Never really understood the reason to wear shoes inside, to me that sounds just as strange as wearing your jacket on inside all the time. That’s outside wear.
If you put it that way, it definitively sounds as if we lived in completely different worlds. I am from Mexico, and we not only wear shoes inside all the time, but jackets as well. Surely not everyone does, but I personally live in a cold house so in winter especially I actually wear jackets more commonly inside my house than outside (houses here never come with a heating system since it does get as cold as in Europe)
To me, the worst thing about people wearing shoes indoors is that they don't get enough air for their feet so they can dry. Do they use special products to prevent odors? Even if we take off our shoes indoors (even in schools) young boys have feet that smell terrible - do they have many pairs of shoes that they can change several times a day? And where do they keep all those extra pairs of shoes? They have bigger houses than us Europeans, so who knows - maybe they have special rooms to air their shoes.
@@ahkkariq7406 XD maybe you´re thinking too much about things do not happen to anyone. If you wear shoes and socks, for me, gets your feet cleaner than anything, like if you need your feet to get dry wearing shoes, seems there´s a problem on them.. i don´t know, wearing shoes indoors it´s pretty comfortable... and about the young boys, well, to everyone, i think taking showers solve any problems xdxd... like, ikr europe is cold, but if you take one or two in a day, i don´t think there still be some ''smell terrible'' problem to most of people
The American girl mentions it maybe being a crime to leave your baby sleeping outside in a stroller. Many years ago a danish couple was visiting N.Y. with their baby. They wanted to go to eat somewhere, and parked the baby outside the resturant, sleeeping in the stroller, while they where inside the resturant eating (they actually had a table by the window, so they could keep an eye on the baby. They ended up getting arrested and accrused of child neglect. Letting the babies sleep in the strollers outside resturants and cafés is very common in Denmark. Escpecially in the summer time. And also the big cities like Copenhagen.
I would guess this is a cultural habit that simply hasn't gone away since the days of consumption / TB. My grandmother, born before WWI started, was put in a screened-in outdoor "sleepout" at night from when she was only a few months old, because it was believed that breathing a lot of outdoor air would strengthen the lungs and immune system. When the biggest threat to your child's life is breathing in the air that other people have breathed out, parking them outside on the footpath while you go into a restaurant makes a lot of sense.
in Nordic countries if you wear shoes inside, you will bring in gravel and snow into the house. snow 5 months straight. it's not just cultural, you have to.
The salt, too. You would ruin the floors. And the amount of puke and shit from humans on the streets(Yes, I have come across human diarrhea on the street several times), I am not dragging that into the house.
I think it would be crazy to wear shoes inside your apartment. It is much easier to keep the floor and carpets clean when you are barefoot or wear socks. That's the way things are done in Finland. Whether it's summer or winter it would be rude to walk inside someone's house and not to leave your shoes in the hallway.
I find the argument that you need shoes inside as to not get your feet dirty to be so backwards... The damn floors wouldn't be so dirty if you just took them off in the first place! also with how common carpet is in the US I can only imagine how nasty that shit gets...
I am from México not the US. Houses here typically are not insulated since it doesn't get as cold. A lot of the times doors and windows have gaps where bugs can enter easily even when they are fully closed. The house where I grew up even has an inner garden and several rooms have doors that connect to the garde, thus a lot of dust would enter very easily. It does get really dirty if you never use your shoes inside. But still wearing shoes inside is just a cultural thing.
@@lanzsibelius Tbh, I feel like old generation Europeans were the ones to introduce this concept of wearing shoes at home in the Americas. I'm Korean Argentine, and all my Argentine friends grew up wearing shoes indoors, even in their tiny, enclosed apartment. My Korean family would kill me if I ever did this. Like Mexico, many of the traditional houses of Argentina tend to have an open roof patio/courtyard, with a terrace, enclosed in party walls, with rooms distributed around the patio space. Since it doesn't really snow here in Buenos Aires, we don't really use gable roofs, though they still exist in some homes. The rain just comes and pours down into our patio, which has a built-in drainage system, and, in the summer, all the bugs just fly in, attracted to the light, that the next day, when you wake up, all you hear is crunch from the footsteps you make stepping on corpses of these insects. But yeah, regardless of all this, I never wore shoes inside the rooms. I would only wear shoes when I'm out in the patio or terrace (though often I just go barefoot), but never inside my room. I make sure to always take them off, or simply wear indoor slippers.
@@mohammedeus what are you even trying to say? And also taking your shoes off inside isn't exactly a uniquely European thing... Also depending on living conditions wearing shoes inside might make some sense, however in the context of Americans doing it (which is what this is really about, you know since the argument that I'm responding to was brought forth by an American...) it makes negative sense...
Funny thing about snus (nicotine pouches). I'm Swedish and use snus. Once on a vacation to Paris I'm sitting at a café and are about to put one in. The waiter saw that, and lets just say that I got the feeling that he had a very liberal view on drugs. He approached me and very discretely asked me if he could have one. I played along and gave him one and told him how to do it. Also, I use one of the extra strong ones. After a while I see him getting a bit pale and had started to walk a little bit like a drunk as you do if your not used to it. When I left he gave me the thumbs up and winked. I don't know what he thought I gave him, but he liked it a lot. Thanks for another interesting video. Always fun to learn things about other countries culture, even the nearest neighbors. Although I think all northern countries feel very familiar, there are always a lot more to learn. And the bonus of actually understanding what a Danish person says ;) ...said with a lot of love for Denmark and all Danish people of course.
lol amazing! ive used it on peopel in pubs to prove they wont want to smoke as often. They sat for 30 min before remembering cigarettes again, whilst drunk.
That seems to be a trend, at least in a national European sense, although as a Norwegian I can tell you that within Norway northern Norwegians tend to be LESS reserved than us southern Norwegians, so that's an interesting reversal of that trend. Anyway, I don't know why that is the case, but it may come down to a combination of factors such as religion (austere northern Protestantism vs more gregarious southern Catholicism), the fact that southern countries had bigger cities (Rome, Athens) and flourishing empires and exchanges of cultures early on, leading more familiarity between people and more people being forced to live together, whereas here in the north (especially in the Nordic countries) people lived in small villages surronded by forests, valleys, mountains and fjords and we encountered other people and other culture much less. There's also a theory that climate affects cultures in the sense that people in colder climates are more inclined to keep busy (work, maintain their homes, grow food etc.) because it prevents them from freezing (movement warms your body), whereas warmer climates encouraged people to take things leisurely so as to not get too hot, and so you might find more time to socialise while cooling off.
@@FountainSongs I can see that. It could be more complicated in Asia and Europe than in North America though, given the history and longevity of the various cultures.
@@FountainSongs Yeah I agree with you, the German girl with brunette hair for example looks serious all the time and at times even looks like she's making an effort to crack a smile 😂 But it's funny how people from Northern Europe are more "reserved" generally speaking compared to southern Europe and that's what makes things more worth it in my opinion, the world wouldn't be as cool if all the people had the same cultural behavior so to speak 😅
Sort of - the people in Finland 5k years ago weren't really Finns. You have to wait until the Nordic Bronze Age (at least) before we can really start talking about Finns.
@@SinilkMudilaSama Skating on ice has long been popular in Norway too, but perhaps not in Denmark. I remember though one danish skater from about 60 years ago - Kurt Stille, also a singer.
All three of our languages are so similar we can read and mostly understand each other and have conversations without any problems, it's more like deep accents then diffrent languages in most cases besides some letter and words. Only problem is that danes tend to speak way to fucking fast😂
@@andyx6827 At new years anything goes where I live (dutch village). I've visited random people I know and vice versa. You also give your best wishes to all strangers you happen to walk into at new years eve.
Americans and Canadians that live on the boarder travel across ALL of the time to shop. Trader Joe’s and Target in Buffalo NY is full of Canadians. In high school I’d travel to Toronto every few months to buy clothes
Back in the 90's 00's it was quite normal for kids 18 to almost 21 would go across the border to Tijuana and get HAMMERED as alcohol in Mexico is served to 18+ adults. Many people foreigners I know buy stuff in Tijuana they can't find in the US or find it for cheaper there. Spanish jamon serrano for examples comes to mind. Spanish and Mexican chorizo. I don't doubt there are still TONS of ppl that do all that pluls what @lemonz1769 says, many people go for healthcare.
2:40 While it may be good for the immune system for the kids. The real reason we do it is because the babies sleep so well. When they are packed up and its cold out side, they just dont want to move. Even if they don´t sleep they just are still and look around
Really? I thought Berlin was a very big and international city by European standards, that you could have all sort of creepy people from different cultures, education level, and socioeconomic backgrounds. I hear Frankfurt is quite unsafe for women to walk at night.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 South Korea has six times more sexual crimes per capita than Germany. So unless there is zero such crimes in all of germany and they all happen in the city of Frankfurt I'm inclined to say, it's a safe city
@@lissandrafreljord7913 We're not talking about night time though and I think it is more of a problem with paranoia, like with people who think public transport is unsafe for unsupervised kids. I don't want to put the entirety of Europe under an umbrella here but generally in my opinion most people aren't afraid to leave their kids in public because there's a social trust that the adults around them are responsible. Yes, there might be some creeps around but there's also an expectation for other adults around to get involved and protect them if a creep were to try something. The paranoid concept that every stranger is a potential predator is much, much, MUCH more unlikely than the notion that 98% of the adults around your kids at any normal given time are well adjusted, responsible and kind. Hell, in most societies even most criminals themselves treat people who target children much harsher than other crimes. Children are off-limits for just about anyone but the most depraved.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 By German standards they are "dangerous". But these are small parts of the city. In Frankfurt, everything is concentrated within a 200m radius of the main train station. In international comparison, German cities are very safe. For example, the crime rate per 100,000 inhabitants in Salt Lake City (32nd most dangerous city in the USA) is twice as high as in Frankfurt (second most criminal city in Germany). No German city would make it into the top 50 most dangerous cities in the USA. One reason why Germans feel unsafe is the trend. Germany has become safer every year since the 1990s. Until last year, when it got a little worse. The USA, for example, gets worse every year; there has never been an upward trend since the 1960s.
I am Dutch and actually a very introverted person. But in the Netherlands it is common to greet strangers on the street, for example at a bus stop, doctor/hospital waiting rooms or when walking the dog. Once a German friend came to visit, and we were walking on the street. I greeted a few people and my German friend said: who is he and she? Me, they're strangers...
