Brit Reacts to 5 Things You Should NOT Do Around Swedish People
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Waiting for the Bus after the Corona restriction was removed and we could leave the 3 meters to return to our 5 meter distance was so nice :)
😂😂😂
Yeah soo true ;)
Where do you live? I wanna move to a place like that :p ;)
@@theforgottenmovies3265 Sweden :)
Not all shops have the 'number-system', but some have, as do pharmacy, doctors, postoffices/or where you get your delivery, banks, and also bigger shops with a lot of customers wanting advice and so on. So instead of always feeling like you have got in line in the slowest queue, you have got your number and can relax until they are calling out your number (or nowadays you can get it on your phone)
Yes, I agree. You can just relax and wait for your turn and don't have to stand in a line-up. If there is many people/numbers ahead of you you can step out and have a smoke 😂
I think we need to mention that Swedish people are obsessed with queues. We queue for everything, not only in shops.
maybe just me but getting a number and being called is so nice. queues can be so tight, but if you have a number tag, you can stand as far away from others as you want. It was nice during corona because then you could fake cough in your arm and you had more space. Now I feel some people standing so close to me again.
Jantelagen isn't a written law, it's a cultural thing.
Exactly and is also frown upon by swedes. It's a means to put ppl down and not something we aspire to uphold. We just don't like ppl bragging.
@@hawkeye1982it is nothing about putting people down, as i see it it is more about keeping egos in check.
And it's not only a Swedish thing. Jante itself is a fictional place in Denmark from a book by the Danish/Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose. The book was written in 1933 and it's title was ”En flyktning krysser sitt spor”, which is Norwegian for ”A refugee crosses his track”.
I believe most people get it backwards. If you apply the wordings towards a opponent, it is a peptalk. 🤔😉😊
Swedes have no culture.
You walk in to the shop, look for the machine and press the button. Then you get a ticket with a number. You look at the cashiers disk for a sign that shows what number they are serving at the moment, and then you wait. Every time a new number comes up, you can here a pling or a buzz. When your number shows, you just go to the cashier.
The ticket number system is instead of forming a line to the cashier. You can stand whereever while you wait.
The bring your own booze thing is mostly for younger people since people have less money when they are young (university students etc.). For more "adult gatherings" like a dinner party when people are 30 and older (ish..), guests do not need to bring their own alcohol. 😅 Although many guests bring a bottle of wine as a Thank You for the dinner.
I think it differce between familys, in my family (swedish since more generations than I care to look up) we always bring our own drinks even the adults.
The "number system" is the simple ticking system with a "now serving number X", it just is so common over here that we instinctively look for it.
(You probably have encountered it at a hospital, dentist, and other places where people are expected to lounge about quite a bit (or being unable to stand while waiting) - we just use it as an alternative to normal queues a lot)
I like you Dwayne, you seem like a very sensible guy! And also, you are very Swedish in your way of thinking 😊
I was going to say the same Dwayne can relax, he won't upset anyone here! 😃
As a swede i can confirm this is true
I concur to that.🙂
@@anettem8775 me too!
I agree, he will blend in easy and fun to hang out with 😊
Jantelagen/Janteloven was from a book about small-town mentality in the fictional Danish town of Jante, by a Norwegian author.
Aksel Sandemose who wrote janteloven was a Danish author born in Nykøbing Mors.
@@britthelenbakken819 Hus nane was Aksel, not Axel and he changes his name to Sandemose. Both Norwegian names, moved to Norway and wrote his books in Norwegian. Participated in the Norwegian resistance. He is considered Norweguan, something he obviously wanted himself.
He didn't explain it all very well.. We have a system, if you need to pick up a package at the post office or a prescription at the pharmacy, for example, that you then take a number slip and wait for your number to appear on a monitor. This is a way to avoid queuing. But this does not apply in stores, where you have to seek out the staff for help. Sometimes they come up and ask if you need help, but usually not. This is not because they don't want to help, but it is again a way of showing respect. We Swedes want to shop in peace and quiet. Shopping abroad, for example in Turkey, is a pain! When people are on me at once when I come in and I feel watched, then I turn and walk out without shopping. Another thing that, for me at least, is super annoying is if things in a store aren't price marked. I NEVER buy things without a price tag. Because that means I have to go and ask what things cost. It's a pain!! 😂
I'm not sure if any of these types of videos ever touch upon this, but one thing that I'd say is super cemented in swedish mentality is "svensk-biten", literally "the Swedish bite". And it refers to the last of anything on a dinner table, fika table or wherever there's shared food. Swedes do not, I repeat, DO NOT take the last bite of any cake or the last spoon of any dish, be it food or dessert. But I'm not sure if foreigners actually notice this or if it's extremely cultural. It's very subtle.This "rule" is closely connected to Jantelagen. It doesn't really apply to kids.
