The 21 Things I Love About Sweden 🇸🇪 ❤️!
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- In this video, I set out to share some of the things that I love about Sweden - I started out with 21 ideas, but there are actually 28 in the video) - some of which may surprise you!
By the way, this is NOT an exhaustive list, I'm sure I could think of another 21 things I love, if I had a few moments ...!
Here's the timestamps, you may find them helpful:
00:59 Wild Nature, Everywhere
01:47 The Art of Fika
02:30 The Best Chocolate in the World?
03:11 Better than Doughnuts
03:24 Red Cottage Dreams
03:56 The Janteloven Way
04:52 Sild
05:02 Everyone speaks English
05:19 Scandi Design
05:38 Tomorrow's Generation
06:35 Vintage Cars
06:53 Planning Freedom
07:52 The Fun Factor
08:26 Abundance Mindset
09:04 Outdoor Living
09:40 Collective Wellbeing
10:08 Saturday's Sweet Secret
10:41 Winter Magic
11:05 We're In This Together
11:35 Taking Pride in a Good Job
11:45 Wild Sweden
12:29 Hidden Gems (Thrifting)
13:23 Earths Guardians
13:39 4G, 5G and Internet
14:04 Driving in Sweden
14:41 Equality in Action
15:27 Ancient Rights and Balance
16:25 The Swedish Effect
Would love to hear what things you love most about Sweden - please let me know in the comments!!
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All my thoughts about Sweden wrapped in this cute video. What a beautiful country, I love it ❤
As a Swede I feel like a lot of people don't appreciate the things we still have here. Everyone just pointing out the flaws which are everywhere in Euorpe right now anyways. A lot of things are still good here, compared to the rest of the world. So it's refreshng to see someone being so positive.
Yes indeed, there seem to be troubles everywhere, but there is so much to love about Sweden 🇸🇪
I just came across you and love your contagious positive views on the Swedish, and the Scandinavian way of life ❤ You are so right about the freedom here which of course goes hand in hand with great responsitivity on our shared nature and nation. I believe that make swedes walk around with straight proud backs. We will all know our value when we are real and honest.
Yes, I can see that freedom and responsibility go hand-in-hand, but as my son says “ grown-up rules” apply, with everybody assuming that others will simply do the right thing
What a lovely, positive video. Greetings from Uppsala!
As a Scandinavian 50/50 Norwegian/Swedish, I love the nature, the fresh air, the quietness and the ease of getting away from society and enjoy peace and solitude. And Iove the people, the culture, the food. I love the 4 seasons. ....living in the Far-East for many years, I miss it all, and more.
Wow, the fair is certainly is a big change from Scandinavia! Do you manage to get back home often?
@@JenniferCarterWriter ...No, too far, and these days too expensive. Summer of 2019 was the last time, and it could be the last time. But, time will tell.
Sorry to hear that, hopefully you’ll be able to book in a trip sometime soon
Spending the winter on Koh Samui, Thailand. I really miss and appreciate what we have in the Nordic countries...Everything is working!!!...and the freshness. It is clean.
❤ from Stockholm, Sweden
@ ...I live on Koh Samui. Many years now. I'm OK here, even though I miss a lot from back in Scandinavia, I can't complain.
Thank you…really informative
Im Australian, down south in Melbourne though so we do get winters, Ive had a crush on Sweden for a while now, ive watched all the content i can get my hands on
Ive never had anyone say that there is a vintage car trend which is something new to me so thank you
Welcome to the channel! The vintage cars are awesome, but you usually only see them in the summer.
Thank you for the beautiful description of our country! I have some good things to say about yours as well - I'll come to that later!
Just a few words on "Jantelagen": Most Swedish people - including myself - probably embrace our wellfare system, our equality, the behaviour of our executives and all the things you describe so well in your video. When we use the term "Jantelagen" however, we refer to the downside of that. The word comes from a novel by Aksel Sandemose, "En flykting korsar sitt spår" where he writes about the mean, small town mentality of his fictive home town Jante in Denmark. "Don't try to teach US anything! " "Don't think you're any better than US!" etc. But we like things to be lagom, we teach our children not to brag and so on. Many of us even celebrate our high taxes, as they contribute to free univeritys, free (almost) healthcare and many other things.
