19 WEIRD THINGS Swedish people do ( that YOU SHOULD do too ) 🇸🇪

hey hey everyone i hope you are doing amazingly  today i'm gonna share the craziest most wonderful   and best swedish traditions that i think  you should try too from how we cut our   pizza to how we raise our children to how we  sleep here are some of my favorite swedish   traditions that i think everyone in the whole  entire world should do so let's get started   we cut our pizza with scissors this is also a  minimalist hack because you no longer need to use   a silly pizza cutter that you literally cannot  use for anything instead just use your kitchen   scissors to cut pizza cutting pizza is such an  easy and fun way to slice pizza one of my favorite   hacks for a happy marriage and a swedish tradition  that i grew up with is to have separate duvets   having separate duvets makes so much more sense  it is so much more comfortable you never have to   fight with your partner over a blanket and it just  makes a world of difference if you have one duvet   it's big and bulky and it's crazy just try two  duvets and see if it makes you feel any better   speaking of duvets and bedding the next thing that  is really important that you should try that we   all do in sweden is that we have a duvet cover  and a duvet inner and a sheet to make our bed   we don't have any top sheets we don't have  any blankets that is absolutely disgusting   sorry but it is cause you don't really wash them  as often you need to have a duvet if it's cold in   your country and you need to put the duvet inside  of the duvet cover and then you wash the duvet   cover weekly and this way you have a very clean  bed when i first came to new zealand i was taught   about the idea of a top sheet and you sort of put  the duvet on top but you never really encase it   but that means that when you move around  throughout the bed your body will touch the duvet   inner and you simply cannot wash that once a week  because it doesn't last as long as if you do that   so absolutely if you have a duvet and it's cold  in your country put a duvet outer on it and in the   summer when it's too warm you just put the duvet  in away and you just sleep with the duvet outer as   a blanket easy one of my favorite swedish sayings  is something like there is no such thing as bad   weather only bad clothing very literal and very  swedish but as a child this was normally printed   on our weekly mail or at kindergarten or at  school which basically meant for our parents   to remember to put proper clothing on us because  we would be outside all day no matter the weather   i think most people these days tend to stay  inside when it's bad weather outside instead   of just going out there but by putting on proper  clothing it makes it so much easier to be outside   in all weathers and it's so much better for your  health to be outside and breathe in the microbiome   rather than just staying inside and watching tv  another swedish health hack for you guys one of   the things that i didn't think was weird but that  became obvious to me the moment i moved abroad   was the fact that we don't talk about race the  first time i heard the word caucasian i was 20 and   living in japan and before that i had never heard  any of these words and it's just not something we   talk about which brings me on to the next point is  that you never have to disclose this information   if you for example go to the bank or going to the  university and that information is absolutely not   necessary for the bank to know when i'm opening  my bank account and frankly it's ridiculous   so do what the swedish people do i guess whilst  we're speaking about politically sensitive   subjects let's speak about children in sweden we  treat our children with respect and we treat them   as already humans which is something i really  really enjoy and i think everyone should do kids   don't have to address older people in a certain  way kids don't really have to act in a certain   way kids are really allowed to be kids which means  they're allowed to make mistakes they're allowed   to be upset they don't have to hug someone if they  don't want to they don't have to kiss someone if   they don't want to just completely reasonable  things that i think every country should adopt   kids are the best thing in the world so i  absolutely think we should treat kids with   the utmost respect now this one i don't know if  it's for all sweden but it's definitely something   i've experienced a lot of times but that is people  when i get invited to dinner parties people ask me   is there something you don't eat my goodness is  to save so much trouble having a dinner party   or going to a dinner party i normally tell my best  friend when i go to dinners at hearst that i don't   eat coriander or cilantro because i really really  don't like it and it makes it a lot easier one of   the most important swedish traditions is being  whole and clean now what does this mean this is   a deeply rooted tradition that goes so far back in  swedish history but ultimately it means to always   present yourself as best as you possibly can  every time we had friends over my family would   just massively clean the entire house not because  it was necessarily dirty but it's so important to   uphold the standard of being whole and clean in  swedish society another thing that i think is   crazy that other countries have and that we don't  have is that we don't really use the expression   from scratch growing up i didn't know that you  could buy cake mixes i had only seen on tv i   had never really heard of it i didn't know you  could buy any sort of pre-made food or something   that we call hal fabikot which technically means  half processed foods of course this might differ   a little bit but in general we don't say that we  make things from scratch in sweden if you make a   cake you will make it from scratch that's that's  just how you make a cake there's no other way to   make a cake you either buy it from the bakery  or you make it from scratch and i think that's   also one of the reasons why we are quite a healthy  country one of the best swedish culture traditions   that you've probably already heard about is fijia  afrika is when you have a coffee normally or a tea   with a sweet treat and you normally have it in the  afternoon but you can actually have it whenever   and this is one of the most common things we do  when we go on dates or meet up with our friends   it's so cozy it's really fun i also really like  that it's one of the few things in sweden where   you can date someone or meet someone without  drinking alcohol now filiga means different   things in different languages especially  in italian so i would use it with caution   and use it only when you're in sweden going  back to child care another thing that i really   appreciate about swedish culture that you