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...
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.
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.
@@tealkerberus748 Might have its roots in something like that. However there have been studies made since then which seem to support that it does have benefits, and certainly it doesn't harm the kids. Most Danes I know do it because they find their young kids sleep better outside than inside, and any possible health benefits is just a bonus.
@@ladythalia227 Me too, it actually were a tipping point for me. I decided I had seen what I wanted in USA and have never been there since. In the three times over a few years I were there experienced to hear multiple gunshots in urban settings, had two very unpleasant encounters with police while driving and in both cases they overstepped their legal boundaries and scared the crap out of me despite having done nothing wrong, except maybe spent money on visiting their nation. On my very first visit I spent over 3 hours in que for passport control upon arrival. Not exactly the most pleasant welcome after having flown a long hauler. Anyway, I have now been in over 40 nations and no where else have i heard gun shots or had bad encounters with police.
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 doesn't 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
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.
@@Deehydrateyour teeth is the last thing to worry about when and if you have tobacco nicotine pouches while only nicotine is better than the mixed ones
I had a Norwegian neighbour once and she gave me one of hers. She didn't think much of it. It wasnt until AFTER the fact that she told me it could feel strong cus it was a lvl 5 that she uses. My head was fucking spining for the next 45 minutes x'd
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
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.
@@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.
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 I love how you make up random shit about our countries. Spend less time on the internet and actually visit isntead of being a vegetable. Dutch and native germans are very welcoming and usually very generous people. And saying no food culture while you some nordic who eat rotten fish and have No internationally known dishes is funny. Well aside from rotten fish
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.
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.
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.
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 😅
The weather thing is that the colder it gets the dryer it gets also. I am from northern germany and i once talked to someone who was from Siberia and he said that minus 20 degrees in Siberia felt not as bad as minus five in germany. THats also the difference between continental and maritime climate. The closer you get to the sea the more wind and humidity you get the more you will feel the cold.
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😂
@@elite_rock_god2292man Norwegian is easily to understand as a swede but god damn I had a hard time understanding Swedish people from the south and in Denmark I couldn’t understand shit, but maybe that’s just me cause my friends didn’t have a problem understanding em
@banana6837 saw in some statistics few years ago that Danish kids learns to speak about 30%slower then rest of the world, probably cause it makes no fucking sense😂
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
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 😊
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.
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'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.
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 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 grew up in Berlin and still live here, I have never seen someone leave their child outside while eating inside themselves. Neither in the quieter parts of the city/suburbs nor in the busy parts. Are you German or did you just see somebody do it that was maybe not German? I mean a Scandinavian can look the same as a German bar mannerisms and clothing.
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.
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.
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...
Just one note on the Jante Law. It doesn't mean you aren't allowed to be proud of your achievements (many non-Scandinavian people think that's what it means); it just means that you shouldn't gloat or shove it in other people's faces how much better you are. Still, you're absolutely allowed to be proud of your achievements and celebrate them if that's what you want. Also, just in case the presence of the word 'law' gives the wrong impression, it's not an actual law, more like a social guideline.
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 rather keep my shoes on, why would i want to walk on a supposed clean floor that has been mobbed with sweatsocks all day by all kinds of people with my socks or barefoot? i had my period though where i was always on barefoot inside and out, but here it's normal to keep your shoes on. there's doormats at the door, but unless you come out of the snow or something nobody really uses them.
@@supersilverhazeroker You feet will also smell more if you keep them in shoes all day. Modern shoes are usually also too small for our feet, in other words it's not healthy for your feet to keep shoes on for so many hours per day.
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.
4:12 I have a little question for America cuz I'm from Denmark and we normally take our shoes off when we are going inside someone's house but the floors are dirty but if they already begin like take it off their shoes when they walk inside the house the floss will always be clean in Denmark you just have to vacuum like once in a week.😊
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.
