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Fika has nothing to do with meatballs... No one has meatballs to their fika. Trust me.

I love how "swedish meatballs" is a bigger deal in every other country except Sweden.

Fika is about coffee, sweets and friends. It’s a break and bonding time.

I'm a Swede and I'm happy to pay taxes 😊 Thanks to that I was able to go to university (my parents would never been able to pay for it if we lived in America for example) and get an education. Now that I have a well paid job I'm happy to pay back.

I’m Swedish and I didn’t even know some of these things. Like, who are the people fighting over where Santa lives? 😂

My father has a rare blood disease that prevents him from creating enough red blood cells. Because of that he has to get an iron shot every week as well as blood transfusions every 3 months. He also has to visit the hospital 3 times a year to make sure his condition doesn't worsen or he develops cancer (which is unfortunately a very common progression for his disease). All of his treatment and hospital expenses costs a total of about 150 USD a year, which is about the same amount he would have to pay for 1 iron shot if he lived in the USA. That alone makes the taxes worth it. Knowing my father can get the care he needs. I earn 30.000 SEK a month which is about 3.200 USD. It's a pretty standard salary for my job (I'm a nurse). Out of that I pay about 6.300 SEK/680 USD in taxes. It might sound like a lot, but after 16 years in school (3 years in uni), and no debt I'm happy to pay taxes.

It's called "skatt" or in english "treasure" because the king and nobility colected the peoples skatt.

sorry but number 12 is a lie............ fika is like eating a cake and drinking somthing,,, not food

I got both my knees replaced last year and that cost me about 24 dollars, so I pay my taxes with a big smile. I wonder what that cost would have been in US. :)

I love my kingdom of Sweden, var är mina svenska polare i kommentarerna?🇸🇪💪🏻

We actually get paid $130 per month to go to school, to the end off high school. And $350 to study at university

I'm Swedish and I actually quite often think about how happy I am about our taxes and all the opportunities it gives us.

My mom got a brain tumor last year and my dad got a stroke this fall. So I walk around every day and are happy to pay tax. Also I got a 3 year university degree in computer sience for free(still had to put in the hard work)

Im swedish but under 18 so I obviously dont pay taxes, but my parents do. I have asked them many times about how they vote politacly in sweden, since the "red" side wants to higher the taxes and the "blue" side wants to lower it. And I know for a fact that both my parents vote red and they are happily paying every dime of the taxes, they dont see it as someone taking their money, its more of an investment in their kids (me and siblings) since its our and their future that builds up with paying the taxes, It goes to health care, roads, education etc so at the end id say its worth it if you want to build up a civilized society! Nice video btw :)

As a true Swede I've never heard about santa living in Sweden or Finland.

It's actually false that the Swedish Meatballs aren't Swedish. Sweden's official twitter account tweeted that out before, but they later apologized for spreading miss information. They had read something wrong. And a couple of like food historians and such came out claiming it was false. There has been documented use of the words "frikadeller" and "köttbullar" (swedish words for meatballs) in various cook books and in the Swedish Academy long before the king Karl XII visited Turkey.

Just adding that we also get paid to go to school actually. High school and collage is not only paid for already via taxes but we also get a small support from the state every month. So really we’re getting paid to get education.

What, Fika has NOTHING to do with meatballs

Well yes, I do. I was happy to pay 31% taxes because I know that when I have kids they will go to a free school, with free food, if I get sick I don’t have to pay to see the doctor and when I get old I don’t have to sell all of my stuff to afford a “old folks home”. So I rather pay that tax, than having a very insecure life and have to worry about money all the time ❤️❤️

Swede here, i do love paying my taxes. I really do not mind it, not only is my current education free, i accually get paid to study, not alot but about 3500 kronor per month (about 350$). I have had several operations that didn´t cost me more than 50$, free dentalcare uptil the age of 18 (now it costs about 40$). Some museums are free to visit so that every family can take part of the experience. TAXES

I’ve never heard of anybody having meatballs for fika! Ever!

LMAO, no. Meatballs are actually from Sweden. During some time of the 1600 in Sweden, the Swedish king was best friend with the Turkish king or leader. And the Swedish king gave him the receipt for meatballs, and in return we got Turkish spices.

Don't forget, we get at least one month payed vacation per year

Watching videos like this makes me realize how nice I actually have it in Sweden!

"Sweden and Finland is fighting over where Santa is from" Norway enters the chat.

Bruh i don’t understand people who think it is bad to pay much tax in Sweden. I had to get an important surgery and because I live in Sweden it almost didn’t cost anything. But if I would’ve been in the us with or without insurance it would’ve cost me a fortune. I’m thankful for my country and don’t u dare complain!

The swedish in the meatballs is that we use ”kryddpeppar” in the mince, and serve it with ”brown sauce/brunsås” and lingonberry jam. Do that in Turkey ...