So, let me return you kind words on Sweden by mentioning this: on my way home from New York I had to change flight at Heathrow. Lost in the stream of people running in all directions, I realised that a bald little English gentleman was acctually paid to stand in the middle of the crowds and say "Good morning, can I help you?" Whow, I have come to civilisation!
Finally: your video was such an inspiration. Not much of a bun guy, I need to try one of those kardemummabullar again. Looking forward to your next video! All best from Stockholm
I realise that Swedish prople don’t view Jante’s law as positive - perhaps what I should have said was lagom, as you suggest. You live in Stockholm and haven’t tried kardemummabullar
recently? Definitely worth a try!!
Back in July, continuing the property search. Great to see the positive effect it has on your wellbeing. Hopefully we can experience it too.....fingers crossed.
Hope your search is successful!
Hi Jennifer so good to watch this video from you. Thank-you. Have only just heard that my ancestors came from Sweden. Didn't know anything about Sweden but for your past videos. So this one as really enlightened me to the culture. I was born here in New Zealand. Which is a very good place to live.. Again thank-you take care Kind regards Lynette😊
Glad you enjoyed it Lynette - maybe one day you’ll get to see it yourself?
Your positivity is amazing! Your list of things makes me proud being Swedish. Free parking is unfortunately not always free - many cities and villages have more or less given the parking lots away to very greedy parking companies. For fika you shold visit Nordpolen in Vara.
Thank you for the suggestion. I might just do that, it would make a nice afternoon’s drive from my stuga!
I'm pretty sure lördagsgodis had it's start in some kind of government campaign in the 60's or 70's. Because research showed that children would get better dental status if they kept all the sweets and candy to one day a week instead of any day of the week. And dentist at the time made the same suggestion to the parents when they came in for checkups.
Parents probably then discovered that it was pretty great to not have children asking for candy at any time so the standard response would be: You have to wait for Saturday!
Which when you think about it is a good strategy to have for both parties.
Now, the downside of that is that many parents then have to hide the candystash, they themselves eat from during the week😁
I just looked it up, and you are quite right, it came out of some research in the 1940s and 50s! But it’s still amazing how much it’s managed to weave itself right into the Swedish culture, so that even the old ladies are upholding this ‘rule’. I think whatever culture you’re from the parents have to hide the candy stash from the kids!!
@@JenniferCarterWriter Read about Vipeholmsexperimentet ( the Vipeholm experiment)
It is quite a grim story 😢
@@JenniferCarterWriter Yeah, some ethically very questionable research in the so called "Vipeholmsexperimenten".
...and we always found it😂❤
@@JenniferCarterWriter The dark side of this is that the Swedish Gov. did experiments "Vipeholmsexperimenen" on mentally ill people. The fed them with candy and then studied the effects it had om their dental status. It was a dark era ..... and we swedes also have a tendency to point out then Sweden is not that great.
5:32 Thank you!🥳🙏 You pronounced Ikea the correct way!👏👏👏❤❤❤🇸🇪
Not my first time 😉
@ No, I can tell, but so many people use the american or English way for pronouncing the letter i….❤️🇸🇪
I love your positive thinking ♥️ it make me love sweden more 🌟
Thank you!
Loppis is short for loppmarknad which literally means flea market. Swedish loppis is great though! Thanks for your views of our beautiful country! 🇸🇪
I didn’t realise that loppis was short for something - so thank you for enlightening me!
I think you've got us - spot on! 😊
Lagom sort of means not too much, not too little - just in the middle, it's good enough. And that causes less stress, so I can see what you mean.
Our Waffle Day is actually your Pancake Day (25th of March), Vårfrudagen is an older but still correct name. Most just enjoy their waffles. We have lots of pastry days. Fruntimmersveckan in July might be something for you to enjoy. 🍰 (With kafferep and seven types of cakes/cookies).
Dalarna and their Kurbits, allmoge/folky style of decorating, like Carl and Karin Larsson did in Sundborn is beautiful to me. It was very new and modern what they did around 1890-1900. More romantic but still light Nordic style.