Edit: The more I think about this I realize I even do this with my immediate family..! That's how normative it is🤯
Very well explained and 100% true!
We even have a special term for taking the last bite. "Tabberas" or "Tabbe", as in "nu tar jag tabberas på fårfiolen".
@@matseklundh8241 tack 🫶🏽
This sometimes leads to ridiculous situations where people take half of the last piece, then someone else takes half of the half, then a third person takes half of the half of the half...
Soo true!! Don't EVER do this!
Going to a club or a bar with close friends for drinks it is common to let the others know "I get this round"(of drinks). And you can expect the friends to do the same back. It is not important to spend the exact same amount of money. Given all has a paid job, but if one friend is known to be a student and not have much money he/she will not be expected to do that back. Or if all are students this will probably not happen.
getting the number is a great system, you don't have to stand in a line, you can do other stuff while waiting
Swedes don't think anyone is more worth then anyone and everyone deserves equal space. that's so diffrent from being "better" or "worse" etc. Achievements are great, but you're still equal as a person
I love the number system, its so easy and fair.
The number thing is basically just a queuing system without the physical queue. It's more efficient when there's more than a few people and you can relax, walk around looking at stuff in the store/pharmacy you're in as the numbers go by and once it gets close to your number you can get ready to walk up to the counter/till that the number is called from. It's just a queuing system where you have a little piece of paper in your hand with a number that tells you what position in the queue you are instead of physically queuing up and having to stand there to keep your spot in the queue.
In Norway during Covid the joke went "Why 2 meter personal space? We're used to 5 meters!"
The number system is especially common in places like banks, police stations (when applying for a passport for example) etc. Yes, some larger shops do have them as well but most don't. At a place like a bank or a police station is it a great system. Instead of standing in a line for like 30 minutes (yes can be even longer than that at busy times) you just take a number ticket and go sit down in a waiting area. You can watch what number is being serviced at a board and when your number is getting close, you start paying attention and when your number is up, you go to the assigned cashier. A relaxed way of queueing while sitting down rather stand standing in a line :)
I love the fact that We can spread out and don't have to stand Too close to Each other. And we don't have to worry about people cutting in line either.
Only thing to be awear of is that if you miss Your number the people at the Counter will not go back to a previous number later usually. So instead you will have to get a new number and start all over again...
it's very few stores that has ticket systems like that and even those that does aren't that strict that they would straight up refuse you service and/or ignore you just you don't have a tickets if there's no other costumers around,
many even skips just to ask the clerks a quick question without even taking a ticket when there's a bunch of people waiting and usually that's fine if it's just like a quick "where can i find this" or something and than they dip, altho some gets a lil bit aggrivated by it
Haha jantelagen its not a Law.
And that ticket thing he talks about are long from many stores that have, only like farmacy, hospitals and some stores there yoi pick up your packages.
Instead of a line , u get your number and can sit down til your numbers up. 😊
One thing I can say about "showing your wealth" is that, you can have a nice Porsche and a nice house and sure, some will look at that and go "ugh" in a jealous kinda way, but as long as it's done in a tasteful way then most people will probably just go "oh, good for them!". But if you do like, over-the-top bling bling house with large lion statues, marble wall around your property, fenced gate, purple-cyan porsche and lamborghini etc etc, then people will probably react more negatively.
just to clarify: number machines are mostly seen in just pharmacies and local medical centers and such. Haven't seen them in regular stores as i can recall.
My Ica has them at the entrance shop (förbutiken) / package pickup (postombud). During covid they put a digital display in the window, in addition to the regular one inside, so people could wait outside for their turn.
My local Specsavers also has a number machine.