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)
we dont have a drinking age in denmark... only a buying age you are allowed to drink at what ever age your guardian/parrents allow. usually kids at christmas get nisseøl (elf beer) it contains around 2% alcohol so its not a strong beer but definetly not alcohol free. we also give our kids cider in summer around 1% alcohol
I'm Swedish and eating fish for breakfast seems really odd to me. The most common breakfast food here is filmjölk (a thick, fermented milk similar to yoghurt but less acidic) with cereal, maybe oat porridge with milk, or (open) sandwiches and a boiled egg. When I was a kid I often had hot rosehip soup (from powder, not made fresh) for breakfast. We do eat pickled herring and tinned mackerel in tomato sauce, but usually not for breakfast? Any other Swedes, what is your most common breakfast food?
I agree. I mostly eat cereal with milk/filmjölk/yoghurt or porridge and/or sandwiches with ham, Swedish caviar, cheese, and marmalade. I feel like, however, that the reason I don't have mackerel in tomato sauce or smoked salmon for breakfast has more to do with not wanting to eat the whole package and also not wanting to go hunt for a right sized container to keep the leftovers. So I tend to eat things where you can take a little bit and then leave the rest. I can definitely believe that other people eat mackerel, salmon, herring, or fish paste for breakfast.
@@mapelberg There are smaller, portion-size tins of mackerel that's already shredded for use on bread, maybe people started eating it for breakfast when those became available? Or possibly the other way around, I guess 😂
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.
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'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
Yeah i heard the same story many times.. gaming with americans and the subject was brought up.. Anyway, i thought it was a class thing for a while.. but now idk..
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
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?
From my experience when it comes to winter, I have spent many winters in Ireland. Now you can get a little bit of snow and ice specially inland coastal areas. Don’t see much of it. In the early morning, it can be from zero to -5 Celsius once the Sun comes up it will go into the process where it could be +4 Celsius to +9 Celsius. You get a lot of wind and rain. This makes Irish winters cold because when you’re damp and wet, it is difficult to maintain your body heat. It is the dampness that’s the issue. However, for the last 17 years, I’ve been living in the Rocky Mountains in Canada and it can get cold. However, it’s a dry cold. The snow is not wet and damp and slushy at least not until it starts melting. It’s powdery and dry. You just have to put on many layers as the temperatures can fluctuate. Temperatures in Alberta conflate from +5 to -35 Celsius in the same day. You do have to be careful and make sure you have your layers on because it can be sunny out and you can even get sunburn specially from the reflection of the snow and it could be -20 and just not feel like it.. Now when the wind is open and you have windchill well, that can change the temperature for anywhere from -10 to -20° depending on the direction the wind is coming from. Northern winds tend to be the coldest. so if you have a day of -25 and then the windchill can make it feel like -45 that can be cold, but I still don’t feel as cold as a damp, wet Irish winter. Here in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, the people live in defiance of Winter. I’m probably spend almost as much time outside in the winter as they would in the summer. Very outdoorsy people. I have been out in -25 weather with the drinks sitting in the snow to cool them down a fire going and we’re barbecuing up food sitting there on some deck chairs like we were down at the beach or something.
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.
I'd get not wanting to leave your baby outside in general, but if you can do it in the summer you can do it in the winter. As babies in strollers aren't moving they need to be dressed warm enough to not get cold even when outside for a while (say for a long walk), so then staying outside sleeping won't really affect them temperature wise.
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. 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸
If we didn't take off our shoes inside, 2/4 of the year the floors would be full of slush, mud and dirt, 1/4 of the year snow that melts into water and molds the floor. In the summer it might work, but it would bring all kinds of dirt inside. The dog is dried before being brought inside, and it really depends on the hair how much, for example, sand is carried inside. Usually after swimming, I leave the dog outside to dry so that the sand stuck to the fur drips out.
About sleeping outside: I often throw a mattress on the porch and just sleep there. Waking up in fresh air is just great. As long as it does not get into the negatives, a normal pillow and blanket is more than enough.
The only exception to the no shoes inside is during celebrations when people are wearing dress shoes that basically touch the ground only for the duration you walk from car to the front door. but even then if the party is small and really just within family, it might be more usual to be relaxed and without shoes. But with acquiantances, it is more polite not to... be on socked feet like you'd be on your own house. And naturally during winter time at least women leave their outdoor shoes off and then put on their heels etc once coming inside. It really is... situational and depends on place, company, habit and weather
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.
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 🇳🇴
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.