As a Norwegian the only times we will say hi to a passing stranger is when we're out hiking, then suddenly everyone's a lot more sociable... It's usually just a quick greeting as you pass on the trail, but sometimes people might even strike up conversations, especially if you've reached the destination lol
I hear Dutch are less rigid and uptight than Germans, who are obsessed with rules. But Dutch people secretly love money, and are anal about equal trade (must be their history with being a country of merchants). They like to brag about how cheap they bought something for, and they go crazy with charging people on their Tikkie. I once heard a Dutch family didn't even feed their child's friends when they came over to play as guests in their house. They told them that it was dinner time for their child, so he will come inside and eat his dinner, while his friends could wait outside playing. Some cultures could interpret this as being overly stingy and not hospitable and generous at all. In terms of food, they seem to be even less of a food culture than Germans. Very minimalist, as you can't have cheese and butter together on bread. It's one or the other. Such a Calvinist mindset. I did hear a story of a German saying this to a foreigner once, though. German dude basically says that the guy's lunch looks very extravagant, since he put both butter and cheese on his sandwich. As if eating a cold lunch wasn't sad enough.
In Sweden I'd say its more dependent on if you're in a city or in a town. I live in a town outside the city and will always greet someone I'm passing by and mostly get a response back, but not in the city. That would be very, very unusual to me. When I'm in a city I'm usually there for a reason and don't want to be bothered and I figure most people are the same.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 Lived all my life in the Netherlands and NEVER heard anyone say you can't have butter and cheese on your bread. Don't know where you got that story from but it seems completely nonsensical to me. You say you heard all those strange stories about Dutch habits, obviously without having experienced them yourself, so I have my doubts about the reliability of your informant(s). In Dutch we call that "broodje aap" stories, which could be translated as "urban legends" .
Denmark has no minimum drinking age, but you can buy alcohol below 16,5 vol%, when you are 16 and everything when you are 18 .... and you drink in public
basically same in Norway as well, underage drinking is not illegal, but you shouldn't be able to get your hands on the alcohol without someone breaking the law by for example giving or selling that alcohol to the minor or by the minor stealing it...
I brought a big bag of Djungelvrål licorise with me to LA once, i put the bag on the table next to the hotel bed and i guess the cleaning lady tried a few as there were a few tasted onces in the trash bin 🤣 I would never waste djungelvrål like that 😊
I'm sorry for the german girl, she's to young to know it, but we here in Germany have done it with our kids in the wintertime, 40 years ago there was a lot of snow in the winter.
i find it wierd with what the girl from the US said at 3:50, because ofc if you wear your outside shoes inside because its dirty its because you wear them inside, and maybe they dont like clean the floors as often because they have that mindset, but for me as a norwegian we just take our shoes off too and we clean or vaccum after the animals if it is dirty we dont start using our shoes inside. like i have 9 cats and theres alot of cat hair and they bring like muddy or dusty foot prints in but we just clean it up, so yeah no its just wierd to use your shoes inside to just make the house even dirtier
I agree, Norway here too. Plus with dogs it’s common to wipe of the paws when going inside. Wipe their fur over, bathe them ever so often, vaccum and clean the floors often.
Yeah, using shoes indoors don't make even a little sense when you can just use indoor shoes like crocs or Tøffler (don't remember the English word) Like my mom has always used Tøffler indoors. It makes more sense than using the same shoes you do outdoors that you don't even knows whats been stepped in.
If someone came into my home and kept their outdoor shoes on, I'd transform into the Hulk! 😂 I prefer to walk around barefoot on my wooden floors, so I vacuum them twice a week. I want clean floors.
I'm American and I think a lot more people take their shoes off than people realize. my family has never worn shoes inside, but I have friends that do, so it depends on the family
I'm from the Netherlands and i went to Norway last December. I was walking outside in my t-shirt with -10 and people thought i was crazy. I did not expect that 😅
Walking from the car to the grocery store? Sure. Actually talking an hour+ walk outside in -10 C in a regular cotton t-shirt? That's not happening lol. Even during exercise or heagvy manual labour, the extra body heat generated is nowhere close to enough to make that shit safe, let alone comfortable. Even a slight gust of wind at that temperature would completely ruin your fingers if left exposed over time.
It is delicious! And we Dutch also enjoy eating a lot of the Indonesian dishes as well. Some of them are “Dutchified” or less spicy (less sambal) than served in Indonesia, but especially the sweet ones are very similar. Interestingly the “Chinese” restaurants in the Netherlands have a menu that is 75% Indonesian and 25% Chinese + Surinamese + invented. It is funny to talk to international students from China about their experience in our “Chinese” restaurants. One of the main things you always get as a side dish is “kroepoek” which are shrimp-based crackers that are made in Thailand solely for the Dutch market, and seen as very typical “Chinese” here. But yeah, we do love Indonesian food here. We also have many Indonesian restaurants apart from the Chinese ones that mainly serve Indonesian dishes.
As a Swede I often go barefoot indoors, especially after waking up during the weekends during the first couple of hours in the morning. As nature intended.
@@Magnus_Loov Same, I don't see any particular problem with being barefoot in your own house. If doing so gives you dirty feet, then that sounds more like you're not keeping your floors clean or for which ever reason tend to bring dirt inside more-so than usual. Exclusively socks in other people's homes though, for obvious reasons.
In Finland 🇫🇮, I would never wear shoes inside, so when in 2017 I made my biggest dream come true, a trip to 🇨🇦 Canada (Toronto, Montréal & Calgary), out of habit I just sat on the hotel room floor, and I wondered why it felt so sticky. A couple of months later at home, I realized from a YT video that it was because the 🇺🇸 American travellers were probably using shoes inside. 😆
THAT. Here in Germany (at least where i live, in southern Black Forest) people even tend to sit on the street - on stairs and low walls etc. And then you get up and just slap your butt a bit, in case there was dust. I wouldn't do that in Berlin though, or in France, not to mention the US.
I was left outside (still in view from the kitchen etc..) in the pram in the UK in the 60s. That's also when my Norwegian mother was looked at for breastfeeding instead of buying formula.. . It hasn't changed much
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Pouches have been popular for a while where I'm at in Tennessee since chewing tobacco is normal here. People switched almost instantly since it's cleaner except older generations that have been chewing for 40+ years already.
@@maritalarsson8067 The only real difference is one is moist while the other is dried and ground up. There is also snuff which is similar to snus too but is snorted, my great grandma did that.
Wearing shoes inside is just disgusting. Just think all the possible things you WILL step on when you walk in a city and all those things will just spread around your house. Disgusting. Spreading shit into your house and then living that shit. That's not how civilized people live. Oh and the babies will grow up to to be stronger human beings when they are kept outside during winter and freezing temperatures. They will not be soft whiners. There's a reason (well it's one of the reasons) why the Nordic men/women are the most badass fighters in the world. It's a hard unforgiving environment we live in and we are all more than used to it. We certainly don't whine when things get uncomfortable. Even when things get painful, we just keep on going. With ruthless efficiency.
Our houses get cold af in the winter. We have indoor shoes we only use indors so we are not dirty and filthy. Would you all stop hating us and talking lile we are dirt?
Regarding babies sleeping in strollers outside. I live in the northern parts of Sweden, we have three kids and we have had all three of them outside during the winter months. We had a Baby monitor with a thermometer, which we put inside the pouch so that we could monitor the temperature. The coldest we have had them out is -15 Celsius, when it dropped lower then that we would let them sleep inside. My kids are now 11, 8 and 6 all perfectly healthy. The fact is that it was a lot easier to let them sleep outside then inside because the prams were so comfortable and cozy for them.
I believe there's research that proves that contrasting temperature differences between yourself and the immediate vicinity improves blood circulation, relaxation and generally makes you sleep better. Plus, depending on how far north you live it is impossible to avoid snow and cold, so I think it is important to have babies get used to the cold in a controlled environment as they grow. We probably leave them out for both of these reasons.
Licorice, black jellybeans, sambuca, I like all of it. My grandma used to make anise cookies with powdered sugar on the outside, my favorite cookie to eat around Christmas.
I think people misunderstand the kids sleeping outside of restaurants. They either have a baby call, well usually they do anyways and they also have a table by the window with clear view of their baby. I guess it might be odd but stranger danger is not such a thing. I’ve never heard about a baby being kidnapped here, just parental cases where the mother or father runs away abroad with the child.
The young lady from the USA must be enjoying having bare feet on these videos then, seeing she had to wear shoes inside to keep herself clean! Must be a release for her! In Wales it's a generational thing, it was never done much for my grandparents generation (it was seen as somewhat informal and inappropriate to be shoeless, especially in front of visitors), it was hit and miss for my parent's generation, some wanted shoes off, others didn't mind (albeit removing shoes to go upstairs was fairly common), and for my generation it's become more common due to more aesthetic homes becoming the norm (but still plenty of homes that don't mind shoes on). It varies from region to region in the UK, Yorkshire for example is very much a shoes left at the door county.
The barefoot girl in this video is one of the German girls, though. It may be me, but I can’t see the feet of the American and the Dutch girl on the back row, so I’m not sure that either of them is barefoot in this video.
@@MysteryManfrom79 Ah, that’s quite possible. I haven’t looked closely enough to compare this video with other videos that may have been shot on the same day.
Babies having naps in strollers outside when it's -30 celsius (-22 fahrenheit) isn't that uncommon... Well, more common in coutryside than in bigger cities. Also more common with moms who have more than 1 kid, as they're cautious with the first one 😄just have to put on lots of layers of clothing and check regularly if the baby's skin is warm and he/she is feeling well and happy. Well, mothers know if their kid is fine, usually. My brother and sister slept outside when they were kids and they slept totally fine for many hours.
I don’t think we would have kids outside if it’s THAT cold. Here we would have them sleep inside with -5 and upwards I think. That’s my impression but I don’t live far north. When the air is that cold I don’t think it’s that good for you anymore. Norway 🇳🇴
When the pandemic hit and they told us we had to stand 2 meters apart we got annoyed cause we had to stand closer while waiting on the bus then normal x'D
3:10 "in Germany we don't do that at all"? Girl, german mom in her 50's here and it is very common for generations. 😅 My grandparents did, my parents and i too...Berlin, Northern germany, Hessen and Rheinland-Pfalz i have seen this as a normal thing. Never heard that anyone would call the police...
@@andyx6827i'm not 😉 since it's not just me or my Family. Also my surroundings and Friends from other cities and Bundesländer. That's why i listed all the places i came across were it is normal.
Some of these are still pretty common in the US, but it is probably regional. I know northern Michigan was settled by a lot of Finnish and Swedish Miners, which might contribute to the culture. We had a mix of taking your shoes off indoors and not. We have a lot of fresh water fish available due to the Great Lakes. My parents also used to let us play outside in winter with shorts on when it was probably just below 0 C
The Dutch girl saying "Where I`m from, there`s not really any water nearby" when talking about eating fish for breakfast is kind of wild. Girl, no part of your country is far from the water. What is the furthest you can be from the ocean in Holland? Like 200 kilometers?
She means that we have less fresh fish in the countryside, so it’s not that common to eat fresh fish almost every day, compared to places next to big lakes or ocean.
@@rustknuckleirongut8107 I know, but maybe for you or for someone who lives in a bigger country than the Netherlands, 200 kilometers is not far, but for the Dutch who lives in a very densely populated country it is.
3:59 she mentioned her family wears shoe in the house because the floor is dirty and she also mentioned about dogs. Think about this. The humans are clean because they wear shoes right? Now this. Does the dog wear shoes? Does the dog wear clothes? No? So does the dogs gets dirty for walking and rolling on dirty floors? Then don't tell me they never hug their dogs or the dogs jump into the bed? If they hug their dogs and their dog jump into their bed, ain't that consider dirty?
I’m Dutch, and I’ve had two dogs, but I never allowed them to sit on the sofa or go upstairs. So no, my dogs didn’t do those kinds of things. Plus, you’re assuming things that were never mentioned in the video, so you can’t really question her or yourself based on what you’ve pointed out.
@@richardhakkers533 lol what's your ethnicity has to do with it? And I'm not assuming things. Stop denying the truth. Are you saying there's ZERO dogs that walk and roll on the floor? There's ZERO dogs that jump.to sofa and bed?
I think the neighbour thing is depending on where you live as well. I grew up in a small town in Sweden, and I grew up living in a neighborhood with houses. You were friends with all the neighbours and all the children played together and the adults had like parties together and also took care of each others home (cutting the lawn, watering flowers, taking in the mail) if someone went on vacation and things like that. But living in an apartment is quite different, you don't really get to know your neighbours and it's also quite awkward meeting them in the hallway or something like that. You say Hi maybe and that's it. You usually don't know who your neighbours are really haha. But I also know some people has had the opposite experience so yeah
That’s funny, because it’s what the beginning of ‘Gymnasium’ and university is called in Denmark. Like the time when you get to know your fellow students and your new school.
I drive up into Denmark and Sweden quite regularly to do my shopping. Especially for laundry detergent since they don't fragrance products as much as we do down here in Germany. I's two hours from my place to go to Malmö, so really just a nice day trip.
As for crossing state borders for shopping 🛍️, i live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Philadelphia is next to the state of New Jersey. But after shopping there you have to pay a bridge 🌉 toll. Sales tax is 6% or 7%. Option 2: take a 45 minute drive south ⬇️ to the state of Delaware. The good part about buying in Delaware is NO sales tax! The problem is how to get your purchased items 🔙 back home 🏠.
13:32 Americans cross the border to get medicine. Stuff like insulin, arthritis medicine and so on is more than 10 times more expensive in the US than in both Canada and Mexico. Some diabetics specifically move near the border because it saves them more than $1000 per month in medicine. A lot has been done to fix this though. So that life threatening illnesses won't bankrupt you or straight up kill you cuz you can't afford getting medicated.
The prevalence of fish in the diet varies a lot from one region to another within America. In general, the closer you are to the coast, the more people eat fish. If you're more than a day's drive from the nearest large body of water, fish becomes a significantly less important part of the diet for most people, and the fish that is eaten tends to be processed and breaded and deep fried. Whereas, in the coastal regions, fish is more common, and is eaten in a wider variety of culinary contexts, e.g., in California fish tacos are popular, and in New England they have fish- and shellfish-based soups. Whereas, if you say "fish soup" or "fish tacos" in Indiana, people are going to think you got dropped on your head too many times as a child. But yes, if you leave an infant unattended outdoors in cold winter weather in North America, you're going to be on the news, and not in a good way. That kid is going to have a case worker.
funny thing about the cold in Denmark. is that det cold feels way colder compire to the norther part of other nordic cuntry's. since Denmark is way more humid. and the diffrence in humidity change how cold or hot things feel. with is way a person can feel like they are dieing with around 25 degrece in Denmark, but be more conftable in higher temputures in fx. Thailand.
I miss smoked salmon on a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast. I also know people that lived in Basel Switzerland and go grocery shopping in Germany and France, since they are so close to their borders.
-10 in the south can feel colder than -25 in the north because more humidity. I have friends from the north and they have never freezed so much before when they visited and we had -6 (living about 1/3 up in Sweden on the east coast)
I love like grey, rainy weather. 🥰 What I really don't like is sun and heat. I think I might have to move to a Scandinavian country some day because the South of Germany is only getting warmer and warmer...
Where are my fellow liquorice lovers at? This comment was the only one I could find that mentioned liquorice. I love liquorice and I'm from Sweden. My mom also loves it, but not my dad and several of my classmates from school also didn't like it. It's not like everyone in the Nordics like it, but since it's so plentiful and many children eat it, many also find that they like it. My favorite is liquorice gelatin frogs and salty, marshmellowy discs called Salt Skum (Salted foam). I also love watching people try liquorice, most often people send them the "infamous" Djungelvrål (Jungle Roar) and they're quite hard, stick in your teeth, but above all else, they're covered in ammonium chloride, which tastes like a very intense version of salt. I'd like them more if they weren't so hard to chew.
@@Hurvl I love liquorice too! The saltier the better. Growing up in Germany's North the most popular car candy was Spunk from Denmark. Even to this day my Dad will surprise me every now and then with a box hidden somwhere in my car😅 I quite enjoy Djungelvrål, I get it from the border shop next to our local ferry. It's ridiculously overpriced but I'll happily pay whatever.
@@hightidemidafternoon I had not heard of "car candy" or Spunk before, so that's interesting to hear. In Sweden, it's common to only let kids eat candy on Saturdays (it's better to have a "cheat day", than eat candy several days a week) and even if my family took the car on a Saturday to visit relatives (1 hour drive), we wouldn't be eating candy or anything else during the trip. I live in Uppsala, roughly the middle of Sweden, so no easy access to Denmark or border shops and there is no Danish candy/liquorice that I know of in my neighbourhood.
in Norway we dont like to sociallize at all so if you walk past a person or something you might give them a very tiny like fake smile and then continue on your day and all the other things they said is pretty accurate
I'm Swedish and that thing about licorice, either you love it, or you hate it. Back in high school a classmate asked me angrily why I was so mean/stingy. I had no idea what she was talking about. So she clarified. She noticed I always bought licorice for candy. And since she hated licorice, she thought nobody could ever like licorice. So the only reason I bought licorice, which I must have hated, was evidently so that I wouldn't have to share with anyone. And she thought that was the dumbest thing ever, to buy candy you don't like, so you don't have to share. I was like totally surprised. But I love licorice, that's why I buy it. And share it freely. And she was like totally, no, you don't love licorice, nobody does, you're a liar. It was so weird. She seemed to think that licorice was a product nobody wanted.
The «calmer» version of the pepper, that i’ve seen in norway, is to give someone unmarried turning 30 a peppershaker as theire present. And the idea is to get the biggest or wierdest shaker.
I laughed a little when the Dutch girl said they had no water nearby. It simply isn't possible in the Netherlands. The entirety of it has water nearby. Sure, it's relative, but that's what's funny. Her thinking a coastal country that size can not have water nearby. The southern German girl has 8-10 times further than you can physically be from the water in the Netherlands. About footwear indoors. If I come to a place I haven't been before, it doesn't matter if it's in Denmark or elsewhere, I watch the people around me.. and if I'm unsure after that, I ask. In my childhood friend's house it was complicated. They had multiple pets that were confined to the 2 outermost rooms, but could roam outside. In his house you could wear footwear in those 2 rooms and the kitchen, because they were a lot outdoors and it was a hassle to remove the shoes every time you went inside to get something from the fridge. In the rest of the house it was no shoes and his mom wiped off the kitchen floor a couple of times a day(took less than a minute). I don't think it is socially acceptable to have dirty floors in most Danish homes. You're a bit of a loser if your floors are so dirty your guests have to worry about getting dirty feet.
In Denmark, it the furthest you can get from the sea is 52km (32 miles). It can actually feel a bit claustrophobic when going to central Europe, being so far away from the shore :D
@@peterbakpetersen4942 I've never felt that way, I travel a lot and have been to more than 40 countries. I think the furthest I've been from the sea was in Kansas. The distance to the sea there is about the same as from the Danish border to Venice. Bor nær grænsen.
Oh i love the cold weather we get up here in the north, usually somewhere about -20 to -35 degrees C but the coldest I've seen so far was -48,5 And no you don't die ... not immediately at least ^^,
A request i have. If you can find a person that can speak bondska that would be awesome 😎 bondska is a not that normal type of Swedish that farmers/peasants use sometimes in the northern part of Sweden i know some words but i do not know how hard its to find in young people because its more spoken by older people and its not learned anymore but i would be happy and my relative that is dead that only spoke it maybe i unlock a old memorie of him but i do have his 20 year old cat that probably won't live for so many more years
I'm an american and it pisses me off when my grandparents wear their shoes inside. My grandpa walks through the mud and tracks it all in the house. There is dirt and leaves everywhere, it's even worse in the winter. They refuse to wipe off their feet too and they will not buy welcome mats for inside or the backyard. I'm tired of constantly sweeping and mopping. As soon as I am done cleaning they come through and ruin it. They bring more dirt in than all 3 of our dogs combined! There is no point to wear your shoes indoors unless you forgot your keys and you are in a hurry or something.
When people travel by public transport in Denmark, there are many who sit alone or with friends. Even though there are 4 seats, they don't actually sit down next to strangers.
Why did you pick the most AMERICAN american to do this? I still can't believe how anyone could be this freaking boring by just opening their mouth. I'm from Norway.
9:32 Because they use the term tobacco and not nicotine like they’re discussing I thought they were talking about tobacco dip. When she said it wasn’t common I was questioning things, but if it’s that recent thing of nicotine pouches then yes, it’s fairly recent and becoming more popular mostly with younger people
Snus is dip. It sometimes comes in pouches for convenience. This is what girls mostly use, but it's the same thing just with "cloth" around, although some newer products are coming that might be a little different, but questionably legal.
in the Netherlands its very popular to go to germany or belgium to buy fireworks for new year celebration, also alcohol in germany near the border and germans crossover to the netherlands for coffee sometimes because there is no tax on that here in the Netherlands(atleast not that high)
Damn, minus forty is crazy! Here in Brazil we can't endure cold very well, in the south is where sometimes snows and they can endure longer, also in the southeast (São Paulo) where i'm from we can endure around 10-15 degrees celsius because lower than that we are freezing out😂 in the north and northeast of Brazil is very warm and rarely rains or do cold. Also the bus thing happens here in São Paulo too, some people hate sitting close to each other, i do that and sitting close to someone makes me feel i am annoying the person, and also to walk behind stranger is awkward because people think you're gonna steal them, so it's important to avoid walking behind too close to someone.
Funny thing, you mentioned being from Brazil and how you do the bus thing. I'm from Norway and I recall this past winter there was a Brazilian woman taking the bus I was on (she mentioned it to another passenger), and it was icy and a thin layer of snow outside. I imagine it must've been quite a shock to her. It wasn't anywhere near -40C though (southern Norway doesn't get that cold), but maybe more like -5C to -10C.
@@Onnarashi geez! Maybe she was used to the cold already in Norway, it depends the time she had been living there, i can't even imagine how -40C is. Brazil don't even have special blouses for it. And maybe in the south of Brazil they had hit -10 too! 😯 I imagine it to be SOOO cold! Here where i am is doing 5 degrees and i am wearing three blouses to go to work. 🥶
@@TimeToSingChannel I don't know the climate in all of Brazil (I know it's a huge country so it may wary a lot), but in my mind it's quite hot (I think of the Amazon). I'm sure the there are cooler climates depending on where you are in Brazil, like you mentioned. I couldn't imagine living somewhere very hot. 5 degrees is mild to me so I wouldn't have a problem. I think weather between 5C and 20C is good.
@@Onnarashiyou're right, it vary a lot around here, we had a record i think that Rio de Janeiro has reached 45C, for me that's impossible to live. The maximum i've experienced in São Paulo was 36C, when it is very hot like 30, 35C it shall rain to cool down, specially here in São Paulo a really crazy state, sometimes it rains, makes sun and be cold at the same day. 😂
@@TimeToSingChannel 30C is way too hot for me. I don't think I could handle it. At 45C I'd just melt. We only have it that hot for a few days here in the south of Norway and it's not every year. It's unusual to get 30C or above. That kind of temperature is seen like a heatwave here and people hate it.
i was genuinly shook that it's ILLEGAL to leave a sleeping baby outside in a stroller in the US, how the heck you expect to go shopping or eat anything??? you can't just bring the child, it would wake them!
I feel the thing about Norwegians not wanting to sit next to each others on the bus, is very exaggerated. If there is very good place on the bus, you may choose a place by yourself. But if there is more passengers, we have no problem sitting next to each other. And sometimes we talk to people, and sometimes not.
Young people tend to look at you like some weirdo if you talk to them on the bus. Many also wear headphones to discourage small talk nowadays. But genereally people will fill empty two-seats before sitting beside someone. If they stand instead of sitting next to someone, it is usually because they are getting off soon. I've lived a long time in Oslo and now I live in Stavanger, and really you often don't get a choice. At certain times the buses are so full, that your personal space bubble shrinks away to nothing. Norwegians in general are exceptionally bad at small talk, and only during the winter olympics can you actually talk to strangers comfortably. Unless it's about the weather.
I really want to visit the northern countries, but just for a visit, I always think it's crazy to live where the temperature can drop below -10 degrees.
Nah, it's fine. I live in south-west Germany, where we have the sunniest and hottest summers and never see a snowflake, but i was born and grew up in Siberia, where school and kindergarten was cancelled when the temperatures were below -50°C (also for that one month of summer that we had, when it was over +40°C). With the right clothes, the right measures, and keep your ass moving while outside, it's a pretty normal life. Also, after i moved to Germany and learned the language, I was the coolest kid in elementary school when we had our 'baby photos' display - everybody else playing with their bucket and shovel in a sandbox, while i was playing with mine surrounded by walls of snow and looked like a marshmallow baby, from all the layers of clothes i wore lol.
Remember we use Celsius, so -10C isn't as bad as -10F although it can get colder than -10F as well... I remember once waiting for the bus to go to school in -35C and I got so cold because I hadn't planned on staying outside for long so I didn't dress for the cold, like I only had a pair of jeans to cover my legs... But the bus never came and so I waited for almost an hour until the next bus came. One of the coldest days of my life, and I've bathed in frozen lakes and slept in snowhuts (which sounds more impressive than it really is, if you dig out a snowhut/cave correctly it will actually be above freezing inside)... But again, the problem wasn't that it was cold, it was that I wasn't dressed for being outside in -35C for an hour...
10:09 here in Flanders, most people don't like licorice. I like it though. Both the branches and the candy. Heck, it's quite nice to take a cup, put half a branch in it. Add some ginger and some mint leaves. Then add boiling water. You can add honey or sugar if you want, but it's nice either way 13:40 I've heard somewhere on RUclips about someone who lives in Idaho and drives to Canada every 2 months to buy medication, because it's actually affordable that way (even counting the drive time and fuel use)
as a dane we go to germany to shop cheaply but...we also go to Sweden also you can drink legally in dk at any age but at 16 you can buy light alcohol and 18 strong ones but a 12 year old can drink alcohol legally if an adult provides it
I really don't think it's correct that Swedes eat fish for breakfast - maybe at a hotel buffet but not at their own homes. A typical Swedish breakfast usually is various sorts of bread (hard and soft), along with butter, cheese, sliced ham, boiled eggs, cereal, yoghurt and coffee/tea. Also vegetables like cucumber, tomato and paprika.
Never really understood the reason to wear shoes inside, to me that sounds just as strange as wearing your jacket on inside all the time. That’s outside wear.
If you put it that way, it definitively sounds as if we lived in completely different worlds. I am from Mexico, and we not only wear shoes inside all the time, but jackets as well. Surely not everyone does, but I personally live in a cold house so in winter especially I actually wear jackets more commonly inside my house than outside (houses here never come with a heating system since it does get as cold as in Europe)
To me, the worst thing about people wearing shoes indoors is that they don't get enough air for their feet so they can dry. Do they use special products to prevent odors? Even if we take off our shoes indoors (even in schools) young boys have feet that smell terrible - do they have many pairs of shoes that they can change several times a day? And where do they keep all those extra pairs of shoes? They have bigger houses than us Europeans, so who knows - maybe they have special rooms to air their shoes.
@@ahkkariq7406Americans smell good
@@ahkkariq7406 XD maybe you´re thinking too much about things do not happen to anyone. If you wear shoes and socks, for me, gets your feet cleaner than anything, like if you need your feet to get dry wearing shoes, seems there´s a problem on them.. i don´t know, wearing shoes indoors it´s pretty comfortable... and about the young boys, well, to everyone, i think taking showers solve any problems xdxd... like, ikr europe is cold, but if you take one or two in a day, i don´t think there still be some ''smell terrible'' problem to most of people
@@itdobelikedattho8112 Sure. Their feet smell of roses.
The American girl mentions it maybe being a crime to leave your baby sleeping outside in a stroller. Many years ago a danish couple was visiting N.Y. with their baby. They wanted to go to eat somewhere, and parked the baby outside the resturant, sleeeping in the stroller, while they where inside the resturant eating (they actually had a table by the window, so they could keep an eye on the baby. They ended up getting arrested and accrused of child neglect. Letting the babies sleep in the strollers outside resturants and cafés is very common in Denmark. Escpecially in the summer time. And also the big cities like Copenhagen.
I would guess this is a cultural habit that simply hasn't gone away since the days of consumption / TB. My grandmother, born before WWI started, was put in a screened-in outdoor "sleepout" at night from when she was only a few months old, because it was believed that breathing a lot of outdoor air would strengthen the lungs and immune system. When the biggest threat to your child's life is breathing in the air that other people have breathed out, parking them outside on the footpath while you go into a restaurant makes a lot of sense.
I wouldn't do it in america, there are too many criminals here, someone could just grab your baby and run. It's dangerous in america.
in Nordic countries if you wear shoes inside, you will bring in gravel and snow into the house. snow 5 months straight. it's not just cultural, you have to.
The salt, too. You would ruin the floors. And the amount of puke and shit from humans on the streets(Yes, I have come across human diarrhea on the street several times), I am not dragging that into the house.
😂😂gosh holly shit this situation above commented.
It still doesn't explain why we do it the other 7 months when there is no snow.
@@Vulpes_minorwow, where?😅 I have seen puke several times especially on a saturday. No poop though😅
@@Magnus_Loov Because why would you. 0 benefits, many problems.
If we have shoes inside in Sweden, we have tofflor,indoor shoes!
Same in norway. Though i prefer to just walk on socks unless its an old house where the floor is ice cold
Same in Germany.
Pantoffeln or Hausschuhe
Slippers🙂
I think it would be crazy to wear shoes inside your apartment. It is much easier to keep the floor and carpets clean when you are barefoot or wear socks. That's the way things are done in Finland. Whether it's summer or winter it would be rude to walk inside someone's house and not to leave your shoes in the hallway.
Yeah, some do, most don't.
I find the argument that you need shoes inside as to not get your feet dirty to be so backwards... The damn floors wouldn't be so dirty if you just took them off in the first place! also with how common carpet is in the US I can only imagine how nasty that shit gets...
I am from México not the US. Houses here typically are not insulated since it doesn't get as cold. A lot of the times doors and windows have gaps where bugs can enter easily even when they are fully closed. The house where I grew up even has an inner garden and several rooms have doors that connect to the garde, thus a lot of dust would enter very easily. It does get really dirty if you never use your shoes inside. But still wearing shoes inside is just a cultural thing.