should  try if you have children is co-sleeping my parents   co-slept with me and my brother everyone i know  i think koslapped my sister co-slept with me or   with her parents when she was with them and i've  never ever had any issues heard any issues or hear   anyone talk badly about co-sleeping co-sleeping  with your baby makes so much more sense because   you don't have to wake up in the middle of  the night and go into another room also your   baby's brain is not developed enough to know that  you're not in the room which makes it feel unsafe   co-sleeping is literally the best option for  sleeping with your baby my dad built this really   clever little half grip that he put next to the  bed with a mattress and made it level to the bed   so i could be in the bed co-sleeping there  at the same time as my mom was in the bed   co-sleeping shouldn't be a term i don't think  it shouldn't be a trend it shouldn't be an idea   it should just be the most common way for sleeping  with your baby another thing that is common in   sweden that isn't very common abroad is that both  men and women call themselves feminists in sweden   people are generally more educated about feminism  than in other countries and i really like that we   use the word more casually and without so much  attachment to it that comes from other countries   a weird thing about sweden that i thought was a  bit very quite strange is that our school is a lot   easier than any other school in the world now i  don't know exactly how accurate this is but i know   that in general in sweden we are very educated  however our school especially i think middle   school and preschool is a lot easier than for  example in england or in new zealand we have way   less assignments way less homework but somehow it  still works unfortunately this trend is changing   and we're becoming a bit more like the rest of the  world but i really think homework is ridiculous   and we shouldn't have it so that's that one weird  thing we do in sweden but i think we shouldn't do   so disregard this one is that we don't really  date although i'm swedish i've never dated a   swedish guy because i think i've only have two  swedish guys ever hit on me in my entire life   but in general we don't really date we don't  really have a period of dating where you can   see other people or normally you're just sort  of not together and then you're sort of together   dating in sweden is very weird uh that  is why i've been so unsuccessful at it   and yeah i find it uncomfortable and i think  sweden in fact should adopt how people date in   other countries because i think it makes way more  sense and it's a much more adult way of dating   something we do in sweden is that we learn  english very early this also makes so much   sense because it's easier to learn a language when  you're young and voila most people speak english   which is such a useful skill to have if you  want to live in another country or have any job   where you don't work in sweden alright so we're  going even more political time for religion   one thing we don't do in sweden is we're  not really religious or go to church   even though wikipedia might say otherwise  so this has changed since then but when i   grew up in my entire generation we couldn't  choose to be enrolled in the swedish church   system that just happened automatically when we  were born no matter if we were baptized or not   we just went straight into the swedish church  system which is also the system you have to   be in if you want to be buried in a church  yard or if you want to be married in a church   if you want to get baptized in a church et cetera  et cetera so this is a quite fun fact compared to   other countries because if you look at wikipedia  it says most swedish people are religious but   that's simply because we are enrolled in church  now say what you want about religion that i for   one am a person who thinks that we should practice  what we preach and since most people have lots of   sex before marriage drink a ridiculous amount  of alcohol and do all other sorts of gluttonous   things um i think it makes complete sense that  most people don't go to church i remember going   to church in kindergarten for our summer ending  and i remember my priest had leather pants and   played a rock and roll guitar which we all thought  was very very fun we are a land of wonderful   and quirky weird strange traditions in sweden we  have something called yantelogen which practically   means be humble but also never talk well about  yourself so there are pros and cons about this   law as an unwritten law but one of the good things  about it is that swedish people are in general   very comfortable and quiet or maybe better as to  say not loud people so it's very nice to be around   swedish people no one ever yells no one ever tries  to really be the center of attention no one really   you know speaks really loudly one of my favorite  things we do in sweden which does not work in   english is that we don't really have a word for  please now you can use snella which means like   most kindly or can you kindly or you can use tak  which means thank you but we don't really have   a word for please i love learning languages  because this is those little parts about a   language and a culture that you won't really  learn unless you know the language so i love   speaking english i love using the word please  but i also love speaking swedish and being able   to sneak in attack or snella where swedish people  normally don't and sound like the most friendly   and polite person in the world so it's a win-win  so okay my friends i did not think we'd go this   political i have written this video down it's  very funny because when i translate these very   regular swedish ideas to english they suddenly  become so much more political swedish people are   generally extremely nice and it's such a nice  culture to live in and i think that's why so   many people move back to sweden when they want  to have a family because it's such a safe and   reasonable and wholesome place for kids to grow  up and part of that is because these lovely and   quirky ideas that we have thank you guys so much  for watching this video i had so much fun speaking   about my swedish traditions especially since  i'm not in sweden anymore makes me so happy to   be able to share something of how i grew up with  the rest of the world especially the useful parts   let me know in the comments below if you have any  specific traditions to your home country that you   think are really valuable for everyone and like  this video if you like this type of content and   cause it really helps the channel and thank you  so much for watching and i will see you next week why is it so shiny guys it's supposed to be sunny

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Published: Fri May 06 2022