The cueing “note”ticket” is most common in governmental or hospital places. Like at the pharmacy, hospital or banks and so on. Not your regular store. Only places where it would be Extra extra rude if someone would cut I line. There you will find a queue ticket machine/dispenser. If you see a number board/sign, then there will be a queue machine.
The number system is genius if you ask me. But you only see them at the post office, Bank, police and other similar places.
Instead of being stuck in a que for 3-30 minutes or whatever the case might be you can either do other errands during the time, go to the toilet, take out cash at the ATM etc or just go and take a seat at some bench.
They are also common at deli counters, in cafés, drug stores and some other places.
the number system is usally for smaller butiques where your business is mainly behind the counter. meaning you need a cashiers help with info, or placing bets.
the one out is the Kiosk, but they are very few nowadays, standalone kiosks like pressbyrån, its like a small foodstore for on the go items.
but any other kiosk that is attached to a bigger foodstore like Willys, Ica, Coop and so forth (like wallmart, but i guess smaller). if they have a kiosk at the entrance it will have the number system. and its usually there for a quick on the go items. so instead of having to go into the store pick your small items and stand in a queue, you can simply just take a number, sit down if its a long queue and wait. its a very effective system.
places that dont usually have them is gasstations, small individual kiosks. and the big grocery butiques. (however they usually have the system in a smaller parts like a front kiosk, or inside for charkutery, you take a number and wait to order your cheese or specific meats that they cut on place).
a funny thing that went around during corona was people who said like "no, we have to stand 2 meters apart and not 3 meters now.." "like they force us to stand closer" because all the signs said to stand 2 meters apart. so it became like a joke that during the pandemic, that you stood closer than you used to. I think many Swedes understand what I'm trying to convey xD
The number system is practical when you want to preserve privacy. No-one has to wait in line close behind you and listen to what you say in a hospital or police station. Or hear what prescriptions you have.
I always find it funny when we line up even if there's a number system 😂
They guy talking about Jante lagen is Swedish Actor royalty Alexander Skarsgård. He was also in Tarzan and Big little lies. He is the older brother of Gustav Skarsgård who plays Floki in Vikings. Alex and Gustaf are older brothers to Bill Skarsgård who plays Pennywise in IT. They also have a famous father, Stellan Skarsgård who has been in many Hollywood productions for example Mamma Mia, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Avengers.
We love to complain about slush as a form of small talk.
We also complain about people that are complaining about the weatherA LOT
Regarding rounds of drinks it's based on where you go.. at a bar it's common that you pay rund by rund, but at a restaurant you have a tab that you pay at the end of the sittning and if you have a close group of friends you just look at the Bill, split it on how many people there are and pay equally to the one who offers to pay the Bill-however it's no biggie if you just say that you pay individually.. then you just go to the server desk and tell them what you ate/drank and pay those things.
For me being with my gf we like to order things that can be shared around the table anyways and just split the bill -or with close friends just go "I take the bill this time and you can take it next time..
The queu system is most for the deli part of the food store, post office or at the drug store.. there are displays in the building that display the number being served and if you have a higher number you can just walk around for a bit and pick up your wares and come back whem your number come closer.. If you changed your mind you can just ignore the number (or be a polite swede and give the number to aomeone else waiting (or leave the ticket on the dispenser for the lucky next person)) ..you don't need the ticket to get the other wares at the market -just for specific stuff that's sold ocer the counter
You would take a number at the bank or a pharmacy for instance, So you are able to have a seat relax and wait, instead of queuing for 20 minutes. So this occurs only at certain places, obviously you're not expected to take a number at a clothes store, department store, grossary store and so on.. The exception would be if your returning a product or have a complaint or similar!
The number system is more common in public systems like the library or healthcare. But is always used by the fishstore and deli section in grocery stores. You offen pick your ticket and then make an assumption how long the wait is and you go pick wedgies or diary's while waiting
Regarding "picking up the bill and splitting" versus "rounds" we do have both, really. If you are a smaller group going out for drinks together it is quite common to take turns ordering. Maybe I bring in a round of shots, next person orders some coctails and the third person buys a bottle of bubbly with 4-5 glasses and so on.
But if you go out for DINNER, you normally want to split the bill afterwards. So one person pays the bill and saves the receipt and the rest "swish" (transfer money via a phone app) their part to the one paying. Sometimes you just split it equally regardless what you ate/drank but often people check the receipt and do a quick calculation of their part. "I had the beef and 2 beers plus a coffee, that would be ~470-ish kronor so I'll just swish you 500".
