50 Thank Yous to Sweden | What I am grateful for in Sweden 

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I am also thankful for the clean air and the pure water that you can drink here in Sweden.

Vill tacka dig för att du uppskattar Sverige, och att du säger det, inte så ofta man får höra det av de som flyttar hit. 🌞

As a Swede, I am perhaps a bit spoiled. Three things must be present if I am to enjoy living in a country. -Fresh drinking water straight from the tap. -I can flush the paper down the toilet after going to the bathroom. -Nature that is accessible to anyone anywhere at any time.

You have two good opportunities to watch Swedish film at Christmas: "Kan du vissla Johanna?" och "Tomten är far till alla barnen" both on Christmas Eve. They are becoming tradition now.

I have a feeling you made Sweden better by coming here. You have a good list and I hope you enjoy the things you haven't tried yet.

Thank you also for "Ace of Base". 🕺🏼💃🏻💃🏼🕺🏻 Not as famous as ABBA but also with good songs and often played on the radio in the 90s. And thank you for the romantic movies filmed in Sweden by German TV station ZDF under the name "Inga Lindström" which my mom likes a lot. Thank you for SAAB Aircraft Industries for building very safe and reliable civil aircraft in the 80s/90s still flying over us nowadays.✈ 🇸🇪👍

Thank you Sweden for Roxette, too

Many nice things have been said about Sweden,i am swedish myself😇Sweden is not some kind of heavenly Utopia but we are doing alright i think😉 By the way,thank you for a nice video and all kind words about our country😘

Thank you for your contributions, making Sweden even better 🙂

You mentioned that you wanted to explore Stockholm a bit more. I have been filming interesting places to visit and museums in Stockholm. So be sure to check them out!

I have experienced this, seeing my country (Iceland) through the eyes of a visitor. To me, it was all hum-drum, nothing-special - until my "visitors" explained that an erupting geysir, an erupting volcano, a raging blizzard and the Aurora Borealis are quite special for people. To me, these things were just part of nature, to be endured/enjoyed as appropriate.

You mention at the beginning how dark, cold and windy it is in Sweden and it's hard. BUT we in Kiruna have polar winter during December, when the sun shines and the days are short. We enjoy from January onwards, when the sun starts to shine again in Kiruna and the bright days get longer and longer. V We celebrate this by having the snow festival at the end of January, as well as knowing that the beautiful spring winter will soon begin, when the sun shines and we go out into the forest or to the banks of the river. Where we scoop up seats, put the reindeer skins on and a little further on you make a fire to grill and make coffee. You sit and sunbathe and then enjoy, many like this as the sun reflects in the snow and your face gets tan faster. Those who go to the river beaches take the opportunity to pimple (ice fishing). So up here we see everything this time with joy and not like in the south with being depressed. Some inventions that Sweden is behind. It is the Swedish game developers who created the 3D games as well as how real games look today and Sweden is a leader when it comes to becoming game programmers, so people come from all over the world to Sweden to become game programmers. 1958 - Rune Elmqvist develops the implantable pacemaker and on October 8, the first specimen is operated into a human. Gideon Sundbäck - the zipper It was a Swede who invented the shape of the Coca Cola bottle. There is much Sweden has invented and Sweden is at the forefront of technological development. It is up in Kiruna that they develop the robot dog that has been developed, to be able to be sent in where there has been a race in a mine tunnel. it has cameras in its head that allow you to examine what it looks like inside where it has collapsed and this so as not to have to send in a human who risks his life if there were to be a new breed. The big modern technology that is best known in the military world is the Swedish submarine that is invisible to the radar, it is not a small one but a fairly large submarine that is manned with people, where you live and cook and then it handles the military tasks . It simply cannot be found when underwater. Inventor from Sweden Alexander Samuelson - The Coca-Cola Bottle. ... Alfred Nobel - The dynamite. ... Anders Wilhelmson - Disposable toilet. ... Anna Borgström - Refrigeration technology. ... Anneli Hellström - Nicotine-free snus. ... Barbro Hjalmarsson - The Sink and the Cradle of Blood Triomix. ... Birgit Johansson - The buoy ring and the fairway marker. ... Björn Jakobson - Baby carrier. There are more.