I do actually walk around and say " I'm happy to pay taxes" because it works.

We don’t eat meatballs for Fika 😂😂😂😂 we eat cookies and cakes

I'm a swede and I honest to God, always say "I looove paying tax". It makes you feel really good because you know that by doing it you're helping a lot of people who aren't as fortunate as you and you also know if I run into some bad luck. the state always has my back and protects me :)

A few other Swedish inventions would be the pilot ejection seat, medical ultra-sound, the pacemaker, bluetooth, modern phones, safety matches, dynamite, zippers, the adjustable wrench, ball bearings, styrofoam, the propeller, the absorption refrigerator. Also Tetra-Pak (yes, all those packages storing liquids in the supermarket) and the Automatic Identification System (which is why we have GPS). The Celsius temperature scale also comes from a Swedish man named Anders Celsius. The first central bank in the world was Swedish. There are a lot of other random things as well such as the ability to show color in monitors, the original computer mouse, the feroelectric liquid crystals used in flat screen monitors. Throughout history I'd say Swedish science has contributed a lot within the fields of physics, chemistry and medicine.

Rest in peace Sara Danius 2019 🙏

Gilla detta om du älskar Sverige 🇸🇪

Let's get one thing straight here. Nr. 12: Fika doesn't mean that you take a break to drink coffee and eat meatballs. Fika, is a pause that you take during your day to indeed, enjoy coffee and some form of bakery. It has nothing to do with meatballs. You're welcome :)

I don't mind paying tax. Why? Because unlike US, we're not paid minimum wage. I work as a custodian and I still make 1700 euro monthly after tax is paid.

14:54 omg the hand, it fits a little too well on your shoulder there, and look where it's touching, haha hilarious

The meatball might be partly from Turkey, but the gravy we use has nothing about Turkey about it Its cinnamon bun to coffee The biggest thing about Sweden is the love of nature and Allemansrätten, which gives the right to every person in Sweden to go anywhere they want in the country and pick berries or mushrooms, hike etc as long as you do not hunt or enter someones garden or a military area

Erm... paying taxes is something I don't really think about, it's something automatically pulled from my income before the money even reach my account (yes, wages are wired directly into your account at the end of every month a few days before bills usually expire which is the last day of the month), then you get this envelope that gives you information for how much money you have paid in tax during the year which will tell you if you've paid too much or too little. I worked one summer as a cashier and my dad was rather worried that I have wound up paying too little in taxes but as it turned out, I had actually paid too much and got a couple of thousands back. ALSO! Another thing about healthcare that they didn't bring up is that the price of prescription medication is moderated. You literally cannot spend more than around... I think 200 US dollars (according to my dad who has asthma) a year on the stuff as the computers adjust the prices every time you go to buy them. The first time I bought my ADD medication I paid a good 40 US dollars for a bottle, but my latest was at around 15! Healthcare might be free, but mental do cost around 20 us dollars a meeting but if you spend too much in too short a time you will receive a card that allows you free meetings for a set amount of time. Dental care is NOT free. If you're older than the year you turn 25. In Sweden, You don't pay for schools, schools pay YOU. Literally. The government pays any student until High school a fee every month for school stuff, after that you can apply for student benefits that don't count as a loan but you could be required to pay back if the people in charge of it decides that they've given you too much. And even if you don't work and find yourself out of money, you can apply to something that can give you the amount of money you need, but you have to apply once every month and is really just something to help you until you get a stable income, not something to rely on in the long run, I've only applied once. My income is a benefit specifically designed for people that couldn't finish their schooling normally due to mental health problems (because the student benefit only pay for a certain number of weeks, but there are different ones depending on if the studies are on base-level education or university level education), they will pay me until I qualify for a high-school diploma. And my anxiety is telling me I am writing too much, so I'm going to stop here.

Beautiful! WE live on our sailboat, sailing around the world. WE are excited to make it to Sweden!

When are you going to react to Sabaton, while you have alot of sweden wibes? 😁

The population is over 10 M now.

3:33 Hi! Regular Swede here, I am actually pretty happy about paying taxes. :)

I am from Sweden! (Ni gör ett bra jobb på eran kanal) = (You guys are doing a realy great work at your channel)

jag älskar era videos translate is i love your videos:)

Actually it is a very large straw goat that they try to burn down every year.

I’m a the only one that has never heard someone saying that Santa lives in Sweden??

I'd love to know where they found the information about nr.9 I've never heard about that and their info about fika is off.

Enjoyable reaction, super hugs from Sweden :)

Not a wooden reindeer its a straw goat (christmas/yule goat = julbock in swedish). They talked about it on BBC's QI once pretty funny you should watch it :D p.s. it's kind of disappointing if it makes it through the winter now, sure its illegal but it's expected and funny.

Weit a min ... Were over 10 milion .,. That vid must be old cuz we went over 10 like two years ago .-.

