for me as they enjoy pushing the button so much. About ten fifteen years ago I tried talking to strangers in elevators or in the waiting room, but people usually looked at me like I was some kind of crazy person, so I had to stop as I'm not that crazy. I remember one time on the bus that I took for school and it got stuck in the snow for 2-3 hours and after like 2 hour people started talking to each other and as it was very unusual I still remember it 30 years later. Some grocery stores are allowed to have a smaller store open on Sundays. This is the most Norwegian strange thing called Brustadbua after the minister who came up with the idea to have a small part of the store open, I think the rule is not more than 120 m/2 and no alcohol is allowed to sell on sundays. The Brustadbu is usually very crowded and the crisp and chocolate and tobacco is what most people buy, even though some people buy bread, milk or vegetables, and the people who work there will often have to get thing from the larger store for the customers, like special kind of food that don't get a place in the Brustad bu. I used to work in one and one time on a national holiday I had 15000 customers in two hours and the bank broke down so every customer had to sign on a recipt when using a debit card and they had to have either Visa or Mastercard in their bankcard to be able to pay. I had to take pain medicine to be able to work the last few hours because of the amount of customers and I was the only one sitting by the cash register. In the bigger store we had a desk with a rollingband, but in the smaller Brustadbu we had to lift each item so it was kind of stressful and painful for my arms as I had a frozen shoulder at the time. I think most people have friends they have had since kindergarden or at least school, and if you don't get many friends as a kid it's hard to find one when you are grown up as people don't talk to strangers and never go alone anywhere it seems. Many people get lonely because of this. If you get new friends you usually have them for the rest of your life, and it would have to be really serious to lose them as friends, like murder or something like that as people usually forgive minor things like lying, but not about everything though. Norwegians usually are very kind and polite, but some people, usually rich people but not always the richest tend to be scumbags and are 8ften reffered to as Bærum-soss as they often live in Bærum. The Norwegian royals is not like this at all, they are like the average Norwegian and you shouldn't be surprised if you meet queen Sonja along your way on a hike in the mountains as she love to go hiking. (I don't know if she still do as she is now 85)

We have seen interviews on the street from America,and they ask what they know about Norway,ppl think its a shoe brand or another food or clothing brand,,,,hilarious

Oh my god I just realized something as an American he just takes everything as a fact I thought he was stupid lmao

Loyal friends? What country doesn't have loyal friends?

2:10 No, not really. He's just saying that we're reserved. He's a missionary though and had been taught to expect that up front.

The thing about foreigners speaking Norwegian is, unless you have got an accent/dialect down I think you won't impress anyone, and even then people will just assume you were born here.

Actually, as Norwegian is spoken by very few people worldwide, it is not so strange that we are, and have to be, fairly proficient in English. Equally, it is not surprising that Americans (and Britons, for that matter) are less inclined to spend time learning foreign languages, since "everyone" speaks theirs anyway (to some extent). If we include all the Scandinavian countries (Norway, Denmark, Sweden), whose languages are largely understood across the region, we constitute a slightly larger share of the world's population, though still minute.

A lot of our culture is remnant from pagan time before and during the viking age. As mentioned here, the importance of loyality in friendship,

hi, I'm Norwegian, can you collect some Norwegians and talk to them to get some intel from normal people who live there

Sorry for getting back to the Subbed/dubbed part of movies in norway: 0-6 years old, there is mostly cartoons for toddlers dubbed 6-12 years old there is much subbed 12 + years old's don't really bother to use subtitles at all.

About the «wall» thatˋs mentioned, itˋs not that we analyze you but we need time for you to show who you are first….😃 Nobody wanˋt be friend with an a**hole…..😉🇳🇴 Love your videos btw. 👍

Which state do you live in? Thanks for very good videos ☺️

In our education, we have to do a lot of critical thinking, and to be skeptical towards what sources you're being fed information through

What he means buy "sheaper to live with a person" U split the bills 🙂

11:27 Basically there's no economic or societal benefits to marrying over just living together. If you live with a girlfriend here your kid will still inherit both of you, you'll both have custody, there's solid systems to deal with disputes in case you move apart and there's things you need to figure out who owns etc. There's some differences, like, your girlfriend won't inherit you if you die without marrying her, even though your kids with her will, for instance. And the other way around. And if you're a non-citizen being married to someone here makes it easier to get a residence permit through family reunion etc... And hey, it's nice to show family and friends that you two are a thing officially. But it's just not at the same level as in the US. More then half of the having their first kid are not married when they have their first kid here. But more then half with a second one will be married. So it's more about confirming a established relationship then to start one.

