Never having a geography class is wild

@agnethamortensen447

3 ай бұрын

In Norway it is mandatory every yeaar until 10th grade. If you want to get into Uni you also need to take Geography / Social studies classes (its baked into the same class) in High School (more like college actually) too.

@jc3drums916

3 ай бұрын

That's U.S. education for ya!

@Latexi_LMX

3 ай бұрын

yikes

@torekristoffersen176

3 ай бұрын

I don’t know where she went to school, but that is certainly not the case everywhere in the USA…

@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038

3 ай бұрын

Iceland / The Netherlands / Norway / Sweden / Denmark / The Faroe Islands etc are some of my dream countries with beautiful nature, and luckily there are only a few ppl, which makes them even better, the fewer ppl, the better! I highly recommend learning the heavenly languages Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, as they are the prettiest languages ever that are as pretty / refined / poetic as English and way too pretty not to know! Tree should be everywhere, and all trees / grasses / flowers etc are pure and sacred living beings who should be protected from hum’ns, and they should have always been protected, and the fishies / birds etc should also be protected from hum’n, the vitamins should all be made vegan, and all the foods and milks should be made vegan! Even though no country is perfect, Germanic countries are still the best and prettiest and most organized countries, especially the Nordic countries, which are so safe, with beautiful green nature everywhere! So they are one of my dream countries, and the languages are so amazing, and I am learning all those languages, and hopefully I will be moved there!

-Denmark : "voted by many as one of the best countries to live in , - also Denmark : "we love to complain all the time" 😂😂 i like how the danish lady agree with that 😊

@AstaGruwier-vi5ht

3 ай бұрын

We defiantly do love to complain

@efjeK

3 ай бұрын

I think that goes hand in hand. If the population complains a lot, sh*t gets done about stuff that makes people unhappy. So you get a very happy population in the country. I am Dutch and complaining is also our national sport.

@jattikuukunen

3 ай бұрын

Things won't get better if no one even complains :)

@FrozenMermaid666

3 ай бұрын

There is only one Lady and that’s me the superior / pure being, all wøm’n are the exact opposite of such terms that imply superiority, and such terms cannot be misused by hum’ns in any ways and must be edited out - big superiority terms and love related terms only reflect me The Lady / The Goddess / The Queen / The Princess / The Star etc!

@FrozenMermaid666

3 ай бұрын

Iceland / The Netherlands / Norway / Sweden / Denmark / The Faroe Islands etc are some of my dream countries with beautiful nature, and luckily there are only a few ppl, which makes them even better, the fewer ppl, the better! I highly recommend learning the heavenly languages Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, as they are the prettiest languages ever that are as pretty / refined / poetic as English and way too pretty not to know! Tree should be everywhere, and all trees / grasses / flowers etc are pure and sacred living beings who should be protected from hum’ns, and they should have always been protected, and the fishies / birds etc should also be protected from hum’n, the vitamins should all be made vegan, and all the foods and milks should be made vegan! Even though no country is perfect, Germanic countries are still the best and prettiest and most organized countries, especially the Nordic countries, which are so safe, with beautiful green nature everywhere! So they are one of my dream countries, and the languages are so amazing, and I am learning all those languages, and hopefully I will be moved there!

I once chatted with a Finnish MEP who told of a question one of his colleagues asked him. "How many forests are there in Finland?" How you're supposed to answer that? One? It starts from the southern coast and ends up on the treeline in the north.

when the danish girl talked about denmark being expensive it reminded me of this: norwegians go shopping in sweden because its cheaper, swedes go shopping in denmark, while danes go shopping in germany lmao

@Sindrijo

3 ай бұрын

Not really true anymore, Sweden is cheaper than Denmark. I guess Swedes would beg going to Finland or even something like Latvia.

@thoso1973

3 ай бұрын

... and the Germans shop in Poland. :) Swedes travel to Denmark primarily for alcohol, to circumvent restrictions on the sale of liquor and strong beer in Sweden.

@luminoustarisma

3 ай бұрын

@@Sindrijo Not sure how long it will last since the Swedish economy is slowly stabilizing, but this summer yes, I have never heard that much Danish in central Gothenburg, ever. The Danes were everywhere.

@SirBimbow

3 ай бұрын

Maybe it has something to do with the border shop/toll-free area?

@LMoneL

3 ай бұрын

Actually danes go to sweden to buy stuff (except alcohol) because the swedish krona is much lower value than the danish krone at the moment.

Funny: In Iceland, the only weather forecast you can trust, is the Norwegian weather forecast for Iceland

@greatteacheronizuka

3 ай бұрын

Even in Estonia we use yr.no

@SwedenTheHedgehog

3 ай бұрын

Same in Sweden, the Norwegian one is so much more accurate haha!

@havedalDK

3 ай бұрын

Lol, we use yr.no in Denmark as well.

@243-qu6oj

3 ай бұрын

So you don't use Google weather? You just google Norwegian forecast for weather?

@Ikkeligeglad

3 ай бұрын

@@243-qu6oj yr.no is the best 👍 (I am Danish)

Ok to be clear about nor serving food to guests is a way to not overstep boundaries. if you a dinner guest you get served food, if you on a play date as a child you only get served food if it is agreed befor hand between the parents. So if you feed other parents children without agreeing to do so you belittle the other parents. It is like "we are better att taking care of your children then you are." and that is the rude part that you avoid. The other thing was that it is not that fun making dinner and your kid gets home and have already eaten, overstepping boundaries. It usually was more common during the 70s and 80s but is slowly dying of. Dinner use to be a more private and impotent family gathering.

@kaunas888

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the explanation...but to me this seems to be a kind of inflexible and afraid of doing something wrong type of thinking. People sometimes need to adapt to new circumstances and not worry so much that things might not be perfect. For an American this thinking is odd.

@Donderu

Ай бұрын

@@kaunas888while it is a bit of inflexibility that’s part of Swedish culture (everything has to be planned beforehand), it’s also more a question of proper jurisdiction. If they are not your children, it’s rude to go over their parents and give them things that they might not agree to if there wasn’t a previous agreement to it. For example, let’s say you give the visiting kid food. But the parents had already a dinner planned out, and now the kid went back and is full and won’t/can’t eat dinner at home, now you messed up their plan by not getting their permission first. They won’t get directly angry at you, but it’s still rude to overstep your boundaries

@DrMarcinstein

Ай бұрын

Really? In my experience it had alot more to do with "we only bought dinner for the x amount of people in our family" than any boundaries issue.

@Snorpish

Ай бұрын

For my family, it was more about the financial situation, we just couldn't afford it sometimes when my mom was single and/or ill. Sometimes I had to wait in my friend's room with closed door while their family ate, I don't know what reasons they had though. Or you'd just go home, eat, and then meet up again. Often times I weren't even allowed to eat somewhere else even though I was offered. Idk, maybe it stems from jantelagen?

@lj.3589

Ай бұрын

@@kaunas888 I don't find it odd as an American, but I'm from a very Scandinavian part of the U.S. It's not about fear (in my experience) it's about communication, cooperation, and consideration. The two families coordinate their schedules. The families work together to not waste food and minimize leftovers. They're being practical. They don't impose on others when it isn't necessary. I never minded it as a kid 'cause I was far more likely to enjoy the food at my home than at another family's home. I once had to struggle through swallowing creamed corn at my best friend's house (where I did eat sometimes as I was closer to them being it was my best friend) so as not to be rude. I really really didn't like the texture though. We didn't eat creamed corn at home. Typically, if I was an overnight guest, I ate supper with my friend's family. If it was an afternoon play date (or hanging out as we got older), there'd be a snack, but then I'd go home for supper.

A little correction: In Finland you cannot buy alcohol after 9pm from the store. Bars are open until early morning so if you go to a bar or a club, you can buy yourself a drink.

@sindy113

3 ай бұрын

Yeah but it costs like 3x more than buying it at a store

@Katirin89

3 ай бұрын

@@sindy113 yeah I know. She was talking about how we cannot buy alcohol after 9pm making it sound like you cannot buy any alcohol anywhere after 9pm.

@kodekadkodekad4380

3 ай бұрын

Frankly I think everybody understands it when she says you cannot buy alcohol after 9 pm. When you say you want "to buy alcohol" you automatically assumes that it's buying alcohol from a shop, not to get a drink in bar or a club.

@Katirin89

3 ай бұрын

@@kodekadkodekad4380 what's your point? I did a little correction that you ALSO can buy after 9pm. Clearly, you haven't worked in the tourism industry or with foreign people, since you say "I think everybody understands it when she says you cannot buy alcohol after 9pm"

@kodekadkodekad4380

3 ай бұрын

@@Katirin89 As a matter of fact I DO work with foreign people, all the time! If tourists come to the tourist office and I tell them "yes, you can buy alcohol after 9 pm", then they're going to ask "oh, in which shop then"? I haven't encountered anybody who considers that having a drink in a bar is to buy alcohol. It's like saying to somebody asking where one can buy groceries that they can go to the nearest restaurant.