Fun fact about education costs in Sweden: The Universities are free but many students take loans to finance living while studying. The average amount for those loans is about 140000 kr or around 17000 dollars and many Swedes complain loudly about this - partly because the government controlled lender is bureaucratic but also because they think it's too costly to study.

Just to clarify here tho: Fika has absolutely nothing to do with meatballs.. fika is essentially coffee (or tea) break while eating pastries, cookies and things of that sort, you often invite friends over to fika, or meet up with someone out in town for fika an evening snack could also be seen as fika depending on what it is.

The greateast thing we have i "Allemansrätten" look it up, specially if you like me, love to hike out in the nature.

10:33 I'm half swedish half finnish and this is a real thing. But we all know he lives in Rovaniemi

No way- Santa lives on Svalbard! (part of Norway!)

I live in sweden and have two Norwegian poodles and and one of them is named after Mamma Mia the ABBA song We play that song quite alot My other dog is called Lerke... we just thought the name was a cute name

Does this mean we can expect a video on 15 things you didn't know about IKEA? :P

If you like Sweden you should vote for Bernie Sanders. He will transform your country into a more Swedish system.

The big castle in the beginning that’s my town where I live😻 btw just started watching your videos so that’s why am so late commenting😅

The new ABBA music was delayed from December 2018, to sometime during 2019. It was delayed again. So maybe, hopefully we’ll get to hear it during 2020.

Hi React To The World ! John X Lulu. Swedish inventions : Blow tourch - Carl Richard Nyberg Tetra pak - Ruben Rausing Kerosene stoves (Primus) - Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist Steam Turbine - Gustaf De Laval (also a machine to make milk) Inkjet and Ultrasound _ Helmuth Hertz Artificial Kidney - Nils Alwall Dry Milk - Ninni Kronberg The Celsius temperature scale also comes from a Swedish man named Anders Celsius. The first central bank in the world was Swedish Propeller Adjustable wrench Refrigerator Vacuum cleaner Ball bearing AGA-lighthouse Bluetooth Mobile phones Color graphics on computers Safety matches GPS Classification of all plants & animals Padlocks Spotify Skype Sincerely Tom.

in this day and age tax'es arent a way of punishment and control, it's a way of working together.

There is a difference between the spice mixture in Swedish and Tukisk meatballs (Köfte). the difference is that in Turkish it is parsley leaves, tomato puree, paprika powder, cumin and sumac. the rest is same.

Not only is education free all the way up through university - you also get a very small but still salary for studying and you can combine it with work or a loan part if you want to.

I pay around 31% tax and am happy to do so for the things i we get for free

☝🏻 one false thing! We have ”more than 10 mil ppl” ;)

I am from Sweden and I really likes your videos about Sweden haha

as a swedish man i need to say: MEATBALL = BEST MEATBALL = KÖTTBULLE MEATBALL IS LIFE

The fact about santa is false.... sweden thinks that santa lives in north pole. (Sorry my english is very bad)

It makes me happy and proud to pay taxes. I actually say it out loud like you did, because I am so thankful and happy about the opportunities that I got when I moved here. It is really an amazing country, especially for children.

Ikea: makes you buy more then you planned cause its cheap. Customer: God Dammit not again

Another nice fact about tax in Sweden as a civilian you won't have to calculate all your tax by yourself most of the time. Usually it is done for you by "Skattemydigheten" (kind of the Swedish version of IRS). So only if you have some specific taxable extra income that you might have to calculate and add manually. This is done once a year in the spring, and tax returns are payed out a couple to a few months later.

i think we often take our rights in Sweden for granted and forget how good we have here.

Tjeeeena alla svenska kompisarrrrr:)

So what you do regarding the alcohol aspect. If under 18 you buy liquor from dealers. If you're 18 you drive to DK/Germany and stack up liqour for the whole year. If you're 20 you buy occansionally at Systembolaget and occasionally you go to germany

''Hammarby sjuuuu staaaad'' i died

I am sooo proud to be Swedish! :)

In reality, we pay around 22 % in tax. LESS THAN YOU! (Not really but according to your numbers.) That´s do to tax break for all the workers in the country. Don´t for a second believe the 51 %, please. It´s just a number, not a reality. This old Fact Video you have chosen have a lot of the fact absurdly wrong. It´s like watching a compilation that a kindergarten class made from Google. We (the "kindergarten" class) can read, but we don´t understand or care about the real fact). It always like this when people who haven't spend one second in the country decide to make money on youtube by describing a country. But okay. Some of the fact are correct. And just to put some of the fact in perspektive. The meatballs came to Sweden around the same year America became a country. Just imagine for a second what US had as their food back then. We have had meatballs in Sweden for more than 200 year. That alone makes it our food, and a part of our culture.

Älskar detta ( love this )

2:11 wait.. that's the castle from Örebro, the city I live in..

They have some lovely grenade attacks as well.

Damn, I knew about 5-6 facts about sweden 🇸🇪 and I’m proud of their higher taxes, because that allows us to get a higher education with no cost ( in fact, the government pays us to get an education) and a free healthcare and dental care up to 23. God bless Sweden with its high taxes ❤️ I can’t imagine living in the US and not have health insurance or being able to study in university.

Fika is the same as coffe break. but we eat cold diches. it can be coffe and a sallad. coffe and shrimp sandwitch or meat ballsandwich. not hot diches like pizza. For short every dish that goes great with coffe break.

Meatballs are made in many countries, not only Turkey, Italian meatballs are famous for instance. However the Swedish meatballs are the only ones, I think, that are served with gravy sauce. The number one fact about Sweden not mentioned is Allemansrätten, or All mans right, to wander the mountains, forrests etc at their leisure and pick berries mushrooms etc on anyones land. There are limitations but they are easy to follow.

if you earn just over 19000 you have to pay around 30% in income tax and it is between 30 and 50 percent tops depending on your yearly income. In sweden a new dad gets 10 days paid leave from work the first days after the kid is born to help take care of the child until the mother can take care of it when she has recovered from the labor. You have to be 18 to drink alcohol at a bar or restaurant, but have to be 20 years old to shop at Systembolaget

I saw a old comercial by Volvo a few years back. There was (i think) Toyota that was getting rather big in Sweden since they where cheap, and Volvo had a comercial about a Toyota being flipped and wrecked and a moose that walked by it and then a voice said, "there are no moose in japan, drive safely with Volvo" since Volvo is liek one of the safest cars and alot of them are made to survive a collison with mooses. 😂

Funny fact. When you do your taxes in sweden, You only recieve a paper with all information handled and then you press an approve button and Boom you're finished with your taxes and you get your tax return very soon.

You say the first image looks very saturated, and while it’s definitely edited, I know exactly where that is (a school I’ve gone to is in the photo) the colors and saturation isn’t that far off from real life (like one the *real* nice days). There’s a lot of well cared for greenery (like the closest bridge has multiple kinds of plant pots on it) and the houses just have really nice colors.

There are often rumors of ABBA reuniting. Haven’t happened yet, from what I know.

Some corrections and trivia: 1. No, that's not why taxes are called "skatt", lol. Swedes in general are fine with relatively high taxes, but as you say, it's not like people are celebrating it. 3. The second picture depicts Uppsala, just north of Stockholm. Uppsala was named the greenest city in Europe, and is in fact more environmentally friendly than Stockholm. 4. Sweden has more than 10 million people. Currently around 10,3. Also, Minecraft! 8. Drinking alcohol is NOT highly regulated by the Swedish state. Is actually much more liberal in those regards than the US. You can drink when you're 18 (and you won't be punished if you do it earlier) and no need to walk around with paper bags as in the US. We also never had a prohibition. The only thing regulated is the retail. Of course there's still bars and night clubs etc (for people 18 years and up). 9. No, I've never ever heard a Swede claim that Santa lives in Sweden. 11. Not a craze at all, unfortunately. 12. Meatballs have absolutely nothing to do with fika. And the "Swedish meatballs comes from Turkey"-thing has been debunked by historians. It's a myth that took off when a private citizen spread it through the twitter @Sweden (different citizens get to handle the account). Meatballs have been invented separately many times in many cultures (I mean, it's not hard to come up with the idea of shaping meat into balls!), including both Sweden and Turkey. The king brought another dish from Turkey, koldolmar (dolma).

Sweden and Finland does not fight about where Santa Claus live. And...we do not eat meatballs for fika.

Another Swedish life saving invention: the pacemaker.

I love paying taxes! It's so easy, already taken off from my salary by my employer, and then when statements come around you get a text message or log in to the website and just press "Okay". Then usually you get some money back at the end of it all.

The Castle 2:10 minutes in is in my Home Town "Örebro" I live like 3 minutes from it :)

Thank you for these wonderful videos about Sweden. You really show the fine sides of Sweden. And I love your reaction to the taxes and other things. Sweden is split in half about the taxes. One half is content and the other half want to lower them. Hugs to you!

Finland is the Happyest Coyntry in the world 4 years in a row !! Best school system in the world !!

Nice to see a Dice supporter :D

Almost all the h&m’s in Sweden are closing soon cause everyone buys everything online now

Yes, "skatt" means both tax and treasure. But it is not true that the resaon is that taxes are so appeciated nowadays. The word is old and exists also in our neighbor countries. It has also meant coin etc. It is not strange that is has come to have a double mening. A taxation is to bring in money etc and gives the king or state a treasure.

When you're from sweden, and they say "15 things you didn't know about sweden" "Oh, I don't think so."