Raggare - A Swedish sub culture
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2023
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I am an American, I own a 1970 Dodge Dart 4 door....when I move to Sweden and bring it with me, I will become a Raggare.
As a finnish raggar and an ex-member of Åbo Raggare i can proudly say that when i take out my "raggarbil", i drive slowly on purpose even though my car is mostly(🤣) functional, and not an EPA-tractor 🤣
Also, everything said in this video is true. We are loud, annoying, and we do it on purpose! 😂 At least in Finland Raggare are a combination of a punkrocker and a greaser, but everyone has their own personal style and taste in music so we are very hard to categorize 😅
Epa was originally the name of a discount department store chain and was an abbreviation of Enhets Pris Aktiebolaget. And when the word Epa was associated with cheap, the cars that were converted into cheap tractors began to be called Epa tractors. The formal name of these converted cars is a-tractor.
As an American, "Grease" is Broadway, Rogers and Hammerstein. When foreign people tell us Americans what they love about America, we think they are talking about their own culture, not ours. If you think about the Fallout series, we have no bunkers. We do not hide under tables. It is very interesting to see your world through a different lens
It is always good to see others perspective
As much as I love to "rag" on you guys, I can only think of black metal from Ozzfest like "Ringleader" - Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons since you Swedish greasers gave us Volbeat
I love how the music he used as an example would be considered "Fighting words" by a lot of Raggare XD
Best video yet 😁
Thank you, glad you liked it
EPA is abbreviation for( Enhetsprisaktiebolaget) the company of unit price.
A department store chain that stood for low prices in Sweden, Norway and Denmarka
In Swedish terminology, an EPA tractor is an older passenger car, sometimes also a truck, that has been converted into an agricultural machine.
In the 50s and 60s, these started to be used by young people because they sat unused on the farm when the parents bought real tractors.
Because the young people did not have a driver's license could drive these when they turned 15 since it was a tractor.
It is still a small exception in Swedish traffic and the rules change, but the principle is that it can only be driven at 30km/hour.
Raggare is an old name for someone who parties and seeks sexual contact with someone
Thank you for the explanation
Raggarbrudar are the best!
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I would say that the ones you see driving shiny well-polished American cars are the original raggare, who started out as raggare in the 60s, 70s and 80s but who today have retained their interest in cars, many of the cars you see have been imported to Sweden as wreck and has since been renovated to mint condition in Sweden, most 50s Americans you see were not in Sweden in the 50s 😂
Im an old Raggare from Sweden.. The old school of us. You got couple things switched around.. The youth aka epa drivers is by "us" only conciderd as teens whith an intrest in cars.. When i joind in a carclub aka raggarclub way back in the day it was as a prospect.I had to ern my west and paches. Nothing illegal doh as it often is in mc-gangs. Raggar from the old days only listen to rock n roll both new and old from the 50´s until today. Yes we where fearsome and fought alot- mostly against "punkers". In the late 80´s to the middle of the 90`s a truth was called upon, and the fighting kind of stoped. We do/are rebels aginst serten things in the goverment. Moste of us was middle to low class "blue collor" workers that just wanted to have fun, Dance and party and hook up whith birds. (girls) And if you ever listen to rock n roll, i mean listen to the texts, its mostly about love. The middle generation thats is commonly known as "gen-Z" today dunno what hard work is. We worked hard back in the days and let loose on the weekends. We had no regrets, no hate, no psykological difficultys (it was not invented back then) Today if you ask a genZ to do something that is hard, he probbly needs a manicure and psycolog to talk to. Not all, but hell of alot of them. Theres a diffrence in where in Sweden you are what a raggare is today.. I moved to Dalarna about 20 years ago...and here they listen to old folks dancemusic or rap or something that sounds like machinguns on steroids whith added base. All computer made whith no love in the music. Its awful if one would ask me. ****sorry for my spelling, eng in school was about 40 years ago*****
Leuke video! In zag die 25 km auto’s met traktor plaat geregeld rijden deze zomer in Zweden:). Laatste tijd trouwens veel berichtgeving over criminaliteit/moordcijfers die enorm hoog zijn in Zweden . Krijg je daar wat van mee?
