Inside Danish Graduation: Traditions and Milestones Uncapped
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- Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2024
- In this video, we are joined. by two Danish students who have recently experienced the Danish graduation traditions. They help Derek to understand the unique experience of graduating from a Danish gymnasium.
Graduation in Denmark means a lot of unique traditions that may seem weird to foreigners living in Denmark. Many of these Danish cultural traditions have deep historical roots, but are also based on universal experiences.
Derek finds out everything about the Danish graduation caps, student trucks, and Danish graduation parties. Those are better known as studenterhue, studentervogn and studenterkørsel, and studentergilde - but this video will tell you what you need to know about all of these terms and more.
Special thank you to Freja and Emma for their time and for sharing a little bit of their experiences during Danish graduation season.
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My son just graduated a few weeks ago as well. The truck came by here, with 30 students, and they had 20 min, before they took off again, to visit the next parents. We served fruit skewers, Popsicle's, Beer and Cider, and had thrown blankets and pillows on the lawn for them to sit on. It was very popular. And 20 min later they were out the door, and going to the next parents house. :)
Such a cool experience :)
4 neighbors in my building had their stops in our backyard. It took up 5 days.
@@charisma-hornum-fries OOh my. Yeah it is probably not as fun if you share common areas like that.
Alle de smukke unge mennesker!
Gid de længe leve må 🥰
For those unaware, these are the last lines of a Kim Larsen pop song about beautiful young people in general .
Ja det må de unge
I did this many years ago, it was such a good experience. Seeing the student trucks in the streets every summer always makes me so happy. It really feels like everyone celebrates this whole thing, even if you don't happen to know any of the graduates personally.
So true - I love the nostalgia in everyone's eyes these weeks :)
I always make sure to smile and wave at them and wishing them TILLYKKE - silently thinking make sure to enjoy it, because this is your last absolute carefree summer.
I do now too 😊
@@RobeTrottingHow you two have adapted to Danish life and customs is commendable. Kudos Guys!
For me it was the first summer of full time work, doing manual labor to earn money for my university studies .
I always honk my horn if I happen to be in a line behind one of those trucks 😊
The hat is a Scandinavian tradition - not only Danish :-)
This is true
We had exactly the same traditions (poängjakt and such) in Sweden! Scandinavians are just three siblings pretending they're different :D
All danish People now that
@@RobeTrottingYes, very true!
What you carve into the hat sure has evolved since I graduated XD
After I graduated back in 2010 I went to Iceland on an international youth camp/exchange program for the Summer and I was asked if the 'graduates driving around in trucks' was a real thing by the host family I was living with - apparently the Danish tv series 'Klovn' was very popular in Iceland at the time and in one episode the main characters (two middle-aged men) sneak unto a student truck wearing their own student caps and celebrate graduation with the freshly graduated students.
Another story I heard was that a girl was wearing her student cap while on a holiday in Italy and because there was a Maltese cross on it in the front (where the student Freja has a heart on hers) people assumed she was some kind of nun or she was wearing the cap as a religious symbol.
It's my impression that bathing in fountains is more of a Copenhagen/Sjælland thing for graduates to do while in Jylland we dance around a beech tree that's often put up just for the occasion. The beech tree is the most common broad-leaved tree in Denmark and is often used as a symbol of Denmark and of Spring in general (I mean it's mentioned in the second line of our national anthem). I grabbed some leaves from the beech when we were dancing around it and saved them in my cap - I still have them.
I first learnt about graduation traditions in Scandinavia, when I saw members of Sweden’s Royal Family graduating from secondary school / gymnasium.
Isn’t their English superb? I am mightily impressed.
Derek, it's a rite of passage, to survive those first 2 weeks of wearing the cap!
So many things to see, do, try(sometimes for the first time) and people you meet along the way!
It's great fun, but completely exhausting 🤣
hello from Hundested 🌸
I’m so envious of how much fun these gals were having, it was really cool to get a peek into their fun 😊
When I graduated in 1994 all flatbed trucks were already rented out, so we had to settle for a minibus. We had plenty of beverages and loud music, but the only place we could dance or stand along the trip was a small area in the middle of the bus where there were no seats. It quickly became the most popular spot in the minibus :) We had a blast, and I must admit the end of the trip is a little foggy...🤤🍺 It is a great tradition I hope we keep going.
That sounds so great! Improvising makes it even more memorable haha
We were lucky enough to get a real horse drawn wagon, not having to cheat with a truck .
@@johndododoe1411
That would have taken forever in my case, because our locations were spread out over a large area. Would have taken 2 days with a horse drawn carriage.
We definitely need to make a tradition like this for every education.
When I graduated 60 years ago the wagon we were visiting our homes in were pulled by horses😅
So cool! Someone shared a photo of their horse wagon with us 😊
My 19 years old son graduated recently. The truck came by his home as the 20th place in the list. According to the tradition he left the truck as the last person after which he had to run through a line of his classmates and empty a beer on the spot. My son isn't used to drinking alcohol and though he had emptied 20 beers at that time (according to his own recollection) he was holding up well. I wonder how American teenagers would react to this large alcohol intake?
I can only speak for myself, but at 19 I would have been more than okay. Just because they can’t buy it doesn’t mean they aren’t already drinking it at the same age as Danish teenagers haha.
And Tillykke 😊🇩🇰
@@RobeTrotting Thanks 😎
I also got a white cap when I graduated.. Only difference was that after graduation I was sent directly into battle with my fellow legionaires. It was five rough years but I have the benefit of approximately 100 people that are closer to me than any siblings would ever be.
i never got a student cap... but i did get a journeyman's letter...
which I would say is more useful….
Despite the obvious differences, I can see a lot of things that end up being rather similar in concept to Portuguese university traditions, here we have a whole parade going on (roads cut for trucks to pass and everything), not to mention the traditional clothing that comes with it :P ....we don't have that for high school, though.
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Haha, sometimes I feel like that 101 professor.
When I became a student, we rode a horse carriage and not a truck. 🐎🐎🐎
Good answers and nice reflections. I must say after my own graduation, I was definitely not as clarified about my future as the girls in the video. 😊
Same! Haha
I was so confused when I came back to Denmark recently and this was going on.
That was super fun!
Right! It’s a cool thing to dig into.
I remember having a lot of fun laughing at the hat-rules when I got mine..😂 We got this little note with the hats, that explained the rules, and I do believe it included having to cut a wedge out of the shade if you had to puke from drinking too much, and if you wound up at a hospital to get your stomach pumped, the entire shade had to be removed... Finally, if you still had the energy to charm your nurse into giving their number, the 'stormband' (the band that mostly just sits across the shade but can be pulled under the chin to secure the hat if necessary) had to go too...😂🎉
Yes, someone sent me a full copy of the rules, but I didn't want to spill ALL of the tea, or have the students here associated with each and every one of the most extreme ones haha.
Really nice video!
Thank you 😊
Fun fact: Way back in the day(like 1800) the cap was on your head for a year. With that you had a summer and a Winther cap. The Black one was considered the winter cap 😃
Lots of similarities to Sweden.
We have a hat with different colours and do the flatbed truck thing too.
I’m half danish and speak the language fluently but I don’t go to school in Denmark. In my current country we sadly don’t have such a nice tradition, only the graduation pranks and that’s it. I’m graduating next year and I would love to wear a hat but I don’t think I can wear my mom’s 😅
sweden have the same thing with the cap and the student truck and also a big ball/prom (a few weeks before graduation), but thats quite new(ish). i think it started late 80s when they changed swedish gymnasium to 3 years instead of 2. i just missed out on it with a year or so :)
Well, we did have a formal graduation ball with a traditional dance that took months to learn .
@@johndododoe1411 fantastic :)
this was a good vid! i hoped they would have been a little longer, in their 2 weeks of off time, as they would have a lot more, done to their hats... if u wanna hear more about the hat rules, and student drive, there's a vid from 6 years ago, from a Danish woman, called Kelly Louise Killjoy, with a channel of the same name, going over almost everything, in a vid called "Danish Graduation Traditions"
IS KELLY DANISH!!!?? I didn’t know that!😮
@@victoriasunivers yeah, she's Danish, but her real name is Louise Rindal, and not Kelly Louise Killjoy, like i said, it's just a channel name... my mistake :)
Just to clarifie the cap is not a sailers cap - it is a students cap. In about 1860, the nodic studens had mettings at to see weher thay came from - they made defrent caps.
The cros is not a reledios cros, but a knirhs cros from 1659.
The part about strangers wishing the graduates congratulations made me think about how that is probably one of the only scenarios in Denmark where you won’t be looked at weird for stopping to talk to a stranger on the street 😂
The original hat was black (not white) and as it was only men who studied back then only men got it.
Today the tradition is that you can chose it black if you've had tree classes at A level (most difficult study level)
Today they've pretty much made hats for every education, hairdresser, carpenter and so on but I have yet to see them celebrated as much in the streets.
From what I read, they were also worn throughout the years of schooling until entering a masters study.
@@RobeTrotting sounds about right :)
🙄 back when I graduated my vocational education, hats were only for degrees that grants access to uni...
We had quite a graduation party (svendegilde) anyway 😄
I always smile when I see those graduation parties. I remember the relief it was to finally have a real world certificate saying that i wasn't useless (tabt bag en vogn).
Same time I encourage and admire education and science 😂 even though new grads don't necessarily seem very intelligent while partying.
I know it took a lot of effort, it's great to have that milestone in check... Vocational grads most often have a good chance to stay at the company they graduated from, gym grads have a lot of doors open for further education.
No matter what education, congrats kids, you deserve the right to party and be happy and foolish, and that's why you feel that most people are celebrating with you. Best wishes for the future.
it's actually five A level classes. else I'd be getting a black one no matter if I choose to up one of of my B levels to A
@@lrkelgstruplaursen7912 😅 it was 3 back when I graduated 2010
Det med kornmarkerne og at svinge armen på en bestemt måde er da nyeere traditioner, er de ikke? Kan ikke huske noget i den retning fra starten af 90erne, da jeg blev student. Hvilket i sig selv jo godt kunne være forklaringen på evt hukommelsestab.
This is so true my brother already did it it's when u graduated and yes u have to be drunk...
Maybe someone should point out that "class" does not mean what it means in the US. The "class" I partied with was not the "class of '78", it was one of 10 classes that graduated from my school in 1978.
It’s used that way in the US too - probably exactly the same, we would probably say “graduating class” in that “class of” example.
HTX for the win
It's those people who have to pay for the olders pension. And those who will become the furture in Denmark. We hope. Atleast some of them ;-)
I'd say around 80% of the stuff they told wasn't a thing when I graduated.
But then we were driven around in a horse drawn carriage (no joke).
Hi im from denmark
Dude is weird tradition with those new generation in DK
Running naked through a cornfield must be painful. You can get many small cuts from corn leaves. 😂
go wild then be serius go go go no faer everytings gona be ok we got u
You can leave your hat on ... (Tom Jones)
Hehehe
It's not originated from sailors hat, it's what students had on for student meetings in the Nordic countries, originally it was all black, then changed to white in summer, and now it's white.
Indeed. If it wasn’t explained in this video it was in the one that is referenced at the end of the video 😊
Sadge she only had 3 people write in her hat. Great video tho
Oh, I’m sure it’s full now - we met the day after she received it 😊
@@RobeTrotting ahh ok. KEKW thanks for letting me know
What are the odds that a girl that just graduated from mu school is in a video from a channel with ~26000 subs
Why dont you go talk to on of the meny companies that have these trucks, get there storry on "behinde the scene" ... they might tell you a lot of weird rules and experienced.
Maybe next year 😊
Det er for sent nu, futte :)
@@drumstick74 vel ikke at snakke med dem?
De fleste som, kører studenterbiler, er da alm. Vognmænd, de har da altid åbent.
Bare få en snak om regler, lovgivningen, og sjove oplevelser.
@@futtejanas5690
Det kunne man selvfølgelig godt, men ville det ikke være bedre at tale med dem, *mens* de kørte studentervognene? Måske komme med på forsædet...😃
@@drumstick74 helt bestemt....
Binge drinking on flatbed trucks, i meen.. yea, this is denmark, any excuse is a good excuse when it comes to getting wasted.. and there are very few unsuitable places for it
True 😂
Jeg kan godt lide studenterhuen
That hat, "Studenterhue", used to be for Upper High-school only - for the exam that gives you access to universities. Now anyone get a hat, so it's a bit inflated and the pride is washed out.
It’s still a great accomplishment though, no?
4th
Tillykke 😃😂
@@RobeTrotting fint
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For once I’m not excited about the video.. a lot of “Errmm”, and “Like”..
The idea of new students telling about the traditions is great, but they are too unprepared, and some of the explanations are formulated a bit unfortunately..
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Is Mike behind the camera. Haven’t seen him around in the videos lately ? 😂🫣
He’s not behind the camera, but he has been traveling a lot for work (visits before the start of summer holiday). He’ll be back in the mix soon and we have some projects we’re cooking up (more to come). Ugh, I feel like I’m doing that “big news coming soon” thing 😂
While it certainly is a nice tradition, the amount of alcohol involved etc. has increased quite a lot. Every year, there seems to be a few unfortunate incidents and accidents mostly caused by the generally high consumption of alcohol.
The irony is really that this graduation is many times the first step on the long road to a higher education where the stress levels sometimes may be higher and more intense compared to the time spent in Gymnasium.
Unfortunately, over the years, more and more rules have been introduced governing the celebration vehicles used. It used to be pretty hilarious when students sometimes managed to get farmers to haul them around in tractors with trailers full of straw and beer.
Taking a year off and do some travel is always a very good idea. However, a serious advice to all students who want to take a year off travelling. Don't ever travel abroad and definitely never outside EU without a comprehensive travel insurance. Not having a travel insurance can ruin your life if you get into an accident abroad. It is no longer the norm that the Danish government will help you getting home if you have gotten stuck abroad because of an accident or injury when travelling without a travel insurance.
Congrats to all students.
Nor really worried about that, more worried about the them standing on a moving vehicle.
@@metamon2704Gotta hold onto the railing or bench and the driver needs to be really careful driving softly and not too fast . Obviously easier with one or two horses pulling the wagon than with a 500 HP engine .
Is ok not undersandt know you do in danmark
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