@@lanzsibelius Tbh, I feel like old generation Europeans were the ones to introduce this concept of wearing shoes at home in the Americas. I'm Korean Argentine, and all my Argentine friends grew up wearing shoes indoors, even in their tiny, enclosed apartment. My Korean family would kill me if I ever did this. Like Mexico, many of the traditional houses of Argentina tend to have an open roof patio/courtyard, with a terrace, enclosed in party walls, with rooms distributed around the patio space. Since it doesn't really snow here in Buenos Aires, we don't really use gable roofs, though they still exist in some homes. The rain just comes and pours down into our patio, which has a built-in drainage system, and, in the summer, all the bugs just fly in, attracted to the light, that the next day, when you wake up, all you hear is crunch from the footsteps you make stepping on corpses of these insects. But yeah, regardless of all this, I never wore shoes inside the rooms. I would only wear shoes when I'm out in the patio or terrace (though often I just go barefoot), but never inside my room. I make sure to always take them off, or simply wear indoor slippers.
''get my culture, i´s the best one'' europeans..
Omg, I didn't even think about the carpet while they mentioned that, why would you lay down a carpet if ur gonna walk on it with shoes???
@@mohammedeus what are you even trying to say? And also taking your shoes off inside isn't exactly a uniquely European thing...
Also depending on living conditions wearing shoes inside might make some sense, however in the context of Americans doing it (which is what this is really about, you know since the argument that I'm responding to was brought forth by an American...) it makes negative sense...
Funny thing about snus (nicotine pouches). I'm Swedish and use snus. Once on a vacation to Paris I'm sitting at a café and are about to put one in. The waiter saw that, and lets just say that I got the feeling that he had a very liberal view on drugs. He approached me and very discretely asked me if he could have one. I played along and gave him one and told him how to do it. Also, I use one of the extra strong ones. After a while I see him getting a bit pale and had started to walk a little bit like a drunk as you do if your not used to it. When I left he gave me the thumbs up and winked. I don't know what he thought I gave him, but he liked it a lot.
Thanks for another interesting video. Always fun to learn things about other countries culture, even the nearest neighbors. Although I think all northern countries feel very familiar, there are always a lot more to learn. And the bonus of actually understanding what a Danish person says ;) ...said with a lot of love for Denmark and all Danish people of course.
Oh thats funny
lol amazing! ive used it on peopel in pubs to prove they wont want to smoke as often. They sat for 30 min before remembering cigarettes again, whilst drunk.
It's interesting how people from the North are more reserved/serious than people from the South.
That seems to be a trend, at least in a national European sense, although as a Norwegian I can tell you that within Norway northern Norwegians tend to be LESS reserved than us southern Norwegians, so that's an interesting reversal of that trend.
Anyway, I don't know why that is the case, but it may come down to a combination of factors such as religion (austere northern Protestantism vs more gregarious southern Catholicism), the fact that southern countries had bigger cities (Rome, Athens) and flourishing empires and exchanges of cultures early on, leading more familiarity between people and more people being forced to live together, whereas here in the north (especially in the Nordic countries) people lived in small villages surronded by forests, valleys, mountains and fjords and we encountered other people and other culture much less.
There's also a theory that climate affects cultures in the sense that people in colder climates are more inclined to keep busy (work, maintain their homes, grow food etc.) because it prevents them from freezing (movement warms your body), whereas warmer climates encouraged people to take things leisurely so as to not get too hot, and so you might find more time to socialise while cooling off.
@@Onnarashi Great analysis! ... I tend to believe it's the climate because I see the same North/South distinction in North America and Asia as well.
@@FountainSongs I can see that. It could be more complicated in Asia and Europe than in North America though, given the history and longevity of the various cultures.
@@FountainSongs Yeah I agree with you, the German girl with brunette hair for example looks serious all the time and at times even looks like she's making an effort to crack a smile 😂 But it's funny how people from Northern Europe are more "reserved" generally speaking compared to southern Europe and that's what makes things more worth it in my opinion, the world wouldn't be as cool if all the people had the same cultural behavior so to speak 😅
@@Leandro22Martinho My comment was not intended as a criticism but an observation. Funny you mentioned the brunette German girl, she’s my favorite!!!!
Finland invented ice skating not Dutch. Finns were the first to develop ice skates some 5,000 years ago from animal bones.
Finns invented ice skating and the Dutch invented the first metal ice skates that cut into the ice instead of gliding on it.
One thing is certain: Finns and Dutch love ice and skating.
Sort of - the people in Finland 5k years ago weren't really Finns. You have to wait until the Nordic Bronze Age (at least) before we can really start talking about Finns.
@@SinilkMudilaSama Skating on ice has long been popular in Norway too, but perhaps not in Denmark. I remember though one danish skater from about 60 years ago - Kurt Stille, also a singer.
@@user-gr5tx6rd4h Hum interesting. Good luck for Danmark in ski 🎿 competitions on this century.
That’s so cool that Ida say something in Danish and Julia understand her
All three of our languages are so similar we can read and mostly understand each other and have conversations without any problems, it's more like deep accents then diffrent languages in most cases besides some letter and words. Only problem is that danes tend to speak way to fucking fast😂
Neighbors inviting themselves to your party is wild haha
We had the same thing happen at New Year's 😂 Randomly had some neighbours in our house. Germany as well.
@@andyx6827 At new years anything goes where I live (dutch village). I've visited random people I know and vice versa. You also give your best wishes to all strangers you happen to walk into at new years eve.
Nah it's normal it's a family party and neighbors are family if they are fun
Americans and Canadians that live on the boarder travel across ALL of the time to shop. Trader Joe’s and Target in Buffalo NY is full of Canadians. In high school I’d travel to Toronto every few months to buy clothes
also in the south, many Americans that don't have health insurance travel to Mexico for doctor appointments, dentist visits, and cosmetic surgery.
Well, you're fuuked if you live in Kansas.
Back in the 90's 00's it was quite normal for kids 18 to almost 21 would go across the border to Tijuana and get HAMMERED as alcohol in Mexico is served to 18+ adults. Many people foreigners I know buy stuff in Tijuana they can't find in the US or find it for cheaper there. Spanish jamon serrano for examples comes to mind. Spanish and Mexican chorizo. I don't doubt there are still TONS of ppl that do all that pluls what @lemonz1769 says, many people go for healthcare.
@@sdauggie Yeah, hot sauces and and chillies is something i would guess is better to buy from Mexico. That and possibly tequila, lol.
2:40 While it may be good for the immune system for the kids. The real reason we do it is because the babies sleep so well. When they are packed up and its cold out side, they just dont want to move. Even if they don´t sleep they just are still and look around
In Germany it definitely happens, at least in Berlin is very common to leave the baby sleeping outside e.g. while you are inside having a coffee.
of course.. the difference,and what surprises alot of people is that Scandinavians leave the babies out in -20c
Really? I thought Berlin was a very big and international city by European standards, that you could have all sort of creepy people from different cultures, education level, and socioeconomic backgrounds. I hear Frankfurt is quite unsafe for women to walk at night.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 South Korea has six times more sexual crimes per capita than Germany. So unless there is zero such crimes in all of germany and they all happen in the city of Frankfurt I'm inclined to say, it's a safe city
@@lissandrafreljord7913 We're not talking about night time though and I think it is more of a problem with paranoia, like with people who think public transport is unsafe for unsupervised kids. I don't want to put the entirety of Europe under an umbrella here but generally in my opinion most people aren't afraid to leave their kids in public because there's a social trust that the adults around them are responsible. Yes, there might be some creeps around but there's also an expectation for other adults around to get involved and protect them if a creep were to try something.
The paranoid concept that every stranger is a potential predator is much, much, MUCH more unlikely than the notion that 98% of the adults around your kids at any normal given time are well adjusted, responsible and kind. Hell, in most societies even most criminals themselves treat people who target children much harsher than other crimes. Children are off-limits for just about anyone but the most depraved.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 By German standards they are "dangerous". But these are small parts of the city. In Frankfurt, everything is concentrated within a 200m radius of the main train station. In international comparison, German cities are very safe. For example, the crime rate per 100,000 inhabitants in Salt Lake City (32nd most dangerous city in the USA) is twice as high as in Frankfurt (second most criminal city in Germany). No German city would make it into the top 50 most dangerous cities in the USA. One reason why Germans feel unsafe is the trend. Germany has become safer every year since the 1990s. Until last year, when it got a little worse. The USA, for example, gets worse every year; there has never been an upward trend since the 1960s.
I am Dutch and actually a very introverted person. But in the Netherlands it is common to greet strangers on the street, for example at a bus stop, doctor/hospital waiting rooms or when walking the dog. Once a German friend came to visit, and we were walking on the street. I greeted a few people and my German friend said: who is he and she? Me, they're strangers...
As a Norwegian the only times we will say hi to a passing stranger is when we're out hiking, then suddenly everyone's a lot more sociable... It's usually just a quick greeting as you pass on the trail, but sometimes people might even strike up conversations, especially if you've reached the destination lol
I hear Dutch are less rigid and uptight than Germans, who are obsessed with rules. But Dutch people secretly love money, and are anal about equal trade (must be their history with being a country of merchants). They like to brag about how cheap they bought something for, and they go crazy with charging people on their Tikkie. I once heard a Dutch family didn't even feed their child's friends when they came over to play as guests in their house. They told them that it was dinner time for their child, so he will come inside and eat his dinner, while his friends could wait outside playing. Some cultures could interpret this as being overly stingy and not hospitable and generous at all.
In terms of food, they seem to be even less of a food culture than Germans. Very minimalist, as you can't have cheese and butter together on bread. It's one or the other. Such a Calvinist mindset. I did hear a story of a German saying this to a foreigner once, though. German dude basically says that the guy's lunch looks very extravagant, since he put both butter and cheese on his sandwich. As if eating a cold lunch wasn't sad enough.
In Sweden I'd say its more dependent on if you're in a city or in a town. I live in a town outside the city and will always greet someone I'm passing by and mostly get a response back, but not in the city. That would be very, very unusual to me. When I'm in a city I'm usually there for a reason and don't want to be bothered and I figure most people are the same.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 Lived all my life in the Netherlands and NEVER heard anyone say you can't have butter and cheese on your bread. Don't know where you got that story from but it seems completely nonsensical to me. You say you heard all those strange stories about Dutch habits, obviously without having experienced them yourself, so I have my doubts about the reliability of your informant(s). In Dutch we call that "broodje aap" stories, which could be translated as "urban legends" .
The American is always kind and seems intelligent but also always seems hella bored and tired.
Yeah, she always seems like she's not even participating or even understanding the topic, but then she randomly pulls a clever joke out of nowhere 😂
She just seems low energy, which I can relate to.
She seemed more judgy to me. Different perceptions I guess
People are just different. Different energy.