Merk er tot nu toe niks van waar ik woon. Ik heb wel een politie agent vriend die in stockholm werkt. Hij merkt het wel.
As someone from Richmond, Virginia (the capital of the CSA).. I definitely have some mixed feelings about people, especially in another country, sporting the battle flag of the Confederacy.
Also from Richmond, also have similar feelings. The battle flag tends to invoke very strong feelings (one way or another) in the South,and I wonder if some of that nuance got lost in the trans-Atlantic.
I have heard that some groups of people don't like that flag. Why some Raggare use it, i have no idea.
If someone knows please comment.
@@itsstico its to mimic the American redneck culture from America and a big inspiration comes from series and movies like Dukes of hassard and smoking the bandit but also som other media i currently not remembering
Its a rebels flag, anti big government and anti establishment not pro slave. Plantations companies that still exist owned slaves and arguable own more slaves now.
@@itssticoas a "raggare" from late 90's... The flag is used in non racial means, sure some might use it in that way but mainly only used too show people that they are raggare/rebels, which is kinda the same to.
I have one in my bedroom, garage and in or on my car, it's just used for non racial use. Also used too provoke people, we like messin' with people. Screaming gender words, showing our asses, loud music, wild parties and annoying people whilst they sleep.
"Raggarkulturen" is ment for every working man or women, don't matter your sexual prefernces or skin colour, all you have too be is not easily offended because some strongs words are used.
But I can say without hesitation that 95% of all Swedish "raggare" and countries around Sweden that's also has raggare who comes too sweden for cruisings and party? They are very friendly with bad word choices.
Small correcten epa is the old name of those slow moving cars the new name is a traktors as in A traktors because of some recent changes in the regulations around those vehicles. Soerce i drive one of those a traktors ( ps sorry for bad English)
thanks for the clarification.
Hi! I am a journalist for the French national public TV. We're doing a TV piece on A-traktors in Sweden. Would that be ok if we took a few seconds of your video for our reportage? Thank you very much!
As long as you credit me. So it might generate some traffic to my channel.
And i would love a link to the piece when its done.
Wel kijk, ik vind het een geweldig idee dat onze kinderen op die manier het verkeer kunnen leren kennen... . Beter dan al onze bordjes aan de rand van de weg ( ouders van verongelukte kinderen ) en al die kruisen... . ;)
Heb er daar al veel gezien die regelmatig opzij gaan om deel file door te laten... ;).
Nu mogen ze hier zodra ze achter stuur zitten 130 rijden en dan is het laat voor sommigen hè... . Ik neem de af en toe mindere snelheid erbij wetende dat in Zweden we heeeeeeel wat minder files bestaan ;). Vind het echt een prachtig initiatief daar... . Elke vakantie zien we hen 'verzamelen' na schooltijd heerlijk om te zien :)... . En hun toertjes door de stadjes hahahahaha beter dan hier met de grotere autos en tegen snelheden die je doen huiveren.... :)
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Those slow moving cars are SO ANNOYING! There is so many of them today. Drives me crazy!
As a Canadian living in Sweden, I find the Raggare very fascinating and fun to watch 😄
Well welcome to Sweden. you will be seeing them around
@@itsstico yes I see them everywhere and all the time.
They're mostly good kids, I didn't see them as much in Norway where I grew up, and I've lived in America, Denmark and now Sweden - and I can def. say it's mostly a Swedish phenomena. You're for the most part right, but they're NOT as tough as they might come off as, they are perfectly normal Swedes for the most, and they're a bit more social than most too - if you're a person that is open minded, it's not unusual for them to invite you in to their environment or circle to take you out to party with them (and they are heavy party goers I can tell you that much).
Many of them like to mess around with cars, if you get a friend there - you'll have a pretty decent automechanic that can help you fix or buy your next cars, even if what they drive is what they can afford they usually have extensive knowledge of your average combustion engine (and how to modify them). Also in Skaane county there's an extended sub-culture where Greasers music also is prevalent in their groups, like Rockabilly etc.
Yes, it's a lifestyle - and many of them will live totally regular lives, I don't know anyone of the ones that I know that are prison-guards, but I do know they have regular jobs, some even white-collar jobs but toss their office-attire away when they come home and live the "raggare" lifestyle just to feel comfortable. You say anti-establishement... not sure I agree completely about that as most of the ones I know (and I live in an americanized raggare type of town) are pretty law abiding citizens, but you could say they don't take themselves so seriously - but I've never seen anyone rebel against laws or police, in fact they're pretty well liked by the Police around here. And it gives the kids out on the countryside something to do, someone to hang with without doing anything really illegal.
Thanks for the additional information.
When I said anti establishment. I don't mean law breaking. I just mean that they don't like government. You can tell by there jokes and what they call the police. But that doesn't mean criminal.
Otherwise I completely agree with you.
Goedemorgen,is het ook mogelijk om Ned vertaling er op te zetten ????anders ga ik maar afhaken ,sorry
Ik zet het altijd op Ned vertaling….bij de instellingen, succes 👍
Staat alleen Engels bij de instellingen marjavancuijk
@@hannasonnebosch3096 er staat bij mij Engels en daaronder staat automatische vertaling en daar kunt u uit zeer veel landen kiezen.
Soms moet je even wachten op die automatiche vertalingen. RUclips heeft daar even de tijd voor nodig. Probeer 's avonds of de dag erna te kijken.
I accaly thank epa due to my friends driving me to the buss so i don't miss it
sounds good
the older ones tend to have nice clean cars, those are the OG raggare.
The younger people with theire license dont care about the cars and they beat them up on purpose to look like shit just to party and act stupid. the beat up cars are called ''Pilsnerbil'' (beer car)
In nl heet dat brommobiel max 45 km per uur 👍👍👍👍👍👍🍀
Ja dat weet ik nog.
en anders heb je in Nederland de mmbs vaak een vw caddy die als landbouw voertuig ge registreert is
There was a car you had in the video with "mid-century German" iconography (I don't want to say the word as it might get banned). I was wondering if that is a one-off or there is a common following or maybe it's just something that doesn't translate well... or maybe something else? I know all cultures aren't represented by their best/worst examples but that's something I was curious about.
Oww I must have missed that in the edit. I have looked trough the video and i guess you mean the Iron cross on the white car. I'm thinking that is just youth not knowing what it means. It's not a normal thing to see in Sweden.
@itsstico They had an SS symbol on that car too, I can see how people could miss those things as they are subtle. The iron cross is used elsewhere but the SS is pretty blatant.
I loved your video regardless though, a really insight into a subculture.
@@itssticoi think everybpdy in sweden recognize the Iron cross, it is used to provocate.
they just do it to act cool. trust me, every scandinavian know about SS and all the ww2. they just dont give a f. and they might do it to show anti immigration because sweden has a crazy amount of bad imigrants...
@@Chooibah If it was a Chevy SS it stands for Super Sport. Has nothing to do with what you think and about the iron cross, it´s actually a Templar ccross that was used by the Temple Knights before the Nazis stole it. Just like the stole the Swastika from Buddhism so they are not using any Nazi symbol. I do agree to what others said about the rebel flag, I don´t think they should use it.
I will disagree on one point.
Electric cars.
It is not at all out of character for a raggare to have an EV as their daily driver.
The old beat up car for cruising. Well, I guess you can think of it as cosplay. It's costume for when having a good time on the weekend.
Weekdays most of them, they're as boring normal people as anyone else. Driving just a normal vehicle with sensible fuel economy which may well be electric these days.
Makes sense
Cold weather significantly increases the charging time of EVs to the point where drivers can no longer enjoy the convenience of having a charge point outside the home
Raggare=American Graffiti 🇸🇪🇺🇸
What??😂 are you not Swedish
Haha lol, nope