So there are like ticket dispensers in apothecaries and service stations so if you need help you get a ticket and then wait for your number to be called so you can get help with whatever. This is usually only for places where you want service and it's intended for customer service, not like in a grocery store. You don't need a ticket to pay for your groceries😅. If you need to get medicine from a recipe(like from a doctor), there is a booth in the apothecary (seperate from the checkout) where you can get help and there are those ticket dispensers there. If there is noone else there and the staff seems available you can just go up to them and ask if they can help you. Swedes are big on being courteous, if you just ask politely they'll answer politely back.
The numbers system is very practical. You just walk in, take your number and wait. Then when it's your turn they call out your number and at least in pharmacy and bank offices it's showed on a display above the cash register.
You'll fit in like a glove already! Western area especially, tailor made winner combo: Göteborg, Trollhättan, Vänersborg & Lysekil!
In sweden if you sit in a buss beside someone in the buss even if there are other free seats then ppl think you are wierd and ppl can even be mad. So if there is a two seat somewhere in the bus you should sit there and not beside anyone else. If you have questions just ask. These vidios is so funny for a swede :)
Will try to describe all five things as best I can.
1. Talking about how good you are all the time can be perceived as boasting and something you don't believe in in many cases. Otherwise, with the jante law, I have got the impression that it is mostly older people who follow. I have never cared about it myself as I think that everyone should be allowed to be exactly who they are.
2. Yes. You usually bring what you want to drink yourself. But at the parties I've been to, it's always been possible to invite someone who doesn't have anything to drink. Just as he says in the video, it happens that you invite a "round" in certain places in Sweden or as we call it "bjuda laget runt". But the most common thing is that you buy what you want to drink yourself when you are out at a bar.
3. Yes. You must take off your shoes when you enter. Now, not everyone is as particular about it, but it's no fun having to clean up after someone who came in with dirty shoes.
4. Personal space can probably be very different from where you are in Sweden. Here where I live, people usually don't keep their distance in the queue. I didn't care before, but after the pandemic, I feel bad about shopping in normal stores, but prefer stores where you scan yourself.
5. Yes. You should not go ahead in the queue. But the thing with tags with numbers is something that only some stores have here. Mostly pharmacies or smaller kiosks. So when the number you have been given appears on a display, all you have to do is go to the till.
If you pay for a "round" in Sweden, you'd be broke.
Not me either only in drugstore..
Hallo,I’m from Sweden too 🇸🇪❤️
Det var som sjutton . Ja mä!
Hallå där 😊
What Stefan said about the service person pretending not to see you until you got your numbered ticket is SO true. They will pretend not to see or hear you. You don’t exist until your number is up.
we inherited the Jante law from...............Denmark! 😂🤣. We love Denmark, but we don´t brag about it!
The ticket system is so you dont have to wait in line you can stand where ever you like and when it is your number then you then it is your turn. Really good system dont you hav that in england?
of the clips he shows, this one is worth adding
Alexander Skarsgård Is Too Swedish To Be Cocky
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one of his brothers is this one
Bill Skarsgård Teaches Colbert The 'Pennywise Smile'
ruclips.net/video/hW_2yLKqqLo/видео.html
another actor from the same school as Alex
Joel Kinnaman: Scandinavians Hate Trump
ruclips.net/video/kMBtz-wNnAU/видео.html
with number slips, most are printed out when you take one, so then the cashier sees that a new number has been taken and what applies to the department
1. mmm yea somewhat true depends where you are and which people you hang around with with swedish sweds yea bragging isn't a good thing but since sweden is very multi culture this days specially in the large cities the dragging thing has increased a lot, people want to buy the most expensive phones/cloths/car brands etc... to stick out and show that they "got money" even tho in the most cases they live above their paygrade which is probably why many sweds are in huge debts,
2. totally depends on the party, young peoples party sure that's totally true, big birthdays and celebrations not so much, and at bars 90% of the time you buy your own drink of you ask your friend if s(he) wants something while your getting a drink and you dont care that much about getting it back or not,
i'd say it's very normal for sweds to be "i pay the drink this time, maybe you pay the next or lunch sometime meh it works out in the end"
3. everyone everywhere should take off their shoes while inside! so respektless to drag shit into someones home regardless of where you are.