Thank u for being exactly how you are,, 🥰

This was like speed dating Sweden, i like it. 😃👍

About norrsken, i have seen them 2 times outside stockholm since december :)

Thank You for this video and for being here for us ❤

A tip and maybe to add to the list, we have a great history in both litterature and films going way back. For you and your kids maybe Astrid Lindgrens books and the films made based on them might be good as a start, easier to understand what they say? They can still be entertaining to adults as well I think, many of our great actors played in them (and some german?). 😀

Thank you for sharing!

It is allowed to hike and also to camp on someone's property, but not in someone's garden, nor so close to someone's dwelling that it disturbs them. Alleman's Right is a rather complicated law, but what you roughly need to know is that you must leave nature in the condition you found it, that you can pitch a tent but that you can only stay in one and the same place for a couple of nights, if you are a larger group you must ask the land owner for permission (say more than 10 people), there are also exceptions to these rules, for example in some nature reserves you are not allowed to camp at all, or on certain land owned by the military you are not even allowed to be. When it comes to picking berries, fruit, mushrooms, nuts, and flowers, you have to check a little more, you can pick most but not all, there are certain protected species. If you want to fish, you have to check even more closely, then a fishing license is required in some places while others do not. crossing a field is also more complicated as you must not destroy the crops, so a rule of thumb is to go around it, although sometimes it can be perfectly fine to cross it, paddocks with animals in them, you cross at your own risk but you must not disturb the animals, the rule of thumb is well if you can get where you want without crossing a pasture then avoid crossing the pasture. As I said, the law is sometimes difficult to interpret and is based more on common sense, most landowners are also friendly people, but I'm sure there are the odd ones that you can run into, the worst that happens (if you don't obviously have destroyed nature) is, however, that you then have a discussion about whether they or you interpret the law correctly (but as I said, that is if you run into a very grumpy landowner, which most of them are not).

I really needed to hear a positive list!

The winter is a bit difficult for most of us but nonetheless, we love Sweden ❤😅

Thank you for appreciating Sweden, especially the Kalles Kaviar! Impressive

This was cool! I was positively reminded of how great it is to live in Sweden and in the Nordics. Just such a thing as proper seasons. I take it for granted but it's not a thing you can experience everywhere is it. Changing seasons are awesome!

Lovely list! Let's add a couple of iconic opera singers from early generations, Jussi Björling and Birgit Nilsson There are many more, and contemporary world-class stars!! Plus our classical chorus tradition is unbelievable!! Go to any bigger church and they will have a choir of professional stature all made up of amateurs. All of the above thanks to free musical training from first grade. So grateful! 💝🎶

Thank you for enriching our culture with you and your family’s presence 😊 By the way, the best butter knives are from the German brand Zwillinger so thank you for that 😁

Yes this winter has been especially tough for some swedes. But in other parts it´s been an normal wintere, with the darkness, snow ad the cold weather. But in the southern sweden it´s been a bit chaouich becaus of the lowpruesers and storms coming from England. And if you wont to see a vkining city there are on outside stockholm on björkö, called Birka. The villige is rebuilt and there are guided toures. And another place wort visiting is Visby town on the island Gotland. Visby is on UNESCO World Heritage list. The town is like a fairy tale town with it´s ringwall, churches and ruins. And kobble stone streets. Well worth a visit

Film: Strul

It would be really fun to watch you react to swedish films. :)

I am Swedish. I am deeply grateful for my nation. To mention just one thing, grade one school in Rinkeby. I am so much better for growing up in a diverse area. My best friends were türks.

Interesting to watch as a swede. So many things we take for granted and actually should aprice more. About swedish movies. It´s not a movie though, but a series I thought was really good is Bron (a swedish/danish colab). Beck is a series of movies, who I think every swede have seen, and some of them are pretty good.

Yes queen

Thank you for your nice words! Its this as a swede I seldome feel "patriotic", but I feel proud of my country when people speak nice about it! Soo, sweden isnt an Utopia, there is pros and cons.. but if one is the right person one can fit in quite nicely, and make the pros more importante then the cons! One can learn about, "lagom", dont even try to translate it.. its rather a mindset.. "lets keep Sweden lagom"!

Come to the High Coast you will like it.

Smala Sussi, mycket bra film

Surprising that you love Kalles Kaviar! That is usually not something non-nordic people like. It's similar to why most people don't like salty licorice :)

Du bist wie eine Sonne im Schnee und in der Dunkelheit. Ich liebe es, hier zu leben. Wenn ich Sonne will, kann ich für ein paar Wochen nach Spanien gehen! ich liebe Schweden

come on!!

You can start to explore the museums in Stockholm.since there is an other goverment now the museums are not free anymore. When my kids where small I took them to the museums, moderna museet, naturhistoriska, tekniska, alla olika museer i slottet, armemuseum… there is a lot and my kids loved them. I have 2 boys and what they liked most was moderna, naturhistoriska, tekniska och slottet.

It's noce to hear positive thongs about Sweden online instead of just crime snd hating on immigration.

God morgon Solstrålen 😊

Great summary! But I slightly prefer Svennes kaviar... 😊

One of my favorite Swedish movies are "Skenbart". It's a story about different caracters who takes an overnight train from Stockholm to Berlin after world war two and someone is planning a murder.

swedish inventions are in my mind spotify and minecraft

Actually I have replaced Kalles kaviar with Dillkaviar from Lidl. Still Swedish though.

😁👍👏🇸🇪

Det finns några appar som talar om när det är bra chans att se norrsken där du befinner dig.

and thank you too for informing us. I didn't know that H&M is a Swedish company, I've thought it was an American brand. Interesting.

A few movie suggestions. Most of them a bit old, I expect others to add newer ones. Mannen på taket, and Mannen från Mallorca. A pair of action movies from the 70s and 80s. The Sällskapsresan movies. A series of comedies about Swedes going on holiday abroad. Drömkåken and Strul. A pair of comedies with Björn Skifs. Jalla Jalla The Jönssonligen movies. A series of comedies about an incompetent criminal gang that always cream of the BIG one... Frostbiten and Låt den rätta komma in. A pair of vampire movies, of which the first one is a lot more conventional than the second. Fucking Åmål, Tillsammans and Lilya 4-ever. Three masterpieces by Lucas Moodyson. The first two are very heart-warming, the third one is deeply disturbing and unsettling. Leif. An absolutely hilarious film about the weapons industry.

You need to watch Sällskapsresan to truly understand swedes.

Movies Martin Beck, criminal detective series Arn-Tempelriddaren Låt den rätte komma in

Schnitzels are superior to Swedish meatballs... but don't start a war over it 🙃

How is it with your husband? Has he found a new job yet?

Du ska definitiv se millennium trilogin

A pity Sweden changed so much. Today people are afraid of going out in the evenings because of the violence. Many swedes are moving abroad.

Thank you for the high taxes and prices haha

When it comes to Swedish films, there are absolutely those that are very good, but there are also a lot of really bad ones. But will mention some good ones: Gräns: ( You won't have seen anything like it, drama/fantasy/with a little bit of horror. ). Änglagård: It is difficult to find someone who captures Swedishness as well as in this film, quite strange considering that the director is not even Swedish, Comedy, Drama. Ove: A really funny comedy with a lot of the Swedish quite cynical humor in it, Comedy/Drama . Fuckin Åmål: ( Strong teenage drama from the 90s really captures the time and what it's like to grow up in a Swedish "håla". drama/high school movie. Den enfaldige mördaren: A strong drama about greed and human desire, it was the role that made Stellan Skarsgård internationally famous, drama/feel good ). Jägarna: Strong Thriller with a lot of nerve, Thriller/Crime. Ondskan. A strong drama, drama. The Square: Ruben is the Director working today who is best known in Sweden, mixed languages, drama comedy. Scener ur ett äktenskap: Old movie but still worth watching A strong drama, drama. Det sjunde inseglet: ( Probably Sweden's best-known film internationally, it's old now from the 50s, but still worth watching, drama/fantasy ). Män som hatar kvinnor: The film adaptation of Stig Larsson's millennium series. Crime, Drama, Mystery. Låt den rätte komma in: From a very popular Swedish book, Drama, Fantasy, Horror. Lilja 4-ever: Very terrible and powerful film, drama. Så som i himmelen: Very nice and captivating, Comedy, Drama, Music. Ronja Rövardotter: Astred Lindgren's best film adaptation for children, but also worth watching as an adult, adventure, Drama, Family, fantasy. Emil i Lönneberga: Maybe a bit more of a series, but available as a film with shorter episodes again based on Astrid Lindgren's books for children but also fun for adults, as well as very picturesque environments, family, comedy. Vuxna människor: Very sarcastic humor, comedy. Snabba cash: Maybe the closest you can get to an action film in Sweden, we rarely make such Action, Crime, Drama. Kan du vissla Johanna? A very sweet short family film, family. Turist: Ruben is the Director working today who is best known in Sweden, mixed languages, drama comedy. Tic Tac: A low-budget film that came in a wave of when a lot of such films were made, but this was probably the best of them, Drama, Thriller. Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton: Shorter TV movie | Animation, but for both adults and children, has a sense of morality that is very Swedish (there is a new non-Animation version that is not as good), family. Tillsammans: Funny, different and very Swedish, family (slightly older children), comedy, drama. Persona: A Thriller that still holds up even though it is from the 60s, thriller. Zozo: One of the few war films made in Sweden, War, Drama, Family. Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann. Something of a Swede Forrest Gump a little more ridiculous, a little funnier, comedy. Mitt liv som hund: One of Lasse Hallström's best films, takes place in the 50s, very feel good, drama, comedy. Skånska mord - Hurvamorden: Include this one because the cast is so amazing, which makes this otherwise fairly ordinary reality-based crime thriller fantastic. Smala Sussie: Comedy with a darker undertone. Comedy, Crime, Mystery. Lust och fägring stor: A lustful one, Drama, Romance, War. Jalla Jalla: One of the best low budget films, funny and silly, comedy. Mannen från Mallorca: The film that started many Swedish crime series. Still exciting and one of the better crimilnal films still. Chrime, Action. En sång för Martin: A film you are touched by, which addresses an important topic, Drama, Music, Romance. Stinsen brinner: Theater/film from the 80s, very well-known comedy group in Sweden somewhat similar humor as in fawlty towers, comedy. Körkarlen: Very old silent film, if you are interested in film technology and how advanced it once was in Sweden, the film is worth seeing, otherwise it might feel too old, rama, Fantasy, Horror. Häxan: Very old silent film, not something you look at in a dash but watch it in the background when you have a Halloween party and it sets just the right mood. Sånger från andra våningen: more of an art film but worth watching, drama, comedy. Vinterviken: From 2021 is a romantic drama (there was one made in the 90s too which is not as good). Jag är nyfiken- gul: One of the films from the Swedish sin period, an interesting time document on how Sweden became so famous for being the sea of ​​sin. They were well ahead of their time considering that this wave came at the end of the fifties in Sweden. Drama. Pleasure: Challenging film that raises an issue that few takes up, drama. Tårtgeneralen: Feel good movie based on a true event: Comedy, Drama Yes, there are more, but there were a few. Of the films I think you should see and which are good.