She reminds me of someone who has a Xanax addiction…
Not saying she does, I’m sure that’s just her personality, but that’s what she reminds me of.
Denmark has no minimum drinking age, but you can buy alcohol below 16,5 vol%, when you are 16 and everything when you are 18 .... and you drink in public
basically same in Norway as well, underage drinking is not illegal, but you shouldn't be able to get your hands on the alcohol without someone breaking the law by for example giving or selling that alcohol to the minor or by the minor stealing it...
Same in Sweden, there is no drinking age, only a serving age.
I brought a big bag of Djungelvrål licorise with me to LA once, i put the bag on the table next to the hotel bed and i guess the cleaning lady tried a few as there were a few tasted onces in the trash bin 🤣 I would never waste djungelvrål like that 😊
I'm sorry for the german girl, she's to young to know it, but we here in Germany have done it with our kids in the wintertime, 40 years ago there was a lot of snow in the winter.
i find it wierd with what the girl from the US said at 3:50, because ofc if you wear your outside shoes inside because its dirty its because you wear them inside, and maybe they dont like clean the floors as often because they have that mindset, but for me as a norwegian we just take our shoes off too and we clean or vaccum after the animals if it is dirty we dont start using our shoes inside. like i have 9 cats and theres alot of cat hair and they bring like muddy or dusty foot prints in but we just clean it up, so yeah no its just wierd to use your shoes inside to just make the house even dirtier
I agree, Norway here too. Plus with dogs it’s common to wipe of the paws when going inside. Wipe their fur over, bathe them ever so often, vaccum and clean the floors often.
Yeah, using shoes indoors don't make even a little sense when you can just use indoor shoes like crocs or Tøffler (don't remember the English word) Like my mom has always used Tøffler indoors. It makes more sense than using the same shoes you do outdoors that you don't even knows whats been stepped in.
If someone came into my home and kept their outdoor shoes on, I'd transform into the Hulk! 😂
I prefer to walk around barefoot on my wooden floors, so I vacuum them twice a week. I want clean floors.
I'm American and I think a lot more people take their shoes off than people realize. my family has never worn shoes inside, but I have friends that do, so it depends on the family
I'm from the Netherlands and i went to Norway last December. I was walking outside in my t-shirt with -10 and people thought i was crazy. I did not expect that 😅
😂😂😂❤maybe you are😂😂😂❤
Walking from the car to the grocery store? Sure.
Actually talking an hour+ walk outside in -10 C in a regular cotton t-shirt? That's not happening lol. Even during exercise or heagvy manual labour, the extra body heat generated is nowhere close to enough to make that shit safe, let alone comfortable. Even a slight gust of wind at that temperature would completely ruin your fingers if left exposed over time.
We Indonesians also enjoy eating bread with hagelslag for breakfast. 😅 I mean.... Yeah
It is delicious! And we Dutch also enjoy eating a lot of the Indonesian dishes as well. Some of them are “Dutchified” or less spicy (less sambal) than served in Indonesia, but especially the sweet ones are very similar.
Interestingly the “Chinese” restaurants in the Netherlands have a menu that is 75% Indonesian and 25% Chinese + Surinamese + invented. It is funny to talk to international students from China about their experience in our “Chinese” restaurants. One of the main things you always get as a side dish is “kroepoek” which are shrimp-based crackers that are made in Thailand solely for the Dutch market, and seen as very typical “Chinese” here.
But yeah, we do love Indonesian food here. We also have many Indonesian restaurants apart from the Chinese ones that mainly serve Indonesian dishes.
@@blue.berry.well you tried colonizing Indonesia so…still got it in your blood ig 😂
as a Swedish person hearing - if we goe barefoot indoors we have dirty feets...yuk.. that's disgusting.
As a Swede I often go barefoot indoors, especially after waking up during the weekends during the first couple of hours in the morning. As nature intended.
@@Magnus_Loov Same, I don't see any particular problem with being barefoot in your own house. If doing so gives you dirty feet, then that sounds more like you're not keeping your floors clean or for which ever reason tend to bring dirt inside more-so than usual. Exclusively socks in other people's homes though, for obvious reasons.
In Finland 🇫🇮, I would never wear shoes inside, so when in 2017 I made my biggest dream come true, a trip to 🇨🇦 Canada (Toronto, Montréal & Calgary), out of habit I just sat on the hotel room floor, and I wondered why it felt so sticky. A couple of months later at home, I realized from a YT video that it was because the 🇺🇸 American travellers were probably using shoes inside. 😆
THAT. Here in Germany (at least where i live, in southern Black Forest) people even tend to sit on the street - on stairs and low walls etc. And then you get up and just slap your butt a bit, in case there was dust. I wouldn't do that in Berlin though, or in France, not to mention the US.
I was left outside (still in view from the kitchen etc..) in the pram in the UK in the 60s. That's also when my Norwegian mother was looked at for breastfeeding instead of buying formula.. . It hasn't changed much
For those who like licorice, try pink, white and purple wines and liqueurs made from gooseberries, all of which will drink better outside as you can have drinks and ice creams that are much better than licorice. For those who love licorice, try sapputilha and it's milder and lighter than licorice, you won't regret it, we give options because taste is subjective to each person.
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Nicotine pouches have become very popular amongst young people in the US over the past few years
I've seen "Zyn" pop up so much lately... And of all the things scandinavia has, idk if that's the thing I'd steal...
Nicotine pouches aren't the same though. They're a synthetic replica without tobacco.
Pouches have been popular for a while where I'm at in Tennessee since chewing tobacco is normal here. People switched almost instantly since it's cleaner except older generations that have been chewing for 40+ years already.
@@Munchticles chewing tabacco and snus are not the same thing though.
@@maritalarsson8067 The only real difference is one is moist while the other is dried and ground up. There is also snuff which is similar to snus too but is snorted, my great grandma did that.
Wearing shoes inside is just disgusting. Just think all the possible things you WILL step on when you walk in a city and all those things will just spread around your house. Disgusting. Spreading shit into your house and then living that shit. That's not how civilized people live.
Oh and the babies will grow up to to be stronger human beings when they are kept outside during winter and freezing temperatures. They will not be soft whiners. There's a reason (well it's one of the reasons) why the Nordic men/women are the most badass fighters in the world. It's a hard unforgiving environment we live in and we are all more than used to it. We certainly don't whine when things get uncomfortable. Even when things get painful, we just keep on going. With ruthless efficiency.
Our houses get cold af in the winter. We have indoor shoes we only use indors so we are not dirty and filthy. Would you all stop hating us and talking lile we are dirt?
Here in south Germany (Bavaria) we also have New years eve swimming. 😃
really ? i was born in bavaria and we never did that and i live in the far south :D
@@johnnyk3950 i think its common in some parts. Here Erding (Erdinger Weißbier) its a Tradition „Neujahrsschwimmen“🙂 its near Munich.
Northumberland England: We have smoked kippers at breakfast. Not as often as was traditional but it’s a great start. Yum!
Regarding babies sleeping in strollers outside. I live in the northern parts of Sweden, we have three kids and we have had all three of them outside during the winter months. We had a Baby monitor with a thermometer, which we put inside the pouch so that we could monitor the temperature.
The coldest we have had them out is -15 Celsius, when it dropped lower then that we would let them sleep inside. My kids are now 11, 8 and 6 all perfectly healthy.
The fact is that it was a lot easier to let them sleep outside then inside because the prams were so comfortable and cozy for them.
I believe there's research that proves that contrasting temperature differences between yourself and the immediate vicinity improves blood circulation, relaxation and generally makes you sleep better. Plus, depending on how far north you live it is impossible to avoid snow and cold, so I think it is important to have babies get used to the cold in a controlled environment as they grow. We probably leave them out for both of these reasons.
Licorice, black jellybeans, sambuca, I like all of it.
My grandma used to make anise cookies with powdered sugar on the outside, my favorite cookie to eat around Christmas.
Americans:
If you stop wearing shoes indoors, the floors will hardly get dirty.
Also, that American girl always sounds like she's intoxicated.
Ariana Grandes sister?
Apparently she does that in purpose, she talks normal in her own RUclips channel
@@itdobelikedattho8112 whats her youtube channel?
@@itdobelikedattho8112she always sounds like that
@itdobelikedattho8112 but why the hell would she make herself more annoying to listen to
Finland should be included.
It's not a scandinavian country though.
No it's a finnic ugric nation asian nation ❤
@@olgahein4384But it is a Nordic country, and that is what the title says. So it could have been included without a problem.
Ideally yeah, but there's probably a pretty limited selection of Finns in Korea😅
@@jasperkok8745 Then we'd need Iceland as well, and I guess Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...
I think people misunderstand the kids sleeping outside of restaurants. They either have a baby call, well usually they do anyways and they also have a table by the window with clear view of their baby. I guess it might be odd but stranger danger is not such a thing. I’ve never heard about a baby being kidnapped here, just parental cases where the mother or father runs away abroad with the child.
The young lady from the USA must be enjoying having bare feet on these videos then, seeing she had to wear shoes inside to keep herself clean! Must be a release for her! In Wales it's a generational thing, it was never done much for my grandparents generation (it was seen as somewhat informal and inappropriate to be shoeless, especially in front of visitors), it was hit and miss for my parent's generation, some wanted shoes off, others didn't mind (albeit removing shoes to go upstairs was fairly common), and for my generation it's become more common due to more aesthetic homes becoming the norm (but still plenty of homes that don't mind shoes on). It varies from region to region in the UK, Yorkshire for example is very much a shoes left at the door county.
The barefoot girl in this video is one of the German girls, though. It may be me, but I can’t see the feet of the American and the Dutch girl on the back row, so I’m not sure that either of them is barefoot in this video.
@@jasperkok8745 The American lady has been barefoot in other videos which look like they are from the same shoot.
@@MysteryManfrom79 Ah, that’s quite possible. I haven’t looked closely enough to compare this video with other videos that may have been shot on the same day.
@@jasperkok8745 Yeah, think she's been barefoot a while - decided to ditch the usual sock dress code, so must be rebellious!
“On a mild day or the blistering cold, she is my type of neighbour and woman- hard pressed to find another better to keep you company 💓💓💓”
Babies having naps in strollers outside when it's -30 celsius (-22 fahrenheit) isn't that uncommon... Well, more common in coutryside than in bigger cities. Also more common with moms who have more than 1 kid, as they're cautious with the first one 😄just have to put on lots of layers of clothing and check regularly if the baby's skin is warm and he/she is feeling well and happy. Well, mothers know if their kid is fine, usually. My brother and sister slept outside when they were kids and they slept totally fine for many hours.
I don’t think we would have kids outside if it’s THAT cold. Here we would have them sleep inside with -5 and upwards I think. That’s my impression but I don’t live far north. When the air is that cold I don’t think it’s that good for you anymore.
Norway 🇳🇴
When the pandemic hit and they told us we had to stand 2 meters apart we got annoyed cause we had to stand closer while waiting on the bus then normal x'D
3:10 "in Germany we don't do that at all"? Girl, german mom in her 50's here and it is very common for generations. 😅 My grandparents did, my parents and i too...Berlin, Northern germany, Hessen and Rheinland-Pfalz i have seen this as a normal thing.
Never heard that anyone would call the police...
You are a rare exception. Most Germans absolutely do not to this.
@@andyx6827i'm not 😉 since it's not just me or my Family. Also my surroundings and Friends from other cities and Bundesländer. That's why i listed all the places i came across were it is normal.
Some of these are still pretty common in the US, but it is probably regional. I know northern Michigan was settled by a lot of Finnish and Swedish Miners, which might contribute to the culture.
We had a mix of taking your shoes off indoors and not. We have a lot of fresh water fish available due to the Great Lakes. My parents also used to let us play outside in winter with shorts on when it was probably just below 0 C
The Dutch girl saying "Where I`m from, there`s not really any water nearby" when talking about eating fish for breakfast is kind of wild. Girl, no part of your country is far from the water. What is the furthest you can be from the ocean in Holland? Like 200 kilometers?
Yeah, they literally created land from the water.
The Dutch are waterbenders.
She means that we have less fresh fish in the countryside, so it’s not that common to eat fresh fish almost every day, compared to places next to big lakes or ocean.
@@DouweBuruma The whole point of what I wrote is that there is no place in Holland that is far from the ocean.
@@rustknuckleirongut8107 I know, but maybe for you or for someone who lives in a bigger country than the Netherlands, 200 kilometers is not far, but for the Dutch who lives in a very densely populated country it is.
3:59 she mentioned her family wears shoe in the house because the floor is dirty and she also mentioned about dogs. Think about this. The humans are clean because they wear shoes right? Now this. Does the dog wear shoes? Does the dog wear clothes? No? So does the dogs gets dirty for walking and rolling on dirty floors? Then don't tell me they never hug their dogs or the dogs jump into the bed? If they hug their dogs and their dog jump into their bed, ain't that consider dirty?
Surely,this is dirty so much.
No one said it has to make sense. They are american after all ;) xD
I’m Dutch, and I’ve had two dogs, but I never allowed them to sit on the sofa or go upstairs. So no, my dogs didn’t do those kinds of things. Plus, you’re assuming things that were never mentioned in the video, so you can’t really question her or yourself based on what you’ve pointed out.
@@richardhakkers533 lol what's your ethnicity has to do with it? And I'm not assuming things. Stop denying the truth. Are you saying there's ZERO dogs that walk and roll on the floor? There's ZERO dogs that jump.to sofa and bed?
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I think the neighbour thing is depending on where you live as well. I grew up in a small town in Sweden, and I grew up living in a neighborhood with houses. You were friends with all the neighbours and all the children played together and the adults had like parties together and also took care of each others home (cutting the lawn, watering flowers, taking in the mail) if someone went on vacation and things like that. But living in an apartment is quite different, you don't really get to know your neighbours and it's also quite awkward meeting them in the hallway or something like that. You say Hi maybe and that's it. You usually don't know who your neighbours are really haha. But I also know some people has had the opposite experience so yeah
I love the Northern winter. Nothing like going outside for 10 minutes and having your beard freeze.
One thing they didn't bring up.
The way Scandinavia celebrate graduation from High school.
Like in Norway we have the *"Russetid".*
That’s funny, because it’s what the beginning of ‘Gymnasium’ and university is called in Denmark. Like the time when you get to know your fellow students and your new school.
@@Randomdentandthebowlofpetuniasthat’s called fadderuken here :)
I drive up into Denmark and Sweden quite regularly to do my shopping. Especially for laundry detergent since they don't fragrance products as much as we do down here in Germany. I's two hours from my place to go to Malmö, so really just a nice day trip.
As for crossing state borders for shopping 🛍️, i live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Philadelphia is next to the state of New Jersey. But after shopping there you have to pay a bridge 🌉 toll. Sales tax is 6% or 7%. Option 2: take a 45 minute drive south ⬇️ to the state of Delaware. The good part about buying in Delaware is NO sales tax! The problem is how to get your purchased items 🔙 back home 🏠.
13:32 Americans cross the border to get medicine. Stuff like insulin, arthritis medicine and so on is more than 10 times more expensive in the US than in both Canada and Mexico.
Some diabetics specifically move near the border because it saves them more than $1000 per month in medicine.
A lot has been done to fix this though. So that life threatening illnesses won't bankrupt you or straight up kill you cuz you can't afford getting medicated.
Great.... Now I'm really craving licorice. Thanks. 😄
I'm 23 yrs Arab Iraqi and this is the first time I heard of "Licorice" I'll remember this video and what they said to describe it for my whole life.
The prevalence of fish in the diet varies a lot from one region to another within America. In general, the closer you are to the coast, the more people eat fish. If you're more than a day's drive from the nearest large body of water, fish becomes a significantly less important part of the diet for most people, and the fish that is eaten tends to be processed and breaded and deep fried. Whereas, in the coastal regions, fish is more common, and is eaten in a wider variety of culinary contexts, e.g., in California fish tacos are popular, and in New England they have fish- and shellfish-based soups. Whereas, if you say "fish soup" or "fish tacos" in Indiana, people are going to think you got dropped on your head too many times as a child.
But yes, if you leave an infant unattended outdoors in cold winter weather in North America, you're going to be on the news, and not in a good way. That kid is going to have a case worker.
People in Kansas: "What's a fish?"
@@lissandrafreljord7913 Eh, they've seen Finding Nemo. It's just not a major part of the cuisine tradition.
funny thing about the cold in Denmark. is that det cold feels way colder compire to the norther part of other nordic cuntry's. since Denmark is way more humid. and the diffrence in humidity change how cold or hot things feel. with is way a person can feel like they are dieing with around 25 degrece in Denmark, but be more conftable in higher temputures in fx. Thailand.
I miss smoked salmon on a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast. I also know people that lived in Basel Switzerland and go grocery shopping in Germany and France, since they are so close to their borders.
-10 in the south can feel colder than -25 in the north because more humidity. I have friends from the north and they have never freezed so much before when they visited and we had -6 (living about 1/3 up in Sweden on the east coast)
Wearing shoes inside because otherwise your feet get dirty... that's because you wear shoes inside and don't know how to vacuum.
Kind of how pro-gun people justify the American gun laws. 😅
I LOVE this group! Pls moreee
I love like grey, rainy weather. 🥰 What I really don't like is sun and heat. I think I might have to move to a Scandinavian country some day because the South of Germany is only getting warmer and warmer...
I actually missed you all 😢
What a heartwarming feeling when I saw that you posted a video ❤️
I can’t believe all these people love liquorice…
Where are my fellow liquorice lovers at? This comment was the only one I could find that mentioned liquorice.
I love liquorice and I'm from Sweden. My mom also loves it, but not my dad and several of my classmates from school also didn't like it. It's not like everyone in the Nordics like it, but since it's so plentiful and many children eat it, many also find that they like it. My favorite is liquorice gelatin frogs and salty, marshmellowy discs called Salt Skum (Salted foam). I also love watching people try liquorice, most often people send them the "infamous" Djungelvrål (Jungle Roar) and they're quite hard, stick in your teeth, but above all else, they're covered in ammonium chloride, which tastes like a very intense version of salt. I'd like them more if they weren't so hard to chew.
@@Hurvl I love liquorice too! The saltier the better. Growing up in Germany's North the most popular car candy was Spunk from Denmark. Even to this day my Dad will surprise me every now and then with a box hidden somwhere in my car😅 I quite enjoy Djungelvrål, I get it from the border shop next to our local ferry. It's ridiculously overpriced but I'll happily pay whatever.
@@hightidemidafternoon I had not heard of "car candy" or Spunk before, so that's interesting to hear. In Sweden, it's common to only let kids eat candy on Saturdays (it's better to have a "cheat day", than eat candy several days a week) and even if my family took the car on a Saturday to visit relatives (1 hour drive), we wouldn't be eating candy or anything else during the trip. I live in Uppsala, roughly the middle of Sweden, so no easy access to Denmark or border shops and there is no Danish candy/liquorice that I know of in my neighbourhood.
Licorice-flavored sweets are excellent, I'm addicted in HARIBO bought in Scandinavia.
in Norway we dont like to sociallize at all so if you walk past a person or something you might give them a very tiny like fake smile and then continue on your day and all the other things they said is pretty accurate
I'm Swedish and that thing about licorice, either you love it, or you hate it. Back in high school a classmate asked me angrily why I was so mean/stingy. I had no idea what she was talking about. So she clarified. She noticed I always bought licorice for candy. And since she hated licorice, she thought nobody could ever like licorice. So the only reason I bought licorice, which I must have hated, was evidently so that I wouldn't have to share with anyone. And she thought that was the dumbest thing ever, to buy candy you don't like, so you don't have to share. I was like totally surprised. But I love licorice, that's why I buy it. And share it freely. And she was like totally, no, you don't love licorice, nobody does, you're a liar. It was so weird. She seemed to think that licorice was a product nobody wanted.
The «calmer» version of the pepper, that i’ve seen in norway, is to give someone unmarried turning 30 a peppershaker as theire present. And the idea is to get the biggest or wierdest shaker.
I laughed a little when the Dutch girl said they had no water nearby. It simply isn't possible in the Netherlands. The entirety of it has water nearby. Sure, it's relative, but that's what's funny. Her thinking a coastal country that size can not have water nearby.
The southern German girl has 8-10 times further than you can physically be from the water in the Netherlands.
About footwear indoors. If I come to a place I haven't been before, it doesn't matter if it's in Denmark or elsewhere, I watch the people around me.. and if I'm unsure after that, I ask.