I believe the KZread channel you reacted to is part of the Mormon missionary church in the US, so these people have been stationed around the world for a while. I don't think that discredits their experiences in ayway. More like context of why this channel have Americans with so much foreign experience :)

We don't get economiaclly punished for being married, that's inaccurate. It can even be somewhat beneficial, especially if you need loans. However, overall there is basically no point, you have the same rights when you live together as a couple whether or not you're married. It all goes back to the firm separation of church and state, we don't need or want any religious influence to dictate our laws.

Norwegians are the coldest people on the plantet, and we are helpful everytime needed. but to come close to people, you need to proove that you are good.... as explained in the video.. when passed that barrier, you are equal.... norwegians are very suspicious people , or reserved.... what ever.... but if you are getting the confiance of one person, this passes to everyone., and then everybody lower their hands..

They are christian missionaries from USA in Norway.

BTW, how many channels do you have?

*You* seem *very* willing to accept everything that you see/hear on your channels. I guess that makes *you* a "typical American" (although your experience of America seems to be most comprised of knowing your own room).

for me atleast my friends are the family i choose for myself and i think alot of norwegians think that way. and for us friendships needs to be earned its not given freely. one thing i think of as a bad side of us norwegians is that we arent confrontational enough.. we kinda just bitch about things and then move on.. and thats not a good thing when a big part of the goverment is just out to screw you over :P

Bit late to the party i guess. But regarding languages, we have three official languages herre in Norway, and we have to learn two of them in school, in addition to english. In other words, most norwegians learn atleast three languages at school, some take an additional language as well, like french, german, spanish etc. That said, i don't agree with the comment about not being impressed when foreigners speak norwegian, we highly appreciate that you have made an effort to learn the language, and will gladly help you with correcting speech/pronouncing errors. Regarding getting married, it cost a bit to have a wedding, but tax-vice there isn't an advantage to just living together vs being married. You have more rights as married.

It is not really scepticism. It is moore like "ok, do you actually want to be my friend"?

Lifey is associated with the the Mormon church.

Not quite sure what he wasreffering to with marrige, maybe the having children part. As a married couple has a lot of tax Benefits that cans save quite a bit og money for the household

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Because these were some religious missionaries, jehovas i think, and i don't think they do anything together before married.... Edit: mormons

@elementalgolem5498

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@@plix3763 Jehovad witnesses do pre martial stuff but limited.

In my experience, the whole impressed about language stuff is a bit missunderstood I think. It's easier to have a conversation in English rather than trying to decipher broken Norwegian, it's not really about not being impressed unless it's spoken well, but more about the fact it's actually harder to understand broken Norwegian than perfect English a lot of the times

These missionaries are usually ok to deal with, as they understand "no". Since they do not pester you beyond that, they are at most slightly annoying. We have far worse in political "missionaries" and people trying to sell you some garbage that do not understand "no", leading to anger.

Seems a lot like Japan

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I have actually heard that before, but I don't understand

Hey. I'm Norwegian and just wanted to say about the language thing. we start learning English the moment we start school so its expected of us (kinda) to be good or at least understandable in English. But Norwegian is one of the hardest languages to learn (I'm like... 90% certain I speak and write English better than I do Norwegian) and oh boy am I forever impressed with people trying to learn. be it travellers or new country-men idgaf. you stumble and mispronounce and I'm gonna patiently wait for you like a proud dad. learning languages is hard. don't beat yourselves up about it. (currently trying to learn Japanese and German (send strength please))

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4:31 is this man at gun point?

well if your in Norway just tell me if your in Bergen ps I'm already married

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lol

Did you know that Norwegian vikings discovered amirica

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The so-called Native Americans knew it was there already!😀

He means that children are expencive.

We don't learn other langages, really, just English. because like duh`:D Sryy^^

I guess these people talking are Mormon missionaries 😎😋🇧🇻. They learn the language for the country they are trying to get into their Church 😑

I dare say Norwegians are slower to trust and slower to lose as a result. As far I've seen with Americans, they're quick to take something at face value, but also very quick to just give up on friends and family over trivial matters, like who they vote for in an election etc. I've seen a lot of Americans disown one another over political choices and beliefs, and being unwilling to question how or why they have different beliefs. It's a little crazy over there. That said, Norway's going down the same path. We're becoming increasingly pathetic in such matters too. I've a lot of opinions that would've probably gotten me shunned in many American cities, and many of my opinions are not shared by my family, but they know me for more than my beliefs and opinions, so they don't really care about that. They know I'm a reliable part of the family, so they're not going to shun me just because my views are not as liberal as theirs.

Not so reserved if you try to speak Norsk with them,even though they can speak English well.

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