Pebermø = Pepper-virgin (female) and Pebersvend = Pepper-bachelor (male) It is common to give a pepper grinder as birthday gift if unmarried. It’s a very old tradition maybe the 16th century when exotic spice came to Europe since traveling spice dealer (male) often was unmarried.
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 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.
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
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.
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 🏠.
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 ^^,
I'm American and live on the north border. The US drinking age is 21 so me and my friends couldn't wait to turn 19 so we can party in Canada. When she said its not normal at all I question if she's actually American lol
Can't have shoes inside in the North. Maybe if we lived south, but in the North it rains alot and it's winter 6 months of the year. Snow, rain and mud. Shoes inside is an invitation to a fight.
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 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.
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...
Regarding personal space and neighboring. I've lived in all kind of constellations, apartment, house, row house/terraced house. The latter I experience way more neighboring than the other two. House is kind of self explanatory, you might not even share lawn-border with a neighbor so there's gonna be very few occasions you kind of see each your closest neighbor even. When it comes to apartment, it's like, you don't have a choice if you gonna bump into a neighbor or not, and none like surprises like that :) Bus lanes, the meme were in Sweden during covid-19 recommendations, "keep ~2 meter distance to avoid spreading covid-19", where the response were -"covid-19, bringing people closer" :)
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.
Regarding drinking age in Denmark: You can buy beer, wine and cider at 16, hard liquor at 18, but there is no minimum drinking age... you can drink alcohol from age 1 if your parents/guardians allow it.
I get that we’re divided about the shoe difference, mainly cause in Scandinavia (as she said) there is too much bad weather and I would not like that inside my house But I also can’t fathom in any country that you would actually like to walk into a home with shoes on, they carry so much dirt and shit it just don’t make sense to me
In most Norwegian kindergartners, all the children are taking their nap outside in a stroller. To let the children sleep inside in kindergartners is very rare. And in a lot of kindergartners the children spend most of the day outside. In the summer, all day, even the meals. If close to nature, they might take a walk in the woods. A long walk.
I am soo pleased to see that north Germany is represented for once. I am from the north aswell and we see ourselves more being nordic than part of the rest of Germany. Which isn't surprising, across my street is a historic border stone and we were part of denmark at former times.
I'm from Singapore and I need personal space, so jealous of Sweden culture lol. In Singapore there's crowd everywhere, someone will sit next to you on a bus and there are people standing all around you 😭
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.
Snus is a tobaco poutch or loose weight (grounded tobaco. We do have the nicotine pouches. The nicotine pouches deliver the nicotine faster and gets spent faster than a pouch of snus. Snus allso comes in loose weight (grounded tobaco) with this snus you have to bake for example a ball with your fingers to put under your lip. And yes snus in this form is from Sweden. Most licorice eaters in the world Sweden, Finnland and Netherland.
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.
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.
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 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...
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.
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.
I remember that story. It made its way into norwegian newspapers
@@tealkerberus748 Might have its roots in something like that. However there have been studies made since then which seem to support that it does have benefits, and certainly it doesn't harm the kids. Most Danes I know do it because they find their young kids sleep better outside than inside, and any possible health benefits is just a bonus.
@@ladythalia227 Me too, it actually were a tipping point for me. I decided I had seen what I wanted in USA and have never been there since. In the three times over a few years I were there experienced to hear multiple gunshots in urban settings, had two very unpleasant encounters with police while driving and in both cases they overstepped their legal boundaries and scared the crap out of me despite having done nothing wrong, except maybe spent money on visiting their nation. On my very first visit I spent over 3 hours in que for passport control upon arrival. Not exactly the most pleasant welcome after having flown a long hauler. Anyway, I have now been in over 40 nations and no where else have i heard gun shots or had bad encounters with police.
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 doesn't 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.
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.
So you dont value your teeth
@@Deehydrateyour teeth is the last thing to worry about when and if you have tobacco nicotine pouches while only nicotine is better than the mixed ones
I had a Norwegian neighbour once and she gave me one of hers. She didn't think much of it. It wasnt until AFTER the fact that she told me it could feel strong cus it was a lvl 5 that she uses. My head was fucking spining for the next 45 minutes x'd
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
Yeah. Because it’s so comfy to be warm and comfortable while the air around you is freezing.