In my childhood friend's house it was complicated. They had multiple pets that were confined to the 2 outermost rooms, but could roam outside. In his house you could wear footwear in those 2 rooms and the kitchen, because they were a lot outdoors and it was a hassle to remove the shoes every time you went inside to get something from the fridge. In the rest of the house it was no shoes and his mom wiped off the kitchen floor a couple of times a day(took less than a minute). I don't think it is socially acceptable to have dirty floors in most Danish homes. You're a bit of a loser if your floors are so dirty your guests have to worry about getting dirty feet.
In Denmark, it the furthest you can get from the sea is 52km (32 miles). It can actually feel a bit claustrophobic when going to central Europe, being so far away from the shore :D
@@peterbakpetersen4942 I've never felt that way, I travel a lot and have been to more than 40 countries. I think the furthest I've been from the sea was in Kansas.
The distance to the sea there is about the same as from the Danish border to Venice.
Bor nær grænsen.
I think she ment not close to the sea. They eat way more fish in Rotterdam than Enschede, for example.
Really interesting to hear the perspective of everybody keep up those good video's !
Tobacco pouches are common in America. Particularly with military personnel.
Public transport is common only takes 11 hours to get anywhere with it
Oh i love the cold weather we get up here in the north, usually somewhere about -20 to -35 degrees C but the coldest I've seen so far was -48,5
And no you don't die ... not immediately at least ^^,
It's also a different kind of cold sometimes. Dry air doesn't feel as cold as the opposite.
@ban-draoidh318 sure, however the car starts easy at -10 🙂
9:25 why the surprised face 😂
Joana with the yoga poses 🧘♀️
A request i have. If you can find a person that can speak bondska that would be awesome 😎 bondska is a not that normal type of Swedish that farmers/peasants use sometimes in the northern part of Sweden i know some words but i do not know how hard its to find in young people because its more spoken by older people and its not learned anymore but i would be happy and my relative that is dead that only spoke it maybe i unlock a old memorie of him but i do have his 20 year old cat that probably won't live for so many more years
I'm an american and it pisses me off when my grandparents wear their shoes inside. My grandpa walks through the mud and tracks it all in the house. There is dirt and leaves everywhere, it's even worse in the winter. They refuse to wipe off their feet too and they will not buy welcome mats for inside or the backyard. I'm tired of constantly sweeping and mopping. As soon as I am done cleaning they come through and ruin it. They bring more dirt in than all 3 of our dogs combined! There is no point to wear your shoes indoors unless you forgot your keys and you are in a hurry or something.
I really like the summer dress from my german sister, it showed off her feminity, very beautiful! She Looks Like rapunzel from a fairy tale
Northern vs southern Europe plssss
When people travel by public transport in Denmark, there are many who sit alone or with friends. Even though there are 4 seats, they don't actually sit down next to strangers.
Why did you pick the most AMERICAN american to do this? I still can't believe how anyone could be this freaking boring by just opening their mouth. I'm from Norway.
9:32 Because they use the term tobacco and not nicotine like they’re discussing I thought they were talking about tobacco dip. When she said it wasn’t common I was questioning things, but if it’s that recent thing of nicotine pouches then yes, it’s fairly recent and becoming more popular mostly with younger people
Snus is dip. It sometimes comes in pouches for convenience. This is what girls mostly use, but it's the same thing just with "cloth" around, although some newer products are coming that might be a little different, but questionably legal.
in the Netherlands its very popular to go to germany or belgium to buy fireworks for new year celebration, also alcohol in germany near the border and germans crossover to the netherlands for coffee sometimes because there is no tax on that here in the Netherlands(atleast not that high)
11:05 US has nany swedish people living there. Though not sure if its easily available or just in city stores.
12:09 Licorice is made out of what we call "Süßholz" in German, so the colloquial 'Süßholz raspeln" actually refers to the process of making Licorice
I'm Swedish and you could eat food off of my floors, because we don't wear shoes inside. There are these things called vacuum cleaners and mops. :P
In Norway we also have the expression of a "Peppermø". I didn't know they actually covered unmarried people in pepper though.
det har jeg aldri hørt om
The Danish woman is realy pretty.
Yes she is❤
Damn, minus forty is crazy! Here in Brazil we can't endure cold very well, in the south is where sometimes snows and they can endure longer, also in the southeast (São Paulo) where i'm from we can endure around 10-15 degrees celsius because lower than that we are freezing out😂 in the north and northeast of Brazil is very warm and rarely rains or do cold. Also the bus thing happens here in São Paulo too, some people hate sitting close to each other, i do that and sitting close to someone makes me feel i am annoying the person, and also to walk behind stranger is awkward because people think you're gonna steal them, so it's important to avoid walking behind too close to someone.
Funny thing, you mentioned being from Brazil and how you do the bus thing. I'm from Norway and I recall this past winter there was a Brazilian woman taking the bus I was on (she mentioned it to another passenger), and it was icy and a thin layer of snow outside. I imagine it must've been quite a shock to her. It wasn't anywhere near -40C though (southern Norway doesn't get that cold), but maybe more like -5C to -10C.
@@Onnarashi geez! Maybe she was used to the cold already in Norway, it depends the time she had been living there, i can't even imagine how -40C is. Brazil don't even have special blouses for it. And maybe in the south of Brazil they had hit -10 too! 😯 I imagine it to be SOOO cold! Here where i am is doing 5 degrees and i am wearing three blouses to go to work. 🥶
@@TimeToSingChannel I don't know the climate in all of Brazil (I know it's a huge country so it may wary a lot), but in my mind it's quite hot (I think of the Amazon). I'm sure the there are cooler climates depending on where you are in Brazil, like you mentioned. I couldn't imagine living somewhere very hot. 5 degrees is mild to me so I wouldn't have a problem. I think weather between 5C and 20C is good.
@@Onnarashiyou're right, it vary a lot around here, we had a record i think that Rio de Janeiro has reached 45C, for me that's impossible to live. The maximum i've experienced in São Paulo was 36C, when it is very hot like 30, 35C it shall rain to cool down, specially here in São Paulo a really crazy state, sometimes it rains, makes sun and be cold at the same day. 😂
@@TimeToSingChannel 30C is way too hot for me. I don't think I could handle it. At 45C I'd just melt. We only have it that hot for a few days here in the south of Norway and it's not every year. It's unusual to get 30C or above. That kind of temperature is seen like a heatwave here and people hate it.
Love the dutch girl going: "where I'm from there is not really any water nearby" I kind of doubt that.. as she's dutch!
😂😂😂😂 yes dutches are made from water, they coming from water 😂🎉
9:17 The Germans spilling the tea
i was genuinly shook that it's ILLEGAL to leave a sleeping baby outside in a stroller in the US, how the heck you expect to go shopping or eat anything??? you can't just bring the child, it would wake them!
In Denmark you can legally drink alcohol whenever your parents let you, so if you 10 you can drink, but you can legally buy beer when you are 16
I feel the thing about Norwegians not wanting to sit next to each others on the bus, is very exaggerated. If there is very good place on the bus, you may choose a place by yourself. But if there is more passengers, we have no problem sitting next to each other. And sometimes we talk to people, and sometimes not.
Young people tend to look at you like some weirdo if you talk to them on the bus. Many also wear headphones to discourage small talk nowadays. But genereally people will fill empty two-seats before sitting beside someone. If they stand instead of sitting next to someone, it is usually because they are getting off soon. I've lived a long time in Oslo and now I live in Stavanger, and really you often don't get a choice. At certain times the buses are so full, that your personal space bubble shrinks away to nothing. Norwegians in general are exceptionally bad at small talk, and only during the winter olympics can you actually talk to strangers comfortably. Unless it's about the weather.
@@Bevrast But if you ask for help, 99% of the people will do anything to help you, which is a good feeling.
@@peacefulminimalist2028 True
I really want to visit the northern countries, but just for a visit, I always think it's crazy to live where the temperature can drop below -10 degrees.
Nah, it's fine. I live in south-west Germany, where we have the sunniest and hottest summers and never see a snowflake, but i was born and grew up in Siberia, where school and kindergarten was cancelled when the temperatures were below -50°C (also for that one month of summer that we had, when it was over +40°C).
With the right clothes, the right measures, and keep your ass moving while outside, it's a pretty normal life. Also, after i moved to Germany and learned the language, I was the coolest kid in elementary school when we had our 'baby photos' display - everybody else playing with their bucket and shovel in a sandbox, while i was playing with mine surrounded by walls of snow and looked like a marshmallow baby, from all the layers of clothes i wore lol.
Remember we use Celsius, so -10C isn't as bad as -10F although it can get colder than -10F as well... I remember once waiting for the bus to go to school in -35C and I got so cold because I hadn't planned on staying outside for long so I didn't dress for the cold, like I only had a pair of jeans to cover my legs... But the bus never came and so I waited for almost an hour until the next bus came. One of the coldest days of my life, and I've bathed in frozen lakes and slept in snowhuts (which sounds more impressive than it really is, if you dig out a snowhut/cave correctly it will actually be above freezing inside)... But again, the problem wasn't that it was cold, it was that I wasn't dressed for being outside in -35C for an hour...
Probably not only me but the combination of icy paths and cold air is just terrible, but come if you like to breath ice😁 greetings from Swede
Snus is actually not nicotine pouches. They're full on tobacco pouches.
in the northern part of germany some old people call licorice "Pferdeblut" which translates to horse blood
10:09 here in Flanders, most people don't like licorice. I like it though. Both the branches and the candy.
Heck, it's quite nice to take a cup, put half a branch in it. Add some ginger and some mint leaves. Then add boiling water. You can add honey or sugar if you want, but it's nice either way
13:40 I've heard somewhere on RUclips about someone who lives in Idaho and drives to Canada every 2 months to buy medication, because it's actually affordable that way (even counting the drive time and fuel use)
as a dane we go to germany to shop cheaply but...we also go to Sweden
also you can drink legally in dk at any age
but at 16 you can buy light alcohol and 18 strong ones
but a 12 year old can drink alcohol legally if an adult provides it
The seasoning is akin to spiritual bath. It supposed to bring back your taste. But differently
I really don't think it's correct that Swedes eat fish for breakfast - maybe at a hotel buffet but not at their own homes. A typical Swedish breakfast usually is various sorts of bread (hard and soft), along with butter, cheese, sliced ham, boiled eggs, cereal, yoghurt and coffee/tea. Also vegetables like cucumber, tomato and paprika.
Leaving the baby outside in the winter it's also a thing in Germany at least in the south.
Snus was created by a Swede a couple hundred years ago. Snus is a very nordic tobacco 😂 Cool to see more countries getting snus.