So glad you love all these things, I do too! ❤
Glad you enjoyed it! I have a pancake day seems to be related to the date of Easter, whereas waffle day is the same day each year, I know because it’s in my calendar!! I just love the Nordic style, I’m so happy to have a Swedish house and to be able to indulge in creating a peaceful home in the Scandinavian style
@JenniferCarterWriter I did! It was a great list. 😊 Yes, it might seem weird but it sort of is. Here is a text from visitsweden's website: "According to the Christian gospels, 25 March is the day when the archangel Gabriel came down to earth and told Mary that she would bring birth to God's son in 9 months time. From the beginning, what was celebrated was Our Lady Day ('Vårfrudagen'), but in Swedish it kind of sounds like vorfleday, or 'våffeldagen'. Over time this tradition has become more about the waffels than about virgin birth." 🧇🥞
Sorry! No, its our Fettisdagen that is your Pancake Day. We eat semlor instead. So many pastry days I mix them up. But these two are both related to christianity. Not that most of us think that much about that.
I would call lagom to mean, in moderation
Wow, great video - thank you! 🙂I love your positive energy! Your 21-ish points also makes me (once again) realize how blessed we are to be living in this country! All is so easy to take for granted after a while... Ditt inlägg gjorde mig glad, tack! Hälsningar från Ekerö, Stockholm. /New sub
It is such a beautiful country!! I’m very happy that you enjoyed the video 😄
4:12 Jantelagen! You are not better than others so you should not boast or treat others like the are somehow not as good as you. It’s for others to sing your praises, not for you to do it, and if they do you should be humble about it. But be quick to point out others successes!❤❤❤🇸🇪
Now that is a view of jantelagen that I can get on board with!
Thank you Jennifer. So nice of You. Wonderful.
❤️
8:13 We have Kladdkakedagen as well, which is a bit like brownies but gooey. And there is Pannkakedagen for pancakes and Semledagen for the pastry called Semla. I’m sure we have more…❤❤❤🇸🇪
Oh yes, I am a huge fan of kladdkaka!
5:03 Don’t know anyone eating sill for breakfast. It’s more of a Christmas/Easter/Midsummer thing or as a lunch during summer, with chives and gräddfil. But otherwise I totally agree with everything you have said! ❤❤❤🇸🇪
That’s strange, I’m pretty sure we ate sill for breakfast when we stayed in the lakeside stuga when the kids were little. Maybe that was just us being weird Brits!
Yes! You can stay in a tent, van, pick berries, mushrooms, greens for decoration on other peoples land. IF you respect the nature, doesnt destroy, disturb the animals, trees etc. My favorite lake was occupayed by germans a hole sunmer. How they got their caravan down there I cant understand, but they took it over. The owner tried to get rid of them but wasnt successful. This was in the late 90s. Hasnt happend since. But it is crazy that people dont respect that allemansrätten is for everyone, not to take advantage of.
Edit, love the ending ❤
16:27 The word comes for the old viking tradition of drinking to seal a deal, so they drank from the same thing and the amount should be for the team or group ”lag” around ”om” so enough for everyone but not a lot of waist. Lagom is also your personal preference for amount of milk in your coffee for that perfect blend. So it could be subjective as well. And I would say it connects to Jantelagen, you should just stand out lagom from the crowd….❤❤❤🇸🇪
Hi Jennifer, I’ve just come across your channel and this episode… I love 💕 your uplifting take on Sweden …at the moment I’m in the mountains in Greece but looking to relocate to Sweden…your insights and personal experiences are inspiring …especially as an older solo woman 😊, thankyou so much☺
Glad you’re finding my videos helpful. I hope you find what you’re looking for!
@@JenniferCarterWriter Thankyou 😊
Hej Jennifer
And thanks for your fine exposé.
As for the word 'lagom': It is said to be derived from an old saying in the situation when food is passed around in a group of people. Then you shall provide yourself with a portion that allows the others to have their share as well, i.e. not too much (and not too little). In a similar sense it can be used in a variety of situations, for example: Is it too hot in here? - No, I think it is lagom.
The word consist of 'lag' (team or group, as in fotbollslag = football team) and 'om' (around). If you take a well considered portion, the food will suffice around the team.
Kind regards,
Anders G L
I love the word lagom - it somehow comprises consideration, generosity and thoughtfulness, all in one word.
Great video! ❤
Thanks for your kind response!
Allemansrätten is not only a right, but also a responsibility. You can walk almost anywhere, but you have to make sure to close gates after you, not trample crop, not disturb the wildlife, etc. You can pick berries and mushrooms (make sure you know which are edible), but not all flowers and not nuts. Don't enter anyone's garden (usually the area around a house with a fence around it). You can put up a tent and sleep for one night and cook a meal over a fire, but you need to know how to do that without disturbing the wildlife or cause a wildfire. So there's a lot you're allowed to do, but to do more adventurous things than walking along a path, you need some knowledge.
Yes, I understand that, but one of the things I love is that in Sweden you assume that people will take responsibility, but it’s certainly not like that in the UK.
15:30 No two Swedish words, and Allemansrätten is an actual law. ❤❤❤🇸🇪
Lagom means "not too much, not too little". Its just the right amount.
Unfortunately we don't seem to get any real winter this year, which I dislike!
everything just gets wet and slushy!
the red housepaint is a by-product of the old Falun copper mine and so widely used because it protects wood from rot. Still made from the slag heaps in Falun, which will only last for another fifty years or so. After that, it'll be synthetic paint with no intrinsic rot protection effect, so less reason to choose "Falun red" paint ... --- And please stop attributing Jantelagen to Sweden. It's a fiction, from a book by Danish/Norwegian writer Aksel Sandemose.
I did not realise that that is where the red paint came from, however very interesting!
Nice video ,i am Swedish from Nyköping 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
About Saturday sweets... the origin of it is the dental care policy that arose in the 70s when many Swedish children had really bad teeth. At that time, there was a huge campaign to only eat sweets on Saturdays and all children had to rinse their teeth with fluoride at school. It helped and in the 80s and 90s Swedish children had very nice teeth. Now in the 2000s this has run out of steam, probably due to the anti-trade campaigning and sweets and snacks are eaten much more and more often by both children and adults. Dental health has deteriorated again and obesity in children has become more common. So much so that fluoride rinsing is now to be resumed in schools and child health centres have started campaigning again for Saturday sweets. I hope it helps.
One of the things I love about Sweden is that people seem happy to adopt ideas when they can see they are of benefit to everyone in the country - such as Saturday sweets.
Yes, the only thing is that on Gotland we don't have moose, badgers, wolves, or beavers. So there aren't any in the whole country.
But you do have a beautiful island! 😉
Lagom means not too much and not too little, just lagom
The perfect amount! Such a useful word
Another thing: we have people coming here and joining us.
yes, you can harvest wild edibles, but out of sight of homes, also you can't destroy trees/crops, not disturbing livestock... more or less show respect for the privilege, no breaking branches, digging up patches of land to harvest shrubs... just pick the berries, fungi, herbs...making sure you leave enough undisturbed that it can seed and regrow, picking a few berries in every bush, especially if a rich onethat way you give that better chance to spread giving more over time is a good way
Thanks for the helpful information, I just wish other countries could go for this comment and respect approach
@JenniferCarterWriter respect gets us far, without thst this system wouldn't be, but with it works good, as you are aware.
Jantelagen is not a law, it comes from a fiction novel by Axel Sandemose, check it out, its a good book! And, Allemansrätten do not include walk into peoples gardens, its freedom to walk in nature with respect for nature.
Thanks for clarifying - I do know a friend who canoed down the klarälven and he and his group camped on the banks, sometimes in peoples gardens, with their permission
@@JenniferCarterWriter Yes, but that is a seperate law, called "strandskydd", which is not allemansrätten, or it's a part of it, a sub section or whatever. Either way, it states that everyone should have access to beaches. You could say that beaches are the extrem version of allemansrätten where even in someones garden they cannot deny you access, if you have a beach in your garden. But it also depends how far the landowners house is from the beach.
But usally no one have a beach in their garden since they are not allowed to build so close by the water.
Beach = Strand in swedish
Strandskydd = Beach protection law
I loved Loppis and miss it were much.
We have even a own one in Gotland!😂
I have a BIG WASA SHIP and All 25 Landskapssköldar from 1930:s.
@@JenniferCarterWriteryes! You can ask the owner of their permission if you need to camp close to the house. Otherwise you have to stay out of sight from the house. And only for maximum 24 hours.
You can put a boat on private banks, but it is forbidden to enter a private built jetty (bridge) or use it for bathing etc.
Sandemose's mother was Norwegian.
As a Swede, I think the jante law is both good and bad. What is good is that everyone is seen on the same level, no one is better than anyone else and it shows. But it can also be used to silence or oppress those who deviate. Most often in the form of gossip or trash talk about that person or those people. But this is the case all over the world, so it's nothing new.
I think on balance you are right, it is a mix of good and bad, though I’m so saddened to hear that some people feel oppressed by this
Read somewhere that Sweden apparantley have around 28 billion trees. So yeah thats alot of trees. 😳
ChatGPT reckons there are 70 billion - that is one heck of a lot of trees!
Just checked the numbers. This was a few years ago. But then it was more than 70 billion. It turns out that Sweden had 87 572 940 000 trees. That was more than 130 cm high. So yeah mindblowing big numbers.😳
Great video! Really insightful. As a Swede the only thing i'd have to disagree with on is the abundance mentality/generosity. I think you're confusing state sponsored welfare with individual generosity. Swedes are unfortunately not very generous on an individual basis, probably less than average. Also Lagom means roughly "not too much, not too little", which is a strange concept for a country which deviates so much from the international norm.😄 But all in all, very insightful.
So glad you enjoyed it ! My cottage is right in the middle of the countryside, and the neighbours there are pretty friendly and generous. I understand that that may not be the case everywhere in Sweden
@@JenniferCarterWriter Happy to hear that!
Thank you for your generous praise. There are downsides also,as Im sure you have discovered.
About the Allemansrätt, it is not exactly the same all over Scandinavia. Sweden and Finland basically have the same kind due to the common roots of our legal systems. Danmark and Norway dont have it in the same way, but more restricted.
As you can tell, I’m a huge fan of Sweden! Helpful to know that the rules are different in Denmark and Norway, I hadn’t appreciated that
@@JenniferCarterWriter I´m not sure exactly how it is in Norway and Denmark, but hopefully someone from there can help us out.
@ ....."Allemannsretten (meaning "everyman's right") is a law that allows everyone to roam free on uncultivated land in Norway. Cultivated land means privately owned land, meadows, pastures, gardens, building plots, and industrial sites. In a practical sense, this means that you are free to responsibly hike, camp and enjoy the fresh air in forests, mountains, and coastal areas, which make up the majority of Norwegian nature." ...from the article "Allemannsretten - the freedom to roam in Norway" (by tromso outdoor) So it exists in Norway too.
@@bosse641 Yes, but I remember from my camping days it was not really the same in Denmark as in Finland were I lived in those days, late 70ies.
@ ...I think Denmark is very different from the other Skandi nations since that country is small and have very little "wild" nature.
Good to hear someone actually like it here in Sweden, because most of the time I hear foreigners complain. Complain about the weather and how cold and introvert the swedes are, how impossible it is to get to know swedes
Coming from the UK, it would be pretty hard to complain about the weather anywhere else!
@JenniferCarterWriter I can imagine. 😉🌧☔️
Im glad you like it here. ☃️❄️
American cars? Is that Västerås?
Vastra Gotaland
All over the country
The Swedes are weird 🙃 Every child knows it called Fredagsslik, because it is eaten on FRIDAYS 🙄
The falurød colour of the Swedish house is for some reason called svenskrød in Danish 😉
Peace and love
I hadn’t heard of Friday sweets … but I can see what one would have to do - that is, plan a trip so that you are in Denmark on a Friday and Sweden on a Saturday 😉
@@JenniferCarterWriter You've got it 🤣
If you're more into drinks than candy, you go to Sweden for "Lille Torsdag" on Wednesdays and then to Denmark for "Lille Fredag" on Thursdays.
Yeah, Allemansrätten is my biggest point of pride. It is the most amazing thing about my country (also, the social programs which my ancestors built for us). In my mind we are all stewards of this planet, you can't really "own" land - and Allemansrätten really epitomizes that idea. Everything in your short life is on loan, you cannot really own anything and this law brings that philosophy into reality.