Also because it's scientifically prooven that you sleep better in cold enviroments
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.
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
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.
this behavior is normal for people who live in regions wich are not urban.
@@lissandrafreljord7913
I love how you make up random shit about our countries. Spend less time on the internet and actually visit isntead of being a vegetable. Dutch and native germans are very welcoming and usually very generous people. And saying no food culture while you some nordic who eat rotten fish and have No internationally known dishes is funny. Well aside from rotten fish
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.
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.
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.
@@spookysabbath That sounds a lot like what we in Finland do a bunch with Estonia. Nowadays I think it's not that much cheaper there though.
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!!!!
The weather thing is that the colder it gets the dryer it gets also. I am from northern germany and i once talked to someone who was from Siberia and he said that minus 20 degrees in Siberia felt not as bad as minus five in germany. THats also the difference between continental and maritime climate. The closer you get to the sea the more wind and humidity you get the more you will feel the cold.
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😂
@@elite_rock_god2292man Norwegian is easily to understand as a swede but god damn I had a hard time understanding Swedish people from the south and in Denmark I couldn’t understand shit, but maybe that’s just me cause my friends didn’t have a problem understanding em
@banana6837 Norwegian is closer to a swedish accent then diffrent language 😂 Danish however is a god damn mystery.
@@elite_rock_god2292 exactly😂
@banana6837 saw in some statistics few years ago that Danish kids learns to speak about 30%slower then rest of the world, probably cause it makes no fucking sense😂
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
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 😊
DJUNGELVRÅL 🫶🫶 Ate like 2 bags when I was on a 20+ hour bus ride lol
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.
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'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 😅
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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.
@@Melodeath00Also the worst thing to do in the cold is to get sweaty = wet. Water and cold dont do well together, that is how you die.
If the locals are worried you're doing something wrong, not something to brag about
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 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 grew up in Berlin and still live here, I have never seen someone leave their child outside while eating inside themselves. Neither in the quieter parts of the city/suburbs nor in the busy parts. Are you German or did you just see somebody do it that was maybe not German? I mean a Scandinavian can look the same as a German bar mannerisms and clothing.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
Just one note on the Jante Law. It doesn't mean you aren't allowed to be proud of your achievements (many non-Scandinavian people think that's what it means); it just means that you shouldn't gloat or shove it in other people's faces how much better you are. Still, you're absolutely allowed to be proud of your achievements and celebrate them if that's what you want. Also, just in case the presence of the word 'law' gives the wrong impression, it's not an actual law, more like a social guideline.
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 rather keep my shoes on, why would i want to walk on a supposed clean floor that has been mobbed with sweatsocks all day by all kinds of people with my socks or barefoot? i had my period though where i was always on barefoot inside and out, but here it's normal to keep your shoes on.
there's doormats at the door, but unless you come out of the snow or something nobody really uses them.
@@supersilverhazeroker You feet will also smell more if you keep them in shoes all day. Modern shoes are usually also too small for our feet, in other words it's not healthy for your feet to keep shoes on for so many hours per day.
@@Mycenaea i walk in lems primal 2's
I actually missed you all 😢
What a heartwarming feeling when I saw that you posted a video ❤️
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.
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
Licorice-flavored sweets are excellent, I'm addicted in HARIBO bought in Scandinavia.
Great.... Now I'm really craving licorice. Thanks. 😄
4:12 I have a little question for America cuz I'm from Denmark and we normally take our shoes off when we are going inside someone's house but the floors are dirty but if they already begin like take it off their shoes when they walk inside the house the floss will always be clean in Denmark you just have to vacuum like once in a week.😊
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.
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.
Northumberland England: We have smoked kippers at breakfast. Not as often as was traditional but it’s a great start. Yum!
-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)
Absolutely, i have Canadian freinds who found it cold here in Denmark but it was only -11 that day. The humidity however was through the roof.
That danish girl is so nice I almost fell in love! 😍
we dont have a drinking age in denmark... only a buying age you are allowed to drink at what ever age your guardian/parrents allow. usually kids at christmas get nisseøl (elf beer) it contains around 2% alcohol so its not a strong beer but definetly not alcohol free. we also give our kids cider in summer around 1% alcohol
Og nu det snart nisseøl tid igen yay. Kg's er bare gode.
I'm Swedish and eating fish for breakfast seems really odd to me. The most common breakfast food here is filmjölk (a thick, fermented milk similar to yoghurt but less acidic) with cereal, maybe oat porridge with milk, or (open) sandwiches and a boiled egg. When I was a kid I often had hot rosehip soup (from powder, not made fresh) for breakfast. We do eat pickled herring and tinned mackerel in tomato sauce, but usually not for breakfast? Any other Swedes, what is your most common breakfast food?
I agree. I mostly eat cereal with milk/filmjölk/yoghurt or porridge and/or sandwiches with ham, Swedish caviar, cheese, and marmalade.
I feel like, however, that the reason I don't have mackerel in tomato sauce or smoked salmon for breakfast has more to do with not wanting to eat the whole package and also not wanting to go hunt for a right sized container to keep the leftovers. So I tend to eat things where you can take a little bit and then leave the rest.
I can definitely believe that other people eat mackerel, salmon, herring, or fish paste for breakfast.
@@mapelberg There are smaller, portion-size tins of mackerel that's already shredded for use on bread, maybe people started eating it for breakfast when those became available? Or possibly the other way around, I guess 😂
They are all so pretty and I really love Julias hair it looks so smooth!!
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.
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?
Rude@@SonnyKnutson
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
Yeah i heard the same story many times.. gaming with americans and the subject was brought up.. Anyway, i thought it was a class thing for a while.. but now idk..
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
“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 💓💓💓”
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?
Even worse i know 3 weird hippie women (all fatherless) who walk barefoot in summer in the middle of city
From my experience when it comes to winter, I have spent many winters in Ireland. Now you can get a little bit of snow and ice specially inland coastal areas. Don’t see much of it. In the early morning, it can be from zero to -5 Celsius once the Sun comes up it will go into the process where it could be +4 Celsius to +9 Celsius. You get a lot of wind and rain. This makes Irish winters cold because when you’re damp and wet, it is difficult to maintain your body heat. It is the dampness that’s the issue. However, for the last 17 years, I’ve been living in the Rocky Mountains in Canada and it can get cold. However, it’s a dry cold. The snow is not wet and damp and slushy at least not until it starts melting. It’s powdery and dry. You just have to put on many layers as the temperatures can fluctuate. Temperatures in Alberta conflate from +5 to -35 Celsius in the same day. You do have to be careful and make sure you have your layers on because it can be sunny out and you can even get sunburn specially from the reflection of the snow and it could be -20 and just not feel like it.. Now when the wind is open and you have windchill well, that can change the temperature for anywhere from -10 to -20° depending on the direction the wind is coming from. Northern winds tend to be the coldest. so if you have a day of -25 and then the windchill can make it feel like -45 that can be cold, but I still don’t feel as cold as a damp, wet Irish winter. Here in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, the people live in defiance of Winter. I’m probably spend almost as much time outside in the winter as they would in the summer. Very outdoorsy people. I have been out in -25 weather with the drinks sitting in the snow to cool them down a fire going and we’re barbecuing up food sitting there on some deck chairs like we were down at the beach or something.
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.
Really interesting to hear the perspective of everybody keep up those good video's !
OMG. Never thought that german girl could be such a beauty.
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.
I'd get not wanting to leave your baby outside in general, but if you can do it in the summer you can do it in the winter. As babies in strollers aren't moving they need to be dressed warm enough to not get cold even when outside for a while (say for a long walk), so then staying outside sleeping won't really affect them temperature wise.
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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If we didn't take off our shoes inside, 2/4 of the year the floors would be full of slush, mud and dirt, 1/4 of the year snow that melts into water and molds the floor. In the summer it might work, but it would bring all kinds of dirt inside.
The dog is dried before being brought inside, and it really depends on the hair how much, for example, sand is carried inside. Usually after swimming, I leave the dog outside to dry so that the sand stuck to the fur drips out.
About sleeping outside:
I often throw a mattress on the porch and just sleep there.
Waking up in fresh air is just great.
As long as it does not get into the negatives, a normal pillow and blanket is more than enough.
The only exception to the no shoes inside is during celebrations when people are wearing dress shoes that basically touch the ground only for the duration you walk from car to the front door. but even then if the party is small and really just within family, it might be more usual to be relaxed and without shoes. But with acquiantances, it is more polite not to... be on socked feet like you'd be on your own house. And naturally during winter time at least women leave their outdoor shoes off and then put on their heels etc once coming inside. It really is... situational and depends on place, company, habit and weather
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.
Thailand is definitely humid especially in its rainy season
@nununa7963 the thing is, Thailand heat feels soooooooo mutch more dry the Denmark.
I do not Know About the diffrence in the rainy season.
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 🇳🇴
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.
Pebermø = Pepper-virgin (female) and Pebersvend = Pepper-bachelor (male) It is common to give a pepper grinder as birthday gift if unmarried. It’s a very old tradition maybe the 16th century when exotic spice came to Europe since traveling spice dealer (male) often was unmarried.
That sounds like a recipe for having children when unmarried…
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'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.
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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.
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
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.
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
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 🏠.
You have border guards between states?!?!
I love the Northern winter. Nothing like going outside for 10 minutes and having your beard freeze.
Dark & Light angel from Germany 😂
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 🙂
I'm American and live on the north border. The US drinking age is 21 so me and my friends couldn't wait to turn 19 so we can party in Canada. When she said its not normal at all I question if she's actually American lol
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
Can't have shoes inside in the North. Maybe if we lived south, but in the North it rains alot and it's winter 6 months of the year. Snow, rain and mud. Shoes inside is an invitation to a fight.
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 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.
Minus 10 degrees Celsius with rain. That is a miracle.
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.
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...
Regarding personal space and neighboring. I've lived in all kind of constellations, apartment, house, row house/terraced house. The latter I experience way more neighboring than the other two.
House is kind of self explanatory, you might not even share lawn-border with a neighbor so there's gonna be very few occasions you kind of see each your closest neighbor even.
When it comes to apartment, it's like, you don't have a choice if you gonna bump into a neighbor or not, and none like surprises like that :)
Bus lanes, the meme were in Sweden during covid-19 recommendations, "keep ~2 meter distance to avoid spreading covid-19", where the response were -"covid-19, bringing people closer" :)
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!
In the US people cross to other states with different drinking ages or less taxes so cheaper tax. It's really common.
Tobacco pouches are common in America. Particularly with military personnel.
Regarding drinking age in Denmark: You can buy beer, wine and cider at 16, hard liquor at 18, but there is no minimum drinking age... you can drink alcohol from age 1 if your parents/guardians allow it.
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
I get that we’re divided about the shoe difference, mainly cause in Scandinavia (as she said) there is too much bad weather and I would not like that inside my house
But I also can’t fathom in any country that you would actually like to walk into a home with shoes on, they carry so much dirt and shit it just don’t make sense to me
In most Norwegian kindergartners, all the children are taking their nap outside in a stroller. To let the children sleep inside in kindergartners is very rare.
And in a lot of kindergartners the children spend most of the day outside. In the summer, all day, even the meals. If close to nature, they might take a walk in the woods. A long walk.
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
9:25 why the surprised face 😂
I am soo pleased to see that north Germany is represented for once. I am from the north aswell and we see ourselves more being nordic than part of the rest of Germany. Which isn't surprising, across my street is a historic border stone and we were part of denmark at former times.
I'm from Singapore and I need personal space, so jealous of Sweden culture lol. In Singapore there's crowd everywhere, someone will sit next to you on a bus and there are people standing all around you 😭
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.
Public transport is common only takes 11 hours to get anywhere with it
Snus is a tobaco poutch or loose weight (grounded tobaco. We do have the nicotine pouches. The nicotine pouches deliver the nicotine faster and gets spent faster than a pouch of snus. Snus allso comes in loose weight (grounded tobaco) with this snus you have to bake for example a ball with your fingers to put under your lip. And yes snus in this form is from Sweden. Most licorice eaters in the world Sweden, Finnland and Netherland.
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.
Ein sehr schönes Video 😂👍🏻 Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪
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.
11:05 US has nany swedish people living there. Though not sure if its easily available or just in city stores.
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 :)