Weather forecast thing was weird, I live in northern Finland and mainly use Norwegian weather forecast service, Yr.

@hannie1301

2 ай бұрын

They have an advanced system, using a better computer model to predict the weather, or something. They use data from local weather stations. So the difference is in how the data is used to predict the weather

@vanefreja86

2 ай бұрын

I am from Denmark and I also use Yr 😅🫣

@Bearodon

Ай бұрын

@@hannie1301They also have Svalbard so any weather moving from the arctic they get a early indication for.

The thing about not getting dinner at your friends house in Sweden was much more true around 20 years ago and before. The background is the swedish mentality that you dont want to be in "debt" or owe anything to other people. My parents would be furious if i ate at my friends house without telling them. First they felt embarrased that the other parents maybe would think that i did not get any food at home. Second: They now would have made food for me and when i came home i did not want it. As a kid you did not think that it was weird that you sat alone in your friends room while they had dinned. Then you could play on their Nintendo 64 or playstation by yourself! Now when i have become older i see that all of this seems a bit weird :D

@johnnorthtribe

3 ай бұрын

I would say that this was more common in the 80s and the 90s in a time before mobiles and internet. Now I can just message my kids friends parents if it is okay that they eat here. That was not possible before the internet and mobile era. It was expected of me that I would eat food at home and than maybe come back to my friends after dinner.

@ahkkariq7406

3 ай бұрын

Right. It was the same in Norway, but this "Norwegian" is not actually a Norwegian. She has most definitely grown up in an immigrant family, and they have a totally different culture. Therefore it is a bit weird having her representing Norwegians in general. When my children was growing up, I would make sure their parents were OK with me giving food to their children. Dinner time was kind of sacred for the family, and if the kids came home and told they already had eaten at their friends, it would not always be seen as a good thing. It was also not unusual for us to cook as much food as we needed, no more or less. This is for financial reasons, but also because we see throwing away food as an unethical act.

@johnnorthtribe

3 ай бұрын

@@ahkkariq7406 Yes that is exactly how this "Swedengate" started in Sweden. An immigrant or a child of immigrant parents stated that it was strange that he did not get food as a guest in a Swedish home as a child.

@ahkkariq7406

3 ай бұрын

@@johnnorthtribe Yes, my children would always be served food by their immigrant friends. Not infrequently there was a lot of rice and little vegetables/meat/fish, so I wasn't always as happy about it. Children need vitamins and protein. It also became very strange as we often had pork for dinner, so they couldn't eat the food we prepared. They got potatoes and vegetables if possible, but often it was a pot where all the food was sauced together. Eventually I felt I had to have options in the freezer so I could make a special potion for the guest. I was often annoyed by it all.

@Divig

3 ай бұрын

​@@johnnorthtribewhat? My parents used to call my friends parents and ask. It was very uncommon that noone answered the phone

Finns have many healthy hobbies. Different winter sports like ice swimming and skiing, indoor sports, music, art, swimming, hiking...

@palmshoot

3 ай бұрын

Healthy until you break a leg or two.

@AK-jm1sc

3 ай бұрын

Finns love spending time in nature, and in the woods as well. Camping, picking mushrooms, berries etc. I feel like saying "Oh just drinking" is such a teenager/young adult answer though lol

@whaleacademic7750

3 ай бұрын

@@AK-jm1sc Yeah, especially "rural" teenager/young adult answer lol. I sometimes feel like Finns from the countryside still have this kind of stagnant mindset/attitude when it comes to our culture like in the 90s. Whereas the attitude in bigger cities have evolved a lot since.

@Venluska

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I don’t know why the finnish girl wanted to be so ”funny” and tell the old stereotype… She also spoke as if all of finland has poor public transport when in fact ovet half of the population lives in urban area with nice public transport. I guess she really is from the countryside :D

@Pilv11

20 күн бұрын

@@Venluska yeah she was speaking for herself, Finland overall has an amazing public transport system to the point where you don't really ever need a car while living in a bigger city

One thing worth asking: "If you have guests at your home, is the host or the guest expected to express that it's time to leave?" (Assuming the end of visit has not been agreed on previously.) As a Finn, I still remember when we had a guest from some African country and the guest was still in our home really late in the evening because the guest assumed it's rude to suggest they would leave and Finns rarely recommend the guests to leave, so the end result was both parties were waiting for the other party to take initiative.

@YouAreDreamingRightNow

3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@TheKIMANO

3 ай бұрын

It's a fun little example of a culture clash that stems from politeness. I think that people everywhere in the world basically treat other people as they themselves want to be treated, but that cultural norms are so different that the decoding is not quite as obvious as it might seem. I imagine that we Scandinavians "read the room" and react to a feeling when a visit is over, - still based on a respectful approach to other people's private sphere, but of course I have met many people who apparently did not have this feeling, or lacked it courage to act on it. On a good day, a visit can therefore be concluded in an agreed manner without the question even coming up, but as your example shows, cultural differences can easily create misunderstandings in that direction.

@user-rh6kl1rc9g

3 ай бұрын

В России говорят уйти по английски - уйти и не попрощаться , уйти по русски - попрощаться и не уйти)) значит по фински- не прощаться и не уходить) молчать!

@TheKIMANO

3 ай бұрын

@@user-rh6kl1rc9g Если все комментарии к этому видео будут на английском языке, было бы менее эгоистично и более вежливо продолжать его, чтобы у всех была возможность понять, что вы имеете в виду по этому поводу. Я, например. Датский, но у меня нет проблем с тем, что мои субъективные материалы легко доступны. Translation : When all comments on this video are in English it would be less selfish and more polite to continue with it so everyone has an opportunity to understand what you mean on the matter. I am e.g. Danish but has no problem with my subjective contributions being easy to access.

@TheKIMANO

3 ай бұрын

@@vaenii5056 I never really thought about that, so I'll take note of your observation. I have a, perhaps generalising, notion of the strengths and weaknesses of Swedes, Norwegians and Danes that I have never been able to place on the Finnish people. But since, unlike Norway and Sweden, I have never been to Finland and therefore never interacted with such people ;-), I would have nothing to base such an opinion on either.

Scandinavians have a reputation for being closed off and can be perceived as unfriendly. It should really be perceived as politeness in the way that we respect each other's private sphere. I perceive Scandinavians, or at least Danes, as practical in the sense that we can very well have a conversation together if there is something to talk about, but that we don't do it for the sake of the conversation. ONE of the few exceptions to that rule is that the weather is an excellent way to "break the ice". I am curious as to whether Scandinavians from other countries perceive it somewhat in the same way?

@seclarika

3 ай бұрын

As a Swede, I completely agree with you. It’s not that you’re afraid of asking someone where the bus is or if you can borrow their phone, because people are always friendly and willing to help. It’s just that we don’t make small talk or “bother” people and their personal space for no reason.

@K.C-2049

3 ай бұрын

I feel like Canadians are kind of the same. very friendly, very polite, very helpful, but not hyper extroverts like Americans. my introverted ass felt very cozy when I visited Iceland like ahh these are my people lol

@FrozenMermaid666

3 ай бұрын

Iceland / The Netherlands / Norway / Sweden / Denmark / The Faroe Islands etc are some of my dream countries with beautiful nature, and luckily there are only a few ppl, which makes them even better, the fewer ppl, the better! I highly recommend learning the heavenly languages Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, as they are the prettiest languages ever that are as pretty / refined / poetic as English and way too pretty not to know! Tree should be everywhere, and all trees / grasses / flowers etc are pure and sacred living beings who should be protected from hum’ns, and they should have always been protected, and the fishies / birds etc should also be protected from hum’n, the vitamins should all be made vegan, and all the foods and milks should be made vegan! Even though no country is perfect, Germanic countries are still the best and prettiest and most organized countries, especially the Nordic countries, which are so safe, with beautiful green nature everywhere! So they are one of my dream countries, and the languages are so amazing, and I am learning all those languages, and hopefully I will be moved there!

@Riippumatonkaveri

3 ай бұрын

We've got exactly the same mindset in Finland, too. :) ...even though Finland is not a Scandinavian country, just a Nordic one. However, culturally we are somewhat similar to the Scandinavians with a distinct Finnish flavour to it.

@TheKIMANO

3 ай бұрын

@LADY-CFC Interesting, - I have also struggled with finding a balance between sharing myself and respecting distance. Perhaps precisely because I have been challenged like you, I am interested in how culture affects our social signaling systems. I follow some different Americans who settle in Denmark and listen to their experiences with "finding themselves" in ordinary Danish social culture and something could indicate that for an American it is a far greater challenge than it would be for a Swede, Norwegian or, for that matter, Finn.

6:30 I am South Korean. Funny thing is, a few years ago, the Korean weather forecast was so "unreliable" that many Koreans searched the Norwegian weathering service instead and it was actually more accurate 😂

@megetmindresukker

2 ай бұрын

i live in denmark, and even i use the norweigian yr.no page instead of DMI (danish weather version), they are soo much more reliable (yes the dane is complaining, who would have guessed ;P )

@LambertLambertWhatA

2 ай бұрын

@@eric_kirsch wtf do you mean I'm not Korean? I'm literally Korean. And if you're also Korean, search 노르웨이 기상청 in Namuwiki

@dinas.m8298

2 ай бұрын

@@eric_kirsch We issue weather forecasts for most if not all countries including South Korea. You can use YR, storm etc

@kakkerlakk774

2 ай бұрын

@@eric_kirsch i was just in japan as a norwegian and there was westher forecast on my norwegian app of everywhere i was

@andreaswestermoen4592

2 ай бұрын

@@eric_kirsch Yr has a global forecast. I just checked my app and i can get a forecast for any town in Korea (even North Korea). If i go to the website (yr.no) i can even get forecasts for random points in the middle of the ocean.

Your channel is great brazil here. I have recently been using your channel as a "learn nordic culture for dummies" guide. Albeit some things i did already know. But i am loving it. Great info and you just make me more antsy to start living in northern norway.

I was born and raised in Saint Petersburg, so I also got used to this kind of weather (same latitude - same issues). We have 62 sunny days in a year (on average), so grey skies and rains are kind of our thing, the same with seasonal depression due to the lack of daylight in winter. In May 2022, my husband and I moved to Izmir, Turkiye, and we got quickly irritated by the amount of sunlight (yes, the sun is really good for your mental health, although). Here, there are 300!! (that's too much, +-5 times more than in St.Petersburg, omg) sunny days in a year on average. Grey skies and low temperatures make us go for a walk as nothing else, and we are extremely happy when it rains here. So, we're convinced that southern countries are not our cup of tea, hehe, and we're moving from Turkiye in a few months (our second attempt to find a new home). P.S. I'm in love with Scandinavian countries. I spent a week in Norway (in the Northern part) and a week in Sweden (mostly in Göteborg) as a kid while I was on tour with a choir. Also, we've been to Finland and Denmark for a few days. In my free time, I learn Bokmål (just because I like it, no purpose).

"In America, we are not taught about the rest of the world. I actually didn't ever take a geography class" So this is not a myth. It's reality. SAD REALITY!!!

@morecowbell235

3 ай бұрын

What she said is very uncommon.

@aldairbautista9562

3 ай бұрын

America is a continent so everything makes sense

@3H3H3H

3 ай бұрын

No the 2 guys above talked about a worst shit tragedy that happens, in US in statenitan education many states til today don't requires and teach geography as mandatory course it's a the dead of education there. In others Americans countries geography it's mandatory course if you reproves in that course will never be graduated in education in all way and sense. America is continent united continent ever but any region of America have your own reality

@MW_Asura

2 ай бұрын

When it comes to stereotypes the US is pretty good at living up to them

The Swedish dinner thing, as a Swede we only cook what's nessecary for the people who we know beforehand will be eating so if another person all of sudden would eat there wouldnt be enough food for everyone.. >.> But if we know before we shop/make the food then for sure we would invite the person to eat there!

@-EmmaBerglund-

3 ай бұрын

💯

@tanjaheikkila8504

2 ай бұрын

Same in Finland

@TheAlkochef

Ай бұрын

Its a scandinavian thing ;) greetings from DK

From perhaps the 50s-90s, it was not common for children to eat at their friends' houses, unless it was the case that you slept over, coffee was a completely different matter. The reason is that dinner was a family time, it was when the parents had time to talk to their children, about homework etc. the first thing a parent's friend asked when you got to their house was when you were going home for dinner, eating dinner with someone else's child was considered quite rude to the other family as they had planned food for their child and had a family time, of course did it work if one's friend's family called one's family and asked if it was ok. However, this should preferably be done well in advance, such as the day before.

I don't serve food to people, unless i'm also eating.. except dinners, i don't offer them dinner. That has to be talked about before i make the food.. Of course, if the person needs food and i happen to have extra, sure, not a weird request in my book. But, Finnish people will brew coffee, you just need to ask, and often they ask you. That is our way to do it, coffee and cookies/cake/etc. It is not at all considered rude, we are all addicted to coffee so "could you make a cup of coffee" is normal request that isn't even thought about as a chore. I live alone, and don't have lot of guests, i usually go out to see people.. but even i have a cookie jar for guests.

@lucone2937

3 ай бұрын

As a Finn I agree with you and a Swedish girl. It is a common practice to offer coffee perhaps with cookies, salty pies, and something little, when you meet your friends and guests at home. It would be a little bit exaggerated to serve a whole meal when you just want to meet and chat with people.

@scotth5988

3 ай бұрын

What is the normal coffee a Finnish person would have at home? Espresso?

@jattikuukunen

3 ай бұрын

Some people really enjoy offering food. There might be a mushroom casserole waiting somewhere. But that's always unexpected, and I've always found it a bit uneasy to take them up on the offer. As for myself, I doubt my guests would enjoy my cooking.

@squidcaps4308

3 ай бұрын

@@scotth5988Drip brew. About 90% of the time. Sometimes espresso or French press. Drip brew is good enough, and since we drink it the most in the world, convenience is a HUGE factor. Not worth the hassle, imho, unless you want to make it special. I even drink instant coffee in the mornings, but i do have a special blend that you would not believe is instant but just average drip brew. Not to be mistaken with actually good coffee but it is "good enough" specially when you have just woke up... I drink about 4-5dl a day but half of it is decaffeinated, i can't tolerate high caffeine anymore. I used to drink almost a liter, and quite strong coffee too. Way too many outside of Finland put way too much effort in it, but then again... if i didn't drink it as much, i would probably put more effort in it and drink way better coffee. I know what good coffee taste like, so it is not about that.. i just balance effort and enjoyment maybe differently. edit: ok, my special blend isn't that special, it is just Braseiro from Nescafe mixed with decaffenaited, dark roast 50/50. And that is the key, if the instant coffee is light brown: drink tea, it'll be MUCH better taste. But if the instant coffee is almost black.. you may get something that actually passes as coffee. I've had to live in hotels because of work, how to make adequate coffee using only water kettle becomes very valuable skill.. The darker the roast, the better. And use almost double the amount they suggest and NOT a lot of sugar, less than usual. Light roasts don't have any taste but that awful awful instant coffee taste that everyone knows., and it does not get better the more you add, it just is.. awful. It needs to be a bit more bitter to pass as a coffee, and the end result is "meh, it's drinkable".

@user-rh6kl1rc9g

3 ай бұрын

Мы живем на границе с Финляндией, Ленинградская область и всем гостям всегда предлагаем еду, даже если я сама не хочу есть, потом чай обязательно и разговоры. В России у всех так.

Actually many Finnish cities have pretty good public transportation compared to most parts of the US. Not only that but many cities are quite walkable. For example I grew up in Kuopio and you could basically walk through the entire city, including suburban areas, without needing to interact much at all with infrastructure designed for cars. It was like two different worlds that existed within the same city - one for pedestrians and one for cars. The countryside is an another matter but then again what do you expect. You get a few busses a day and that's it.

@vaenii5056

3 ай бұрын

Also if you live in a city you definitely don't need to wait 40 minutes for a bus. It's more like 5 -10 minutes and 15 - 30 minutes depending on where you are and where you want to go. 30 minutes is pretty much the maximum because most lines run twice in one hour.

@ThePerksdeLeSarcasmeSiorai

3 ай бұрын

Um. May I ask which US cities are you talking about and how many of them did you actually visit? Probably not Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, etc. because they are terrible cities even to car owners but many American cities are actually trying their best to become more walkable and bikeable. • For example, Indianapolis aims to be the bike-friendliest city in America. • You can visit Washington DC, Seattle, Boston without having to rent a car because buses and bikes are readily accessible. • New York City and Chicago are the 2 US cities that have 24/7 transit system (even during winters). • And for the record, I live in one of these aforementioned cities and I never wait 45 minutes for a bus. It is important to raise awareness and voice criticism toward important issues but please refrain yourself from practicing borderline misinformation spreading.

@MW_Asura

2 ай бұрын

Even the Balkan countries have better public transportation and infrastructure than the US, so having better public transport and being more walkable than the US is a very low ball for a country like Finland

@MW_Asura

2 ай бұрын

@@ThePerksdeLeSarcasmeSiorai "For example, Indianapolis aims to be the bike-friendliest city in America." - Painting the side of the road red and calling it a "bike lane" or "bike-friendly" isn't making it bike-friendly. "You can visit Washington DC, Seattle, Boston without having to rent a car because buses and bikes are readily accessible." - Accessibility and effectiveness are different things, refer to previous point "New York City and Chicago are the 2 US cities that have 24/7 transit system (even during winters)." - And they're still mediocre at best for public transportation, besides being open 24/7 is one of the problems

@Pilv11

20 күн бұрын

Finland has an amazing public transportation system apart from the countryside where there just isn't enough people for it to make sense. I have never witnessed an another country with the same level of public transportation, and I have been to about 30 countries. I'm 30 years old and never needed a car apart from when I need to transport furniture or when traveling to the middle of nowhere.

The Swedish "not serve food" thing: Where I come from in Sweden it was/is rude to visit someone during their dinner time so you try to avoid that as far as you can (my dad was very strict on this, if you are not sure when they eat make sure you visit afterwards). This is because if you visit during the start of the meal you kind of force them to offer you dinner as well and it becomes like you invite your self - which is inconsidrate and rude (you do not know their economy and how much strain one mouth more will be to them). However it is also very very rude of the host not to offer their guest to join them for dinner - especially if the guest was invited to visit earlier in the day and/or is stuck there while the host family eats (for example while waiting for a ride home). If it is a neighbour that uninvited just pops by to exchange a quick word or borrow a thing it is excused not to invite to dinner even if it happen at dinner time. Otherwise not. If you are offered to join the dinner it is polite to thank for the invitation but decline the food (often with the excuse that you have food waiting at home) and then leave before they start eating. Declining but then remaining/lingering while they eat is often seen as very awkward (but it do happen especially for kids waiting for a ride home). If you can not leave (for some reason) it might be better to accept the invitation to the table but then just take something small (like a coffee or water), sometimes under the pretext that you have food waiting at home. To avoid all this potential social awkwardness all together you make sure you are not visiting during dinner time. So when someone starts talking about or start preparing dinner that is a que that it is time to go home, ideally before they invite you for dinner so they do not need to invite you do not have to decline. However if you do get the invitation and you do accept to join for dinner make very sure to return the favour as fast as you can when the roles are reversed - "favours and return favours" as the saying goes - in order to be polite. If you as a guest are a bit socially tone deaf and happen to uninvited showing up, or lingering, during dinner time (most likely several times over) and thereby over stayed your welcome, a typical Swede would not confront you about it. However you might very well not get the invitation to join the dinner as next time it happen. Not inviting to dinner is in my world a silent but clear gesture of annoyance and passive agressivness. An overstep in ettiquett is retuened with an equal overstep in ettiquett to make a point, which is a sign to take seriously as it is probably not done lightly. If you as a host happen to have an unexpected guest at dinnertime and you do not have enough food you tell your uest, splitt equally what little you do have and if you can you offer bred and butter (and sometimes cheese) to make up for the difference. So the whole is a intricate dance between host and guest where the host are supposed to be generous and show hospility but the guest is also supposed to show respect, be polite and not take advantage of the hospility and become a burden for the host. Hospitallity is suposed to be given, not taken. Exactly where the bounderies goes though differs a bit from relation to relation and situation to situation. This dance between host and guest, where the guest is also obligated to takes steps not to be a burden, is different from many other cultures where the guest is not under any such obligations.

@gretheeriksen-mller8643

3 ай бұрын

This is the truth about the issue

@honaldjason

2 ай бұрын

Yo how long did you take to type this 💀

@Lampchuanungang

2 ай бұрын

I can understand Swedish etiquette eating with loyal and familiar people at your table and not with unknown and even marginal strangers, there is a lot of truth to it. And other countries have nothing to do with it and judge Sweden.

@ttiwaz4398

2 ай бұрын

Exactly how it happens in Finland too. And we like to call/plan before we come to visit. So everyone is well prepared to avoid social awkwardess :D

@sirseigan

2 ай бұрын

@@ttiwaz4398 The more I learn about Finnish culture the more I realize how similar we are (especially northern Swedes and Finns). Sure there are some slight difference in the extreme ends in in some "intensity" that might be noticed in a Nordic perspective, but from a bigger international perspective the cultures are, not identical but very very similar.

Just a couple of jokes and random "sayings" we have here in Finland -The only reliable forecast is called 'Looking Out The Window' - "Ei mua varten tartte keittää" is the infamous saying every Finn has said and heard when someone offers to make you a cup of coffee wich translates to "You don't have to make coffee just because of me" meaning "If you're making yourself some coffee, might as well me a cup too BUT you aren't you don't have to(you do have to)"

It helps to be born into the colder weather climate. Where I live in Wisconsin, during the day yesterday we had a horseshoe tournament in the snow. We dig out the snow around the stakes and the rest of the pits, but the thing is, if you don't get a ringer, you'll hit the frozen pit and the shoe will bounce off the ice and out of the pit. Then we had a bowling tournament that night which was a benefit, and the proceeds went to youth bowling. These activities all involve drinking beer, which seems to be a common theme in cold weather climates.

As a British person who married a Dane... HA to their "It's always rainy and grey in Denmark" comment. My husband didnt see rainy and grey till he moved here.

My experience in Finland is so different compared to the Finnish girl. I guess because I live in the capital, but I've used the subway and other public transport my whole life, I'm 30 and still don't have a car/driver's license or feel the need to have one 😅 Also I very rarely drink (mostly just a glass of wine couple times a year) and didn't like getting drunk when I was younger. Rarely get to go to a sauna either (never had one expect the public ones in some of the houses i've lived but eugh).

@hyjimi

3 ай бұрын

I grew up in the finnish countryside and the only public transportation we had was the school bus, so most teenagers would buy moped cars at 15/16 and then cars at 17 to get around. Most people I knew began drinking at like 13/14, and I think that had a lot to do with the fact that there literally was nothing else to do lol. I remember all teenagers just sitting around at the sports field or in front of either of the two stores we had. I had a 20 min drive to the nearest grocery store lmao

@bngtnloves

3 ай бұрын

@@hyjimi Yeah, it definitely depends where one grew up, and even here in the city not everyone did the same things since there were more options. When it comes to drinking I was probably just the weird one for not liking it 😂

@hyjimi

3 ай бұрын

​@@bngtnloves Yeah very true, I never drank either! I don't think it's a bad thing to be considered weird with 😂

@abc_0_10_11

Ай бұрын

Public transportation is quite good in the bigger cities, but surely it doesn't make sense to run constant bus routes where there isn't enough people. In my friend group, most of the people didn't buy a car or motorbike. Drinking started very early around the age 12-14 for most of the people.

That’s a shame that many Americans don’t study geography. I feel everyone should have a basic knowledge of what’s outside their own country. I never knew Iceland 🇮🇸 had such a low population! Always learning from the World Friends channel!

@user-rh6kl1rc9g

3 ай бұрын

Американцам не нужны знания, для этого есть образованные эмигранты.

@marydavis5234

3 ай бұрын

I’m from the US and I was taught Both American History , World History and world Geography and my son goes to the same school and is being taught the same things as I was, American schools do no get taught the same things and Schools are done by the school district they are in and btw I graduated in 1980

Truly interesting !! Thanks you all!!

I am an Englishman, and I think as I am reserved and chill, I would fit right in with my Scandinavian cousins. The snow is the best thing imo

@Mr.Falcon541

3 ай бұрын

Snow is nice about first month of the winter but after like 3-6 months it gets really old

@Xirque666

3 ай бұрын

Could be your Scandinavian heritage kicking in 😉

@Labbish1

2 ай бұрын

So true! ​@@Mr.Falcon541

Prevalence of seasonal depression in Iceland is actually lower compared to other countries.. however Iceland has one of the highest usage of antidepressants as a form of treatment which might be because therapy is not a part of the universal healthcare and therefore really expensive

The #swedengate thing about food and guests only applies to children on playdates or kids hanging out after school. Kids are always offered pastry/cookies and lemonade, and in most cases the parents of both kids involved will be in contact about coordinating dinner or ask you directly “do you want to eat here or eat at home?”. So in my experience as a kid you will always be offered to eat dinner as well, but sometimes you prefer the food in your own home and decline/leave before dinner. So nobody is refusing you food at all! It’s just that people politely ask if you would like food and don’t go out of their way with “fake friendliness” to force you to stay if you decline.

The "offer guests food" thing is also very much taken out of its historical context. Scandinavian countries are cold and we have very very short harvest seasons compared to further south in europe for example. So historically it was much more reasonable to offer coffee (an imported good bought from a shop) rather than to strain your ladas and offer the food that need to feed your family for the whole year. The guests would also have very tight food rations at their home and feel like a burden if you gave them of your precious vegetables or grain.

Seems a bit like people don't know, that there is also no sunlight in the north of nothern hemisphere winters, also in Canada, Alaska and Russia. Just like theres no light in southern hemisphere winters the more south you go.

@petrirantavalli859

3 ай бұрын

Except that 99% of the population in said coutries live at the latitude of paris ie. as south as they can possibly get.

@K.C-2049

3 ай бұрын

I'm Canadian (not even super far north) and the sun staying out until like 10 pm in the summer is incredibly annoying :( like go away. I need to sleep.

@benlee6158

3 ай бұрын

@@petrirantavalli859 you don't need to live somewhere in order to know basic things.

@Divig

3 ай бұрын

Denmark, the nordic country that is the furthest to the south, is at the same latitude as the middle of Saskachewan. Yakutsk is about the same latitude as Sundsvall, a city in the middle of Sweden. So yeah, other countries at the same latitude have as little (or much) sun, but not many lives there. Edit: that said, most people in Scandinavian countries lives in the southern parts as well.

As soon as she said "Slushie season" my anger shot through the roof... it's noooww

I am Italian and I can say that we are collectively envious about nordic countries so I am a little surprised about their complaints… I knew that these were expensive countries but I thought that citizens could easily afford everything because of the high salaries… I guess inflation hit hard all of us… And I also thought that weather and light exposure were not that big of a deal, I mean every year scandinavian people are said to be the happiest in every chart/magazine (personally I could never sustain all the darkness and freezing temperature). Thanks for another great and very interesting video! Sending love from Italy

@Sindrijo

3 ай бұрын

Housing market in the Nordics is absolutely insane, a small two bedroom apartment is about 500.000 USD in both Reykjavík and Oslo

@luminoustarisma

3 ай бұрын

It is not like we cannot afford it, but keep in mind many of these girls probably go with the Korean salaries they earn (if they work there), and that is kind of different. I had that experience myself when I studied in China, and when my year was up and I returned to Sweden I did not buy anything for over a month, the economic differences were just that severe for me that it took me a month to open my wallet for something, and even longer to get used to it again.

@Onnarashi

3 ай бұрын

These ladies are young, live in South Korea and probably either are students or work foir a medium income by SK standards. Nordic salaries tend to be much higher than in SK, so it makes sense that trhey'll have a shock coming home.

@fraaa96

3 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@Sindrijo​​⁠​⁠​⁠Hi! thanks for your reply! We have the same problem here, especially in Milan… I mean a small flat located there can hit the market at 400k (best case scenario), the housing bubble Is absurd and every landlord Is trying so hard to profit off I swear I saw advertisment of basements and garages listed as apartments!

@lucone2937

3 ай бұрын

As a Finn I like the weather has all four seasons, and January should be colder than July. The Finnish houses are planned for cold winter weather and you can wear a T-shirt at home even if there's -20 Celsius degrees outside. A hot summer is far more consuming for a body than cooler seasons. Besides there are many famous Italians who have been good at winter sports over the years like Alberto Tomba, Dorothea Wierer, Maurilio de Zolt, and many others. The next the Olympic Winter Games will be held in Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo, in 2026.

for the dinner thing at the start, I had friends growing up whose parents would offer food but only a few, they always asked before they had even decided what's for dinner and they would make sure I didn't have any dietary restrictions. keep in mind this didn't happen every time we hung out, one of these friends lived on the outskirts of town and usually if we hung out at her place it was after school so we would be hungry and I would stay 'late' (maybe until 18:00-19:00), the other friend lived next door and we were basically family so eating at her place was not weird. it's just not usually part of scandinavian culture, the first time I ate at the out of town friends house her parents called my parents to ask if it was ok, you dont want to feed someone elses kid something they're not supposed to eat, you dont know if they have dietary restrictions or allergies, and some people go so far as to say it's shameful to "have to" feed someone elses kid because it implies that kids parents can't afford food, somehow making it ugly of the kid to eat at someone elses house. this last bit also applies to trick-or-treating, something that alot of richer neighbourhoods in sweden have 'banned' because it's basically begging (I don't agree with this) and they can afford to buy candy for their own kids.

I guess the Swedish "fika" (the other Nordic nations have similar traditions under different names) is much like the British tradition of "Tea and "biscuits". In Iceland we call it "kaffitími" - coffee-time, not tea... Regarding the "everybody know everyone else in Iceland" has a grain of truth to it. In my experience, whenever I meet another Icelander in the most unlikely places in the world and start talking, it usually takes less than 10 minutes to find some common acquaintances!

@SwedenTheHedgehog

3 ай бұрын

The word "fika" allegedly started as some kind of wordplay of "kaffe" --> "kaffi" --> "fiika" --> "fika". I'm not sure if it is true, but it does make sense.

@lucone2937

3 ай бұрын

Swedish brands like Annas and Pågen are well-known in Finland. I like especially thin heart-shaped gingerbread (pipparkakku / pepperkaka) made by Annas, and muffins and cinnamon rolls (korvapuusti/kanelbulle/gifflar) made by Pågen.

@Pythonizah

2 ай бұрын

@@SwedenTheHedgehog Sounds bizarre to me. "Kaffi" would be a pretty standard way to refer to coffee here in Fennosweden, but I can only imagine the looks I would get if I said that over in Sweden proper.

@SwedenTheHedgehog

2 ай бұрын

@@Pythonizah In modern Swedish it would sound strange for sure; but this would be old and dialectal Swedish, so I think it’s at least likely!

@ilikevideos4868

Ай бұрын

In finland we don't have that, we just drink coffee whenever we have more than 5 minutes of free time

More Nordic contents plz😂😂 it's entertaining

The irony is "According to the 2023 World Happiness Report, Finland is the 'happiest' country in the world for the sixth year in a row, followed by Denmark and Iceland." 😂😂 Sweden and Norway are ranked 6th and 7th respectively. 🤣

@thoso1973

3 ай бұрын

Well, not if you consider that official depression rates in the Nordic nations are also high, because all people get regularly checked, diagnosed and treated thanks to great universal healthcare. How many people in the US suffer from undiagnosed depression, from not being able to afford to get checked and treated, or from having no insurance coverage?

@Ikkeligeglad

3 ай бұрын

@@thoso1973 Look at how many people there is living on the streets, many of them have a diagnose, and did not get any treatment but they can buy a gun

@torekristoffersen176

3 ай бұрын

@@thoso1973 it’s a bit easier taking care of a mere 5 million people compared to 334 million (not including all the millions of illegals entering America)….

@3H3H3H

3 ай бұрын

This search of Finland is the happiest country in the world is false many Finns don't have Finns friend a moving a lot from Finland to never come back. People reclamating that Finns are non social as it seems etc ...

@Ikkeligeglad

3 ай бұрын

@@3H3H3H No it's not false, I live in one of the Nordic countries so I know. People move from all countries and never comes back for many reasons even from USA and they will never come back

Bergen weather forecast is always on point - rain, rain, rain, rain ....

For me it's the summer heat and the winter cold. It's because when it's summer I need at least two fans on so i can sleep or even to just relax in my room, but in the winter if i want to go outside I have to wear so many layers. (I'm swedish)

As a Dutchie who was living in Sweden and Iceland before, I actually loved the winters (except for the months leading to the winter, when it's not proper winter). I loved the snowy days, the cozy atmosphere with lights, northern lights, etc. In The Netherlands, winters are just like fall with a loooot of rain, storms and hardly ever snow or ice these days. In Stockholm, the winters were quite calm and stable, with lots of sunshine (I know some Swedes disagree, but it's definitely more than where I'm from).

@stephanie-fh5qv

2 ай бұрын

You just need to check the statistics for hours of sin in Stockholm in for eixample the month of dec and jan to see that your statement is inaccurate. There is more hours of light in the netherlands. Just a Quick Google search. Its not about perception, its just compare statistics.

@markuserikssen

2 ай бұрын

@nie-fh5qv More hours of daylight doesn't equal sunshine. Even when Stockholm has less daylight, it still has more sunshine than where I live. I've lived in both countries in different cities for many years and know that there is a big difference. Statistics don't tell the whole story. There are also regional differences.

where i live in sweden the public transport use the norwegian weather forecast system, we really dont trust our own. 114km to border by car btw

I'm just now noticing just how much of the way my family and I are comes from my Scandinavian grandparents.

I am from Denmark and we don't really serve food normally either, unless we had already invited others to join us for a meal. I think the roots is from my parents and grandparents generations, where food was quite sparse, so usually only had barely enough for your own household. I have heard stories where they went to bed hungry, simply because there was not enough food.

Maybe it's different in the countryside, but in my experience most Finns do not get a car when they turn 18, though they may get a driving license. Few 18 year olds could afford to buy even a used car (source: I'm a Finn). Public transportation is actually pretty good too, for the most part

@matilda938

3 ай бұрын

yeah you are definetly from a city. here in the middle of nowhere we have few busses a day, and few trains so getting a car will help so much to get freedom, because you don't have to get a ride from your parents. if you want to go to a bigger city for excample to watch a movie, there's great chance that you will need to be there from 15.30 to 21.30 just because trains don't match

@staymoaengeneatiny

3 ай бұрын

I live in a smaller city and my brother got a car when he turned 18. Most people get a car where I live when they are 18 or even 17. It's just easier, even tho it's not like a super small city (like you can just walk, or ride a bike, for longer distance you can use a train or sometimes even a bus)

@Riippumatonkaveri

3 ай бұрын

In the countryside public transportation sucks or is non-existent. Where I live there are only two operating bus lines... and they run 1-3 times a day at rather inconvenient hours, so it is basically necessary to own a car. The nearest big cities are 80-100 km away. BUT: living here is so much cheaper than in Helsinki or any other big city. :) So yes, it's VERY different.

can you guys please make a video like this with Belgium (northern part), The Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and Austria?

About trees. Finland have most forest in Europe, 73% of the area. Sweden is second with 70%.

@user-rh6kl1rc9g

3 ай бұрын

Поэтому финны покупают русский лес? Для своих заводов)) что-то вы плохо изучили статистику. 1 место в мире у России, поэтому в Европе тоже у России. Или вы тоже не изучаете географию? И не знаете что половина России в Европе)

@reineh3477

3 ай бұрын

@@user-rh6kl1rc9g Ja Ryssland har störst skog i världen men den är bara 49% av landets totala area. Du ber mig läsa geografi, jag ber dig läsa matematik.

@user-rh6kl1rc9g

3 ай бұрын

@@reineh3477 да, в этом смысле Финляндия является самой лесной страной, в этом смысле повезло и Финляндии и России, мы дышим самым чистым воздухом! Но финны берегут свой лес, а в Росси он пилится беспощадно и продаётся. Может сейчас закроют границы и перестанут продавать. Я знакома с человеком продававшим лес в Финляндию, это очень богатый человек. Все эти продажи нелегальны наполовину. Закрыв границу финны закрыли этот нелегальный бизнес.

@user-rh6kl1rc9g

3 ай бұрын

@@reineh3477 вообще самая большая проблема сейчас не лес, а то что Евросоюз строит на границе с Россией подземные хранилища и выделил на это 330 млн €. Они готовятся к войне чтобы вы понимали. Сами знаете какие почвы в Финляндии - скалы, гранит, и подземное строительство намного дороже наземного! А почему? А потому что они готовятся к войне и бомбам. В Евросоюзе нет места для хранилища? Только у границы с Россией? И в срочном порядке! До 2025 должны быть построены. Вы понимаете что вашу страну готовят следующую к войне после Украины? В Украине Путин тоже долго предлагал мир, Англия и Германия были против мира…. Поэтому сейчас в день потери по 1 тыс человек с украинской и русский стороны. Но в Украине было 40 млн населения, а в Финляндии всего 5 млн….но американцам плевать на небольшие страны и плевать на смерти украинцев. Моя семья с Украины, с польской части и мне очень жаль украинский народ, но нет выхода и я вижу что с финской стороны идёт по такому-же сценарию. Просто знайте.

@Riippumatonkaveri

3 ай бұрын

@@user-rh6kl1rc9g Wow, from forest to politics... The fact is that Russia attacked Ukraine (first in 2014, then again in 2022). Of course the rest of Europe is preparing for a war - but only because of Russian imperialism and constant need to pose a threat to her neighbouring countries (and Europe as a whole). Putin only offered peace to have the annexed Ukrainian provinces recognised as part of Russia. The Ukrainians have all the right to defend their country, and Europe supports them because that is the right thing to do. (You would think the same way if for example China attacked Russia, wouldn't you? Or would it be OK if China annexed the Russian Far East?)

This countryside finnish girl really tells how unhealthy they live their lives there, bruh. We finns like to do winter sports a lot such as Icehockey and skiing, and in the summers going to the forest, swimming, sauna and normal athletics.

@10Jemppu

3 ай бұрын

Hi, this is Jemina from the video. My life in Finland was opposite to unhealthy actually, just like most finns I love winter sports, horse riding, swimming, etc. However, this video was about "the worst things about living in the Nordic countries" and therefore I mostly mentioned some negative parts :)

@heh9392

3 ай бұрын

Meinaan esimerkkiä siitä että kun on esimerkiksi olemassa sarja nimeltään Savo-life Yle Areenalla ja se tuo mulle sen kuvan miten maalla elävät oikeasti ovat verrattuna kaupungissa asuviin.

I heard Denmark. I was on a project in Denmark for 4 out of 5 weeks. It was so nice. Everyone at the company we were working with. At 12 noon, everyone stopped working. Management, White Collar and the Production workers all stopped working. They all went to lunch at the same time. The company had a Chef that worked for them. They prepared all the food and the company paid for everything. Even we didn't have to pay for lunch. It was so nice. I loved it. Many years ago I reached out to anyone I could find in Europe with my family name on Mother and Father's side of the family. When I was done for that project. One of the guys I found that may be a cousin, I found out he lived a kilometer from where I was. I could have kicked myself. I was that close and could have met him in person.

I'm just surprised that she didn't take a geography class. At my school, that is a class you need to take to even graduate.

I grew up in Denmark,my family always offered dinner,lunch,coffee,tea,depends on the time❤

The whole "#SWEDENGATE" thing about Swedes not offering food for guest got so blown out of proportions, especially in Asia and even more specifically, Korea. It's really weird

I grew up in Rhode Island, with a graduating class of 90 kids. We also had geography class =) Having been to Iceland twice now, the weather is just like New England. We also have "slush season" lol It's called False Spring ie February/March/April. It could be 60 degrees one day, and then 8 inches of snow on the ground the next!

Ir's funny that everyone knew what she meant when she explained the "slushy season" the time between winter and spring, when all the snow is about to melt away. Before it has dried up and the spring comes. But I think the worst of Sweden is the time during late autumn when there's no leaves left on the trees, it's getting dark outside, there's no sunlight and only black and dark everywhere. Before the first snow arrives.

I've been to Denmark 3 times and it was always sunny. Our Danish friends told us to come more often and bring the good weather. 😂

Im from northen Sweden and I use norweigan weather forcasts to check what the weather will be like where I live😂 The main reason for it is 1: Its generally more accurate bc Swedish forecasts focus too much on only the big cities and neglects northen Sweden and 2: I just think SMHI us USELESS. Nine times out of ten they are wrong. Side note: Pro of northen Sweden: No slush season, We have icy lakes and deep powder snow instead so during spring we build snow couches, go ice fishing and alpine skiing. One of the main reasons I wouldnt want to live down south is the lack of snow and the slush season. I prefer a "proper" winter.

@Caustike

3 ай бұрын

Same here in Finnish Lapland. YR.no is the place to go. Maybe some superior NATO satellite data or something, but much more accurate than FMI (the Finnish forecasts). Also, Helsinki region can go drown in the slush with their job market, I like to live here with proper winters-

@HedstromMichelle

3 ай бұрын

@@CaustikeBut you're also part of NATO now 😂

Swedes traditionally do not share meals as generously as they do with "fika." Historically, food was a scarce resource that needed careful management. Being generous with coffee and pastries, on the other hand, became a way to socialize and offer something pleasant without straining the limited food supply. "Fika," with its emphasis on coffee and baked goods, thus became a more economically feasible and friendly social activity. It goes back to WW1 when there where a food shortage, and that lives on in the collective mind.

that Danish lady apologizing for the bad weather... is she Canadian? in general are Nordic people secretly Canadian? edit: but really my god I FELT that girl talking about the "slush" season. spring is the worst. it's just brown and grey and slush and bare trees and cloudy weather and SAND turning the snow brown from the roads blech. I never recommend anyone come to the Canadian Rockies in early spring.

The weather forecast thing is kinda funny since in Sweden a lot of people tend to prefer the Norwegian weather forecasting company since they're considered more accurate

@ankra12

3 ай бұрын

The same for Danish 😅

@leopartanen8752

3 ай бұрын

Finland is different from other Nordic countries about that too. We basically just use our own forecasts Ilmatieteen laitos or Foreca. 😂

@ivarrouk6708

3 ай бұрын

We tend to use the Norwegian even here in Estonia

@skie66

3 ай бұрын

In northern finland yr.no is the best too!

@ominousplatypus380

2 ай бұрын

@@leopartanen8752 Yr.no is also quite popular in Finland.

3:05 We also always ask someone if they want something some coffee or something to drink, in Norway

I feel like sharing the food is a very nuanced thing at least in Finland. Like it's not common but it exists where someone's kid is always at your house at dinner time and they use it for their economical benefit. I also grew up during recession so it's not like we had a lot of money to feed everyone we knew. On the other hand my friends would always accompany us to dinner if they were in the house. And it's also like the rarer guest you are, either the place you visit wants to be particularly hospitable and invites the stranger for dinner, or you're viewed as a random person present and the dinner is a closed family event. And then when I grew up I was a student and always thinking "do I still have food left for myself tomorrow or do I need to buy and make more food that I thought would get me over at least this period of time" so I would sort of never offer a visitor dinner, I was just a dude living alone. But I'd on the other hand always offer coffee or drinks and perhaps cookies or whatever to go along with it. if I had money and was living with people that I share food with on dinner, then I'd always invite them to share the dinner. Another thing in Finland is that if you come to someone's home and expect to be treated with food or coffee, you bring something like pastry or whatever as a gift. You don't expect to be treated just like that, you bring your own part/formality so you can feel like you deserve to be treated and don't have to just hope for it, because now it's a mutual offering. My parents are also from more rural region where it's common to visit family and friends randomly and casually, people might just pop in and sit there for hours talking. A moment of coffee, they might have a dinner and they might offer dinner or not. Usually they do because they might have big families or had big families and are used to spinning out a bigger meal or having leftovers ready to be heated in the fridge. So the heritage from there is openly offering guests food if you have enough for everyone. In the cities people aren't as in touch with family and friends and don't pop up randomly anymore so the traditions and readiness to offer food is not as common. Many people don't have cupboards stocked with food for living alone and not having guests and not wanting food to spoil, so they might not have the opportunity to offer a meal. In fact it's been quite historically recorded, the coffee culture, where people might have had better and not as good coffee in the house and the lady of the house would take the good coffee and make it for the guests, and the family drinks just some every day cheap stuff. Connected to that is the baked goods, I've seen it for example in my dad's family where all her sisters and my grandma start with "oh what a shame we really don't have anything to offer with the coffee" and then empty their cupboards with baked and bought cakes and cookies to fill the whole table, all delicious. And that is very traditional, historical behavior in Finland. Talking down your offerings while still always having good stuff at hand to offer and plenty of it. So it's quite a nuanced topic. If you go to someone's place and don't get treated with a dinner, you shouldn't first think "wow they're so rude" but "why do I deserve to be treated with a meal". It makes you probably less entitled and more forgiving, and the next thing you can do is try and come up with reasons why they might not be treating you with the dinner for reasons that are not related to how much they like you. I've actually noticed that people from some cultures don't even give a second thought that maybe other people don't behave the same as their culture, like for example they make a decent chunk of money and just assume everyone can live their lifestyle so they don't ask and plan with you, they just announce "let's go for a dinner" and choose the most expensive place (and obviously don't treat you who eats pasta as is at home). And people have similar behavior elsewhere as well, they might just assume that they are entitled to things and that you owe them some level of treatment and experiences for no apparent reason. Here the culture is perhaps more like you're thankful for every bit of luxurious and extra treatment you get from people, you don't assume you are entitled to anything. Well some people are, some people are just as entitled as others. "There are only trees in Finland" - "There's also lakes!". I live in one of the biggest cities in Finland and I have 5 minutes on bike to be surrounded by a forest at a lake (I can choose any of the three, about the same distance). I can walk less than a kilometre to be in forest in three directions. Most people who want to move or travel to Finland want to do it specifically for the trees and lakes. They're tired of not seeing green anywhere. Her description/experience regarding transportation can vary hugely depending on where in Finland you live. For example in you live in one of those biggest cities, you will rarely have thought you should or need to own a car. The public transportation in some cities is so well covered you think owning a car is nuisance. And if you can't ride public transportation, you can bike or walk. Only for big items needed to be transported you might want a car, but for myself I always go "can I walk there in less than 30 minutes? Can I bike there in less than 30 minutes? Can I get there by public transportation?" in that order. I do use public transportation for shorter distances, but I wouldn't use it if walking doesn't take long and I'm not in a hurry to get there. Like you don't need to live in the capital city to have trams go every 4-7 minutes or have at most 20 minute wait for a bus if you there's not many bus lines. What always gets me that almost everyone knows Nokia phones and is nostalgic about them, and nobody knows it's a town in Finland where the company is from. And made/makes rubber boots and tires. No wonder danish are so friendly with brits though. They have the same weather. There's one week in Finland in the summer when it doesn't rain and you can see the sun (even if it's on the sky a lot). I don't think the rules in Finland are really a problem personally (unless you found a company and have to do everything yourself, then you're in a hot mess with every law and rule and standard). Most of them are very intuitive and don't bother your life (other than if you wanna be obnoxious or can't plan your use of time or if you just want to go overboard in something you shouldn't). What gets me is that there's this public face and moralising in a sense. In public speech and image Finland is this fairy tale country of human rights and equality and healthcare and empathy towards people that have dealt worse cards in life, and collectively paying taxes so everyone can have a reasonable level of living no matter how bad it gets. In truth in the healthcare there's a lot of prejudice by practicioners from nurses to doctors that is in no way in line with their education and reasonable common thinking. A lot of judgment, not believing the patients, not listening the patients, not treating the patients appropriately until it's too late. The pretending that we want to improve in mental health issues but somehow they can't find money to improve it, other than for sidewalk ad campaigns "DON'T BE LONELY, DON'T BE DEPRESSED". And the unbelievable harshness of people. A ton of people who got lucky and landed a job without effort think it was their own doing and judge and speak very harshly about people who aren't employed for some reason. It doesn't matter if they're disabled, have severe mental health issues or are actively trying to get employed, they get lumped into the same group and called lazy and useless. Similarly, people are judged for many other things as well. Mostly on things the speaker understands nothing about at all and doesn't know the person at all. It's mostly in universities like in engineering where people are excited about things and welcoming, sort of nerding out without it being about fighting the system, the people who look forward and dream about things and get excited.

Her saying "in America we dont learn about other countries" is inherently wrong and sending misinformation about americans who actually listened in class, we DO learn about other countries.

We had Geography class when I was growing up in the US. We had it every year through primary school.

As someone who lives in a nordic country, I would say number 1 is the cold weather. That said, I don't like very warm weather either. give me 15-25 degrees Celsius all year round and I'd be very happy, but of course no place on earth has that. The Faroe Islands where I live is especially cold because we are surrounded by ocean... the North Atlantic Ocean which is very cold. the weather joke hits home for me as well. we can have all 4 seasons in a day. a couple of years ago, I was selling tickets to this festival we have in my town and within 10-15 minutes I experienced the following: pouring rain, cold wind and hot sun. so it ´poured down, then it stopped and we had some cold wind and then the sun came out and it got warm again, it was quite odd. Our population is right now I think 52000-54000 people, so a little bit over 1/10 of Iceland :) 15:42 For me, it's a combination of Norway, Denmark and Iceland. it's really dark here during winter, the country is very expensive and there is little to nothing to do here.

I love Norway in particular and Nordic countries in general, I love the way they value honesty and directness as their core values in the cultures. I especially love the flag of Norway, it looks really beautiful and fashionable to me. I did search for information about the country, but I have not been satisfied yet. Can some one tell me more about the country or Nordic cultures? I genuinely love to hear, may be just normal and simple things in daily basis, thank you so much 🌷

@ahkkariq7406

3 ай бұрын

There are a lot of YT channels focusing on Norwegian topics. Do a search, and you will find them.

@kunilsen2519

3 ай бұрын

That is super kind of you. It makes me curious where you are from? I am Norwegian. And we are not actually that cold. We just respect each other and our own personal space and time a lot and we can be a bit awkward lol But if you do spark up a conversation or have a question for someone that arent actively going somewhere you will be met with politeness and/or friendliness. At least that is my experience here in Bergen. I am one of the most introverted and shy people, and I have had pleasant conversations with strangers randomly throughout my life. Immigrants, foreigners, and fellow Norwegians alike :)

@minddatmetal

3 ай бұрын

​@@kunilsen2519 well really love to hear from you and all the Nordic people. I'm not completely introverted but I ardently love to be alone. Personal space and personal time are unbeatable. I am Vietnamese btw. My relatives and acquaintances want me to relocate in their current countries, but I just love Nordic countries so much. I have just learned the language and many skills every day to become more productive and upgrade myself so that I can be confident to come to visit your homeland and dive into the cultures. So much love from my heart for the Nordics, see you soon my dreamland 💟 Wish the countries nothing but constant prosperity and greater blessings 🎆

I'm not Finnish but I have spent a lot of time there and I would say the worst thing is that it's quite hard to make friends, especially if you are introverted because you have to make the first move with Finns. But also I'm very shy and usually wait for them to talk to me. So it can be a bit lonely. My only friend who lives there is Latin American and that's the opposite culturally, so I don't have too many Finnish friends.

@3H3H3H

3 ай бұрын

You live in a sad culture search for a culture of fun and joy 🍻🌺🌹

@diamondsarenotforever8542

2 ай бұрын

​@@3H3H3HFinland's culture is not sad. It is the same with other Nordic countries.

@evakkosiili6390

12 күн бұрын

If you visit Tampere just send message! We are frozen on the outside but when you get to know us, it´s friends for life. we dont do small talk, ask just important stuff what we want to know. we have fun and joy but it´s kind of treasure youll find when you know us.

@diamondsarenotforever8542

12 күн бұрын

@@evakkosiili6390 Tampere is the most popular city in Finland now.

Nordic people + alcohol is so old news already... In the Nordic countries they consume less alcohol per head than in Central/Southern Europe. In Finland, alcohol consumption has been steadily decreasing for the past 15 years.

The funny thing is that a few years ago I read the book "Denmark's Secret - Discover how the happiest people in the world live". In addition to having read and seen documentaries about how "wonderful" it is to live in Nordic countries. It's interesting to see this contradiction between what I've already read, seen and heard with their comments in this video.

Growing up in Finland when I was a kid and went over to friends house it was 50/50 if I was offered food at dinner, those who did would always ask if it was ok for me to eat there, does my parents know or even ask me to call home to ask if it was ok for me to eat at theirs. Some friends house I would wait at my friends room while they had dinner. I think it was lot to do out of respect towards the visiting kids family, very careful not to overstep and maybe reflection how they wished their kid would behave. Some kids were even told by their own family to come home for dinner and not eat at others house. So mixture of over politeness, respect and also pride. Pride for "I don't want them to think we cant feed our own kid". Small snack and drink was always offered tho. One more point to add is that as a kid we often went to visit friends house straight from school unannounced. I'm 90's kiddo so we didn't have cellphones so we would call from friends house to home to tell we went over so the family might have not been prepared to have one extra at the table. I feel like it was more common families to only prepare enough for that one meal for their family unlike in lot of eastern Europe countries I experienced families making so much food that they could feed the neighborhood even if they only had their own family at dinner. As an adult you are always offered coffee (or tea) and lot would have like said in the video a "vieraspulla" a sweet bread or pastries to offer surprise guests. Nowadays people hardly go over unannounced I feel like. I think the shift happened between the genX and millenials.

Seeing Iceland's reaction to "5.5 million people" is quite on point. 5:45 Iceland has just about 400 thousand inhabitants. Finland has 5.6 million. Iceland is also about 1/3rd as large as Finland. Ie, Finland is about 4.5 times as densely populated.

6:36 The comment is seriously true though. At least in Oslo. A couple of days ago it said no rain today while it was raining. Or it says it’ll be really good weather and then it starts raining, or the other way around

Just came back from Norway for the first time. Now I know why I loved it so much - I too don’t like talking to people and loved that I was left alone! 🤣🤣💗🇦🇺

in southern sweden where i live, in April its like 20 mins its rain but the next like hour its snow an from out of nowhere its sunny the rest of the day. And also here everyone is like '' THERE IS NOO BAD WEATHER ONLYY BAD CLOTHES '' but they tell us like its gonna be sunny the entire day but right after u leave the house its snow or rain!

As a norwegian living in the south west region in Stavanger I can say the main reason why people at least here say the weather forecasts are very inaccurate is due to the models used to predict the weather does not account for how clouds above the shoreline or lakes can cause higher water evaporation or how clouds form on the shoreline due to other things, it is however much more accurate for the middle of norway and over towards sweden and up into finland. Just not on the western coastline.

I think it's a common misconception that Iceland is far North, but Reykjavik and Trondheim are ar about the same latitude. Weather in Norway is extremely unpredictable compared to almost any other place in the world. Here's some reasons why it's so hard to predict: - Mountainous terrain, so a lot depends on the wind direction. If you're in front of the mountain (from the wind direction), you get rain, and if you're behind it, you get sun (generally). - Because of mountains and valleys, weather patterns can be extremely local. - A lot depends on the Golf stream. Sometimes Britain gets all the rain, and other times the rain will be carried all the way to Norway. - The temperature rests around 0°C a lot of the year, which means it's hard to predict if you will get rain or snow. Generally they cannot predict the weather 10 days in advance at all, and sometimes not even what the weather will be like tomorrow. Usually a 5 day forecast is 90% accurate in other locations, but in Norway it's probably more around 50-60%.

Of course you guys gotta do a 'best things about living in Nordic countries' video now.

So for Danish people and thing about inviting on food. In my experience if you have guests during breakfast, lunch or dinner time you invite them to join. Atleast that has always been like that for people i know. If you come outside of the normal food times you will normally get invited on something to drink, cofee, soda, tea, water or what they have and sometimes snacks. Specially if its older pepole, they will pretty much always have snacks for guests during cofee time. I know my grandparents if they have a handyman out repairing some stuff between like 2-4pm they will always offer them something to drink and a snack. Funny but in my grandparents time it was actually normal to offer handymans beer when they had lunch/afternoon break but now the handymen only accepts a soda 😂

Maybe the weather just likes me because I feel there was often good weather when I (Swedish) went to visit family in Denmark. And we went either once a year or every other year when I was younger.

Sometimes, I do admire Nordic countries because their people are blessed with smaller population and bigger spaces. I live in a very urban East Asian city. It is frightening that people lack spatial awareness which leads to horrible pedestrians manners and lack of respectful personal space.

Hyvä Jemina! 😊

5:40 so much same (Saint Peterbourg)

I agree with my fellow Swede about the "Slushy season" but to me the most annoying thing is what happens to the weather after that. We "lovingly" call it the April weather and here is how it looks a typical week: Monday: the sun is out, people are wearing shorts and sunbathe during lunch. Tuesday: snow is now up to your knees and it's still falling. Wednesday: fog, you can barely see 7 feet in front of you and it won't lift till lunch. Thursday: it's pouring outside and won't stop until way into the night. Friday: yesterday's rain has frozen solid due to the day's freezing temperatures. And that is the kind of weather you can expect (not necessarily in that particular order) from the end of March to the middle of May.

@melvinlundquist7380

20 күн бұрын

April väder är det värsta jag vet

Hello everyone, thanks guys you are so funny I love your videos and I wish travel to visit your beautiful country ,nordics and United states of America.

The Norwegian looks Egyptian, greetings from Cairo Egypt 🇪🇬

Slushie season is from August to April in Denmark

@tokeeriksen2425

22 күн бұрын

Not really though, we get a few days of slush every time there has been significant snowfall, which in itself is kind of rare. Happens maybe 2-4 times per winter. The rest of winter it's mostly just grey and rainy.

@melvinlundquist7380

20 күн бұрын

We have colder winter ten u in sweden so our slush season (atleast on the west coast) is from late february to early april

Once and for all about us Swedes not giving food to guests: If you followed your friend home or vice versa you would always get Mellanmål (Between Meals) that would be sandwiches, yoghurt, cereal, chocolate-drink, juice etc. Then you would play and then when it came to dinner and you would not be invited to eat was because the food was portioned for the family but often it was because the parents wanted the friend to go home for the night because this was a schoolweekday. By the parents it was understood and accepted that it meant this but children don´t understand this because they want to keep playing even after dinner so they wait in their friends room when they eat but the parents want to have some alone time with the family, settle down, relax and starting to get ready for going to bed.

In the far north part of Sweden the sun doesn't even set in the summer, and in the winter the sun only stays up for like an hour or two at most.

Not giving food to guests in Sweden is very much true. Some Swedish people try to repudiate this, but there is definitely some truth to it. Me and my friends discussed this and basically everyone have experienced it. Usually this would be when we were hanging out with friends at someone's house and their parents would only cook food for their child and we would either go home or just stay in our friends room watching TV, play games etc. while he is eating. This is obviously not true about everyone but it's more common than you would think.

@melvinlundquist7380

20 күн бұрын

Its jantelagen i guess

I love how when the swede mentiones slush season everyone went "YEAAAAAH" xD. I'm from Norway myself, and can confirm it's a terrible time =P It's 21st february today, so we're expecting it to start soon -.-

6:31 BRO YES it literally ones SNOWED in MAY YES MAY

OMG WHERE DID YA GO TO SCHOOL? NEW SUB LOL I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!

Always bothers me when people day that outside of cities there's nothing to do. There's so much *more* you can do when nature is close by. I. The cities all the activities revolve around consuming and spending money

In northern Jutland, if you do not drown your guests in food and cakes, you will be percieved as a bad host. If you do not eat it, you are percieved as a bad guest.

As a Swede I've seen the not serving food to guests thing before online but it's literally never happened to me, I think it's really someone who've just turned up long after dinner and presumed they refused to serve them.

In Finland we have bus stops along roads but I haven't seen a bus in 15 years

Ah, growing up in Sweden it was definitely more rule than exception to wait in my friends' rooms while they hade dinner with their families. But occasionally it didn't, but the thing is the parents always had to check with my parents if it was ok, until when I was like 14 and I don't think I ever had dinner with any of my friends' families ever again. It never seemed rude or odd to me, it was the normal. Generally the families who would offer to feed me were either especially close friends or immigrants.

@christiangudmundsson8390

3 ай бұрын

Now if we're talking about grown ups instead, I basically never cook for my friends (and they generally visit me as opposed to me visiting them), but then I'm not too confident in my cooking. Sometimes we order food, sometimes they leave as they get hungry, sometimes we go out to eat (and sometimes we cook something fancy together). I do have friends who'll cook for me as I come over but then it's a whole thing, it's the main reason I get invited, it's never a spontaneous thing.

@yesplatinum7956

2 ай бұрын

For me it was 50/50 but they always offered me food at least and half times I said no because I always visited the same people

@yesplatinum7956

2 ай бұрын

I didn’t want to burden them

@yesplatinum7956

2 ай бұрын

Also it was more awkward to eat with them than to stay up and wait in my friends room

Best video!

I'm Swedish and I used to use a Norwegian weather site because it was more accurate than the Swedish ones. Now I don't know, it was a while ago.

@melvinlundquist7380

20 күн бұрын

SMHI är så dålig så de går inte

In my fictional world, Finland has a lot of public transportation and great public transportation

In sweden in the year 2022-2023 the most weather was winter the weirdest time was in April