4. true true, we sweds tend to like our own space which makes us rather unconfortable when american friends and such from other countries try to force themselfs on us not just physical but also by like randomly "love you, hugs hugs" and such, had that from so many friends thats not from sweden and they just seem to have a hard time to understand and accept that it isn't something that we're use to and puts us in a rather akward situation.
5. i would say that's 99% untrue and for the other 1% well most countries has a ticket system for costumer support in stores.
FYI: 99% of Swedes will tell you that "You don't need to take off your shoes".
But we will JUDGE you heavily if you dont.
The ticket thing is quite simple but still annoying to me as a native. Simply if there is lots of people needing help to get stuff behind a desk from a clerc, you tage a small ticket that holds a number. All the others who are waiting with their ticket to get their number called and when it finally is your number it is you turn. This is one form of Jante-Lagen personified, you are not supposed to think you are more special and thus think you can get faster service, be humble at know your spot. Kind of. In other words, respect is found in this practice. 😊
I feel I need to describe the ticket scenario a little further. It is used in a spot where many customers can forage the wares in the desc behind the glass in the grocery store at the same time, that is caotic and thus the ticket thing creates order in that chaos, and when it is your time to get service you have had time to decide what you want. The ticket thing is also implimented at the pharmacutical and at most bakeries just to name a couple of more specific places. Am I helping a little? I explain better verbally than in writing.
About space…. before corona, it was 2 meters, then we got restrictions so 2 became 5 meters. So it wasn’t all bad with corona. 😅
BYOB =Bring your own BOOZE - IS just being polite
Jantelagen is the most holy thing we have here i sweden and every other thing he tells is so spot on it makes my cheeks red over how true it is 😂😂
Nobody over 25 brings their own alcohol 😂😂😂
Guess it's more at like the police or goverment building. If you go in to like H&m or a regular store there is no number system
About the number system. When it comes to for example getting your packages from the store you are more likely to find a "Number queue system." It all depends on the area that you're in and how much people you expect to be in the store at the same time. It's so that the employees can focus on one person at a time and give everything to them for the moment. (This only applies to the smaller packages areas in the store or if you want like actual Swedish Fika, or something like a hotdog.)
Though if you are inside the actual store you can go up to any employee and as questions or if you need help... well if you manage to find them of course.
Jantelagen is from Denmark
The stories, want you to get a ticket. Soo they can put it in the computer. How many costumes they have.
I reccomend you some older swedish movies. There are some very funny with the swedish kind of humour in:
Vi hade iallafall tur med vädret
Sunes sommar
Kopps
Jalla jalla
And one newer:
Suedi
And one serious:
Sameblod (samiblood)
Hi😊 im from Sweden 🇸🇪 ❤first
Modern American women: "I rate myself a 10, and my body count is over 9000".
Swedish man: "Get the Hel out of my country".
Jantelagen in a nutshell. Never brag.
Sorry / bragging is not ok anyway. If U do - U pay for everybody!
Wait does he mean that USians don't change into gym shoes??? 😳
I think booze is pretty cheap in the US.
Here in Sweden it feels like everything is so expensive right now.
@@theforgottenmovies3265 japp det är det.
Swedes are just shy canadians
Splitting the Bill I believe is European!
Jantelagen is dead ! Has been for the last 30 Years!
Jantelow mensile you are not better than the crowd
Janteloven is Norwegian
Well, it was a norwegian, Aksel Sandemose who grew up in Denmark . . . 😉
i love this guy but hes not right in about 60%
It can be very interesting when they made this kind of videos about another country. The problem with this is that you only get to know what it is like in the particular place in Sweden that he has been to. Because it can differ greatly depending on where you are in Sweden. I live in Karlstad and when they talk about how it is in Sweden from a Stockholm perspective, there is a lot that doesn't match how it is here where I live. But this video, I can actually agree with a lot more.
3 TINGNS I HAV NOT SIN MENI ON GOTLEND SO
The nummer system are in lots of shops apoteks hospital. Systembolag mm when you Come in you take a nummer from The mashine .you can se on the wall what nummer they are Helping or served.just wait for your nummer and then its you.if you dont take a nummer you Will never be helped.
The Law of Jante!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
Swish (payment)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment)