BRIT reacts to How Sweden Survives Without Small Talk 🇸🇪
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- So apparently Swedish people try to avoid small talk, and people in Sweden manage to survive without it. And in this video I find out more about this, and why they don't like small talk.
Let me know in the comments below what you think about small talk!
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Yes we do actually only leave the apartment when we know there is noone there
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i dont, and i live in a smaler town and we have conversations in the stairway. yes im swedish im just typing this so everyone can understand
I love that Swedes do this haha 🤣🤣
I 100% do this and I believe my fellow neighbors do as well because I haven’t met any of them for months.
Hahahaha amazing 🤣🤣🤣
I don't look in the looking hole, but I listen to make sure nobody is around.
But this is very much a city thing, in the countryside everybody knows everyone and talk to each others
My experience is that there is more small talk in small places and not in big cities. I am from the north of Sweden.
jag hålle med dig. fuck stockholm hahahah
I have lived next to my neighbour for over twelve years and the only word we have ever said to each other is ‘Hej’ (hello). It suits me very well but I can see that it is a bit strange. 😂
When I used to live in a flat, it definitely happened that I checked before opening the door. Not always, but somedays you just don't feel like talking to people you don't know, jsut because you happen to share a space for a short time...
When they say "historically" they mean a long time ago historically. We're talking 1800-s here. Back in the day when most Swedes where farmers and didn't venture much further than the next village and maybe to the county fair kind of historical.
For a number of reasons a lot of places where very isolated. We just brought that mentality with us into the cities and modern society. Our grandparents were maybe the last generation that grew up like that, I think. For most people today, it's a cultural thing and not a lived thing, as far as I know.
I'm like that, being an introvert, I keep to myself most of the time. I find it very hard to make friends but I'm ok with that. I have my hobbies and most of the time that's enough. I even enjoy travel around the world alone.
It is quite the same in Norway also, I am not sure about Denmark, being on the continent and denser population. I especially recognize the worrying about how youi come across to people you are not "in tune" with.
Yes, its a stereotype, with a bit of truth to it!
And there is a multiple of explanations.
The real big one I belive is that we like a big personal space, then we think we are polite if we dont interfere in others personal space, like force them to small talk.
I think (just my theory!) that we smalltalk more in small villages, where we all depend on each other. Especially in the north of Sweden. We have to cooperate with others during the cold winters, so we can´t just pretend they don´t exist. But ofcourse I ignore those who don´t live here; those I don´t need to have any sort of relationship with.
ha ha this is så funny, is's the same in Norway, but there is one exception, once you are out in the terrain, sea, forrest or in the mountains, the scandis are most welcoming, it's a very distinctive difference in mode.
That's good to know! :D
Everytime I go out I check theviewing hole, and the elevator talk is so true too.
As an introverted Brit, I'm now wondering if I'm Swedish really!
Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Yes if i hear the neighbour coming by my door i avoid going out then 😅 dont know why… guess its just a swedish thing…. Im usually very social but not in that situation
I’m seeing that a lot of Swedes do this 🤣🤣
@@allaboutscandinavia9779 yep! Also if im standing waiting for bus or tube, i look at my cell phone or have headphones on even if im not listening to anything 😆 though if im in another country like Uk or anywhere else I do talk to locals in queues etc
Different cultures.
I talk to all my neighbours.
My British hubby used to say "do you have to talk to everyone"?
I'm an introvert.
Sweeden sounds like heaven.
Silence is golden 🤪
Yes as a Swede this is accurate. And I'm autistic/introvet so it fits me especially. Talking not to share info? The hell is that for!?
2:00 I do this every time I leave my apartment. 2:15 Hahaha, yes! Many do! So funny to see you ask that. XD
3:30 YES! Though I almost never take the elevator partly because I wanna avoid this. Riding the elevator with a stranger, hgnh shivers.
4:20 I don't want a little connection... Please don't bother me haha.
I'm scared to run in to ANYONE I know, including family, when I'm out and about. So even if I see them I might pretend I didn't see them or I get away before they can see me. But with strangers too of course if they walk past me or we towards each other I try to look somewhere else to avoid eye contact. Usually at my feet or watch.
6:25 Haha they didn't translate when she said "now I'm rid of him".
7:30 He was talking about way back in Sweden how there were fewer people living further away from people. So that DNA and culture is still here today.
I feel that this is very wrong....this applies to the cities! and bigger communities !!!! I have been living in many different villages and smaller places in the Swedish countryside , actually for the most of my life .And in the countryside we are CONSTANTLY smalltalking. In fact that might be the only opportunity to speak to anyone - live , that day!
In Stockholm, where I am living now however . This, clip is unfortunately very much like how it is in reality . Thats my opinion
I would say our shyness and introverted selfs are one reason.
But I also think just during my lifespan that this has gotten worse.
My thoughts is that we have developed it more cause we are more abd more insecure as people...
Its about the same thing how hard it is to meet new friends. Especially when you as me is middle age. Not goin out and so forth.
The dating culture is also really screwed up. If you dont use the online dating apps and dont go out. Its about impossible to meet someone.
Cause in our society we have builded so high walls between eachother....
We are very loving and genuine once we open up.
But we keep doing it harder for ourselves and eachother.
So much (the most) is rather positive amazing in Sweden.
But this stuff is one of the few I wish we could do better...
But this is my own thoughts...
No not everyone is like this :) I am defenetly NOT like this ;) But many are like this sorry to say. When i am walking the dogs some people you meet cant even say just HI or give a little smile.....boring as hell.
I actually like talking about the weather.
Of course, it´s excessive. But still a little truth too.
No we don't look before we leave the house. This is a little over the top 😅😅😅😅
en Svensk tiger
en Svensk tiger!
Survive? It's natural to me at least🤣
Since I am swedish I am really offended by the bad picture they give about swedish people.
Sarcasm? Trolling?
@@Nekotaku_TV No it gives a bad image of swedish people! Why spreading that on youtube and other social media?
@@susannepalm9740 It's true though? Every culture and society has it's negatives and positives. They may very well be different depending on your point of view. Some people are really bothered by the lack of small talk and some really like it.
I've heard several of my US friends say they would love to move to Sweden so they could avoid having 20 minute conversations with random strangers.
Besides, it's all in good fun. I don't see how this would affect anyone or anything at all. What's the actual problem?
@@SilverionX Because it is not true! So what is fun abot it?
@@susannepalm9740 It is sort of true compared to, for example, the US culture. Sure, the video is a bit exaggerated for comedic effect but when Swedes are out and about, we don't stop and talk to random people in the street. We go to the place we're supposed to go and do the thing we where aiming to do. My US friends have told me strangers just randomly chat to them for ages in the street or at the grocery store. The wildest thing is none of them want to chat, just seen as polite. Not doing endless small talk with strangers isn't a bad thing, it's just how we are, at least where I grew up.
You can be offended if you want but a) it's kind of true, if a bit over the top for entertainment and b) it's not a bad thing. Most people probably want to be left alone by strangers. For example Will Ferrell loves coming here with his Swedish wife because Swedes don't bother him on vacation, only the US tourists do. We respect peoples privacy and I think that's a very good thing.