The only exemption is hemfriden "Home peace", which allows for privacy around your private home. I can respect that nobody wants strangers in their yard, this still doesn't mean they truly "own" the land, only that you have the right to not be disturbed in your home.
Whenever I see a sign that says "private" (to ward off tourists more than anything) it feels like an insult. Why are you more entitled to this path or piece of forest than anyone else? Usually the "private" path only leads straight to a dwelling, but still - I don't think it's even legal. I guess this feeling I have is related to Jantelagen!
Also, there are a lot of rules included in allemansrätten, you can't break branches, you can't start a fire just anywhere etc. Read up on this if you ever intend to visit, it's about showing respect for nature more than anything.
Sweden was a decent place when it was Sweden. The nature is still there of course but not very much else, unfortunatelly.
My cottage is in a very rural village, so maybe that is different to the city
@JenniferCarterWriter Well, not just maybe, it has become very different, but I hope you won't have to experience too much of modern Sweden, so to speak..
Sweden has the most oxygen in the air, in the world. Guess it has to do with the lake and forest. Read this somewere a few years ago. Sorry. Dont remember where.
I think there is not much pollution, and such huge forests make Sweden’s air very clean indeed
@JenniferCarterWriter less polution yes and the forests clean the air.
Agree with many of your positive observations. But let's be real: more and more parts of Sweden have become far from the idylic picture you paint. Not a word about Sweden being the rape-capital of Europe, shootings & bombings totally out of control. Also: Swedes can be very boring and hard to socialise with. Companies have a hard time atracting *skilled* labour or expats. Still, especially the countryside can give you a quality of life that is hard to find or affordable in other countries.
My cottage is in the countryside, so I have no experience of what you’re saying about the cities. But yes, I’ve definitely heard that Swedes can be hard to get to know, and totally impossible if you’re trying in the winter months!
I’m Swedish but I’ve lived in Spain for 15 years and what I miss most about Sweden is the supermarkets. There’s so much to choose from unlike Spain where all supermarkets have a very limited selection of foods. Also Swedish fikabröd and sweets are superior to everything. :) It’s interesting what you said about Jantelagen, as a Swedish language teacher I’ve heard some of my students interpret it that way as well. However, as many people have already commented, in Sweden it’s a deeply ingrained mentality, especially in small towns, that you shouldn’t strive for anything more than what you have, fall in line and don’t expect good things to happen. Two of the ”laws” of Jantelagen state: you shouldn’t think that you're good at anything and you shouldn’t think that anyone cares about you. So it’s really a very discouraging environment for Swedish people to grow up in.
Aha, I hadn’t heard it expressed that way before - I’d only heard the rose-tinted version of how everyone is equal, which I can only see as positive, coming from the UK
@@JenniferCarterWriterthese days it's more of a mindset that is related to the law of Jante, but not really close to the actual paragraphs as stated by Author Sandemose who was Danish-Norwegian. These days it's mostly about not growing a too big a head and to always have in mind what's of collective interest.
ALLEMANNSRETTEN is often not completely understood by foreigners... You are not allowed to be or go anywhere...
This is how it works in Norway. You can not go into peoples gardens. And not into fields where people grow crops including growing grass that is to be cut and stored as food for farm animals in Winter. In Norway we differ between "INNMARK" (in-field) and "UTMARK" (out-field). Innmark is gardens (so areas around peoples houses fenced or not) and farmland where you grow crops. Utmark is further from the houses and "wild nature" that's not grown any kinds of crops on.
In Norway we have a problem with foreigners coming in caravans and camping everywhere, also on INNMARK where they are not allowed to be. For example they would drive their caravan into a field where the grass is to be harvested. That leads to loss for the farmers both because they destroy the grass and they litter in the fields. And then these foreigners can be rude if the farmers tell them to leave, and refer to ALLEMANNSRETTEN and claim they have a right to camp wherever they want. 😲😱😲 This is pretty bad in or near popular tourist destinations.
When using ALLEMANNSRETTEN you are to leave the place like you found it. Not to damage vegetation, not to leave any litter.
It's not norwegian, it's Scandinavian.... remember that Sweden and norway was just one country? And you wrote an entire novel that no-one is going to read. And you only talk about norway when she talks about sweden. Are you high on crack?
Americans kind of freedom is so twisted
You know I’m British?
@ yes 👍
Jantelagen is NOT from Denmark.
YES IT IS ABOUT DENMARK!!!
Aksel Sandemose - Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Sandemose
You've got the wrong idea of Jantelagen. It's there to tell you that you are not special, you can never be better than the collective.
The collective is better than you, it knows better than you, and all you are is insignificant. It serves to push your down and make your achievements meaningless.
Jante see no difference between a person who saved a life and a person that took a life. I say piss on Jante. I believe in the individual.
I now realise that I had a rose-tinted view of Jantelagen. However, coming from a society where there is huge inequality, I see the greater equality in Sweden or something positive. I appreciate that I did not wear this as well as I might have done
@@JenniferCarterWriter There's always a honeymoon period when moving to a new country. Huge inequality in the UK? In what way?
@@JenniferCarterWriter You can absolutely be proud of yourself and happy but never brag and being never be an asshole.
It’s a beautiful place and I’m sure there are a lot of positives in living there. Since I live in the very individualistic western US, I think I would feel like I was in a straitjacket with the culture of conforming.
I guess, coming from the UK, I view it differently, I don’t see it as conforming, I see it as not showing off because you are wealthy, or have an ‘important’ position.
My daughter moved from the US to New Zealand several years ago and apparently the same “tall poppy” culture is there as well. What do you think that does to children, when they are discouraged from being proud of an achievement they worked hard for because they might be seen as bragging or putting someone else down? It feels borderline criminal to me. A balance is a good thing.
@@cynthiafisher9907Don't worry, of course we encourage our kids too, and teach them to be proud of their achievements and above all of themselves. Of course we do! This would not be the prosperous country it is, if we hadn't. To teach our kids that they however are not better than other kids are not taking anything away from them.
@@cynthiafisher9907 It's not about not being able to be proud of one's achievements - of course that is allowed and celebrated - but it's more about your worth as a human being. Just because someone has more money and/or power, or is better at a particular thing, doesn't mean they are worth more, or a better human being, than anybody else. Everyone is valuable in their own way and noone, as a whole, is more valuable than anybody else. And of course there are exceptions in extreme cases of doing good/bad for society, but in general everyone should be considered to be equally valuable as a person. Does that make sense?
@lottawiklund8606 Yes, that makes sense, but I have also heard that every child there is given and expected to use the exact same backpack and school supplies, which, to me, smacks of expectations of extreme conformity.
"Jante" is actually a bad thing. Its not allowing you to be the real you. I think you maybe refer to the flat corporate organisations over here, instead.
I agree, but I always treat myself to a small bar when I’m in Sweden 🇸🇪
Coming from a country where people with money or power think they are better than everyone else, and have done so for centuries, I probably view things differently from you
@@JenniferCarterWriterJante was a sort of satirical or critical text I think, but it is both a good, and taken too litterally, a bad thing. Everyone are equal is good, to not believe in yourself is bad. "Lagom" is best. And Jane is a way to understand how society works here, but we don't all follow those "laws" (especially nowadays). We can stand out and shine too, just not super bold and braggy (some still do that). I think you've got it. 😊
The Jantelagen is not a legally governing law. It is more of a call to think more about your surroundings than yourself and written with a twinkle in your eye. To be compared more to Murphy's Law in its design and appeal.
Nice to see Nolbygård at 3:40, it's walking distance from where I live😊
That is a very nice place to have just around the corner from you, we also love the secondhand shop just nearby, but we’re disappointed that they no longer do secondhand ovens
@JenniferCarterWriter Those were absolutely gorgeous❤️
Jante law is not what you think. It is: Do not think you are ”somebody” special. That is a way hold you back.🥲
I’m beginning to see that that is how it’s perceived in Sweden. As I’ve said elsewhere, coming from a country where people flaunt their power, wealth and position, the idea that everyone is equal appealed, but I can see that there is a lot more to it when you dig deeper
@ Yeas I understand that the old level in UK we don’t have.
@@JenniferCarterWriter I believe there actually is an English term for it: Crab Basket Syndrome. It is about people of low status holding each other down. Not so pretty.
I believe that the Swedish Jantelagen is roughly the same as ”The tall poppy syndrome” of Australia.